Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

being an anticapitalist in tech is constantly pointing out how the latest shiny new tech hyped up through venture capitalist billions and using more energy than a small country probably doesnt have your best interests at heart, and getting gaslit into accepting that it must be part of the future and you're just some weird luddite, until 1-3 years later everyone accepts its shit and starts agreeing with you by which time its too late

It's #AutismAcceptanceMonth, so remember:

Autism acceptance, not "awareness". We are not a disease.

Autism Speaks is a vile hate group that wants to stop us from being born, a genocidal goal. (Reminder for those in the back: genocide does not have murder as a prerequisite.) Autism Speaks doesn't speak for us, and any person or company who supports Autism Speaks is actively doing harm.

The whole "world autism day" and "light up blue" things are campaigns of Autism Speaks. Fuck that. Light up red for Autism Acceptance Month instead.

The blue puzzle piece is a symbol of Autism Speaks and presents us as a "problem" to "solve", which is an incredibly ableist framing.

The vast majority of autistic people, including myself, use identity-first language (like in this sentence). While not a universal preference, the push for the phrase "people with autism" is largely from neurotypical people who see autism as some external force. It is not. Being autistic is in the core of my being. Respect those in the autistic community who do choose person-first language for themselves, but don't force that language on the majority of us who prefer and use identity-first language.

Allistic parents of autistic people and other autism-adjacent allistic people are not in the autistic community and they do not speak for us. This is why the ActuallyAutistic hashtag was created, for those who don't know. We autistic people can speak for ourselves.

And remember autistic people are diverse! We don't fit some stereotype and we are who we are. I'm proud to be who I am.

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Autism

I appreciate this (humorous, but also informative!) explainer video by @adamconover --- and am especially tickled by the Stochastic Parrots shout out (and quote)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk

»Nostr solves my most basic frustration with ActivityPub, which is that some of my followers on different servers can't see me because their admin said so.«

So Gleason is bothered by his own actions leading to him being fediblocked on some instances for healthy community curation.

I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

In case you've seen #Nostr accounts – the decentralised social protocol where coiners recently moved over to – being bridged into ActivityPub fedi:
One popular bridge mostr.pub is – who could have guessed – developed by Alex Gleason, part-time egdelord, main dev of soapbox, fired from Pleroma, co-founder of spinster and enjoyer of supposed swastika “shitposting”.

If you decide to use that software, just be aware whom you might need to interact with for bugreports.

The Wizard of Oz is such an American thing, anywhere else he would be named using a much more usable unit, like The Wizard of 28 Grams

So https://fedidevs.com/ is a thing now. But looking at the FAQ it seems they just opted a bunch of instances into it and require you to request your instance be removed. Somehow they will "verify your identity" as the instance admin before they'll do that.

Having to set your account as not indexable to not be included if you're on one of the opted in instances isn't cool either. The alternative is you can email them to have your account removed, but again you're opted in by force.

The whole concept of consent seems to be lost on people.

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Who am I kidding? In this essay, I probably won't

i want to talk to my friends and followers and whatnot who are from USA.

dear americans,

i am not going to sugarcoat this.
your country (and possibly the entire world) is at stake now.
your society is threatened by an aggressive far-right malignant parasite that is republican party and the alt-right.

their leaders pursue one and one simple goal — to gain power for their own selfish benefit. they will try to take this power through every possible avenue — be it propaganda and making up excuses to push their bullshit such as "trans ideology", "states rights" and "protecting the nation", voter manipulation, or even an armed coup if things go really bad.

the right is bashing working class, queer, non-white, female, disabled, neurodivergent, immigrant, non-christian citizens and many other groups of people. they are burning down our planet. they let people die of starvation or wage wars over oil or power.

what is happening right now strongly resembles the situation that was happening in Germany before Nazis rose to their reign.

bear with me. (1/3)