@Jaden2@mstdn.social Agreed,
The UK 2010 Equality act gives protections based on
age
gender reassignment
being married or in a civil partnership
being pregnant or on maternity leave
disability
race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin
religion or belief
sex
sexual orientation
https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights
So the law is generally on OUR side, we just need that collective voice to speak up.
@paulsutton I am sure there could be something odd with @writeas_org on the personal journal instance, i scheduled this for 24th December.
I need to do some more digging as it seems to post when I publish, but not when scheduled. It may be linked to when i edit scheduled posts.
Something to er look at :)
#Linux 6.1.1, 6.0.15, 5.15.85, and 5.10.161 kernels are now available for download at https://kernel.org #OpenSource
My interview with @blaine, who was there at the very beginning of Twitter; now he's focused on building #fediverse infrastructure that will help #Mastodon scale. https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon/
@nasa Looks really interesting, will haver a look and share.
@pfefferle
Big love for the fediverse plugins for WordPress
They are very, very, very cool
Links:
https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/
https://github.com/willnorris/wordpress-hum
https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-nodeinfo/
https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-webfinger
https://github.com/akirk/friends
If you're alone over the holidays or finding this season difficult for any reason, and companionship might help, follow the #JoinIn hashtag!
In case you haven't discovered the magic of hashtag-following on mastodon, here is a quick how-to:
https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#HowDoIFollowHashtags
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@R_Dart Nice, pictures.
Hello! This seems to be the place where all the cool kids are going and I'm excited to be here. My name is Rebecca Dart and my day job is an animation art director here in Vancouver, British Columbia, but my side hustle is paleoart. I also have a passion for plants, particularly plants of prey.
1/ A few thoughts on the 'artists promoting their work' discussion: most creators you follow are not wealthy people. Writing a book does not make you rich. Being a talented painter does not make you rich. A lot of us are scrambling to pay our bills and we HATE it. We hate the hustle & posting links to storefronts. But we are also busy AF trying to survive doing 12 different jobs. If you don't like "ads" know that we hate them too - but otherwise the work doesn't get made. It's that simple.
A good reason we need to set up basic IT skills classes and teach how to use free software, decentralised services etc. And also educate why these are better.
They may lack the polish of their corporate rivals BUT they respect your freedom. privacy and rights, that is priceless.
Big tech lobbying, revolving doors, institutional corruption etc are now happening at a scale that mirrors what big oil, tobacco, finance, defense and other industries have been doing for ages.
You cannot take funding from big tech and just claim "but I am independent" anymore.
@parkermolloy Well one perk is you get to vote in polls on company policy,
So I wonder if you vote against what musk wants, if he de verifies you.
@PogoWasRight @anielsen001 @ceresbzns @briankrebs
Yeah the press are a pain, they want a photo of a team + names, the issue there is that people can then identify a child from a photo.
Great for family perhaps BUT not so good if there is an estranged member of the family looking to make contact.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.