I feel, as part of my initiation into this space, I must talk about my love of #Medieval elephants.
Yes, you heard me. You see, though bestiaries were very common in Western Europe, elephants were not.
So things like this happen.
"SO... lion body... got it, cloven hooves, okay, big ears and dead bird eyes... long snake face... PERFECTION."
So excited to share my new story in Scrawl Place, a journal of literature of Place and Travel. It’s a story very dear to me, of young Jews working out their religious ambivalence. Please read! https://scrawlplace.com/2022/11/08/pastrami/?fbclid=IwAR3CQ9Vt_1wHyIKnQigTWaEu9caPc3Vwq995EvqXgMkj2uKnPF59_SitFp0
Mutual aid
My friend Alex is a migrant from England who fled queerphobic Christian family to live his life in relative peace in the Netherlands. But the Dutch government has required him to hold enough of a job to not be deported. His money is really low right now due to surprise costs, and we can't support him enough anymore either. If he loses more money his bank account will be closed, which will lose him his job. Which will have him permanently banned from this country, jeopardising his safety and quite likely killing him. We need some help to keep him afloat, if you could chip in any or retoot/share (anywhere) it'd be greatly appreciated.
#MutualAid #gofundme #financialaid
https://gofund.me/711c4139
mutual aid
Yeah, so, folks who've been following me a while know I've been dealing with some major medical shit?
Well things went to hell in extended family and now I'm taking care of 2 extra kids while dealing with major medical shit.
Also, no fucking sleep last night.
If anyone is able help out, $50-100 could make a huge difference in getting these kids what they need and still paying the bills this month.
paypal: jessicaburde@gmail.com
My partner and I have to come up with our own Hawaiian language and history curriculum (the US erases our Hawaiian history also) which takes a lot of time. We could use support to keep doing this education against US anti-indigenous genocide: https://ko-fi.com/silverspook
Hey, if you've been trying out Mastodon/"The Fediverse" but aren't feeling all those columns, take a look at https://pinafore.social/.
It's not an instance-- it's an alternate UI that can connect to the instance you've already signed up at.
I've been using it for I don't even remember how long now, and sometimes I forget that by default Mastodon throws like three columns at you and none of those columns actually show your timeline until you click "Home" on the rightmost of them.
I'll shortly be attempting to migrate to another instance (theoretically all followers automatically get updated? Exciting times), so a brief #introduction while I'm still on this one - I'm a security developer, Linux contributor, and free software advocate focused on ensuring that people are able to make informed decisions about whether their computers are trustworthy and what software can run on them. I also reverse engineer weird IoT things and tend to find exceedingly strange bugs.
UPDATE: Tusky Nightly is now unblocked in Google Play and there's a new update up this morning! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky.test&hl=en_CA&gl=US
This means we are back on schedule toward a betatest and release of Tusky 20.0.
Transitioning in mid-life
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