leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

For #Akademy2023, the Akademy team is looking for Keynote speakers.

Comment below if you have any suggestions.

time for you to read it again. gay love
#queer #LGBTQ
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emergency!

My favorite case of accidental irony is still something I witnessed in the early 2000s. I crossed paths with a roadside merchants selling inspirational posters.

One of the posters was the text “JESUS IS MY MOUNTAIN AND MY ROCK” written over the photo of a mountain.

A photo I’d already seen before.

In a geology book.

Captioned “Mount St. Helens on May 17, 1980”.

I know this is me screaming at the void but here goes.

If you are building anything on the web that has user accounts, for all that is sacred, please take into account that names are not just “first last”.

And don’t be clever and assume spaces are proper delimiters.

Froilán Irizarry Rivera ≠ Froilán I. Rivera ≠ Froilán Rivera, these are three different people.

JK Rowling has explicitly said, multiple times, that people continuing to buy Harry Potter stuff is proof that they agree with her transphobia

Stop giving this bigot money

absolutely HAD to get art to commemorate this <33

🖌️ @tartiicat@twitter

Today, over 100 students and community members in #Montreal "stormed into a talk at #McGill University" shutting down an event organized by a member of the LGB Alliance, a anti-trans hate group which works to oppose trans rights in the UK, even going so far as to oppose a ban on conversation therapy and claiming opposing same-sex marriage is "not homophobic." Like the rest of the TERF movement, it also has direct links and associations with the far-Right and open fascists.

Protesters reportedly "threw baking flour at [the speaker and] unplugged a projector," before the event was shut down.

Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

I really like this idea.

It's wild how computer programming went from exclusively women's work to "we're not sexist we just don't think women are interested in it" in like 40 years

reminder we are hiring for some cool jobs over at KO_OP - a worker owned and very queer indie game studio!

80k flat salary + bonuses, 4 day work weeks, fully remote, flex hours, very cool people and games. Open roles are:

Senior Engineer (membership track!)
Network Engineer
DevOps Engineer
UX Designer

https://ko-opmode.applytojobs.ca

Saw a post about how fedi bigots are feeling so isolated by defederation that they're making secret "normie" accounts so they can have human connection and like... this is where it all went wrong isn't it?

Instead of shaming and ejecting bigots and bullies from civil society we let them in and comment on our tweets and facebook posts and YT videos. And then liberals for whom this is all a game cause they remain largely unaffected were like "no! let's debate them in the marketplace of ideas!"

No. You make them afraid of the cost of going mask off. You make it not worth it. So that they hide and attempt to interact like normal human beings instead of demons wearing human skin. And even if they stay shitty, if they keep it a secret they can't spread it easily to others

Never in a million years did I see pandemic safety becoming one of the most punk rock things you could do in this world, but here we are

Its always morally correct to pirate @Adobe software, especially when they snatch data from your private artwork and feed it to their "Content Analysis" for (in their own words) Machine-Learning.

Good on Jon Lam for sounding the alarm. Remember: "Industry Standard" is a Marketing Term. What matters is if you can do the work well. Whatever tools work for you are what work best. Dont let corporations make you dependent on them.

Make changes to your Adobe account here:

account.adobe.com/privacy

Truly though … it does sometimes feel like the furry aesthetic is filtering into the mainstream and mundane world, which is amusing and fun!

But it remains our duty to keep the furry fandom weird and queer, and make sure the corporations and media companies are never able to take us over! Solidarity! ✊

OK fellow #Mastodon users I'm just putting out a little test to see how many of you see this toot. If you are reading this now then please ReBlog.

#HappyNewYear from all the team at #BlazingMinds

2022's been good to me. Made a real point of no longer putting off a lot of things, making up for time lost to the pandemic years, and building some really special friendships.

If 2022 was rough for you, I'm sorry and I hope 23 is better. Let's all have each other's backs, be kind, be supportive, cut each other some slack, but equally don't put up with toxicity in your life nor be the toxicity in someone else's. Let's make it good with gentle, unstoppable strength and love.