anyway here's a survey for folks about what to do with 50m in funding https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/budget/american-rescue-plan/arpa-spending-survey/
@aurynn good morning, Aurynn! 🌈
Celebrate the magic of making it through half the week by hanging out with your friendly (virtual) neighborhood clowns in the #CircusInPlace video chat!
The shenanigans start at 8pm UTC-5, and tend to run very late.
A coda to the Guardian's shameful bigotry - the UK editors didn't /just/ cut that segment of the interview, but also spiked an entire series of trans articles - again from the US staff - "Gender Now":
https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/guardian-pulls-judith-butlers-comments
@jk I have a similar experience with a first and second monitor, particularly on linux-y platforms.
@aurynn good morning, Aurynn!
Say it with me: communities over technologies. (a soapbox)
If you're using a social technology, you're using it because of the contributions and humanity of your fellow humans. At their cores, every social platform derives its value from its users.
A technologically perfect platform is of no use without users you actually like.
Likewise, people on a technologically bad platform will only go elsewhere if the community at large is there.
Are technologically exciting platforms good and interesting? Yes.
But you should evaluate a social platform the way you would evaluate a friend, and not the way you would evaluate an operating system. Because you don't want a social platform that thinks for you, you want a social platform that helps you belong, shows you cool stuff, and helps you talk to humans you like.
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
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