thought spurred by recent happenings: does anyone know if there was a previous #bookerPrize winner that climbed harder than m john harrison, or does he get to have that crown?

lukewarm take, but I want people to stop saying they create "content". that's corpo-speak for feeding the machine. tell me what you make, what you love.

you're not a content creator, you're a filmmaker. video producer. funny-post-maker. actor. you are more than a generic noun. 🦊

With lots of tributes to Patrick Stewart being shared, I was reminded of this clip from a Q&A at a scifi convention, where the questioner asks what he's most proud of outside of acting. He talks passionately about masculinity, PTSD, and domestic violence, and is (for want of a better way of putting it) bloody brilliant. He's not putting on a show, or playing a character, he's talking from the heart about his childhood experiences and his adult response to those https://youtu.be/TqFaiVNuy1k

Patrick Stewart one of the very few people where the English monarch bestowing a knighthood on them makes me go "y'know what yeah, sure, this one can be called a knight"

Gonna sound like a jerk here, but I feel like the idea that autistic people ‘overthink’ things is the wrong war around. No, neurotypical folks don’t think about things enough. Half the issues society suffers from come because the natural human mindset seems to be “YOLO let’s make this massive change to how things work without thinking about the consequences or details whatsoever!”

#autism #neurodivergence #criticalthinking

#PSA
#trans Menschen in Deutschland haben laut Drucksache 20/11004 (https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/110/2011004.pdf, Seite 33, Punkt 2.) durch ihre besondere Bedrohungslage automatisch ein Recht auf ein Auskunftssperre bei ihrem zuständigen Meldeamt.

Zu Artikel 3 (Änderung des Bundesmeldegesetzes) weist der Ausschuss darauf hin, dass man davon ausgehen kann, dass Personen, die ein SBGG-Verfahren durchlaufen haben, sich regelmäßig einer konkreten Bedrohungslage ausgesetzt sehen, die zur Erteilung einer Auskunftssperre berechtigt.

Gerne retooten damit das alle Leute erreicht die das brauchen 🏳️‍⚧️ :QueerCat_Trans: :BoostOK:

Hello, people. I'm a Ukrainian trans girl that's currently in Slovakia with my transphobic and very homophobic parents that do physical and psychological violence towards me. I'm planning to move to Germany on 26 of October (I already booked a ticket to the train). The problem is, I don't really have a place to live here. I would be very happy if someone can help me in this very stressfull to me situation. ​:bocchi_dead:​ #trans #germany #transidentitat

Really sad to see people I respected take a big dump on PHP today. It was unnecessary. This is open source. Things run on too few donations and mostly unpaid work.

These people work hard. They deal with entitled users in bug trackers. They sift through slop reports and slop contributions. They have to defend their infra from thieves who can afford to lose more money in an hour than they will not make in a lifetime. They have to drop everything when their unpaid project has an emergency.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/117462487001810692

scalzi’s blog post is definitely worth reading (and short, too) for an illustration of how to craft an AI policy that is good (in terms of content and underlying priorities), informed, and arrived at via a good process.

click-through to subvert’s actual policy highly encouraged. (it’s also not a very long read)

'In solidarity with Autistici/Inventati'

https://solidaritywithautisticiinventati.net/

If you read it and it speaks to you, please boost. This is important. A lot is at stake.

quote of the week, from elmore leonard’s ‘split images’:

if work was a good thing the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

Hey, ich suche nach einem neuen Job als Frontend-/Web-Entwickler.

Seit zehn Jahren entwickle ich alles von einfachen Webseiten bis hin zu komplexen Webanwendungen und bin regelmäßig an der Konzeption und Planung neuer Projekte und Produkte beteiligt. Dabei stelle ich sicher, dass diese funktional, zugänglich und robust sind. Ich will gute Software für Menschen bauen.

https://kleinfreund.de/resume/, unbefristet, vor Ort in Berlin/hybrid/remote, 40h

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#GetFediHired #FediHire #Jobs #NoAI

Couldn't think of a better fit for Tailwind than Shopify

Everybody showing ass these days. Helps keep the imposter syndrome at bay

#stayhuman #autistici #inventati @cavallette

#HarryPotter #JkRowling #trans #transgender

re last boost: please help sin if you can!

[EDIT: I HAVE MOVED AHHH. Thank you all for boosting etc I have only just got internet sorry if you sent stuff and I didn't respond. I am very tired and need to move as little as possible for a couple of days x]

MAYBE tomorrow (tues) morning but it would have to be early.

I can pay £60, potentially a bit more especially if it takes longer or there are bandits or something.

Would prefer not to spend hours trying to find a total rando from some dodgy site or other who will probably still bring a van twice as big as I could ever fill

I'm moving 2.6km (~1.6 miles) up the road. It would take two car trips I think, but even one would be a huge help. I can help with loading and unloading but will need help for some. Getting it into the house is fine, I can place and unpack. There's parking (double space on driveway at destination).There's no large furniture, only a single mattress that I might have to leave behind.

it’s a weird pattern to find oneself in – you use the email provider that looks like it’s the most sane choice and then the US government swoops in and tries fucking it up. happened for the second time today…

last time it was lavabit, tonight it’s @cavallette

Normalerweise müsste diese #Petition alleine schon aus dem #Fediverse heraus die nötige Anzahl Mitzeichnungen massiv überschreiten.
Denn zum Mitzeichnen muss man keinen Wohnsitz in Baden Württemberg haben.
Das zeigt mir: Im Fediverse ist es wie überall. Unheimlich laut, unheimlich viel Geschrei. Wenn man mal was tun kann nur Grillenzirpen.

Ich habe Verständnis dafür, dass nicht jeder auf Demonstrationen gehen kann. Da gibt es verschiedenste Gründe für und diese respektiere ich.
Aber eine Mitzeichnung, das kann wirklich jeder machen. Wenn wir nicht mal das aus dem Fediverse heraus geschissen kriegen, dann müssen wir uns nicht wundern, wer wir sehr bald wieder unter einer blau-braunen Nazidiktatur stehen. Aber dann will ich hier auch kein Gejammer mehr lesen.

So, und jetzt kriegt endlich euren Arsch hoch!

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Aufforderung des Landtags an die Landesregierung zu einem Antrag beim Bundesverfassungsgericht gegen Björn Höcke nach Art. 18 GG
https://petitionen.landtag-bw.de/Petitionen/Details/6d29a4a1-53cb-4d40-810a-6bbb9f77b12c

If you lived in a world where smoking was returning in full force—through unethical, manipulative, and probably illegal tactics tobacco use was returning to 1960s levels—would you work within the tobacco industry to make it less bad? "Nicotine is an excellent ADHD drug so it can help accessibility!"

Because this is exactly what people in the tech industry are starting to sound like.