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Justine 🏳️‍⚧️

Re: deadnaming

I explained to my mother that deadnaming and misgendering is like farting. If you do it by accident, and apologize, people will forgive you.

If you keep doing it, people will suggest you get that taken care of, maybe recommend you seek treatment, and ultimately avoid you.

If you bend over, stick your ass in their face, and let it rip though, then you shouldn’t be surprised people think you’re a clueless, hostile asshole.

(This is from an old post, but I wanted to keep it.)

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Mel Mack

The true definition of rainbow washing.

These brands are sponsoring the World Cup in Qatar, despite the blatant disregard for the human rights for LGBTQ+ (or the masses of itinerant workers who've died working in >50 degree heat).

Funnily enough they were all 'Oooh yes we support gay people' until they had the choice to take a stand that might impact them commercially.

#lgbtq #qatar #worldcup #fifaworldcup #football #

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Nick!

twitch, transphobia, ableism 

Twitch have added a bunch of new charities to their list, and two of them are the LGB alliance - a transphobic hate group - and Autism Speaks - an ableist hate group.

This can't be allowed to stand. Please use the link below if you have a twitch account to vote for this issue:

twitch.uservoice.com/forums/94

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leinir

Another little update here - today's the last day this particular package is on sale. There will be more in the future of course, but if you've been considering it, it'll be going up to it's full intended price later :) (it used to say the 8th on the store there, but there was some confusion about the wording, so they changed the description and the date disappeared, but i've no doubt the reality remains)

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DavidB🍥

Dear #Americans of #Mastodon, you have a wonderful opportunity that is rarely granted to you. For the first time, you're in an online public space that is not American, that is not centered around the US, and as I'm typing this, a place where the majority of users are not Americans. You can open yourselves to the world as you've rarely been able to before.

So please, stop expressing yourselves like the US is the default country here and that most users are Americans. We're not. Love.

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Saielle DaSilva

#UK folks, there's a petition to keep protection of transgender people in the equality act.

It's pretty scary being trans in this country at the moment, and we could use your help to protect our rights.

Feel free to share broadly/openly with others. Steal, boost, whatever. Let's get 100k signatures, please.

petition.parliament.uk/petitio

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Pride-Flag Wavin' Gneech

We want YOU for Reclamation Project Year Two! Seeking stories of 7,000-10,000 words with a strong emotional connection and/or a unique “furry solarpunk” angle. Contact himself@gneech.com to discuss, and boosts welcome and appreciated! #AmWriting #furry #solarpunk #SubmissionCall #FurryWriting #MFF #MWFF

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

Today I'm struck by Zuckerberg spending something like a billion dollars on the "metaverse" to create legless sausage VR avatars and meanwhile volunteer furries are beta-testing advanced finger tracking systems so they can use sign language in VR chat with PAWS, and not only does it work, it's like a billion times more enticing on _every level_.

billionaires are a mistake

#furry #metaverse #vrchat #vr

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KDE

KDE's End of Year 💰#fundraiser💰 is officially open! Your #donations will help us reach our goals, support our community, fund our events, and show the whole world 🌍 how everybody can benefit from KDE software.

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202

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Sarah “Slut Era” Kite 🪁

Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

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Crowsinger

I am always taken aback when someone dismisses fantasy as "escapism". What's wrong with escapism? What's wrong with longing for different worlds than this? Have you seen this world? Its brokenness and sharp thorns?

Did you not grow up desperately looking for your door elsewhere? Did you not immerse in beautiful worlds as sustenance, for moments of joy like wings?

For a time in my life I stretched out. Grimdark, New Weird, etc. But no more. Give me hopepunk and found family. Give me escape.

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wakest ⁂

Flickr CEO Don MacAskill (@d0n) is currently running a poll to decide whether to add #ActivityPub to :flickr: Flickr to join the #fediverse (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, etc.)
Make your voice heard:
sfba.social/@d0n/1094226479952
Poll on Twitter too:
twitter.com/DonMacAskill/statu

Remember this has good and bad repercussions whether you use Flickr or not, it would be the first time an old giant joins us but also would bring many many new issues we would have to face together. Please boost for reach!

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
The company has about 100 laptops here. Dell, i5 CPU, probably 6 years old. I'll ask for more detailed specs if anyone is interested.

We're selling them off, wiped and reinstalled with a fresh vanilla Windows.

They'll go for 100 HKD ~= 10 EUR. If you want one I can send it to you if you pay the shipping. That'd be like 30 EUR I guess to most of the world by surface parcel.

IT said maybe they won't do it because of lack of interest, so I hope I can get some interest and they won't have to become e-waste. They're all in good shape, mostly used in a climate-controlled office for max 3 years before they went into storage in the same climate-controlled office.
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leinir

The current Star Citizen free-fly ends at UTC2000 on the 30th-and you can currently borrow (or "rent" for free) nearly any ship in the game by dropping by the rental kiosks in the basement of the Zenith hall at the Tobin Expo Center (follow the red signs all over New Babbage ;) ) computerfairi.es/@leinir/10934

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David Lo Pun

Funny how centrists never threaten to go left if fascists aren’t civil.

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NeoFox

Boost this fox to teleport him across the Fediverse and brighten someone's day! :blobfox:

Let's see how many instances the fox can reach on his journey!

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Denny 🏳️‍🌈

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

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A couple of useful updates - sorry, i should've just added these to the thread here to start with, so doing it now... didn't want this to end up context-less :D computerfairi.es/@leinir/10940

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An update on that recommendation for what ship to get - the introductory offer on the Drake Cutter starter game package ( robertsspaceindustries.com/ple ) is currently by a long way the best value starter package, at least until the 8th of December, when it's due to increase up to its intended full price. Also, if you want to nab Squadron 42 as well, that'll be offered for an extra 20 quid at checkout (it'll look weird when it's offered,but it'll become 20 when you add it to the cart) :) as always,ask!

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James Gosling

There's an ugly storm brewing in EU software security legislation that could seriously impact open source software development. Those of you in the EU should read this article and do some lobbying. The goals of the legislation aren't unreasonable, but the conformance-testing burden would totally overwhelm the OSS community. The legislators need to rethink how they approach the burden and responsibility of auditing. blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-

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