Rumour has it that twitter has a dev team dedicated to studying the codebase of #mastodon and #pleroma and a psy team to discover the secret of the #fediverse. And that facebook has a psy-ops team to try and kill the #fediverse.
I'm 91% of the way to my goal of raising $2000 for the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, an organization that fights capitalism, fights for workers, & fights for undocumented families in Western Massachusetts; the most impoverished region in MA. We do everything from hassling state legislatures for anti-wage theft laws, a 24/7 support hotline for undocumented people facing deportation, vigils and rallies, to bail & barricading construction on the local ICE office.
Please donate here: https://pvworkerscenter.z2systems.com/shelPVWC
Hey folks, if you're doing #sneepsnop2017 and your instance supports the feature, consider pinning a toot containing some things you like so your snopsneep has something to go on. :)
Is there a #nonbinary person who would like to go to #34c3 but has no ticket? I won't go and want to give away my ticket to another enby.
ableism
Hey y'all, I need a signal boost please.
My friend and their mom are in danger of being evicted if they can't raise about 12 thousand dollars by the end of the month.
They are both so lovely and good, their mom does so much community outreach and she really needs help right now.
If you could retoot this or even donate that would mean the world to me and my friend.
Thank you all <3
#signalboost #crowdfunding
https://www.gofundme.com/save-barbara-caporales-home
Due to a rare brain condition you've spent your entire life hallucinating the presence of a six foot tall penguin. You're on a date one day when you're asked "So what's the deal with the penguin?"
#writingprompts #writing
@distelfliege yay voll shhรถn!! Und gut zu wissen, dass man den Ausschnitt verkleinern muss. Mag das zu weit auch nicht.
Cyberpunk dysphoria
Remember when we were younger, and we fantasized that cyberpunk was this awesome desired thing?
Where you could plug yourself in and digitally craft your entire everything, or have some spliced organo-mechano body sculpt so that you could appear outwardly as well as you felt inwardly, or just how much your overall appearance was modifiable?
Remember how excited you got inside when you fantasized that all these things were completely normal in that world, and that it would be worth it despite the utterly bleak dystopian backdrop that leeched all of the empathy, compassion, and civility out of being alive?
We're not there... we've DEFINITELY got the latter dystopian part, and we're still working on the first half, but the general world is not qvite as receptive to our crafting of our own images as would be ideal.
Hold on to those that are accepting of it. Hold on to them tightly.
This is how we survive the problems of the latter... how we navigate the dystopia.
We are better than the inhumanity of this world, because inside we are bright-neon, rainbow colored, shiny metallic, soft and comforting, hard and unflinching, loud and proud, qviet and caring, glowy-eyed beings.
We craft our existence despite being surrounded by these crumbling ruins of society, because who we are is all we have. They cannot take that away, because we won't let them.
You are worth every last gasp of breath that's inside you, every tear of sorrow, every dazzling spark of elation, and every shred of compassion.
I don't know if you needed that reminder or not... I just know that I did, today.
*Hugs softly*
oh and tea, please! very queer and autistic. disability. fibre. they-pronouns.
not much tech-related tooting but feelings and everything.
I like tea but: http://ko-fi.com/A674QB4