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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The first-ever international tango championship that *requires* role-swapping will be happening in Miami, November 6-8. I’ve signed up (at the amateur level, of course) for the Switch & Switch competition, which will mean changing roles mid-song and randomly-assigned partners between songs. No […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

There was a Friendica server for #tango. The creator said they were moving to a new domain, and I got an email saying it moved to charlemos.club , which redirects to a login for tangoatlas.org I had the impression our existing accounts were supposed to be migrated, but has that actually worked […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Watching the moon base episode of #DoctorWho. I’m getting Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead vibes.

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Got a notification that the English Beat is playing here soon along with Modern English and some other acts I hadn’t heard of but do recognize one hit from each. And what I’m confused about is…why does this venue have seating with rows? Where would I skank? Do I really want to see a ska band […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Guess who did their first dead lifts today? #weightlifting

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Well, the #MensWorldCup is over. One more year til the #WorldCup in Brazil!

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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

[on sexism in technology work] For those that don't know, I help run a large women in technology chat group on Slack. It's been going for 11 years now! (ask me for an invite if you want one and that's appropriate!) It has deeply shaped how I think about technology, especially the social side […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

One person who marched with #Quakers at #CapitalPride today said he started going to Quaker meeting after seeing our booth at Pride last year.

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

We’re watching the Clara season of #DoctorWho “You were in Victorian London!” “No, I was in Victorian Yorkshire!”

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Right now at #DCQueerTangoWeekend, Andrés Ozzuna is teaching about embrace. As a leader who is I’m going to guess 5’5” (165cm), he’s demonstrating with Mikael, a follower who is 6’5” (195cm) and talking about adjusting the embrace for height differences. #tango #queerTango #queerDance

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

#DCQueerTangoWeekend community discussion going on now Organizers visiting from out of town are introducing themselves now. #tango #queerTango #queer

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Seeing #GaelicStorm at the Annapolis Irish Festival We have been rickrolled. Pat (singer) “We have 15 albums and no hits. Do you know how hard that is? Even Rick Astley has a hit.” Parker (guitarist) started playing it. Pat: “how the hell do you know that song?” Parker: “how the hell do you […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

I just said this to someone, and I thought other people might be amused by the phrasing. “that connected paper with the holes down the side, from those old printers that screamed like the internet when they printed” #printer #technology

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Had a private lesson with Erin Malley yesterday. I told her my boleos often come out linear even when the lead is rotational. She asked to see my walk. So, now I have a new explanation of what the heck tango teachers mean when they talk about inner thighs and a new aspect of my walk to work on […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

You know that “stop forcing AI into fucking everything” graphic that went around on here? I bought the t-shirt. I get a lot of compliments on it. The only negative response was from a friend who works for McKinsey. She read out the “everyone hates it” and said, “do they really, though?” as we […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Queer Tango: A New Approach for All of Us "The dance style of queer tango is informed by a dance philosophy and danced with a tango embrace that allows you to dance with flexible role switching. This division of labour with the queer tango concept of fluid roles is distinct from the philosophy […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

The following is absolutely 100% bragging: Today I danced with a visitor from another city, and she called me an amazing leader. #tango

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

You know that particular pattern LLMs create in code, where there are like 3 layers deep of functions that are each only one line long? Super thin functions? Angel hair pasta. Not even thick enough to be spaghetti code.

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Abraham Lincoln created Thanksgiving to celebrate the slave-owning fuckheads losing at Gettysburg. The “pilgrims & Indians” theme got tacked on as part of anti-immigrant “their descendants are the Real Americans™” bullshit later.

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

Hey, friends learning #Spanish or #French: Kwiziq is 40% off for the next week! This is a fantastic tool with great grammar explanations that uses spaced repetition for grammatical concepts, mostly having you fill in the blank for sentences with the correct word (but also sometimes, multiple […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

I had a GREAT performance review yesterday. It included being complimented on my code quality, including “I don’t think I’ve seen any AI slop from you.” Me: that’s because I write my own code

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

Today I learned that if you’re coughing from post-nasal drip, blowing your nose helps. I always thought of the front-of-nose and back-of-nose snot as being separate pools. I figured if I could breathe through my nose, and it wasn’t dripping from the front, I didn’t need to blow it. But no, it’s […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

If you've never listened to the advice to add some pasta water to the pasta with sauce on it and heat that together… do it. It really does make a difference.

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Hey, for anyone looking for an alternative to #Meetup, just a heads up that there's a Fediverse alternative. It's called Mobilizon. mobilizon.org I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area. And hey, #Elixir people? It's written in […]

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

Today is my second tango anniversary 😊 I’m very happy with the progress I’ve made! #tango #dance

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Dear Internet: I have now been PHYSICALLY PRESENT in the SAME ROOM as the burial gown of Eleonora di Toledo!!! #EleonoraDiToledo #16thCenturyFashion #RenaissanceFashion #ModaAFirenze #PalazzoPitti #Firenze #Florence #FashionHistory #HistoricDress

A white silk gown in fragments is splayed flat on a surface, softly lit from above. It has a train and is badly stained by the decomposition of the body that once wore it. It is embroidered in now-tarnished silver in wide bands along the edges.

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

The 51-minute “Free DC” chant at today’s Washington Spirit game #FreeDC #NWSL #WoSo #WashingtonSpirit #DC #WashingtonDC

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maco @maco.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

I’m saying this as someone who was once on TWO of Ubuntu’s governance councils, deciding who had contributed enough to the community to have an [at]ubuntu[dot]com email address and who was trusted to upload packages to the archive and provide oversight for those not so-trusted. If the #Ubuntu […]

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