maj @maj@computerfairi.es

Was ich auch immer ungewöhnlich finde: fast alle Menschen können Gargarin als ersten Menschen im All nennen, aber die erste Frau im All kennt irgendwie kaum wer (Valentina Tereshkova). Wahrscheinlich ist sogar Laika 🐶 eher präsent.🤔

“This common gender word is missing from your list”: On underrepresentation and age in the Gender Census

https://gendercensus.com/post/183114708365/this-common-gender-word-is-missing-from-your

hier, followerdings. ein ernstes.
bekannter von mir stand heute abend vor seiner leergeräumten bude. und kam nicht mehr rein. untermieter-hauptmieter-story.
hat jemand einen wohnraum frei? in hamburg? zu sofort? evtl auch nur vorübergehend? dm an mich.

Im bayerischen Schweinfurt ist ein 22jähriger aus Somalia geflüchteter im Polizeigewahrsam verstorben. Eine rassistische Tatmotivation kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden. https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/22-jaehriger-asylbewerber-in-haftzelle-verstorben,RJBZHbV

"You're a woman!" he said.
"Yes?"
"You can't use a sword!"
"But I do."
"Swords are manly."
"How?"
He blushed. "They're long and hard... and, uh, thrust..."
"How is that manly?"
He died of embarrassment. She could have cut him down - she had a sword after all - but why bother?
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

The Gender Census 2019 is now open until 25th March!

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2019/

It's for anyone whose genders (or lack thereof) aren't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and the results are useful in academia, business, and self-advocacy.

Masto have you seen Billy Porter's dress??
https://twitter.com/theebillyporter/status/1099807766728794113

have you ever noticed that someone post a screenshot of text without providing an image description, preventing you from being able to read it? or maybe they posted a huge amount of text that just can't possibly be described with the image description feature?

simply tag @OCRbot in a direct reply to the image. it will download the image and scan it using tesseract OCR to output the text contained in the image!

because OCRbot runs on fedi.lynnesbian.space, it has a character limit of 65535, so even the longest images should work OK!

check the reply to this image to see it parsing the attached screenshot!

Hello nice community,we have a big announcement to make! 🎉 Halcyon.social went down one year ago short before we took over the project.It was a huge centralized service using this code.Starting today it's online again - Not as a centralized #Halcyon instance but as a information page with a improved instance list and much more.You can visit it at https://www.halcyon.social .We hope you like it 😍

Some accessibility lessons:
- Excessive symbols and emojis (e.g. in names) are annoying. Stupid zalgo or math characters or whatever are read one by one.
- Links are spelled out with all those "slash slah colon" stuff.

Bombenalarm im ICE: Passagiere werden evakuiert, nur ein Rollstuhlfahrer nicht - https://www.stern.de/panorama/gesellschaft/deutsche-bahn--rollstuhlfahrer-musste-bei-bombenalarm-im-ice-bleiben-8581738.html?utm_campaign=&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=mweb_sharing via @sternde@twitter.com

A couple things I saw and thought "Mastodon will love this":

- Alias, a 3D-printed "parasite" that sits on top of your Amazon Echo or Google Home, feeding white noise into its mic until you say the wake word: http://bjoernkarmann.dk/project_alias

- The adminbook, a wonderfully ugly design for the ideal sysadmin notebook: https://m.habr.com/en/post/437912/

🐘

So in two weeks time there‘ll be another round of my #comics workshop in #Berlin.
It‘s unique in that it‘s not a basic course but an advanced project mentoring for everything you ever wanted to start/finish.
I already have enough attendees, but hey, we‘ll have comics phenomenon Ulli Lust talking about her creative process, we‘ll be printing an anthology and presenting it at this year‘s #ComicInvasion festival.
DM me for details if you're interested.

Also, heute 19 Uhr Offener Abend FLITtchenkneipe #Hamburg mit Infos zu #Freifunk! https://flittchenkneipeblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/offener-abend-im-februar/ FLTI only!

I feel weird asking for financial support for my bit of music-making, writing and writing about music. On the other hand, we're still in a bit of a financial pinch - no thanks to the still ongoing marriage recognition saga (thus no sposal tax benefits) and me having had a bad year businesswise in 2018. And I feel much better about asking for a tip for my creations than just straight up asking for money.

So I'm trying this ko-fi thing: http://ko-fi.com/modern_dragon