Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

adafruit @adafruit@fosstodon.org

2/16/2026, 4:57:33 PM

Public

No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools

In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/

The crime scene. Top: EagleCAD library editor showing the MAX44009 ambient light sensor schematic symbol and UTDFN-OPTO-6 footprint, generated by Gemini Deep Think from a datasheet in about ten minutes. Pins verified, dimensions checked. Bottom: the finished Adafruit STEMMA QT breakout board with the MAX44009 mounted, silkscreen labeled, and working. A First Try starburst graphic because yeah, it was. This is what triggered a mass extinction event in the Mastodon replies.

Early 1900s stereoscope photograph showing a woman calmly seated reading a magazine titled Truth while a disgruntled man behind her scrubs laundry by hand in a wooden washtub. Socks hang on a line above him. A staged comedy photo capturing the exact nightmare that drove a century of appliance panic: what if she sits down and he has to do it.

Betty Crocker Cake Mix advertisement, circa 1950s. Headline: Betty Crocker Cake Mixes bring you that Special Homemade Goodness... because YOU add the eggs yourself. The original mix worked fine with just water but flopped because women felt guilty about it being too easy. Psychologist Ernest Dichter figured out the fix: remove the powdered egg, make her crack a fresh one, and suddenly it's baking instead of cheating. The first product redesigned specifically to manage the laziness accusation. The egg did nothing. The guilt did everything.

Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands @deathkitten@firetribe.org

2/16/2026, 11:14:55 PM

Public

@adafruit@fosstodon.org as a woman I am offended that you'd compare the actual bullshit our foremothers faced under sexism to people pushing back against AI, a "service" that's buggy, harmful, ecologically damaging, and being used as a tool in class warfare to push people out of their jobs, something that disproportionately happens to women and minorities first.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

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