I recently found that iOS allows adding a ☀️ icon to the control center. It's called "Reduce White Point" which is a bit technical. What it actually does is make the screen darker than the brightness setting allows.
When I have a migraine attack, I sometimes still can and want to use a screen. But even the lowest brightness setting can be too much. So it would be great to see a feature like this in GNOME!
It is #DisabilityPrideMonth! I used this occasion to write a bit about accessibility in GNOME, ableism, and share some ideas about what we can use this pride month for.
I'm looking forward to learning about the perspectives of other disabled people #AccessibilityInFreeSoftware
https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2026/07/07/accessibility-in-gnome/
Goodbye queer pride month, welcome #disabilityprideMonth!
July is #DisabilityPrideMonth
Wait, disability ... pride? Why would someone be proud to be disabled?
One of the most important aspects of disability pride for me is to counter the shame. The shame of “being different,” the shame of “needing help,” the shame of “being a burden,” the shame from the humiliation and abuse I have experienced.
Disability pride gives me the chance to counter the shame by saying, “I am disabled, and I am proud to exist and be who I am.”
As Pride Month🏳️🌈 draws to its conclusion, KDE and @gnome would like to pay tribute to the LGBTQA+ people that have contributed and continue to contribute to making our lives better through their work in the field of digital technology.
We start with one of the greatest computer scientists of all time...
I’ve got a friend who was non functional after a few hours with a GI bug.
I gently pointed out their symptoms matched the ones I deal with every single day.
Their response?
“You’re used to it. It’s not the same”.
That’s how disabled people are treated in a nutshell.
Our suffering is minimized.
The ableds suffering is always worse. Always more severe. Always “worthy” of pity. Always random and never their fault.
Our suffering is something to be adapted to. Something we could fix if we “tried harder”. Something we brought on ourselves.
It’s a disgusting double standard that exists to help the non disabled avoid facing the uncomfortable reality that one day they will lose their health.
It doesn’t matter how fit you are, how hard you work or that you do everything “right”.
You can become disabled at any time
Blaming the disabled for losing their health early in life won’t stop bad things from happening to you.
It’ll just help prop up a system that sees people as worthless the second they become “non productive”.
It’ll just assist the elites in developing eugenicist policies.
Almost everyone becomes disabled.
Disability justice impacts all of us.
Fight with us for better social supports. Better safety nets. Universal healthcare. Paid time off.
Don’t leave us behind.
We want to congratulate Philipp Sauberzweig on being chosen as one of the STF Fellows!!
Read the full announcement here 👉 https://www.sovereign.tech/news/meet-the-2026-sovereign-tech-fellows
Thank you @sovtechfund for investing in FLOSS🩷
We're happy to announce we have our first fellows — Sophie Herold and Peter Eisenmann!
Thank you to all the donators who helped make this happen🩷 It wouldn't be possible without your financial contributions.
Read the announcement here👉 https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2026/06/11/announcing-our-first-fellows/
Bobby is now part of GNOME Circle. The app makes browsing SQLite databases a breeze. Bobby is maintained by @hbons,and not by Bobby Tables. Congrats!
Welcome Kori to the World! Kori is KDE's non-binary⚧️ pet dragon and they'll be presiding over KDE's 30th anniversary celebrations throughout 🏳️🌈Pride Month🏳️⚧️.
Resources has been accepted into Incubator! Thanks Nokyan for developing such excellent app 🩷
But we also need your help! We need people to test Nightly builds to ensure the app can be accepted into Core.
You can learn how to do it here: https://welcome.gnome.org/app/Resources/#installing-a-nightly-build
Stock buybacks are just dividends in disguise and hence a tax evasion scheme.
Sure, you would have to pay taxes when selling the stock eventually. But the ultra-rich are just not selling and instead use stocks as collateral for massive loans.
We have to tax wealth.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/nvidia-approves-50-billion-stock-buyback-time-buy
Cis people: normalize introducing yourself with your pronouns.
If only trans and gnc people do it, we're outing ourselves. If we don't, we accept getting misgendered. And when cis people do it, it acclimates other cis people to the practice and makes it safer for trans and gnc people.
Finally got a subscription to https://www.andererseits.org/abo/
Having an independent newspaper run by disabled people is so important! I hope they can survive!
Recently we celebrated Trans Day of Visibility, but words alone aren't enough. If you want to apply for GNOME Foundation membership you don't need to provide your legal name, you can use your actual name!
We recognise the cruel reality that many trans people's legal names are deadnames.
https://handbook.gnome.org/foundation/membership.html#becoming-a-member
🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Imposter syndrome is slamming me rn. If you’re a woman in tech and you’re thinking that goes away if you become more accomplished, I’m so sorry to inform you that it’s purely an internal work 😅
Also, just because your grandmother wrote code when Fortran was new doesn't mean nobody over 40 needs cognitively accessible tech. I know we like to pretend cognitive disabilities don't exist because they're icky instead of sexy, but accessibility isn't about whose disabilities make you comfortable.
It’s also #TransDayOfVisibility today! It’s a good day to acknowledge that if you’re using desktop Linux, you’re almost certainly using something made at least in part by transgender people. And we must continue to work to dismantle systems of discrimination against the trans folks in our community 🏳️⚧️
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Lesser known things about transness:
- you do not have to experience dysphoria to be trans
- you do not need to "know" that you are trans your entire life
- you do not need to change your body or presentation in any way to be trans
- transfeminine people on hormones grow breasts (among many other feminizing changes)
- transmasculine people on hormones grow facial hair (among many other masculinizing changes)
- transness is different from sexuality; just like anyone else, trans people can have any kind of sexuality
- there is so much joy in transitioning and being yourself
- there is no particular look or way of being as a trans person. Sometimes online discourse flattens and narrows the apparent
trans experience to stereotypes.
- it is never too late to transition!!
#tdov #tdov2026 #tdov26 #trans #transgender #transfem
Pic: me! A trans woman that transitioned at the age of 35
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! Today we celebrate the trans members of our community and stand with them against discrimination.
GNOME wouldn't be where it is without our trans contributors. Thank you for being here! 🏳️⚧️
#transgenderdayofvisibility #transrightsarehumanrights #TDOV