Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

CHONK
#chonky #seal #MastoArt #woodworking

This man's name was misinterpreted by white men. It actually meant that this man was so feared as a warrior that even his horse inspired terror.

He was a notable Sioux warrior who served on diplomatic delegations to Washington.

We profile Young-Man-Afraid-of-His-Horses in our next newsletter.

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Curious why we aren't seeing more #protest at #COP27? Check out this new piece in @Wired where we talk about how the target of #climate #activism has shifted (and why)

https://www.wired.com/story/cop27-protest-restrictions/

In my time working on decentralized social networks, here's a strange paradox:

1. The people with no money have something usable now, along with people who actually use it
2. The people with money have nothing usable now, and no one likely to use it

This is one of the few times that VCs and billionaires have been caught with their pants down.

And I'm here for it!

@Blackgirlinmaine So, one of the neat things I've learned which wasn't immediately apparent to me when I started using Mastodon was that Mastodon is one out of a number of different app interfaces that are able to share data between them because they all use something called ActivityPub to talk to each other. Mastodon looks kinda like Twitter, Pixelfed looks like Instagram, Friendica looks like Facebook, and there are others... and there are also forks of these projects that have been created with specific UX (user experience) preferences in mind.

When people talk about the Fediverse, they're talking about all of the apps that can talk to each other.

WordPress even has an ActivityPub plugin so you could share your feed from your blog direct to be followed off of the Fediverse apps.

At the stage of development that the Fediverse is in, I think the needs of some marginalized groups have been prioritized over others just based on who's been involved so far in the development and steering of these projects. There are a lot of established communities within this network whom have prioritized the needs of trans folks and autistic folks in particular (this is the origins of a lot of the Content Warning requests that initially turned off a lot of black users who dipped a toe in here).

I think there's a lot of potential for the Fediverse apps within the black community, especially in the non-profit and community organizing sphere, but I'd like to see more black developers and black thought leaders involved in the conversation of where social media needs to head next, as from what I can tell... The black community has social media norms, fears, hopes and dreams that may be unique to the black community that those of us who aren't black can't anticipate.

The good news is open source software is free and modifiable, so it's a matter of initiative to make it work for your needs.

I hope that makes sense...

I collect vintage insect illustrations from old books. I’ll be posting some of my favorites here. This is the endplate from an old version of “How To Know The Grasshoppers, Cockroaches And Their Allies
by Jacques R. Helfer”

I have questions.

Saw this nice little piece drawn by @joan_de_art in the solarpunk subreddit and I honestly love the idea of little canals with fish, like in old Japanese villages. #solarpunk

Coprolite may not be my favourite fossil. But it's a solid number two.

Bezos donates $100M to charity the same week Amazon lays off 10,000 workers.

I’m sure that’s a total coincidence—not a calculated PR stunt to detract from worker exploitation the week before Thanksgiving while reporting a 14.7% increase in 2022 Q3 revenue of $127B.

Botanists from Ukraine asking for help to repair the damage done to the Institute of Botany NAS of Ukraine and the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW) by russian missile strikes https://ukrbotj.co.ua/archive/79/5/339.

Ukrainian Botanical Society opened 2 special bank accounts for this (in EUR & USD, details below).

Source: https://www.facebook.com/anna.kuzemko/posts/10222323869433907

Need to mention that I know Prof. Dr. Anna Kuzemko personally for many years as well as many other Ukrainian botanists.

Excited to unveil our Warming Stripes on Exminster Primary School!
https://www.exminster-primary.devon.sch.uk/curriculum/eco-team

A great talking point for awareness in the local community

Please retweet and visit the link! The kids would love to see how much impact our stripes get!

Periodic reminder: Make fun of horrible people for what they do, not their body or their appearance. Many good, kind, and wonderful people exist who happen to share similar physical features with the horrible person you're mocking.