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- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
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.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
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Come hang out with actual clowns as they take a break from reality to spend the night encouraging levity (and defying gravity) in the #CircusInPlace video chat!
The fun starts at 8pm UTC-5:
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antitrust case against Google; collusion with Facebook & Microsoft
"Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have to say that either Google is screwed or society is screwed, we'll find out which.
Unordered list of fun things I learned:
- google has a secret deal with facebook called "Jedi Blue" that they knew was so illegal that it has a whole section describing how they'll cover for each other if anyone finds out
- google appears to have a team called gTrade that is wholly dedicated to ad market manipulation
- Google is willing to do almost everything to prevent people from circumventing their ad exchanges
- This is what AMP is about
- Google habitually insider trades on their ad exchanges in every way you can think of and every way you can't.
- Google has worked with Facebook and Microsoft to discourage them from increasing user privacy, lamenting occasions where they prioritized their reputation over their collective business interest
- Google had a plan called "Project NERA" to turn the web into a walled garden they called "Not Owned But Operated". A core component of this was the forced logins to the chrome browser you've probably experienced (surprise!)
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from: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053938195341314
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Friend received a corporate-branded copy of the game Monopoly from their workplace as a thank you. I can appreciate the thought, but there's something extra dystopian about a multimillion-dollar company sending its employees a branded version of a game whose theme is "it is impossible to ethically succeed at capitalism"
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In things I didn’t expect to learn today: apparently gender markers on passports are a result of people in the 60s and 70s fucking with gender norms and presentation so much, that the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) requested that a gender marker was added to passports because:
the rise in the early 1970s of unisex attire and hairstyles, photographs had become a less reliable means for ascertaining a traveler’s sex.
Also, “fun” tidbit: there is no trace left in the archives of why they needed to know the sex of people in the first place…
(other “fun” fact: you can thank Napoléon Bonaparte for the gender marker on birth certificates apparently :/)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-rise-of-androgyny-changed-our-passports
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No other user
edited between any
two of these edits
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"Trailblazing trans woman becomes first in Uganda to get ID with correct gender"
“'I want to spend the next 35 years of my life shedding the sad African trans narrative. We don’t just carry tragic stories,' she said, 'I am a molecular biologist, geneticist, activist, imaginative, daring, different, audacious and an Aries.'"
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/22/trans-uganda-id-gender-cleopatra-kambugu/
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big in the UK rn:
🔁 @TransActualUK: Today and everyday we celebrate #TransLives. If you’re trans, tell us something about you. If you’re cis, tell us what you do to support trans people.
“We are all worthy of safety and protection everywhere…And we are worthy of life. We are worthy of love.” Indya Moore
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69% of New Zealand is fully vaccinated.
NICE.
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Extremely timely in light of the immediate defence reaction on the fediverse of the new fascism social networks:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3479525
Science shows deplatforming works
Keep deplatforming
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my boss: *about to cry in the zoom meeting* I'm just so grateful for this team...
me: *didn't hear what she said, I'm studying this image on my phone*
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lil network attached storage x
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normalize being a sleepyhead
its' ok to be a little tired. take a nap and be all tuckered out
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The Book of the Dead
is an ancient Egyptian
funerary text
St Paul landlords rent increase campaign
Per a St Paul friend not on Mastodon:
Check to see if your landlord gave money to the fat cats campaign for increased rent (St Paul edition):
If you'd like more info about the St Paul rent stabilization ballot amendment or how to get involved please let me know and I'll connect ya.
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i literally did not know before now that the tragedy of the commons guy was a malthusian and a white nationalist
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terminally online shenanigans, terf shit, margaret atwood
anyway if you’re not terminally online and you need some context, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale has publicized an essay contending that trans women are preventing people from using the word “woman” in a take that looks and smells like some “war on christmas” type shit
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One of the first things a really problematic user of any web service will do is block its admins if possible, usually after being reminded of rules.
I have no idea why this is allowed in mastodon. You control your own followers, and we can see your posts from the admin tools anyway if we need to. It's not clever; it means you chose your instance poorly and will be yeeted once we notice.
Anyway, don't assume a mod sees the same problem posts you do and has been ignoring them. Report them. :)
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
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.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
