mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

🇺🇳 💰 #UN #Democracy Fund #grants are open. $100k - $250k for 2-year projects improving peoples' lives in various areas:

youth engagement, law & human rights, media & freedom of information, strengthening civil society, gender equality, and electoral process

Deadline to apply is 30 November.

https://www.un.org/democracyfund/apply-for-funding

I wish I could attach a CW to someone else's post when boosting. I often find interesting Ukraine content without a CW and end up favouriting instead, which limits a post's reach. #Mastodon #CW

An intro to designing accessible data visualizations https://fossheim.io/writing/posts/accessible-dataviz-design/ #a11y #design #dataviz

Morning in New York City.

We use alt-text here folks. I’m on @pixelfed, too. #nyc #photo #sunrise #empirestatebuilding

*PLEASE BOOST*

Hey phone #photography and #iOS #app folks:
I’m trying to de-Google my life as much as practically possible. While I like the UI and end results of Snapseed, it’s owned by Google and therefore has to go as well.

Any suggestions for apps that could fit the bill instead?

CSS :where() :is() the difference?

🔗 https://helloanselm.com/writings/css-where-is-the-difference

—
":where() ignores specificity;
:is() respects and increases specificity"

#CSS

@aurynn

Hello. How can I find and follow more BIPOC conversations here?

#MastodonNewbie

Feels very meta that twitter itself is the main character on twitter this week

#Twitter vs #Mastodon

Does anyone know of a unions-centric Mastodon instance? Please boost for reach.

Looking for an Instance that is a good home for a Black queer feminist scientist who cusses and talks politics. I’m seeing a lot of places with what I would consider to be excessive content warning requirements 😵‍💫 And other instances where I simply don’t know what the admin considers to be racism. Like, are we allowed to talk about whiteness?

The recent introduction of the Securing Open Source Software Act, and its subsequent momentum, has stoked a debate about the true reason for the open source security problem and the merits of different solutions.

#Cybersecurity #Technology #USACongress #OpenSource #SOSSA

From Chinmay Sharma, John Speed Meyers, James Howison: https://www.lawfareblog.com/securing-open-source-software-act-good-whatever-happened-legal-liability

Hi I'm Jay! I'm a writer, editor & developer who works in comics, games & books. I love #scifi, #fantasy & especially #StarTrek, #StarWars, #WheelofTime, #TheWitcher and way too many more to tag. BIG #BioWare fan, so expect to see loads of #MassEffect and #DragonAge here. I'm also a cosplayer with 120+ costumes. I stream video games, comics discussions, #TTRPG, art & cooking. I LOVE talking #comics, #cosplay & #games, so feel free to hit me up! Boosts appreciated ❤️

My apologies there's not an easy way for me to port these to Mastodon, but this thread contains every PhD recruitment tweet in the general areas of HCI/InfoSci/social computing/responsible tech I could find! https://twitter.com/cfiesler/status/1582126246007214080

It's not 'America' coming apart!

Its a schism between Americans who support a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual America that centers fair socioeconomic opportunity for all

& those that want a theocratic Christian evangelical white ethnostate that centers economic elites

Seeing lots of excitement about the #MIT instance (@mastodon.mit.edu) and ppl wanting to set up their own university instances. but very important--the MIT instance is entirely volunteer run and is NOT associated with uni admin. universities are massive PR machines (literally hedge funds with a bunch of academics attached) and will not hesitate to co-opt a grass-roots community associated with their brand. If you want to start your own uni instance, DO NOT let uni admin get involved!!

since a lot of folks are becoming newly interested in escaping corporate silos and moving to community-based services, are you aware of @matrix?

Matrix is to Slack and Discord, what Mastodon is to Twitter: a decentralized, federated network based on open standards/specs. It also supports full end-to-end encryption, just like Signal, so you can exchange messages privately!

If you find the fediverse interesting/inspiring, I recommend giving matrix a whirl. The quickest way to get started is to head over to https://app.element.io/ and make a (free!) account (although you can also join any number of other home servers, or host your own--they all talk to each other!).

If you _do_ end up checking it out, please do say hi! I'm @zkat:zkat.tech over there. I also manage a "space" (a group of channels, kinda like a Discord server) that you can join by clicking here: https://matrix.to/#/!tKdDSgQTxQzcOuTXqV:matrix.org?via=zkat.tech&via=matrix.org&via=envs.net

I hope this sparks your interest! I'd love to see you over there, too!

This probably describes me better than any intro