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To #BIPOC / #POC users of Mastodon (others can boost):

What do you make of CW culture and norms on here?

The people I see being most vocal about it are 99.99% White people which feels like a red flag

In honor of Carl Sagan, born #OTD in 1934: Here's the original Pale Blue Dot image, taken by Voyager 1 gazing back on the solar system in 1990, along with Carl's reflections on why it mattered. planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue #astronomy #SciComm

This is not a bag of honor

No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here

Silica gel

Do not eat

As part of the Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Project, National Archives staff create digital images of a document, 11/9/2012.

A large document is on a white table. A staff member adjusts a large light, which is aimed at the document at a shallow angle. A camera is attached to an adjustable vertical camera stand. Another staff member is poised to step on a pedal to take the photo.

todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post

You know, I thought one of the points of Mastodon was leaving behind blue checks but I guess the list thinks we need that two tier system? This isn't as snarky as it sounds.

Absolutely coughlaughing over an article from talking about how a 24-inch widescreen monitor is ideal.

Brah, what clinic system is going to buy that size monitors for anyone but their and fancy pants doctors. The rest of us are stuck with maybe 19" monitors if we're lucky.

@seperis If you go to say, mastodon.social, there's an option to look at that server's local feed. I suspect it just uses that.

@seperis Fedilab on Android does this. Individual servers, but it's still really nice. My server has it as an option, too but it's buggy AF. I suspect they'll fix it soon.

@angel_ponders
Absolutely. :blobcatcouple: I am doing so with US politics etc, it's just in _general_ the How To posts have been very politics is verboten unless you CW it from folks on certain instances. I tag my shit and it's pretty evident what I'm up to. That's fine.

I just feel like a lot of folks don't realize what they're saying. I just boosted someone who made a good point, how do they know WHEN to click a CW? :blobcatlul:

@dgrounds @rmayemsinger me too, so I donโ€™t want to be obnoxious as a newcomer to the land of Mastodon but this brings up another issue with the hide function, when Iโ€™m clicking content warnings how do I know that Iโ€™m not gonna find something I donโ€™t wanna see? I would think most everyone has things they donโ€™t want to see and other things that they do want to see which other people donโ€™t.

Itโ€™s really telling how my N95 masking guide / advisory is mostly being liked and reblogged by people with disabilities and health-focused accounts but only a few anarchists in comparison have done the same, despite having posted to kolectiva. This is a jarring disconnect that should be culturally overcome within anarchist spaces in my honest opinion. The State has left behind a vacuum where public health should be, and the lack of urgency in organizing masking / purification / firmly anti-ableist networks as essential mutual aid is really concerning. You canโ€™t outrun a cop if youโ€™ve developed ME/CFS!

-And Iโ€™m not crying about likes here, I know Iโ€™m a nobody and my followers are few; but I do believe that the -proportion- of engagement is revealing. There must be a greater sense of urgency to make public places safe for everyone, to fight the project of mass pediatric infection and social murder the State is carrying out as we speak.

@angel_ponders
See here's the thing. My life revolves around politics. I work in healthcare. I work with vaccines. Science is inherently political. Every scientist will tell you that our existence itself political and we can't just put our lives and careers behind a CW. Our servers don't require it for politics. There's gotta be give and take here.

JEB is now on mastodon! #introduction We are a peer-reviewed international #societyjournal owned by @eseb

We seek to publish articles that advance understanding of the evolutionary process and of interest to a broad #evolution readership.

We welcome submissions from across the field including evolutionary #genetics and #genomics #molecularevolution #phylogenetics #lifehistories #evolutionaryecology #evodevo #morphology #microevolution #macroevolution #empirical, #computational #theory

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