Holy crap, i just learned some important amazing news: Dr. Sami Schalk's book 'Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction' is now free and open access, FOREVER.
As someone whose been trying to build my syllabi so my students have all open access everything so they don't need to buy books because college is already expensive enough, this kind of accessibility from such a great author with a major academic press is truly amazing.
If you're teaching ANYTHING on ANY intersections of race, disability, gender, technology, popular culture, or social imagination— Hell, if you're just INTERESTED in those things— then Go Put This Book On Your Reading List. Like RIGHT now.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2413/Bodyminds-Reimagined-Dis-ability-Race-and-Gender
(Basically it's the techbro equivalent of a dogwhistle, a derogatory term for "not a Real Man programming language")
grumbling, activism
If you feel that radical folks are "too radical" and "scaring off others", but "you agree with them in principle", why aren't you volunteering to do the job of explaining this to liberals/centrists/etc.?
Why are you instead demanding that the radical folks moderate their speech, look friendly, and generally shut up about the incredibly taxing and frustrating experience of constantly getting the same milquetoast subtly-bigoted shit thrown at them masquerading as progressive politics?
Why are you expecting the people who are *already* bearing the brunt of abuse and doing most of the work for social change, to do *even more* work to look less scary and more appealing? Why aren't *you* the one doing that?
did you know that Mastodon has a secret RSS feed for your account? Are you _also_ unhappy with that, as I am?
Annoyingly, that is not something that users can control, but you can block it at the webserver level if you don't like it.
There are two URLs per user: /users/username.rss and /@username.rss.
This stanza in nginx.conf blocks both for me.
location ~ username.rss {
return 410;
}
heh, perfectly posted on 13:12, Show Me the Body is great, highly recommend for some antifascist hardcore punk
⚠️ READ BEFORE FOLLOWING ⚠️
if i don't know you from elsewhere (under same nick), shoot me an introductory DM first (following back is fine)
I do anarchist tech stuff and run free services at https://pixie.town
I program, solder rgb led thingies, and fly fpv quadcopters
en: they/them
nl: die/dies (langzaldieleven.nl)
“i don't trust like that”
not a furry, actually
Extreme coffee-out-of-a-wineglass Energy
something something trans list stop scraping bios
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