My local Co-op is empty this morning. Empty! The staff say there was a cyberattack and deliveries were stopped. Yay.

The quality of argument in my mentions and messages this morning is *terrible*. The shoddiest strawmen hot-glued overnight to defend, of all things, multi-hundred-dollar tech event tickets.I simply believe that it’s bad for the community to pay five-figures for blowhard guest-speakers when you could have affordable tickets instead. I don’t know why that stand upsets the FOSS Bros, but it really does.

@joepie91 Right! Down here, it's "we'd love to attract more women to our events, but our survey said the rape jokes make them uncomfortable" or "we'd love to make the tickets more affordable, but our guest speaker cost us a couple of grand, plus their travel and hotel, so…"(And I believe that was the year that the "guest speaker" presented a slideshow of clouds that look like penises. Y'know. At a tech conference.)I'm absolutely raging against these folks' disinterest in obvious solutions!

I'll be doing #WritingMonth instead of #NaNoWriMo this year. You can follow me and my untitled romance novella at https://writingmonth.org/~cariad/.Come and join in, y' dingus! You keep talking about wanting to write, so come and actually do it.