Notices by maloki 🍵 (maloki@elekk.xyz), page 3

I think I successfully submitted a talk (two actually) to #ActivityPubConf!

I'm looking at how to fund my own travel and lodging. Let me know if you want to help me!

Tusky and Florence doesn't really have enough funds yet to pay for the whole thing, but you can view it as a contribution to those projects by proxy if you like.

Homophobia and other forms of hate make a lot more sense when you realize that they're not ideologies or world-views that are meant to be consistent

They're more like methods that are used to reduce competition for spots in the upper class

Science, rationality, and logic are also social constructs.

I know that's inconvenient to the people who want to act all high and mighty like ""western"" culture is the only one with the truth, but that's how it is.

Humans are constantly making and remaking our own realities. If you want to get at what reality is, talk to humans about their experiences and their communities.

I feel like TinyBuddah is on point once again

ELI5: adding the @Tusky nightly repository to F-Doid and getting it to work

The idea and propagation of "the western world" or "western society" is a racist dogwhistle used by white supremacists who are literally gaslighting all of human history.

Don't fall for their attempt at erasure.

The Online Abuse Playbook

"There’s a well-defined pattern to how marginalized people are attacked online. If we can understand it, we can help stop each other from participating."

https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-online-abuse-playbook-575648c9f798

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Every single admin or persons with a high-volume account needs to read this.

I read this article when it came out, and saw it get played out on Twitter, practically to the letter.

"this leaves many white people open to a gross misunderstanding. Most of our encounters with black people are on “white turf” where black people present not as they are, but as they know we wish them to be – quiet, polite, humble, generous and always smiling. Paradoxically, most of our encounters with black people from a distance – through media or external observation – are of black people who are loud, assertive, self-possessed, proud and sometimes angry. "+

"I can be my white self when I encounter black people, aware that if anyone is going to have to adjust their behavior, it will not be me. They must make me comfortable.
This reality is central to our present racial divides. Those black people who bravely present as themselves often face censure, threat and attack. Therefore, most black people continue to operate in two worlds, of which only one allows them to be genuine. "
https://notetomywhiteself.wordpress.com/2019/04/15/misunderstanding-my-black-friendships/

US residents:

Jump on the Equifax leak claim wagon. You get $125 in the settlement, automatically. ALSO, you can be compensated at the rate of $25 per hour for time spend remediating their fuckup, and only have to provide documentation if you spent more than 10 hours unfucking them. The official claim site is https://www.equifaxbreachsettlement.com/

USPS: your thing was delivered
me: no it wasn't
USPS: you're right, it's available for pickup
me: where tho
USPS: jk it was delivered
me: where tho
USPS: come pick it up

repeat until I scream myself hoarse

such teeny ·

Hint: if you're actively enabling Nazis, racists and white supremacists, you're not for free speech.

You may think you are, and be encouraged like you are, but look carefully at who's encouraging you, and who fall silent and walk away when you do.

hapoy fuckyn sysadmin day everyone. fuck ompugers and fuck servers

"No spoons left. Only Knives."
I wonder if for me personally, that's a symptom of depression acting up. Irritability can be...

IWW: "I can bring down your corporation with 6 words"

McDonald's worker: "Hi, can I help you?"

Me: "Help me? No comrade, you should be helping yourself! For you earn less in one year than your CEO does in one day. The true value of your labour is being stolen by people neither of us will ever come into contact with. There is a solution, comrade: organization. Join the One Big Union today and organize your comrades from the bottom-up into a truly independent trade union that will organize in your interest, both by achieving short-term gains and by focusing on the long-term goal of overthrowing this rotten system that looks at exploitation and calls it profit, that looks at robbery and calls it property. Do not give yourself over to brutes, people that don't care whether you starve or work yourself to death, the only people that can organize the workers are the workers themselves. Solidarity forever comrade, long live the revolution!"

McDonald's worker: "..."

Me: "Chocolate milkshake, please..."