dyedgrey @dyedgrey@qoto.org

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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Additionally, maybe some sort of indicator on posts in the Home timeline to denote how they got there (i.e. Are you following this person? Did a hashtag inject this post into your timeline?) This idea somewhat exists already with labels on "[Username] boosted" content.

There have been times when I've wondered "how did this post show up?" and often requires some detective work to uncover the answer. More transparency would be helpful, especially in a non-algorithmic feed.

#twittermigration #mastodonmigration #news
#MastodonNews Nov. 16, 2022 :

If you only read one thing today, this should be it!!!

Electronic Frontier Foundation: The Fediverse Could Be Awesome (if we don’t screw it up) >>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/fediverse-could-be-awesome-if-we-dont-screw-it

EFF has been at the forefront of the internet freedom issues for over 30 years. This article imagines a post-Twitter federated social media world based on Mastodon and other ActivityPub services.

#MastodonMigrationNews >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#cfd1

Grabbed this from @LGBTQ_CNTW@twitter.com

Hey did y'all know that I've been hard at work writing a technical book for No Starch Press that teaches journalists and researchers how to investigate hacked and leaked datasets? It's called Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations, and it will be published some time next year https://nostarch.com/hacks-leaks-and-revelations

What a beautiful sight! Return to the Moon #Orion #Artemis

#bringbackthetoot is low-key trending on both #twitter and #mastodon

#XP

"The Former, Twice Impeached President of the United States launched his first bid to delay his indictment and imprisonment by pretending to run for President and thereby creating the false impression that he cannot be held to legal account for his many crimes."

Not what I’d have expected from NPR, but it’s 100% true. Good for them.

It’s crazy how well #mastodon works given that it’s nearly entirely community driven.

It’s almost as if we don’t even need #bigtech, we just need passion, purpose, code, and connectivity.

We, #trans people, youth and adults, just wanna live. Oh, and thrive.
That's all.

We want human rights.
We want health care, decided by our doctors, not politicians.
We wanna pee, in peace.

It's simple.

If you find any of it problematic, you're the problem.

#TransAwarenessWeek

#Metatext currently defaults to “toot” has a setting to change the verbiage to “post”. Toot will always remain out of respect for its history, but should the default setting be:

Major corporate virtual speaking talk today! So nervous and excited!

I’m doing it without slides, which I love. Just someone firing questions at me about how to be a better advocate to disabled people.

I made slides to store the resource links. After sound check I’ll pop them up somewhere and hashtag them #EverywhereAccessible - that’s my foundation’s hashtag.

Oh, hey, are we doing a fuck terfs? Fuck terfs.

#Zoom closed captions enabled should be the default for every 👏 meeting 👏. It should not matter who is hosting, or if it's a physical room setup issue. No one should have to request closed captioning at the start of a meeting. #DigitalAccessibility