starless @starless@pixie.town

The rush to discover whether you're LGBTQIA or neurodivergent first:
Egg and Spoon race.

Once again, for the new folks in the peanut gallery, if on Android, try Tusky or FediLab. If iOS, pay the $4 for Toot! or get MetaText for free. The official app is, well, ass. The folks who boost this will underscore how true this is.

For those who don't know, Bookwyrm is basically a better, federated Goodreads. Because it speaks ActivityPub, you can subscribe to someone's Bookwyrm feed from directly in Mastodon and see the book reviews they post!

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

Also there are 2 spots remaining in the Bookwyrm patreon to pay $40/mo and support the project in a huge way *and* have @tripofmice run a server for you and 50 of your bookwormiest friends: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm

Well, we’ve been saying Over Here for a long time "no, we’re not trying to kill Twitter, we don’t need Twitter to die for us to be successful, because our definition of success is drastically different than theirs."

(I use "we" as if we’re homogeneous and we are so not - give me a pass on this please, it’s easier to write with we)

and now that people are starting to file for the exits and light incense for the coming last rites, we can say we didn’t kill it; if anything, we find ourselves doing our best to save the best bits of it we see.

That’s you new neighbors. You’re the best bits.

It’s people. It’s always been people and it always will be people.

The technology is so secondary it’s barely worth considering. We’ve excelled at building community with so much less technology than we currently have. It’s ancillary to the task at hand.

Make connections. Listen. Think. Feel. People things.

If the tools don’t work exactly how we like, we’ll work together to change or replace them. That bit can be long and tedious and tiring and that can get frustrating, but we can work through that, too.

For far too long we’ve allowed corporate entities to define the shape of our social spaces, to turn them into places of competition.

May we continue to strive to make this piece of the void we’re carving out cooperative and people-centered.

I’ll be seeing you around, folks. I hope you find a cozy bit to call yours here and some folk that make it feel like home.

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Project Include is working on a blogpost/articles on nonbinary workers and on transgender workers in tech. We are looking for resources we can highlight, and experts and workers we can interview. We're eager to get many perspectives of people from a diverse set of backgrounds. We are willing to pay people for their time, too. Please reach out if you have ideas or can otherwise help!

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social I was invited to do a panel a few months ago by Blue Sky concerning moderation and harassment in online communities. One of the few comments I was allowed to make was about the lack of will to build these spaces around community versus engagement. The problem is not technology.

Not only was I ignored for the rest of the panel, but the moderator quite rudely told me I should be quiet and not bring it up again until the panel was over.

In my experience, you will be ignored and marginalized if you don't regurgitate the same drivel as to why communities online aren't safe.

I would like to find more deafies on the Fediverse. Anybody know of any besides me?

dramatic #caturday

Webinar on the Indigenous Deaf American experience, watch live or look for the recording later: https://www.nad.org/webinar-indigenous-deaf-community/

There once was a man
from Peru, whose limericks all
looked like Haiku. He

said with a laugh, "I
cut them in half! The pay is
much better for two!"

Just getting the word out that I'm looking for a new gig.

Ideally, I'm looking for product manager roles, with a particular interest in tech manager because of my background, but I'm open to doing some part-time web design and/or development work as well.

For a bit more detailed breakdown, check this out: https://roiskinda.cool/profile.html

I'm looking forward to spending a night hanging out with friends online, practicing my circus skills, and being silly in the #CircusInPlace video chat.

The only thing that could make my night better is your company.

https://meet.jit.si/circushomegym

Join me, my performing partners, and our fediverse friends starting at 8pm UTC-6, and well into the wee hours.

#PleaseBoost
#SillySocialOpportunity
#InsomniacsWelcome

I always have mixed feelings about trans awareness week and trans day of visibility, because most cis people who talk about it go exclusively for the "you are valid" angle instead of the "trans healthcare has collapsed entirely and we need to do something about that" angle. Like I appreciate the first one, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it reads as a little shallow when you don't also talk about the second. You get me?

You can just be a girl if you want. It’s okay. Or a boy, or something else, or no gender at all. You’re not too old, or too young, or too much, or not enough, or trespassing, or appropriating, or causing trouble. It’s okay. Really.

But the important thing is: do what you want, not what you think you’re allowed. Find the joy and follow that. You can experiment and you can change your mind. That’s okay too.

#TransAwarenessWeek