uspol, about trump deporting immigrant farmers
here's a thing i can tell you. back a few months ago, russia doubled down on its white supremacy and started actively deporting central asian immigrants from its territory. most of those people worked as cab drivers, store staff, agricultural workers and so on.
when that happened, supply chains disrupted, as well as transportation. shelves were often empty in stores.
i expect the same happen in the so called usa soon.
🟢CALL TO ACTION re: Sam Nordquist
After publishing an article about Sam Nordquist titled "Trans Man Killed in New York Was Tortured for More Than a Month, Police Say" the transphobic New York Times has changed the headline to read "Person Killed in New York Was Tortured for More Than a Month, Police Say"
This is a craven act of trans erasure and is spreading misinformation by burying important details of the murder. If the New York Times wishes to call itself "factual journalism" it should change the headline back.
I am calling on everyone to email the New York Times's factual corrections address to demand they correct the headline.
email: corrections@nytimes.com
feel free to copy
#boost #calltoaction #transrights #sayhisname #samnordquist #blackmastodon #bipoc #queer #protest #newyorktimes
New challenge to companies: Devote 1% of your revenue to open source sustainability. Preferably just hand money to the projects you use.
uspol, activism question (boosts appreciated)
how do i be more active as a massive introvert with autism and ADHD? every few days, i sign petitions, send emails, and make calls, and i hope to take the leap and protest IRL someday.
however, i easily get burnt out from keeping up with how things are going, and i'm in a perpetual state of "disappointed, but not surprised." a couple weeks ago, i found a protest opportunity, but lost interest in it a few hours later. i'm also not good with words so i just boost what others have said.
how do i overcome these things that are clearly holding me back? is there a way to overcome them?
selling a bunch of tech
I'm totally out of money for this month and need to save up for something "very important" -- I'm selling the following items (Germany preferred, shipping anywhere in the EU possible):
White, basically unused Nintendo Switch OLED - 200€
Optionally All the games I have for another 100€ (Zelda TotK, Omori, Pokémon Legends Arceus)
Hifiman Sundara planar headphones (you WILL need to replace the pads they're disgusting) - 150€
i5-6600K, MSI Z170 board - 50€
i7-6700K, ASUS Z170 board - 70€
2x 8GB G.Skill DDR4-2800 - 20€
Nvidia GTX 1660 Super - 70€
128GB Intenso SSD - 5€
256GB Adata NVMe SSD - 15€
Hyper 212 Black missing all its mounting hardware (literally free I can't use it anyway)
Can add to any of the Z170 bundles: Noctua NH-U12S cooler (+15€) or a generic but huge cooler (+10€).
Feel free to ask for images.
Can sell bundled items separately if needed I just wouldn't prefer to. Prices under typical market prices because I need it quickly
I like a lot of this stuff, but I don't need any right now. Boosts appreciated!!
killing of sam nordquist, antiblackness
just found out that emily motyka, one of the alleged murderers, posted white supremacist shit online. such as the confederate flag.
that bitch two years younger than me.
killing of sam nordquist, antiblackness
ny police saying they cant say if a hate crime was commited against sam nordquist cause the suspects "identify as lgbtq+" and one of them isnt white, so guess that means they couldnt have tortured this black trans man for weeks and weeks before killing him and ditching his body in a field just because he was a black trans man. only white cishets can commit that as a hate crime i guess /sarcasm
killing of sam nordquist, antiblackness
If you, too, wish to block LLM scrapers from Alibaba Cloud pretending to be desktop browsers, you will find a generated list of nginx deny entries here: https://www.enjen.net/asn-blocklist/index.php?asn=45102&type=nginx
Here's a question for dual citizens who are also gender-weird.
If I have one passport that lists my gender as F and a different passport that lists it as X, is that going to cause any complications I haven't considered?
uspol meta
A reminder that whether Trump and friends are able to grab absolute dictatorial power, depends entirely on whether people consider their 'executive orders' legitimate or not, not just legally but also socially.
This also goes for the latest one that claims Trump is the ultimate controller of all government agencies. He won't be unless you accept his claim that he is.
i'm going to be real with you
have respect for hobbyist developers.
I don't care about what people's takes on sustainability is here, that's not relevant to whether you should be taking a hobbyist developer seriously. the entire kernel is literally just a hobbyist project that got big. dozens of graphics drivers that are fully khronos compliant (NOT just asahi!!!) started as hobbies. Panfrost was a hobby project until it wasn't, freedreno was a hobby project until it wasn't, nouveau was a hobby project until it wasn't, radeon.ko was a hobby project until it wasn't, and some of those hobby projects getting the blessing of companies doesn't change that.
open source literally thrives on non-profitable ideas
Lists with free or affordable alternatives to big commercial applications and services…
➡️ https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
➡️ https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
➡️ https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
➡️ https://codeberg.org/ADHDefy/delightful-creative-tools
➡️ https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives
➡️ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yNXpuy5tVP0q-El0DqoY-AwmPHT6K09NEZG-Pf0KJ7E/edit?tab=t.0
➡️ https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
#software #tip #tips #free #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology #BigTech #FediTip #FediTips #MastoTip #MastoTips #tools
Also, the plan before that is to set up GoToSocial and eventually some Matrix homeserver, on whichever server seems to be most suitable for that
Happy to announce that Waag Futurelab installed Peertube to host our video content. Check https://tube.waag.org We are in the process to migrate our Vimeo en Youtube content to the Fediverse.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.