leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

You can just be a girl if you want. It’s okay. Or a boy, or something else, or no gender at all. You’re not too old, or too young, or too much, or not enough, or trespassing, or appropriating, or causing trouble. It’s okay. Really.

But the important thing is: do what you want, not what you think you’re allowed. Find the joy and follow that. You can experiment and you can change your mind. That’s okay too.

#TransAwarenessWeek

I've been reading and thinking a lot about what's been happening on #mastodon around questions and issues of #racism, #moderation, #contentwarnings, etc. I have a few thoughts.

First, I'm old. I mean OLD. My first internet experiences were as an adult academic in the mid-late 80s. As a Black person (and at the time, a woman) it was not unusual to be met with micro-agressions, harassment, and incredulity when I was online.

Thus, I have never expected, nor found, truly safe space online. 1/

📈 Donations through Liberapay have jumped up a bit this week, as hundreds of you have started financially supporting the Mastodon and other Fediverse instances you have accounts on. As a result, we've reached new all-time highs: the number of accounts actively giving or receiving money through Liberapay has crossed the 10k threshold, and the weekly sum of active donations has risen above €15k.

❌ we should have daylight when we go to work in the morning

❌ we should have daylight when we come home from work at night

☑️ we shouldn’t have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun

I propose mastodon servers should instead be called 'neighborhoods'

you can pick a cul-de-sac, or one near a bunch of bars & nightlife with a lot of character, or something in the countryside, or a giant condo complex. benefits and drawbacks.

and you can move, and when you do, your address gets automatically updated in everyone's Rolodex.

thx to @emilyriederer ! whose tweet made this thought click for me—even if they don't change the name, I feel like I get it now.

I can't believe my album has been out for an entire year already! :0

I released it on #BandcampFriday in November 2021, and it's been my best selling album and it's not even close!

Thank you so much <3

https://store.diym.tv/album/in-flux

It's National Novel Writing Month (#NaNoWriMo) and KDE has the ideal tool for the writer within you: Ghostwriter is an editor that offers you distraction-free, undiluted productivity. Activate the Hemingway mode and crank out the next bestseller now ✒️📖!

https://ghostwriter.kde.org/

If we reach 25.000 €, we will be able to do even more and we will improve support for videos with alpha, as well as for media with a greater variety of resolutions.

Help us make Kdenlive the most useful and feature rich video editor, while at the same time keeping it free and open for everyone. Donate now!

https://kdenlive.org/en/fund/

That's right, new, better blinds! I decided to switch it up and accept commissions similar to my previously offered blind commissions, but in this case you can give actual art direction, pick a pose, etc. G to NSFW content is accepted, and I'll draw almost anything! (no robots/machinery sorry!)

https://forms.gle/AGk8rVT7dWU19dDBA
#furry #commission

We made it! We reached our primary fundraising goal in a month! 🎉🎉

Get ready for stretch goals, as we work to make Kdenlive even better! 🎥

https://kdenlive.org/fund/

KDE is 2️⃣6️⃣ today! Happy Birthday to us!🎉🎂🥳🥳

KDE's new goals are officially go!

https://twitter.com/nightrose/status/1578738866286362627

1: KDE for All - Boosting Accessibility: Ensuring that our products are more accessible for everyone.

https://phabricator.kde.org/T15611

2: Sustainable software: Providing the world not just with free and open but also sustainable software.

https://phabricator.kde.org/T15676

3: Automate and systematize internal processes: making tedious tasks carried out within KDE easier.

https://phabricator.kde.org/T15627

but what does this say about people who are putting rust in their butt

RT @fasterthanlime@twitter.com

Some people are accusing Rust of being a SJW trojan horse, and I thought I should clarify things a bit.

They're absolutely right. It's too late now — anyone using Linux is gay. Android too. Your internet router probably. That means me too. Speaking of... what's your number?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1577298811596201984

Congratulations to #Okular & @kde
for the official recognition of your outstanding work!

Okular officially celebrated being the 1st application awarded the Blue Angel ecolabel.

Read more here: https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-09-28_okular_blue-angel-award-ceremony/

2 KDE community members, Alexander Lohnau and Harri Porten, joined Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss to receive the award on behalf of Okular and the KDE community at the EnviroInfo conference in Hamburg.

#KDEEco #BMUV #GermanEnvAgency #EnviroInfo #Sustainability #Environment #FOSS

I received this email from the Acorn tenants' union, it's relevant for renters in England:

"The government is running a consultation about introducing a decent homes standard for the private rented sector in England!

Bringing in this standard will improve conditions for millions of households, and will mean that landlords [...] have to make their properties safe, [...] free from disrepair, have reasonable facilities and be a comfortable temperature."

https://www.acorntheunion.org.uk/decenthomes

‘Degrowth’ is a term that is increasingly mobilized by scholars and activists to criticize the hegemony of growth – and a proposal for a radical reorganization of society that leads to a drastic reduction in the use of energy and resources and that is deemed necessary, desirable, and possible. Degrowth starts from the fact – demonstrated by an increasing number of studies – that further economic growth in industrialized countries is unsustainable.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5417-the-case-for-degrowth