mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

Today's interactive #Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of #videogaming pioneer Jerry Lawson with playable and editable #videogames, designed by #Black game designers. Pretty cool!

https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday

#BlackMastodon #Blerd

I want to recommend @kathleenbelew, whose commentary, especially in the wake of the Oath Keeper indictment, is really important.

“The entire Twitter information security community has moved to Mastodon.” https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-ngo-antifascist/

Full Senate Roll Call Vote on the Respect for Marriage Act

I often am asked by people fleeing anti-trans states, "where should I move to?"

I created the anti-trans legislative risk map to help answer that question.

I am releasing my first post-election legislative risk map today. Subscribe to support my work.

https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/the-post-election-anti-trans-legislative

I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies

Please boost to reach more people!

“Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer”
https://www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-environment-setup/

Goes into far more detail than I did in my post earlier this month (which now links to this one). Particularly useful for macOS-only users. #a11y

Hi everyone! Like many of us, I’m new here but I look forward to connecting! I’m a professor of Black and African Diaspora History at Rutgers University and I specialize in the 18th and 19th centuries. My newest book, Fear of a Black Republic is now available!

How much public space we've surrendered to cars (Swedish artist Karl Jilg)

"This is overlooked by Mastodonians who argue that the influx of new users will bring changes to the platforms. If you have an influx of new users and then you punish them for being themselves or trying to figure out ways to be themselves on the platform, then you will disincentivize users from recommending transformation or changes in the platform, even in open source platforms. They simply will not want to engage."

Dr Jonathan Flowers

#BlackMastodon
#WhiteElephant

https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

Yearly reminder to not give money to the Salvation Army. It is not a charity, it's a fundamentalist Christian organization that supports anti-queer policies. Support mutual aid resources instead.

#SalvationArmy

Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds. What we bring up might abut internal discomfort and biases that you might hold. That is not the minoritized person’s responsibility, though, to educate you, coddle you, to do the work for you. It is your responsibility to not create yet another space where Black people are marginalized or silenced.
I’ve been calculated about bringing this up and now is the time.💖✊🏽
#Black #BlackPride #Minoritized #Responsibility #unity