dyedgrey @dyedgrey@qoto.org

7. Now there is a federal lawsuit by the @NAACP@twitter.com, @LWV@twitter.com and others requesting "declaratory and injunctive relief" to ensure "qualified Pennsylvania voters are not disenfranchised based on an immaterial paperwork error."

That case is pending.

https://popular.info/p/trashing-votes

Oooh, LGBA is trending again.

So please, here is your reminder The #LGBAlliance is an internationally recognised hate group.

They exist for the sole purpose of removing trans people from society. 😡

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

As an #atheist, people assume I want to end your #religion.

That's not true. I'll fight for you to practice your religion as long as:

1. You don't expect or force anyone to share your beliefs
2. You stand up for my right not to believe

🗳️ Vote with your great-grandchildren in mind…

Not knowing:

🤠 what they'll look like…

🗣️ what language they'll speak…

🛐 what religion they'll be…

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 who they may marry…

🌐 where they'll live & work…

🌍 And assume they'll need a habitable planet to live on.

To all the lovely humans starting Mastodon instances:

Please think about succession planning, resourcing, and rules of engagement (aka Code of Conduct) as a matter of priority for your instance.

When you create a community resource, you're making a commitment. If you're new to stewarding a community, ask for help. #AskACommunityManager

It'd be really sad if in 3, 6, 12 months we start losing a ton of instances and Fediverse community members with them.

#MastodonAdmin #FediTips #Admins

Your reminder that the fediverse does not tolerate transphobes, terves and other gender-critical nonsense.

Trans lives matter, trans people are welcome here, and trans people built this place. If you don’t agree, you do not belong here.

fedi is queer as fuck. let’s prove it

Tomorrow is the US #election so I want to share this:

I study Congress. Not by crunching numbers, but by sitting down with people who write legislation & make recommendations for how members should vote. Rs & Ds.

And despite what politics look like in our hyper-polarized, outrage-driven, sensationalized media environment (ie #Twitter), there are still so many smart good folks we never see working hard every day to make things better.

I’m hopeful for the future. Democracy depends on us. #Vote

Here's a link to one of the most important things I've ever written: a #lexicon of #disability terms
https://www.invisibledisabilityproject.org/words-matter

Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.

Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.

We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.

If anyone here needs help and support, I run a site https://theintersection.app that provides help, guidance and support for people in the tech industry with their mental health. Do not suffer alone.

I’m also building a series of Voices where real people share, openly or anonymously, their stories. Your participation is welcome!

#mentalhealth #infosec

If you're disabled with chronic pain and using a small "bed desk" (I don't know how it's called) for your laptop so you have no weight on you, may I know which one you got and if you're satisfied with it?

I've been thinking about it for months actually as it would change my life and allow me to use my laptop way more often, but didn't look it up yet as I'd rather ask disabled folks first than reading online comments!

Thank you

@NadiaBernaz I wrote a short thread on #Twitter. I believe #TwitterMigration hurts 2 groups. Those monetising because of their Twitter fame, and those who need Twitter to be heard. I want to focus on the latter.

The 2nd group contains a lot of subgroups. Black Twitter, #Disability Twitter, #HumanRights defenders, dissidents, #trans activists, asylum seekers, #refugees, whistleblowers etc.

I can’t leave.
https://twitter.com/diplomacyxx/status/1589340932876353537?s=46&t=kkq7LtSE3-chqMeU4QMzPg

Here’s the correct ballotpedia link where you can find the initiatives that will be on your ballot on Tuesday. Read and digest them before you go to vote!
https://ballotpedia.org/2022_ballot_measures

It took >30 minutes for me to read through each ballot initiative and candidate statement for my CA ballot this year. DON’T wait until the last minute to start your ballot or you might give up. If you are #voting in-person or planning to fill out your mail-in ballot on Tuesday, check out https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page (thanks @ifilljustice )