RT @RedIzaK@twitter.com
What if anthros/ferals lived in fantasy cities together in harmony :3
Contributing to free software requires privilege. Even regular contributors might sometimes find themselves without it.
Time, focus and money. You might find yourself lacking in one of these at various points in your life.
While software projects from startups move like streams, most free software projects move like glaciers. They move slowly but they keep moving for decades.
Being away from a project doesn't mean you have to give it up. You can join back later.
ukpol, ACAB, how to "breach the peace" with a bag
"Pink Peacock hasn’t even opened its doors and is already ruffling blue feathers.
On Monday at around 1.30pm, Morgan Holleb and Joe Isaac – founders of the Glasgow-based queer Yiddish anarchist pay-what-you-can café – were tucking into lunch and an episode of Star Trek when they received a visit from the police. The officers told the pair they were suspected of breaching the peace – for displaying a 'fuck the police' tote bag in their shop window."
"Holleb only realised he’d been charged with a crime after seeing a story in the Glasgow Times."
"On Wednesday, the Scottish Sun published a hit piece on the 'anarchy diner', saying it had 'sparked fury by banning cops and ‘terfs’' The following night, a man painted over the shop front, which also had its window smashed on 27 May, though it is unclear whether the attack was targeted."
The outcome, as tweeted by the owners:
"last night an avid sun reader painted over our window, but was stopped by some lovely comrades who caught him on camera and 'took his paint off him and wacked him with his own roller'"
https://vashtimedia.com/2021/06/16/pink-peacock-police-glasgow-bag-kill-the-bill/
😩 The printer of my self-published comic books announced a dramatic increase of prices (+45%) starting 1st July. That's sad... So, if you want them, I invite you to shop in June before the price hike: https://www.drivethrucomics.com/browse/pub/15557/David-Revoy
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The #OnlineSafetyBill means:
(1) The Home Secretary decides what content FB and Twitter must remove, and how;
(2) Companies must be able to read your private messages
(3) Services that don’t comply get banned from App Stores, blocked on ISPs
Reading audiobooks is still reading.
If you say you read an audiobook you don't have to "correct" yourself. I'd argue that you /shouldn't/, that you'd get less correct.
There's no need to say "well no I didn't read it" if it was an audiobook. There's no need to put "reading" in scare quotes.
It's reading just as much as reading print is.
I know there are worse problems, but it sucks having my favored reading format denigrated by sighted people, even to the point of them denying it's "real."
So you know how one of @kde@mastodon.technology's goals is privacy, right? Well, turns out we've been doing a (very tiny) bit of (very extremely unintended) phoning home for a while, and as of now, that doesn't happen any longer. Here's some words i wrote about that :) https://kath-leinir.blogspot.com/2021/05/kdes-author-avatars-and-not-phoning-home.html
This is an insanely good and thoughtful post exploring the underlying dynamics at play with people trying to exclude kink from pride:
ukpol, voter ID, ERS petition
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
UK pol - please respond to a consultation
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.
Peruse is a comic book reader that also comes with creator, and if you like that idea, here's another: It just had its first release (beta for now) in a few years :) https://twitter.com/PeruseByKDE/status/1384507501484417024 @kde@mastodon.technology #floss #comics #books
"Why are you even protesting?"
300 black lives not ended by police brutality, that's why. It would have been worth it for even one.
RT @SociologistRay@twitter.com
“municipalities where BLM protests have been held experienced as much as a 20 percent decrease in killings by police, resulting in an estimated 300 fewer deaths nationwide in 2014–2019.”
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SociologistRay/status/1381059720530788355
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
So, i heard you like comics and other books, with some links in them that you can choose, between different bits of those adventures, so they kind of become your own? Oh, you like choosing your own adventure? Well, do i have an exciting blog post for you! ;) https://kath-leinir.blogspot.com/2021/04/advanced-comic-book-linking.html @kde@mastodon.technology #floss
Take a Moment - but actually, a human moment, as a base unit of time, that we can use when writing software. No, really! :) https://kath-leinir.blogspot.com/2021/04/take-moment.html @kde@mastodon.technology #floss
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.
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
Do you like comic books? And digital ones? How about ones with translations and stuff? Well, do i have a blog post for you! ;) https://kath-leinir.blogspot.com/2021/03/advanced-comic-book-formatting.html @kde@mastodon.technology #floss #comics
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them