Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I don't share many petitions but this one is really important.

The American Postal Workers Union is looking for signatures for this petition to President Biden asking him to quickly fill the vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors with progressive, capable people.

If the three empty spots are filled correctly, Republicans will be in the minority and Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General who has caused so many problems for us and postal workers, will be depowered.

Give it a sign, please. 🖋 #Unions #PostalWorkers

The American Postal Workers Union - Sign the petition for a pro-postal pro-worker Postal Service Board of Governors:
https://apwu.org/petition?source=front-page-button

Opinion: A new nuclear deal with Iran needs to be secured and reinforced by a broad international diplomatic coalition that underwrites it. The US has lost trust among allies as well as adversaries. It cannot attempt this alone https://on.ft.com/3iRZhPF https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1354481829697478661 #Iran

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MUST READ.
"Despite the pandemic, almost two thirds of people around the world now view climate change as a global emergency" https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55802902
The future is coming.
#climatecrisis #climatejustice

Thank you for being people that care about privacy and information security.

It's great that you've found the Fediverse! This is a reminder that we welcome shares of our posts to other social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

Our hope is that we can help people in the various "walled gardens" learn new ways to make informed decisions about their data privacy.

Small is Beautiful: The public stack and how to fund it

Live stream – tomorrow (Thursday) 5PM Cork (UTC +0) / 12PM New York (UTC -5) / 9AM San Francisco (UTC -8)

Join Sander van der Waal, research director at Waag, alongside Martine Delannoy, Chief Foresight Officer for the City of Ghent and Karl-Filip Coenegrachts from Cities of People as we discuss what the public stack is, why it’s necessary, and how we can fund it with public money.

https://small-tech.org/small-is-beautiful/

#Fediverse's instances with #ActivityPub support (#Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Epicyon) can be seen as a decentralised replacement for #Twitter. They have a similar functionality, and we can say to our friends that they can use ActivityPub instances in a way similar to the one of Twitter. If the all users of Twitter would register at ActivityPub instances, it would be possible to forget about Twitter the same day.

I registered today at #diaspora* instance, and I cannot say diaspora* is a replacement for #Facebook. Yes, it allows me to have a somewhat more detailed user profile than in Twitter and ActivityPub. But even if all your mates from school, army, institute, work etc. would be registered at diaspora*, you would not have remedies which would let you to find your mates and would let them to find you. If I would say to someone that diaspora* can be used in a way similar to the one of Facebook, I would be a liar.

So, does exist a decentralised #social network with a functionality similar to the one of Facebook?

If You are in NYC - Call for Applications: Spring 2021 Magnum Foundation Fellowship https://www.magnumfoundation.org/news/2019/20/magnum-foundation-fellowship-call-for-applications-6xs8r-z4fh5-se7dl

@zleap Wonderful stuff! I'm trying to work with friends to make single-user instances accessible.

i love the fediverse

pray it only grows and flourishes in this age of increasing censorship and repression

#ThankGNU to Nicolas Avrutin and Peter Kunze for their generous donations to the FSF. With your help, we will break the chains of proprietary software for a freer future! https://u.fsf.org/2zw https://www.fsf.org/appeal

Another way that the Biden Presidency is striving to be an administration that represents all Americans. I love to see it!

An American Sign Language interpreter will now appear at all White House press briefings
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/us/sign-language-press-briefings-trnd/index.html

The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop in the West
https://thecrow.uk/gpd-p2-max-ultrabook-cyberdeck-review/

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@zleap @TonyStark It affects everyone everywhere.

Nice to have a President who respects the environment and understands climate change. Nice to have a President who doesn't consider protected and federal lands his playground for exploitation.

We should be part of the change for future generations.

Thank you, President Biden, for taking action to move us to better and cleaner options. #Biden46

Biden poised to halt new fossil fuel leasing on federal land and water Wednesday -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/25/biden-drilling-moratorium/

I've had youtube-dl running for at least 12 hours now and it's still only about ⅓ of the way done

Firefox 85 Released, This is What’s New

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/mozilla-firefox-85-released

@Cindyjosaitis
We will never have a successful economy until the pandemic is under control.

That's all there is to it.

If people will not comply with masks and so on, shutdowns will continue.

What we need is direct cash to people in pandemic relief and help to businesses and proprietors who really need it. Almost a year of foot-dragging and bailing out their friends by Capitol Hill Republicans has done nothing but make this worse.

Republicans are also at fault for not properly funding state unemployment systems.

LibreOffice tip of the day: Create fillable form documents (even PDFs) with LibreOffice. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-create-interactive-pdfs-with-libreoffice/

Thanks @zleap for your support to education as you reshared my #Classroom post.