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Very good read for anyone working on accessibility:

Avoiding the engineer-saviour trap - Jenny List, Hackaday
hackaday.com/2017/08/03/avoidi

"And in that moment, I almost fell into a trap. I was setting myself up to be the Engineer-Saviour, riding in on my white charger to deliver the users of the room from the ceaseless hell into which its designers had put them. The overwhelming smugness of Helping Someone Less Fortunate Than Myself was reaching out to envelop me, and it was time to put the thought down and back away real slow."

Some of those that code FOSSes
Are the same that burn crosses

@CobaltVelvet@octodon.social i mean, don't most raspberry pi's just sit unused in drawers everywhere anyways

re: misinformation 

@thufie not to be confused with Markclown

covid, qoto 

lol what a surprise, the qoto admin is an anti-masker too

Good morning. You can be great and let that greatness influence the world around you. But you have to resist the pressure of the world trying to mold you in it's image. Go make the world a kinder safer place for those without power, and an unforgiving, hostile place to those who would abuse their power.

Make it so!

emoji transfer test, lots of custom emoji 

:garfield::gnomed::thounking::boosts_ok_gay::kirbeats::gotosocial::catjam::floshd::floshd::flooshed::blobfoxcatsnuggle::blobfoxbox::oh_no::frogchamp::blob_rainbow:

(but because our settings are an oauth webapp, I can just log in with my production gotosocial instance, and do everything there :D)

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once again forgetting you can't actually use the new 'steal this look' stuff on the GoToSocial testrig because it does not federate >:(

i do think it's extra funny their instance can't keep up with all the traffic because it's mastodon on a pi

@abbie @researchfairy social media team proudly announced they hired an ex-surveillance cop for their maker team (also stating he used pi's all the time for covert spying devices), and then subsequently being a massive ass to all the concerned replies raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_

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