Brent Williams @hbw@qoto.org

Here's one of the many beautiful things about Mastodon and the Fediverse:

I saw that @johnvoorhees opened a @Pixelfed profile. That service is powered by federation too. So here's what I did:

- Took his profile URL: https://pixelfed.social/johnvoorhees
- Changed it to: @johnvoorhees@pixelfed.social
- Searched for the account, and followed him.

Now John's photo feed is another account, from a completely different service, that I follow on my Mastodon. I love this.

Work from home has been a huge boon to employment access for disabled people.

“The jobless rate for disabled workers — typically in double digits and 12.3% two years ago — dropped to 5.8% in November … the lowest rate for people with disabilities since record-keeping began in 2008.”

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-12-15/long-left-out-of-job-market-people-with-disabilities-reap-benefits-of-covid-19s-teleworking-boom

When discussing the #Jan6 Committee, it is highly misleading to say a criminal referral to DOJ from Congress is “no different than a referral from an ordinary citizen.” A referral backed by the amount of investigation and evidence compiled by this Committee is indeed different. That background work doesn’t require DoJ to indict Trump or Eastman but it certainly makes it easier to do.

I’ve lived through two major geopolitical shifts in my lifetime: the end of the Cold War and 9/11. Now we are experiencing another turning point, brought about by the invasion of Ukraine, the rise of China, Iran & N Korea WMD, and decline of globalization. https://wapo.st/3jf3X6l

#SilentSunday time to exhale, reflect and be inspired.

The only way to deal with a fascist is to drop the assumption of good faith.

You know what they want: to harm vulnerable people, one way or another.

So you don't give an inch.

You call their disingenuous little acts faking civility and reason out for the bullshit they are.

Time will come. The Force is strong with this one ❤️🇫🇷 #worldcup

Grinding spices in Xian, China on Muslim Street. #spices #China #travel #culture #history #photo #photos #photography #potd #MuslimQuarter #Xian #XianChina

Banning and then quickly unbanning is a method of control without control. The journalists have learned that they must appease Elon or lose the steady drip of content sources they’ve grown dependent on, but weren’t given enough time to develop other sources.

It’s literally a text book manipulation technique.

*They used to laugh and call him names. Now they're all dead

Now seems like a pretty good time to re-link my proposal from October that news organizations stand up Mastodon servers.

In the proposal, I explain why a news organization (and other organizations) might want to have their own Mastodon (or other social network service) hosted on their subdomain, e.g. follow.washingtonpost.com.

https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e17-a-proposal-for-news-organization-mastodon/

#news #journalism #newsmedia #mastodon #agency

Last night was about @elonmusk@twitter.com sending a message to journalists that he OWNS THEIR ACCOUNTS and journalists need to be mindful of not pissing him off.

The only appropriate response is to reject this kind of bullying.

Whatever happens, happens.

JUST IN ➡️ Washington DC 🇺🇸 is making public buses 🚌 free forever 👇👇

https://fortune.com/2022/12/12/washington-dc-making-public-buses-free-forever/?s=08

There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests

News(!): The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to vote on urging the Justice Department to pursue at least three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/16/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-referral-00074411

Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize.

How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz).

And spread the word! Make this message viral. Let's hold billionaire corps accountable because worker's rights are human rights. Let's go.

PREDICTION: NFTs for political crooks like Trump will become the latest fad for foreign money launderin' and influence peddlin'.

If your city isn’t embracing the PERMANENT post-pandemic transformation of streets as places for outdoor seating & cafes (aka #Streeteries) then your city hasn’t yet learned one of the most important lessons for better streets & cities in recent years. #Montreal is a city that REALLY understands.
#cities #urbanism #StreetsForPeople #streets

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.