A Fedi version of Queer Eye:

Five autistic queer Fedifolk (one in a fur suit) travel to help out a regular person each episode.

By the end of the episode, the team have degoogled the recipient, installed a thoughtfully selected Linux distro on their formerly-windows machine, replaced much of their software with open source alternatives, stocked their home library with Murderbot novels and cozy queer SF, and given the recipient a new Special Interest to hyperfocus on.

#FediQueerEye

"I check the local government Russian Roulette Dashboard and once it gets above three bullets in the chamber, I stop playing till the numbers go back down."

Cow Abducting a UFO by Fer Martinez

#Art #Painting

From a painted china vase.
From "Examples of Chinese Ornament" written & illustrated by Owen Jones, London: 1867 #illustration #art #design https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/china-vase-4/

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I still wear an N95 mask when I'm indoors at work, at the grocery store, etc. I don't mind being the only one with a mask, and I don't generally get any pushback. The other night I was working at a public outreach event indoors at a museum, wearing my mask. One attendee was holding his baby, and I started talking to the baby, saying "I bet I look funny to you because of my mask." The father responded "You look safe." That was a way more positive reaction than he might have given. #Covid #mask

https://panic.itch.io/blippo/devlog/1325531/version-103

> Release Notes
> macOS (v1.0.3)
> Initial release (this took so long because I originally tried to build it in HyperCard).

lol

#bringbackhypercard

BE GAY DO ART

#pride #queer #gay #yeshomobro

Moo (with Scottish accent)

#CowsOfMastodon #Nature #Photography

My New Year’s resolution is to be more annoying about the things I care about

Sooo, any good sapphic fantasy books this year that I should be buying my sister for Christmas? My brain has gone completely, totally blank -- no matter how obvious it is, you might as well tell me!

EDIT: To be clear, "this year" is intended to mean books first published in 2024. Books published earlier than that were generally already considered in previous years.

#bookstodon

A few wonderful drawings #FromTheInspirationFolder by E. H. Shepard (1879 – 1976) to commemorate his birthday.

Today's at home community work is cooking with 3 covid safe friends to make 50 large lasagnas (20 vegan & 30 with meat) for local food security volunteer drivers to distribute to local street folks, directly to their tents scattered throughout our CRD regions. Thousands of houseless folks aren't in the downtown Victoria core, where most of the government funded food/medical services are provided. Many of us grassroots citizen volunteers try to fill in the gaps, with public donations & our own funds, trying to help feed & give basic health services to the houseless surviving outside of the downtown core.

I want to absolutely clear, and I am spelling it out in agonizing detail so people don't just glance over and miss the point of these analyses.

HICPAC recommendations for the new CDC guidelines are worse than what the CDC currently recommends. This is bad. It goes against the science and the needs of healthcare workers and patients alike.

Fight this. People's CDC has a template for letters. Barrage the CDC. Barrage HICPAC. Write articles. Don't let them get away with this. Thanks for reading.

I have heard people call the institutional urge to reassure at the expense of providing correct and useful information "calm-mongering", but in my head I call it "apathy-mongering". I don't like the implication that the choice is between ignorant calmness and informed panic, we can be informed and proactive but still calm. Calm is fine. Apathy (in public health) ain't.

🇺🇸 US: COVID Map Shows US Positivity Rates Across Thanksgiving.

For the week ending November 30:

Highest rates: 7.1% positivity rate, California, Arizona, Hawaii and Nevada.

Meanwhile, 6.3% positivity rate, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Colorado.

Source: https://archive.md/TzOaL

@auscovid19

@wellingtonrock @pvonhellermannn

This "calmer," "neutered" version of capitalism would still be exploitative to workers, even with the addition of well-funded public programs. Despite the regulations, the fundamental dynamics of profit extraction from labor by capitalists would still persist, perpetuating class inequality and alienating workers from the full value of their labor.

My cReAtIoN iS cOmPlEtE...

#corsirosenthalbox #CleanTheAirWeShare #DIY

"Embrace tradition"

submitted by u/Fried_out_Kombi
https://redd.it/1h8cnem
#fuckcars

The centring of puberty blockers in the care of trans youth is actually a compromise position designed to placate cis discomfort.

Desistance rates during this period are so low that it effectively amounts to holding young trans people in limbo for a few years and lying that it's for their benefit.

There's no medical reason that young trans people are unable to begin medical transition in their teenage years.

The roadblock is only a combination of cis anxiety and the erroneous belief that young people lack an understanding of their own identity and the capacity to exercise bodily automomy.

It's so cold outside that I had to put on two coats to take a walk. PRO TIP: Wearing an N95 or KN95 mask when it's cold outside helps to keep your face comfortably warm and you also don't get snot and spit on your nice scarf. If you keep the mask on when you go into a crowded building, you also lower your chances of catching a respiratory illness. (Descriptions in ALT.) #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdphography #deer #naturephotography #nature #covidisnotover #wearamask #HoosierMast