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This seems like it should be bigger news

Please boost:

A screen reader for Linux (GUI) is being developed in Rust. If anyone knows Rust and would like to help, or to just view the great work taking shape here, see:

https://yggdrasil-sr.github.io/

#a11y #accessibility #blind #screenreader #coding #rust

https://going-medieval.com/2021/10/28/on-looking-in-the-past-for-a-better-future%ef%bf%bc/

Leftist medieval historian describes two times that free peasants formed self-sufficient communes with no class hierarchy, one of which lasted longer than the United States has existed. Both only failed when the landlord class decided it wasn't right for there to be land with no lords and invaded with armies, and even then one of the collectives held out for a very, very long time.

Question from somebody on discord who doesn't have mastodon since y'all know hosting stuff

"Idk if this is the right channel for it, but do yous happen to know any good website hosting services for sites containing pornographic art and weird leftist zines? Ive been wantin to put my stuff on its own site but its hard to find places that are willing to host that. Im esp interested in co-op/nonheirarchical ones."

Is it cute?
Is it sexy?
Is it OSHA compliant?

My feed is honestly very US/EU oriented and i was wondering if there are any South-East Asian tech folk, activists that i can follow, especially in the Philippines.

#AskFedi

#SEA

#PH

the CDC added mental health conditions to the list of underlying medical conditions they consider to increase risk of severe COVID-19, which is the same list that most areas in the US are using to determine booster eligibility

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mental-disorder-cdc-covid-eligibility/2021/10/27/2a45eea0-32ae-11ec-9241-aad8e48f01ff_story.html
• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/people-with-medical-conditions.html ("Mental health conditions" section)

Finally for Ace Week, if I'm allowed to self-promo a bit, I'm an asexual author who has published two books with asexual protagonists and ace romance.

Trying to write the kind of books I've always wanted to read!

BOOKS & BONE is a haunted but oddly sweet story of librarians and necromancy.

https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/books-and-bone-by-Victoria-Corva/

NON-PLAYER CHARACTER is a cosy queer portal fantasy where a group of TTRPG nerds in their 30s must navigate the world of their game.

https://victoriacorva.xyz/books/non-player-character-by-victoria-corva/

The average male human weighs 198lb

The average vampire bat weighs 0.03kg

The average vampire must there for turn into about 3000 bats when escaping awkward social situations 🧛🏻‍♀️ 🦇 🦇 🦇

take the red pill (original meaning) (HRT)

Why is it called induction when you of in the duction of out recur the duction

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:

https://meet.jit.si/circushomegym

#acrobatics
#clown
#circus

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf

"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!)
"

from: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053938195341314

court docs:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903/gov.uscourts.nysd.564903.152.0_1.pdf

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"

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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"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/