Just found out that Netflix is taking down She-Ra: Princesses of Power in February and thereafter there won't be a legal way to watch the whole series.
Well, shit.
The series was a perfect example of the sort of representation that would have made a huge difference to me if I'd had it when I was growing up. It's comforting to me even now as a badly adjusted queer adult. It's not perfect, but it dealt with a lot of themes on top of specifically queer issues that don't get a lot of attention in mass media, and it doesn't deserve to be swept under the carpet, taken away from the people it might mean a similar amount to in the future.
I'm sure people will be able to get hold of it if they want to track it down, but removing this stuff from discoverability is what does the damage. The sooner the industry implodes and we can go back to the concept of actually buying media that we enjoy the better.
And another round of rudeness. Seems like that's your thing. And another generalization, too.
I guess I now know enough about you to say goodbye and wish you a life in which you don't need to be so rude to others.
Sorry, I am german, too. Please dont project your rudeness onto all of Germanys people!
There is a big difference between grown up honesty and just being rude. It is called compassion!
spoilers for an old doctor who episode
@soatok
I think about the doctor who episode with the space whale and space UK
where they were torturing the space whale- they thought you had to coerce it to do what they wanted
and in the end they turn the torture device off and the whale is happier and goes faster, because it actually came to help
in the same vein, people would likely solve more problems if we weren’t under threat of {going broke/homelessness/starvation}
This holiday season, remind your friends that buying Harry Potter crap literally funds #transgender genocide.
I am not even remotely being hyperbolic here. JKR gets a cut, and she funnels it to groups that have successfully curtailed trans freedoms in the UK and are working to make things even worse.
FUCK dude can people just fucking stop breaking every single useful open source project with their shitty AI roleplay fantasy already
related: fuck spacemacs i guess
@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.
They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.
This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.
The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.
#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl
Do you want to help people escape Big Tech and join the open social web? We need help to boost the Bonfire campaign. With #GivingTuesday momentum is on our side, but most people stuck on enshitified platforms only see content from people still active there.
If that's you, pick a template below (or write your own) and post it anywhere you have reach: Facebook (incl groups), LinkedIn, Twitter, email lists, Slack/Discord. Every share brings us closer to an open community‑governed internet. Thanks!
As usual, this post turned out somewhat longer than I'd originally intended.
This is pretty much everything I know "readily.news", the latest non-consensual service attempting to scrape the Fediverse for all it is worth:
https://cryptography.dog/blog/what-little-i-know-about-readily-news/
I've done my part. You'll need to supply your own torches and pitchforks.
Dear everyone: we do not fat shame.
Not even when we have good reason to personally dislike someone, because being fat is never the good reason.
We do not fat shame, because health comes from physical & mental wholeness, so fat shaming does more harm to a person's health.
We do not fat shame, because when we decide some bodies are not worthy of respect & dignity, we create the conditions for oppression.
Ah it gets better. His literally pinned post is anti codes of conduct, anti diversity, anti “political activism” which we should all understand means human rights
Trans rights are human rights.
Boost if you agree.
Block me if you disagree.
Good news everyone! We hit our first milestone: maintenance is 100% funded. Thank you all ❤️
Next up: unlock the stretch goal to co‑design federated groups: community‑owned spaces to organise across the fediverse, with no server or platform lock‑in.
Read about why this matters and how it can empower communities: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-community-matters-groups-as-the-next-step-for-the-fediverse/
Support the campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=tBIbwXI4dU25KvW4HBM0hQ
Unfortunately my rage is already maxed-out so I can't assign this the full quota of anger it deserves 😡
Dear Women's Institute: if you don't represent trans women, you don't represent ANY women.
There is nothing in the law or recent ruling that compels any organisation to exclude trans people. There is always another option:
- redefine your membership requirements
- join with other orgs and fight this in court
- close the organisation
All these are preferred to this.
Humanity really needed librarians to own Internet Search, not venture capitalists.
Bonfire isn’t easy to pin down, and that’s the point! We seek to enable a tapestry of social spaces, all built from shared building blocks but diverging in flavour, practice, and purpose.
We gathered a whole collection of answers from across the fediverse:
👉 https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/what-is-bonfire-plural-by-design/
Want to help shape what comes next? Support and share the crowdfunder to join install parties, co-design sessions, and more:
👉 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=r7GaxBU-z0yejFPdalMOKQ
20 days left to contribute to @bonfire ! Let's help fund the #Fediverse and support some #Developers so they can keep investing in US!
https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community
Something I have difficulty explaining but is critical is spending time learning things that are not useful. I spent so much of my early career learning things that would never be useful. They were dead ends.
But they were not. They were contextual and it all comes back in the end. And you just have to live your life to see how it does. That isn't a satisfying answer. But I'm so glad I wasted so much time.