With the announcement of Missouri effectively banning trans medical care for all residents beginning the 27th, it is ever more urgent that I get help in saving my house from foreclosure (and make much needed interior repairs to make it more livable).
House is barely in the southwest Illinois suburbs of St. Louis, and most trans people I know locally are in Missouri, including 2 of my 3 partners.
I absolutely must help some of them get out of the state.
Share this with whoever you can. Remind some cis that there is absolutely things they can do right now to help with the growing persecution.
Way back in 2021, I called out #Substack as a scam because it was masquerading as a service provider when it fact it was paying certain writers (often secretly) to create content for them. (https://buttondown.email/thehypothesis/archive/heres-why-substacks-scam-worked-so-well/) They had an editorial mission and a paid writing staff, but claimed to be a neutral service provider like Etsy for authors. Here's how that story is going ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REx18x_sIE0 just made a video
The sarcasm juice built up and I was able to express my feelings about the GitHub illegal pronouns warning: https://twi.github.io/blog/github-warns-you-that-your-pronouns-may-be-illegal.html
@AmyDentata Amy here keeping it real
Man, think about all the regular users who aren't obsessed with #Twitter, and have Linktree in their bio, or run a small business and tweet things like "please follow us on Facebook!" Imagine being normal and getting banned for that lmao.
We're hiring a senior editor at Scientific American to help run our opinion, commentary & analysis coverage. Thanks for applying or recommending the job to people you think would be good candidates. https://careers.springernature.com/job/New-York-Senior-Opinion-Editor%2C-Scientific-American/866115301/
I've created a small, incomplete, list of instances with moderators of color.
The list and suggestions became to much to keep up on my own, so here is a Google document, https://docs.google.com/document/d/12pTmSMpq8lMYyYlHT25DgTmdMmE6ysUyRHGiq-E4XdQ/edit?usp=sharingp
Here's how to move accounts and take your followers with you https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFedi #FediTips #TwitterMigration #MastoAdmin
The longer I work as a historian the more I keep reconfirming that one of the top rules of history should be: "Always look up everybody's mom."
*So much* that doesn't quite make sense makes more sense when you look up mothers and sisters and the connections that get left out! #histodons #histodon #women #genderhistory
New SI prefixes just dropped!
10^27: ronna
10^-27: ronto
10^30: quetta
10^-30: quecto
racism? on *my* fediverse??
I'm a white person who's been on the fedi for 4 years. I witnessed the rise and fall of PlayVicious.social (aka "PV"), an instance that was thoughtfully moderated by an all-BIPoC team. it was a nexus of brilliant, creative, funny people who made the fediverse a better place. and then it shut down, and so many Black and Brown people gave up on this place as a result. it was a huge, huge loss.
why did that happen, you ask? I'm gonna let Ro (former admin of PV) tell that story, because it's come up again recently: https://ubiqueros.com/notes/97vj3h30hp
I was a w.e mod when this went down. it's all true; he's not exaggerating.
Transitioning in mid-life
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