leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

This is an insanely good and thoughtful post exploring the underlying dynamics at play with people trying to exclude kink from pride:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/51475232

Hot take: lot of thumbs down on Chronicles of Riddick is cause the West is full of racist cop & US military stans that didn't like sympathetic POC prisoners & Muslims coexisting peacefully w/other religions in the space-Middle East when US was demonizing them to make war there.

Introducing the first ever @kde + LMMS #PlasmaMobile Sound Competition 🎶! Get your sounds on to Plasma Mobile, win KDE goodies and have your music 🎸 promoted to tens of thousands of users!

Check out the rules at

https://community.kde.org/Promo/Plasma_Mobile_Audio_Competition

Submit your sounds to:

https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=332

🎷🎻🎵

The Electoral Reform Society is administering a petition against the UK government's plans to require photo ID (your responsibility and cost) for all voters.

As in the US, there's no justification for this other than disenfranchisement of people less likely to vote Conservative.

https://action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/35710/petition/1

The Tories want to cut funding for university arts by 50%. This will lead to many university arts and music departments shutting and then posh people can go back to hoarding all cultural capital. Working class musicians will keep making music forever, but they'll do so without the benefits of access to higher education. Effectively, access to some art forms will be severely limited for people who aren't ruling class.

There's a consultation on this, which you can do today or tomorrow. https://survey.officeforstudents.org.uk/s/RecurrentFundingConsultation2021-22/

For more information, see this post from the Musicians Union: https://musiciansunion.org.uk/news/mu-expresses-horror-at-proposed-halving-of-funding-for-music-at-he-in-england

The consultation form is long and confusing - it's fine to only respond to the sections about arts cuts and leave the rest blank.

Please do respond to the consultation, or at least spare a boost! This will be catastrophic for arts if it goes through.

Over the past 15 years of using #XMPP, I've seen many messengers come and go. People complain about the hassle of switching messengers, but many express a preference for the "simplicity" of gated gardens.... Do they count the cost of switching as well?

A truly sustainable messenger can only be a decentralized protocol, not just an app.

Learn how to join:
- https://joinjabber.org

Optional: but if you think about setting up your own server:
- https://sr.ht/~xamanu/xmpp-server
- https://snikket.org/service/quickstart

This is just a feeler for now, but would people be interested in helping organize a Free Culture conference online?

If so, could you drop me a line?

KDE e.V. is hiring 2 positions for environmental sustainability project https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2021q2/006846.html

We've got 100+ original #Pinebook laptops running #manjarolinux with #kdecommunity KDE Plasma to donate to a worthy cause. We're looking for a suitable nonprofit.

Help us help others.

https://www.pine64.org/2021/04/03/help-us-help-others/

My new novel, NON-PLAYER CHARACTER, is now live on Kickstarter!

Support a portal fantasy adventure with all-queer main characters where a TTRPG group of nerds in their 30s are transported to the world of their game.

Rewards include a playable TTRPG!

Boosts extremely welcome.

http://kck.st/3mfO6lz

#kickstarter #vkickstarter

hello fediverse

if you have like, two minutes, please consider filling out this survey i have to do for school

it's about how many books you read. don't worry if you don't read books very much, that's actually one of the things we're looking for

it's a google form. sorry

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMlVeRqo0f1uEZek4ZkjhxsVsVbF44GxQ9ncSAFuIfBVQ3OQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

#PinePhone: Do you really want #Linux phones

https://blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/