Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 7

"Alabama’s #abortion ban is about keeping poor women down"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/16/alabama-abortion-ban-us-women-state-senate

#poverty #inequality #society #us #humanrights

@boud Ah. Well, yes, and thank you for noticing my posts on progress and social activism. :)

Yes, the topic of abuse in the Catholic church, unfortunately, has a very long and deplorable history.

Indeed, it is good that you have added your voice to the many who are pursuing truth and justice on the matter.

I hope that the perpetrators of this horrible scandal will finally be held properly accountable by the law, and that it will come to a swift end soon.

Uber stock price slides again. Good.

This is an unethical company that has never earned a profit, who exploits contingent workers and spies on its competitors and mobile app users. As such, they do not deserve prosperity. They have not earned it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/13/uber-ipo-flops-as-shares-slide-again

#deleteuber #uber #labour #humanrighs #business #economy

@InvaderXan That's really cool!

@boud @poujolrost Why are you sending me this message about abuse by Catholic priests???

@thurloat yay! Have fun! 🙂

@carl @thurloat Nice. I just learned something new as well. Thank you! 😀

@thurloat

For example, I mostly use Libreoffice and Firefox (both GTK). I also use Konsole (which I love, but again, you can use any terminal emulator), VSCodium, Nextcloud, some cross-platform chat apps, and occasionally KWrite and Dolphin.

Most of the time, I only use a web browser or two, Konsole, and maybe VSCodium.

I should also mention that KDE applications are quite intuitive. You'll become familiar with them in no time. 🙂

@thurloat Yah. No need to worry about those.

The Qt/KDE applications are great but you can use any applications you want to, and GTK integration in KDE is fantastic now -- one wouldn't be able to tell that a GTK program wasn't Qt-native unless, perhaps, they had a very keen eye.

@thurloat KDE Plasma is the jam! It's stable, beautiful, and fast. It's memory footprint is actually even lower than that of xfce.

#Fedora #KDE spin is my favourite implementation of Plasma, though I'm sure a stock install on any solid distro would be on par with it (it's very close to stock).

#linux #unix

We can all gain strength and inspiration from the courage of "tank man."

"Thirty years on, the #Tiananmen Square image that shocked the world"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/11/tank-man-photograph-tiananmen-square-30-years-jeff-widener

The fight for human rights and freedom in #China must continue.

#tankman #freespeech #humanrights #asia

The fight for human rights and freedom in #China must continue.

"Thirty years on, the #Tiananmen Square image that shocked the world"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/11/tank-man-photograph-tiananmen-square-30-years-jeff-widener

#freespeech #humanrights #asia