Laura Walker McDonald @techladylaura@qoto.org
Feminist, migrant, mum and 🏳️🌈. Digital and data at ICRC. She/her. Here you will find my views alone.
Why must the gender- or orientationally-non-conforming person always die? Again? Really? #netflix
@downey do you have 5 mins for a chat about open source licensing for an old associate? :)
Extremely thoughtful oral history of the political past and legacy of the Iraq war. Gut wrenching looking back and counting the cost to the British left, global stability and of course to the people affected by the war. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politics-weekly-uk/id136697472?i=1000604599464
Several roles open @ICRC_dc@twitter.com atm! Could you or someone you know start 2023 with a new challenge? Positions in ICT, Comms, Protection, Policy and Admin! https://app.eddy.com/careers/internationalcommitteeoftheredcross Available for chats and love to see even more POC/LGBTQUAI++/diverse ability colleagues join our team
Please share fab job advert to join and lead our digital development research group at IDS at the University of Sussex https://jobs.ids.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=36-2022 @phatcontroller @Emrys @geo I’m not leaving btw just reducing working hours to do more family friends allotment business
What are your plans for the holiday? Me: oh I’m planning to finish these four books on loan through Libby so I can turn off airplane mode on my iPad
File under ‘big if true’ (no mainstream media but AJ, Rolling Stone running with this yet) https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/
If you're thinking of running your own Mastodon instance, EFF's Legal Director Corynne McSherry breaks down some of the common legal issues and practical considerations here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer
This guide is SO GOOD! "A democratic fediverse involves intentionally setting up democratic governance, democratic economics, and democratic community. It's fun!"
Ty @ntnsndr!
https://wiki.social.coop/How-to-make-the-fediverse-your-own.html
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”
An Ursula K. Le Guin classic https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/telling-is-listening-ursula-k-le-guin-communication/
Feminist, migrant, mum and 🏳️🌈. Digital and data at ICRC. She/her. Here you will find my views alone.
