Can someone lift me out of the federation hole we seem to be in?

I wanna find more people, go boost me outta here plsss.

In case you needed a reminder today 🌍🌎

This was maybe 30-40 seconds of work, I’ll have you know.

My opinion continues to be: Support sex workers.

Tech bros delenda est.

Do you even think about other fursona's feet?

I really thought this would be one of those Split The Fandom questions 😅

In your opinion, is there a correlation between if a furry has human feet or digigrade paws, and if they then have human genitalia or more animalistic bits?
Human feet=human dick, Paws=knot
🐾 :knotty_eggplant_pats:

Know what, fuck it, adding alt text because I do love this post lmao

In your opinion, is there a correlation between if a furry has human feet or digigrade paws, and if they then have human genitalia or more animalistic bits?
Human feet=human dick, Paws=knot
🐾 :knotty_eggplant_pats:

#Moovember Day 11: Inspiring! Featuring Zannaya!

Ready to follow her to whatever end!

enamored with this gif.

Anyway, sex work is work, and criminalisation only puts people in more danger in worse working conditions and I really wish more lefty sorts would pull their head out of their [redacted, illegal as of 6 Nov] and realise this rather than wringing their hands and going "ewww, icky!"

Like, how soon are we after the fucking "facesitting ban", and they're on "supporting yourself with cam work is Bad Actually"?

This is aimed very pointedly at *all the trans/disabled people supporting themselves with cam work* ISTFG, and you fucking know it's going to continue but in more precarious conditions 'cause exploitive types know they can get away with more *because the actors can't go make a fuss without being arrested for being on cam*

Anyway, if you're in the UK, go gripe at your MP about it, etc., for what it's worth.

Really lean on 'em about how it's only going to make working conditions even worse.

They probably won't fucking care to respond 'cause they've decided we're a filthy underclass who can safely be thrown under the bus to court the wealthy conservative types who just want to use us n throw us away when we get inconvenient, but hey.

They're relying on people not wanting to stick their neck out for whores.

I will never forget this quote or how INCREDIBLY FUCKING OFTEN IT IS PROVED FUCKING GODDAMN CORRECT

“When you’ve learned to dissociate defensively around cis people, and you spend all of your time among them, and when they frequently make it clear that you are right not to feel safe around them, you can forget that it is even possible to let your guard down. That you don’t necessarily have to be alone to feel safe. That it is even possible to feel safe.”
- Imogen Binnie, Nevada: A Novel

Security / privacy heads up: It looks like Google is now publicly linking the phone number on Google Pixel phones (or at least Pixel 4 and up) [edit: and some non-Google phones too -- see comments in the thread] to any Gmail/Google account you've logged into that phone with.

"Phone number verification is turned on by default. We verify the phone number and add them to all Google Accounts that are signed in on the device. This applies to both current and future accounts and phone numbers. "

I.e., if you write erotica, have an Only Fans, do sex work, etc., and you have logged into your alt email addresses on your phone, Google will now make your personal phone number "findable" for anyone who has that email address.

This will potentially adversely affect a lot of (vulnerable and/or marginalized) people.

Everyone has been opted into this by default (because who has heard of consent or security in tech circles grrr).

To opt out:

1. On your phone, go to Settings, then next to your account name at the very top, go to "Google Services and Preferences".

2. Under “Privacy & security,” select Phone number verification.

3. Select whether to verify your phone number.

If you don't want your different identities linked and findable, make this change asap.

I hope that tech and especially infosec people and privacy advocates raise hell about this. (No one listens to the rest of us.)

*I don't work in tech, but I haven't seen tech people talk about this yet (from my limited Fedi vantage point).

Stay safe and keep your people safe.

Read more in the Google support pages.

https://support.google.com/android/answer/7521240

You're welcome to boost or share this post, but if you see tech professionasl discuss it, I'd much rather you quote them, and if you discuss this outside of Fedi, please do *not* give me credit. I don't need reply guys coming at me, I just want to flag people on what might be a problem. Thanks for your understanding. 1/2

#Infosec #Cybersecurity #Google #Pixel #Gmail

Hot take they should stop calling it “Black Friday” and start calling it “capitalist hellscape November”

when somebody publicly endorses slavery, that is vice signaling

they are attempting to demonstrate how blatantly evil they are, because that is the type of social approval they want

take them at their word and have nothing to do with them

on a related note: a "community" is a group of people who know each other and care about each others' well-being.

so for example if we are speaking about the queer tech community, well, yeah, any time we join a new chat room it turns out we already know two or three people there. we'd imagine many of you reading this have the same experience. that is a community.

something as amorpous as "the open source community" is, um, not that. it includes people who publicly advocate for the state-sponsored murder of other people in it. that's not caring.