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Poly Role Play Cards

A deck of cards to role play difficult situations in non-monogamy.

BDSMK S+ Parties in Barcelona

A calendar of BDSM, Kink, and Sex Positive parties in Barcelona

A late non-binary transition

Transcript of my talk at the EDI Day of ACM SIGKDD 2024 in Barcelona, August 2024.

Gluten-free / lactose-free / vegan in Albania

This is based on personal experience during a short trip to Albania, basically the capital Tirana, and cities in the riviera: Vlorë, Sarandë, and Ksamil....

Where did you get that skirt?

Question: Where did you get the skirt you were wearing? I m thinking about wearing a skirt myself sometimes. Thanks for asking! I love skirts because...

Recommended polyamory accounts on Instagram/TikTok

Poly Philia (Leanne Yau), polyamory videos: Chill Polyamory (Morgan), polyamory peer support: Dana and the Wolf also known as The Poly Couple , they have a...

Mariana Grande

Last night I dreamt that there was a crowd of people outside the building where I work, so to get to my office I had...

My Christmas message

My Christmas message is this: if you are analyzing data don t discretize a continuous variable *just* because you re way more familiar with tests and methods...

Christmas message

My Christmas message is this: if you measured some quantity with a certain precision (say 2 decimal places) and obtained some trailing zeroes, please don t...

My car!

It was just a brief moment so I left the car doors unlocked while I was buying something. I kept looking at the car several...

Exteresting

A brief clarification. When I say something is exteresting I don t mean it s not interesting. Exteresting is not the opposite of interesting . Something exteresting is...

A book you MUST read if you want to do a PhD in Computer Science … and more

The PhD Grind (2012) by Philip Guo is a must read if you want to do a PhD in Computer Science. Even if you re already...

It’s not always the same thing

This is the best advice I can give you right now. When you are feeling miserable,learn to recognize what could cheer you up. Sometimes it s...

I’m turning 40 today! These are some things I’ve learned so far

Some things I ve learned during my 40 years on Earth. I m not including scientific/technical stuff, just everyday stuff; I m also not including skills, manners, or...

What I learned from helping Qatar National Bank (QNB) customers: we are so powerful, we are so weak

On April 25, 2016, the Cryptome foundation disclosed that a large zip archive containing what seemed to be private data from hundreds of thousands of...

Vegetarian/vegan traveller to Barcelona

If you re a vegetarian/vegan travelling to Barcelona, here is some advice. As much as I love Barcelona, I recognize the place is far from Germany...