Zoe @ekg@librem.one

@futurebird @melanie if we start with a public register, where people can document what they have. I think we can find volunteers to store books. as long as we don't give to many books to one person, we should be fairly safe from unintended loses.

@futurebird @melanie someone really should found a cold store for books. If we can fill caves with cheese, why not books?

Hey, I’m looking for a roommate! I have a house in central Minnesota - it’s a three bedroom, me, a trans man, and two cats. #trans people specifically please dm for more info! :)
boosts appreciated!

some other details if you’re interested:
i currently co-own the house with my ex, who left. our plan is to sell it, but we can’t because it was just purchased in July. so this would be until spring or summer, and at that point I would potentially be interested in finding another place with the same roommate situation, if we all felt good about it.
I’m trans, 24, and while i like a decently clean house I’m pretty chill. My roommate is vegetarian and I’m vegan, so we wouldn’t want meat in the house.
Happy to discuss more if that sounds interesting :) I’m absolutely willing to take someone from far away!

41) A lot of places globally that have been magnets lately for US expats are experiencing serious impacts from that. Gentrification, extreme rise in housing costs and/or availability, inflation, sense of diminishing local culture, etc. Enter the new homeland with a lot of sensitivity to how our presence is disruptive to the lives of others. Tread lightly. Look for ways to become a contributing member of the community. I'm sorry this landed low on my random-order list. It's NOT a low priority.

“Mute for 1 day" is your friend today if your doomscrolling is being overwhelmed by your mutuals’ doomposting.

I need about $10K USD and so do all of my American friends

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT

Note to USA folks, ❗trans folks especially❗.

A passport is:
- Fundamentally useful
- A federal ID
- Recognized in most state/local level contexts
- *You can change your gender marker on it through pure self ID, with nothing medical required*. "X" is an option. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/selecting-your-gender-marker.html
- Normally 4-6 weeks to process (faster if u pay extra); that means if you apply for one this week, you easily get it before Jan 20.
- Lasts 10 years

Perhaps apply for one (or renew it, to reset yr 10 years) now.

‼️ AMERICANS ‼️
I hate getting political, but I have a platform on here and despite me being sick of Fedi I will use it nonetheless.

* If you or anyone you know is trans, they're cis now.
* If you or anyone you know is an immigrant, they've been here since they were born.
* If you are asked about politics, you say that you do not discuss politics.

You must protect the vulnerable and yourself.

so you know when you close a piece of editor software that can have multiple files or tabs open, and it asks if you want to save / discard / cancel?

LinqPad has a fourth option: shelve. if you have tabs open with unsaved stuff, it keeps it and just opens it back up next time you open it. nothing lost, but you don't need to go through and save everything to a file.

every bit of editor software (regardless of type) needs this. it's such a useful feature, especially for my ADHD brain.

couldn't resist making a dialoge-free version of today's PA, because it is so relatable

@whitequark the threat of law is often more effective then law itself, their exist no certainty that the sanctions this is referring to will ever be written to law.

@whitequark

"If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read
the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian
state-sponsored spam." - Torvalds

How do you interpret these words?

@mcc @futurebird @elm considering that dog sized ants is pretty much what humans are I would say no, their is not enough energy bio chemically available for dog sized ants on our planet.

Kindness is not "OMG dude, thank you so much for putting a link to a eugenics-pushing muppet's shitty opinions about autism in my replies! Let's discuss Nazi shit as if this is still a debate worth having! I have so much free time for reply guys! Yay!"

Sometimes kindness is "GTFO" and a block.

What the sealion does with that is his business; I will always side with neurodivergent people who aren't fascists.

I love having the world's information organized

@mrsbeanbag you might turn out to be more right then I thought, news recently reached me that the DOJ is opening a probe into Swedens sale of Gripen to Brazil. They already did it once before, otherwise this would be the kind of pressure that I would expect.

Every sale of military equipment is corrupt, but is also covered by national immunity. An investigation can't really do much, other than apply diplomatic pressure.