If you’re a New Yorker, a person who votes, and a registered Democrat, check your district primaries today because there’s a lot of progressive, anti-ICE candidates looking to overturn centrist and conservative dems at the House level.
NYC elections are decided at the primaries because whoever wins the dem nod is nearly guaranteed to win the general. If you vote at all, this election is actually the one that will decide who goes to Congress more than the one in November.
@320x200@xuv@rigelk what irks me at the moment is the requirement to make an account for every service. Imo we should be able to get much more integration (and migration?) out of these things. Im wondering why @pixelfed for example isn't just a client for mastodon. But these are also ongoing processes I guess.
If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years
@rysiek This illustrates nicely one of the most powerful things about federation, namely that the entire network can't just disappear due to the closure of one organisation. For this reason, I'd bet that the fediverse will outlive all the current centralised social networks.
I won't be poem-ing today, no time for rhyme, no time for quilting lies into verse, for spinning ideas in reverse, and to make matters worse, I've gone and done it anyway: such is the writer's curse.
I've a proposition to paint a portrait for a feminist exhibition. I'm very excited about it, I've never really exhibited my stuff.
And now I realize that I never dared to call myself an artist, never considered or called my "drawings", "paintings", "stuff" art. I'm a bit angry at myself now, because who is the judge here? Who is holding me back?