Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

"Decentralized" systems are susceptible to catastrophic failure if every node runs the same software created by a single entity. Open Source doesn't change this. *Social* decentralization and diverse implementations for a protocol provide better resilience and distributed agency.

Some art I made for myself for pride month this year, updated :3

LGBTQIA+ people need not fly only a single flag~

You take all of your biometrics everywhere you go and leave them behind everywhere. If someone copies them, you're compromised, and now they can track you. If you accidentally lose or damage them, you're locked out.

Don't use biometrics.

OH HEY today is #CakeForTransFriendsDay / #TransCakeDay, the day when cis people give cake (or preferred alternative) to their trans friends to support and celebrate their existence! :)

my partner petra is moving across the country soon and needs help to cover the expenses - any amount helps, boosts here and RTs on birdsite are also really appreciated

https://twitter.com/Infested2A03/status/1448500891045150725
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-petra-move-from-coast-to-coast

#transcrowdfund

More on Hawaii's technologically and socio-politically advanced society, with electrification predating the White House, world's first universal healthcare, before US illegal occupation and banning of our language & culture:

Republished from: https://twitter.com/hourlyFox/status/1440873611590578181

oh no, Skrime! That knot looks like it maaaayy be stuck in there for a while.

Portal panties, being put to good use!

ultimately the point of a union has to be not merely to keep management in check, but to displace it altogether and run the company as a worker-owned collective

not that democracy is any guarantee of equality or fairness, of course; it needs to be backed by a robust constitution guaranteeing the rights of every worker in the company (the larger the company the more formal, rigorous, checked and balanced these things need to be - but even in a three-person company, there needs to be some means of ensuring things don't get decided on a perpetual 2-1 majority)

the virgin rimworld/factorio/whatever game developer vs the chad tarn adams developer of dwarf fortress