aspiring planktonic autotroph @ehuxleyi@anticapitalist.party

Anyone looking at the asians vs harvard case should know it's organized by a white neocon, Edward Blum, who's been trying to get rid of affirmative action for years. He's just using Asians as his latest angle to achieve this.

"Victory in spite of all terror. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.”

Climate change is a problem with the scope and urgency of World War II, and while it will unfold more slowly and less predictably than the war, it demands a response on the same scale.

https://qz.com/1306707/uncovering-the-mental-health-crisis-of-climate-change/

This is a war worth fighting.

I need to cover some medical bills now.

The total is multiple thousands of dollars.

I'd be happy if I can just get enough to replace the stuff they destroyed while "performing a takedown" on my unresisting self.

Anything helps, but sharing on all the social media helps most.

Make #suspendRamseyer trend.
He orchestrated it and is using the others as scapegoats to escape the consequences.

https://www.gofundme.com/tessa-survival

I was not resisting.
But I'm about to.

I think owning up to your shitty behavior is a huge part of taking down white supremacy and toxic masculinity.

And it's really hard for most folks to do because of our reptile brains. Being wrong is like being vulnerable to attack. Whiteness and machismo means every social engagement you have is adversarial. Everyone is a potential enemy. It's hard to shake that.

tl;dr strong speech isn't necessarly inappropriate speech. Fascists don't count.

Mastodon (as a culture) needs to be more inclusive of people who aren't white, aren't male developers, or sometimes, aren't folks in adjacent subcultures. Including how they people "on the outside" speak.

In contrast, white male devs can say almost anything they want, including talking about tech with no CWs, and anything else they want to go on about, unencumbered.

For #Pride month, who are some notable #queer or #lgbtqia #mathematicians of history, #math and #science sides of masto?

🌈 Hoping your week is off to a good start! 💖
I'm offering $500 mini grants to queer folks to be used toward projects/life/whatever. Application open through the end of the month.
http://posts.bcavello.com/post/174519809445/2018-mini-grants-pride-edition

Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug or a Feature? A new 600-page, two volume epic about how to get rid of the homeless in SimCity. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkvnvm/is-simcity-homelessness-a-bug-or-a-feature

Now I feel like shit for all the years spent bulldozing slums in early SimCity version games (much earlier than the version discussed in the article). Child me was not too aware of class struggle, poverty and neoliberalism

Hey y’all,

I need help with purchasing some basic beauty and cosmetic supplies for myself. Gender dysphoria is really kicking my ass rn and granting myself the privilege to get dolled up and pretty would really, really help me, but unfortunately I’m broke as hell rn.

You can send payments to quinnswift80@gmail.com on circle pay (in the process of setting up my venmo). Anything helps. Thanks y’all, I love you. 💋💕❤️

Speaker recalls the struggle for justice for Marissa Alexander, who fired one shit into the air to defend herself and was sentenced to decades in jail in Florida.
#IWDOakland2018 #BayAreaProsSupport #BAPS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Alexander_case

At courthouse by Lake Merritt now, Jasmine Celeste Guap says if sex work were decriminalized, cops from so many departments wouldn't have been able to exploit her by forcing her into free sex.

@Gargron And the community is still mostly white guys.

It doesn't seem like folks are trying to manipulate you into anything, but rather just listen to the folks that aren't white guys, because quite frankly they aren't harassed as frequently as others are.

If that's the kind of app you want to build, so be it, but so many people are expressing their willingness to help.

Take advantage of that.

On mastodon, as in meat space, I see people frustrated by being in a position where they seem dis-empowered, and I think: "we need to get organized".

Imagine if mastodon users belonging to marginalized communities started organizing on Loomio. Everyone discusses concerns and teams of tech writers convey those in issues. Then, teams of programmers write pull requests to address them. Those with monetary means support the effort as are able.

bisexual is short for business insider sexual. welcome to pride month 2018 sponsored by amazon