BeardlyDavid @fssofdeath@librem.one

For those of you shyly peeking out of your eggshells and questioning your #gender ...

You don't need dysphoria to be #trans.

You don't have to "pass" to be trans.

Most cis people don't question their gender. If you think you're trans or gender non-conforming, you are. Explore your options. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

You don't have to "flip" your gender to be trans. The white stripe on the trans flag represents #nonbinary people!

ALL trans peeps are valid.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

This! So. Much. This!

So, finally, Musk's minions have acknowledged why they locked out third-party Twitter clients: The purpose is to force users onto Twitter's own website and apps.

Remember, they lied earlier to justify killing off the competition, claiming violations of the rules. Since there were no violations they could point to, they rewrote the rules.

Anyone who trusts Musk and Twitter at this point is willfully stupid.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-new-developer-terms-ban-third-party-clients-211247096.html

h/t @andybaio

#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM

Hey, bestie! Let's start a healthy trend!

If this post ends up on your timeline, stop what you are doing! Take a deep breath, and slowly exhale. Give yourself a few minutes to be alone with your thoughts and remind yourself that this world is better with you in it! ❤️

Do you feel better? If yes, boost this post and help it reach more people who may need the same reminder!

Personal social revelation of the day:
The reason I like platforms that give me the ability to “react” with an emoji is at least twofold:
1) when other people react to my words, without adding anything further, it gives me a cue that the conversation can be considered gracefully closed (at least for now)
2) if it seems like a conversation has reached the “battling to get in the last kind word” stage, it gives me a way to get in one last kindness, without further belaboring redundant verbal pleasantries.

#ActuallyAutistic people sometimes need to spend time actively thinking about this stuff.

Well, tech layoffs just hit me 😑

I guess let me know if you hear of any science communication jobs

Fast Fashion Facts:
- We buy 60% more than we did in 2000 but each garment is kept for half as long.
- Of the billions of clothing items made each year, over half are thrown away.
- The fashion industry employs millions of people but only around 2% earn a living wage.
- 60% of clothes are made from synthetic fabrics derived from fossil fuels.
- The production of textiles produces almost 1.2 billion tonnes of CO2 per year.
#fastfashion

https://www.eco-stylist.com/why-is-fast-fashion-bad/

@fssofdeath @simonforgues tant que l'argent restera un but en soi, et que son accumulation sans limite sera observée, mesurée, et malgré tout glorifiée, on n'est pas près d'avoir une once de pouvoir là-dessus.

Comme pour l'environnement. Notre bac à recyclage et notre vélo ne sont qu'une goutte dans l'océan comparé aux vrais pollueurs...

Et vous savez quoi? Ce sont les mêmes coupables dans les deux cas.

A lesbian, bi person, gay man and a trans person waiting in line.

An lgbtqueue.

After a famous YouTuber was facing allegations of sexual assault, and someone proposed that famous men stop sleeping with their fans, I saw a comment from someone,

“Then what’s the purpose of getting famous?”

And it just smacked me like I’d told a joke at the Oscars.

Yo, do dudes really think the only reason to earn recognition is so that you can get laid?

My god, how are we the same species? How powerfully pathetic and sad to be unable to find value in anything but getting off. WTF

@rant if someone is only getting famous to have sex with more people, they’re using their influence to do so.

The whole point of my toot was the comment from someone suggesting that the only reason to get famous is to be able to influence more people to sleep with you.

Using your position to influence someone to sleep with you is predatory.

A must-read essay by Melinda Cooper on the "anti-eugenics" arguments that religious conservatives are deploying in their effort to enact a federal ban on abortion in the U.S.

"The stakes could not be higher. Yet much of the feminist left is ill-equipped to deal with this threat."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-anti-abortion-movement-and-the-ghost-of-margaret-sanger

#MelindaCooper
#Feminism
#AbortionRights

Shoutouts to the one trans or gay or furry airline engineer doing this

I would love an option to have a "This toot contains images without descriptions. Still boost?" warning here.

I would also love for all y'all to get with the program and add image descriptions, but am pretty sure changing the software will happen sooner. 🙄

Nous sommes très heureux de rejoindre la communauté des historien.nes #histodons sur Mastodon.

Petite #introduction : les #AnnalesHSS sont une #revue d'histoire et sciences sociales, fondée en 1929 par Marc Bloch et Lucien Febvre, et en constante réinvention depuis pour publier et susciter des recherches historiques alliant problématiques nouvelles, réflexion méthodologique et explorations documentaires. Nous publions nos articles à la fois en français et anglais.

@histodons

Elk is a new third party web interface for #Mastodon. It's still in alpha testing, which means it's not yet ready for prime time, but it seems to be making good progress.

If you want to have a look or find out more, the official Elk website is at:

➡️ https://elk.zone

You can follow them for news about the project at:

➡️ @elk

It's free and open source, the source code is at https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

"President Biden signed an executive order in 2021 calling on the Federal Trade Commission to draw up a countrywide policy allowing customers to repair their own products, particularly in the technology and agriculture sectors."
...
"Tractor maker John Deere has agreed to give its US customers the right to fix their own equipment."

That's great!! Now do iPhones next! 😁

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913