AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

A story about abuse and recovery

Oct. 14th, 2025 12:27 pm
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Imagine if, when you were little, you had to obey a bunch of extra rules that didn’t make sense to you, and if you didn’t, you’d be hurt. You’d also be hurt, and called weird, all the time, for things that seemed natural to you, or that you couldn’t avoid. Eventually, you’d learn to avoid the “weird” looks and behaviors when you’re with people – with effort. Better to expend the effort than to keep getting punished!

You can imagine a person who grew up with such abuse; you’d probably imagine they’d flinch away from social contact, because it takes effort just to look normal, and they don’t want to be hurt again, when they slip. In a perfect world, such a person learns to stop flinching away, because decent grown-ups don’t mind a bit of weirdness in look or behavior, though they might want to understand “when you’re ready and willing, why the weirdness? Only if you don’t mind my asking!” They would stop being hurt, you see? Eventually, their fears would fade, and maybe they’d heal from the effects of the early abuse.
this is long-ish. )
And that means, the only hope for my life is to try to be a weirdo that people do understand. So my next step is to try to sow some understanding.

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