GayManifold @gaymanifold@qoto.org

When they pledge to ‘plant a tree,’ tell them you prefer they ‘protect a forest.’

I've always loved this ancient hare drawing and the various thoughts on its meaning. Ink on watercolour paper.

Three hares sharing three ears

Yet every one of them has two.

#art #artwork #artist #illustration #illustrator #ink #folklore #ancient #odd #weird #strange #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #drawing #drawn #watercolourpaper #icon

Elon's take over of Twitter has set a lot of things into motion in the digital world

Tumblr and now also Flickr are thinking about intergrating ActivityPub so it will be able to connect to the Fediverse!

A lot of lay offs in the mainstream social media but the Fediverse is only growing!

The world is waking up Social media can be fun but also privacy friendly at the same time, you got the proof now!❤️

No billioaires needed ✅

infinity in your hand

#generativeart #creativecoding #genart #abstractart #glsl #mastoart

It’s sweatpants season…
#gay #lgbtq #queer #art #illustration

Sending solidarity to all UK university staff striking today ✊ #ucuRISING #UCU #UCUStrike

Big turnout in the centre of Oxford for #UCUStrike #UCURising

Solidarity from students for the #UCUstrike at University of Edinburgh #UCUrising

scribbly self-portrait from last month
#pwME #drawing

Billionaires funded 15% of the midterm elections. They represent 0.0002% of the population. That's a problem. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/billionaires-provided-15-percent-funding-midterms

Woohoo!

Our paper on using #Tiktok as a tool for #scicomm is finally out in the Journal of Geoscience Communication. It’s open access, which means that anyone can read it - you don’t need a subscription to the journal to access it. It also has a video abstract (below) so be sure to check it out!

Mad props to @its_sedimentary for all of her excellent work on this!

https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/5/363/2022/

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were really eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual information in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Of course, I'd also love to hear any additional tips y'all might have!

#Accessibility

For all those on #twittermigration - it's the right choice for democracy. The decentralized network of the #fediverse means #mastodon can not be controlled by any corporation. Also, if, for example, some rather "nasty" #instances formed - the most populated instances can disconnect from them. This means that the fediverse is more democratic.

Do you know what's in your software? The FSF is fighting every day for your right to control your computer. Start the conversation in your community and encourage your friends to join the FSF! https://www.fsf.org

I think we need to, culturally, seperate "professionalism" from "sanitized".

I work with a bunch of brilliant, competent, incredible people. And they are funny, and weird, and authentic. All the time.

But there's still a prevailing vision that "professionalism" is being "on". Is a mask you wear to show yourself as "adult". You hide the weird, you put on the suit, you shake hands, your jokes are designed for chuckles.

That's not professionalism to me. Professionalism is treating folks with respect and getting shit done. It's being honest and human.

De-brand yourself, be all of yourself, be your brilliant and weird and capable and ambitious self.

There's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.

If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.