solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es

Latest comic: Pick your social network!

#socialmedia #internet #tech #authoritarianism

I’m still Marveling that these two comics separately dealing with access to comics for blind readers came out within a week of each other! Pick up Fantastic Four 9 by Ryan North & co at your local comic shop & read AND listen to my colleague Emily Beitiks here
https://spinweaveandcut.com/mitcomic/

Here are the first spectacular images of the ongoing eruption in the #Fagradalsfjall area, in Iceland. According to aerial images, at least two distinct eruptive fractures a few hundred meters long appear to have opened. 📸 Jakob Vegerfors

Happy Enshitification Day! 💥

July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...

A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.

Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!

A great example of how to handle a trans character:

1. Deadname is left as jibberish to prevent its use by assholes

2. Deadname does not hold power over the character

I’m looking for a couch to crash on in Berlin, for myself and @mkf, from 24th (as in, Saturday of next week), for a few days - at most a week, possibly less if we decide to also visit a friend in München before the end of the month.

The main point of the trip is to visit the local queer nerd community, so obviously being hosted by those is preferred.

Boosts/mentions of locals who might be able to help appreciated.

We’ll definitely be visiting CCCB, c-base and AfRA, in case anyone wants to meet.

#Iceland suspends annual whale hunt in move that likely spells end to controversial practice - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/21/iceland-suspends-annual-whale-hunt-in-move-that-likely-spells-end-to-controversial-practice great news - well done, Icelandic government... #whaling

30 Queer Graphic Novels for Pride Month

https://www.comicsbeat.com/30-queer-graphic-novels-for-pride-month/

#comics #PrideMonth #LGBTQ

*That's pretty bad news

Illustrations of the “utsuro-bune” (hollow ship), complete with inhabitant, reported to have washed up on the coast of Japan in 1803. Was this a castaway from the West? An embellished folktale? Or even, as some suppose, an extraterrestrial visit? https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utsuro-bune #ufo

Grundarfjörður ❤️

After a blatantly racist work was nominated for four #EisnerAwards, it’s time to change how nominations for the comic book industry’s most prestigious awards are made. In an open letter to the Comic-Con International Board, Mariah McCourt and I are asking for greater transparency and changes to this process to reduce systemic bias in order to maintain awards’ prestige and relevance. Please read and sign on if you’re part of the #comics community and agree! https://jenniferdeguzman.com/blog/2023/5/25/the-eisner-awards-transparency-and-diversity-an-open-letter

Goodness - every page of
Julia Wertz’s Impossible People is an unflinchingly honest exploration of the human condition, painful, poignant & laugh out loud funny - and super smart cartooning. I kept trying to read it in short chunks and found it impossible to put down. 1/2