ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

I made all of those Magen David necklaces with climate friendly zircon, glass and gemstones. They are lively and shining, like the Jewish spirit ❤️

#handmade #jewish #israel #proisrael #bringthemhomenow #bringthemhome #art #artist #artists

Ron Filipkowski
Man, the MAGA Snowflakes are really triggered by the weird thing.

Maybe we should stop.

Shouldn’t we be respectful of their feelings?

“In #Arizona, we have faced the brunt of #misinformation, #ElectionDenialism & an erosion of trust in our #justice system.

“The Grand Canyon State is ground zero in the fight against repeated false claims to disrupt our electoral process — from #FakeElectors attempting to undermine AZ’s #election, to a sham 'audit' [#fraudit] by AZ Senate #Republicans that was spurred by #ConspiracyTheories.

#Trump #populism #BigLie #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #Harris2024

Something that isn't weird (as fuck).

@ScottSoCal I meant like a counterpart of “Libs of TikTok”

Maybe when Vance said childless women are mentally unstable, sociopaths, deranged, and psychotic he was thinking about Ginni Thomas.

Is Weirdos of Truth Social a thing yet?

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Via Elie Mystal:

America electing a President who hates dogs, and a Vice President who hates cats, who both hate women more than they hate dogs and cats, would indeed be very weird.

Every single time someone talks about improving Mastodon software for the sake of inclusivity towards Black people, *every single time*, the comments grow a bunch of concern trolls that are like "Everything's fine (for me)! Let them go make their own thing!"

And that's why Black people don't fuck with this place.

Signs you have carpenter ants

1. keep finding tiny tools
2. city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
3. try to move a book and are told “keep this entrance clear, ma’am” because of the “cement delivery coming later”
4. Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
5. no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
6. husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

(my new drawing for this PSA)

I keep thinking about this conversation from a few years ago... #KamalaHarris #politics

It's amazing how quickly the "fuck your feelings" crowd has pivoted to "😭 Don't call me weird. You're hurting my feelings. 😭"

The racist attacks you’ve witnessed directed at me since Friday, particularly by instances with 1 or 2 individuals, SHOULD cause you to ask “why?” and here’s the part “good white folx” often miss…these attacks are about YOU…these attacks are INTENDED to keep me from putting a mirror in your faces and showing you that YOU TOO are harmed by white supremacy and anti-Blackness…these attacks are no different than banning books…they’re INTENDED to keep you IGNORANT about the fact that you’re COMPLICIT

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And now #petebuttigieg is on the #whitedudesforharris call. It's really interesting how the party has pivoted to "the vibe" as opposed to wonkish policy positions to motivate voters. I think that's gonna be a winning move. But that's like, my opinion, man. #TheDude

#uspol

Trump can't figure out what to do about Harris https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/29/2259039/-Trump-can-t-figure-out-what-to-do-about-Harris?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Great news: the GOP mayor of Mesa AZ endorses Harris. "Now more than ever, we need leaders who will put country over party." [de-paywalled link from @azcentral] http://archive.is/KC91o

I'd like to see more "lets reflect on what the culture of the community that has been curated on the fediverse is, and how the tooling has enabled that culture," and less "its just about switching instances" or "do this one thing and the racism bug will be fixed."

I see a lot of people talking about technical solutions to racist attacks on Mastodon. I used to do that too.

I was wrong.

Yes. There are things that could be done to improve technical protections. Signup validation, proactive moderation, visible replies, limiting who can reply.... But those don't actually solve the problem.

The problem is us.
The problem is what we allowed our community to be.

The tech community has a lot of racists in it. Some are billionaires. Many of those billionaires fund and support explicit racists and eugenicists. When these people, and those who want to emulate them, suffer zero consequences for their racism (and they almost always do), they get more brazen and more explicit. For some it's a thrilling game to see what they can get away with. For others it's a deadly serious ideology.

We need to make it clear that VCs, developers, managers, and influencers who don't take racism seriously won't get hired. That their companies will be boycotted. That nobody will work on their projects. It's not enough to not be racist. We need to be proactively anti-racist, and we need to hold everyone we work with to the same standard.

And when I talk about fighting racism, I'm not just talking about someone saying the n-word. The guy who says, "We don't allow politics in our company/project" has just stated that they are perfectly fine hiring and funding a racist, even if it drives others away. The company that says they don't need a DEI initiative because it "doesn't help the bottom line" has just told their employees that being biased is perfectly fine. You know what they call someone who sits down to dinner with Nazis; if you enable one, you are one. Every step backwards is one more racist who feels empowered to step out of their dank closet.

And fighting them has a cost. We may need to turn down opportunities, and be attacked in response. It's no accident that a lot of the Black (and LGBTQ+) folks who receive the most attacks are the same ones who stood up to their organizations, who called out and continue to call out the racism and bias, and who daily pay a price for it. The message is clear. "Do what they do and we'll make an example of you too."

All of this is going to be harder than we want, because the racists hold a lot of the purse strings. But the tech community is our community, we live here, and we're responsible for making it safe for others.

And I don't want to see one more post saying, "I haven't seen it myself, but...". If you're not seeing it, go out and search for it. Or turn around and look at your own organization and see how you can make it better. We can't cleanup Mastodon without cleaning up the entire community; it doesn't exist in a vacuum.

And yes, you can replace "racist" in what I wrote with any other fascist ideology. They are all cut from the same cloth, and a follower of one invariably joins the others as well.