dyedgrey @dyedgrey@qoto.org

For my first #FollowFriday I want to shout out some #BIPOC folks I have connected with this week. I encourage you to check them out!

@binku hard-of-hearing 🇨🇦🇱🇰 we’ve been chatting about learning #ASL

@Tinu disability advocate who has been speaking about discrimination + content warnings.

@amber 100% if you need some sex-positive, off the cusp humour at 7am.

Finally, @GurdeepPandher, one of 🇨🇦 ‘s most famous.

#fediverse #introduction #welcome

Huge job opportunities!

Multiple hires for Digital Projects Coordinators in the Library of Congress Collections Discovery and Metadata Services division.

Pays $126,233 - $164,102 per year

Apply by 12/09/2022

These jobs are a huge opportunity to play a key role in implementing
the new Library Collections Access Platform -> https://bit.ly/3XptbP4

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/690107400

Party likes it’s 2016

We wouldn't be in this mess if our elected officials ACTUALLY TAXED BILLIONAIRES AND STOPPED ONE PERSON FROM AMASSING ABSURDLY DANGEROUS WEALTH AND INFLUENCE TO EXPLOIT AND MONOPOLIZE AT WILL!

We tried to tell y'all. #RipTwitter

Nobody should be so rich that they can buy a $44B communciations platform like twitter and blow it up just for kicks. Wealth tax now.

Lmao.

We’ve always needed safe infrastructures for people, but that need is even greater as vehicles have gotten bigger and bigger.

In 2000, a bike-rider in cities next to a the most common vehicle, a Toyota Camry, had 18 inches on either side. Today a bike-rider next to a now frighteningly common Ford F-150 has just 4 inches.

Stolen space.

Via @TransAlt

#streets #cities #streetdesign #bikes #bikelanes #mobility #transportation #urbanplanning #cityplanning

Each day is brand new struggle between staying informed and maintaining some form of functional mental health.

I feel pity for those that think the colour grey is merely a shade. #DunedinSabbatical

What's on my mind? As a tech worker, the same thing that's on many people's minds.

If you’re not for #MarriageEquality you’re a bigot. Period. Don’t tell me it infringes on your “religious liberty.” Substitute “gay/lesbian” with Black or Jewish, etc., and tell me how that sounds. It sounds bigoted because it is bigoted. Gay marriage is no different. You can try to hide your #lgbtq bigotry behind a shroud of religion, but we see through it and you.

#Inclusion #culturechange #govtech #DEI

A few days ago I was on a panel in DC for government employees, talking about how to increase diversity in their organizations. During Q&A I was asked about how to shift leadership minds at government agencies and suppliers towards being more open to inclusion initiatives. I told them that in my observations two things are key:

1) It depends on what the existing culture values
2) Working against the existing cultural value system won't work. Work with it

Seems like I should maybe post & pin: I don't suffer mansplaining. If you do it, I will call it out. Think twice about whether you are telling me something I could reasonably be expected to already know.

Fellow white folks:

I get it, Elon is awful and right now working at Twitter probably is too.

But I had BETTER NOT see you compare working at a tech company to slavery, I HAD BETTER FUCKIN NOT

Here's the proper way to invest in crypto:

1) Don't invest in crypto

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