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transphobia 

I’ve been posting about trans men and how we all need to support and protect our men too.

The bigots feel they are every bit as entitled to trans masc bodies as they are to trans feminine bodies. Trans men face violence just as trans women do. Sure, the mechanisms of bigotry differ somewhat, but that doesn’t negate the violence.

We are stronger when we are together. We don’t need contests about who is most oppressed.

"What gadgets do you have for me, Q?"

"Here, you'll like this."

Bond examined the device. "It looks like an Amazon Dash Button."

"An AI-powered Dash Button. It will analyse what you need most, and deliver by drone."

Bond pressed it. A moment later, a drone put a resignation letter in his hand.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #AmazonHasBoughtBond

In #spoonieTown they clear the sidewalks first.
And there's a sled pulled by the neighbourhood dogs for anyone who needs it until the roads are cleared.❄️

NGO emails will have subjects lines like “an important update from our team” and the update is “we’ve hired a new director of sending important emails”

If you’re part of an org like this, first, I’m so sorry, and second, don’t be surprised when your email titled “please help we are all hanging off the edge of a cliff and going to die if you don’t act now” has an open rate of 0.2%

When I was checking my luggage, the guy at the counter like hardly looked at us or said anything. He was clearly checked out and I get it, it was an 11:30pm flight. My bag was exactly 50lbs, the maximum limit. Without saying anything, he just suddenly walks away without giving back my id or boarding pass. Uhh.

We stand around for like 8 minutes until he returns with a sheet of labels? I'm like, oh great, for sure they're gonna charge us extra. The fees start at the minimum, didn't you read the fine print?

With the most solemn look, he hands me.. a gold star sticker. Then grins big and says it's for getting exactly 50lbs. Lmao.

I started writing a series of posts but decided fuck it, we longform now, and put my thoughts on Twitch's new and immediate 100 hour storage limit into a blog

blog.retroheart.net/gearworks/

Matrix subtoot (2) 

Or how much money is saved by not burning your volunteers

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Matrix subtoot 

Imagine how many protocol issues for how many years could be fixed with $610k in a healthier governance structure

He's on the spectrum (spending a lot of time programming his 1982 ZX spectrum) (because he's autistic)

How do people keep forgetting their keys, wallets and phones at home

How do they keep losing them all the time

Do they not give themselves the complete patdown every time they leave home and every ten minutes

btw the way i found this out was seeing their avatar in my follows and going "huh that looks familiar did i used to have a mutual with that avatar on twitter?"

and the penny didn't drop that it was art from my own dang game until i clicked into their profile and saw the banner XD

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got followed by someone on bluesky with akko as their avatar and a screenshot from kitsune tails with akko talking to kiri as their banner and that's definitely a nice first. for someone to like one of my games enough to just make it their account branding

hot take, FOSS 

@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol Also, here's a concrete example of what 'making room for collective governance' might look like: whoever 'owns' a particular issue ('assignee', in Github lingo) also automatically has full moderation rights over the conversation in that issue, and multiple separate conversations can be had within its context.

hot take, FOSS 

@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol And Github and its model do not fit into that picture; they are entirely designed around corporate workflows, corporate needs, hierarchical power structures, and so on.

The system does not make any room for community or collective governance whatsoever.

hot take, FOSS 

@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol Actual sustainable grassroots community building, actively engaged contributors and internal social relations, collective consideration of the values behind a project and who benefits from it. In other words, sustainable social and governance structures.

Structures that actually make space for people and their needs, and that give them a reason to stick around beyond "there is Work to be done".

Not drive-by PRs that generate more work than they remove and that function as maintainer time sinks, "tech is politically neutral" whitewashing, licensing obsessions, corporate source dumps and labour exploitation, and so on.

Is there a specific name for the "This is not a place of honor" text? I know that it's from "Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant" where it's buried in one of the appendices but surely it has its own name, right?

Any tips welcome, please boost, thank you!

hot take, FOSS 

@Foxboron@chaos.social @thibaultmol I don't struggle to see such an alternative reality at all, and more importantly, what does that "explosion of FOSS projects and contributors" actually *mean*, materially?

Sure, lots of people are nominally doing open-source. Have the FOSS options improved in quality or governance? Has work for maintainers become easier, or have they just been burning out even harder? (It's the latter.)

It's easy to focus on the numbers and say "open-source is more popular than ever", and in a literal sense you would be right. But is the *way* in which it became popular actually benefiting society? Or did we miss out on a healthy and sustainable ecosystem by focusing on number go up?

And who is benefiting the most from FOSS as it exists today? Is it average people, communities, and end users? Or is it tech corporations and fascists?

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