szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm looking to collect as many origin stories of women working in software design (UX, IXD, UI, User Research, UX writing) as possible for my website Women of IXD. This is a multi-year crusade to write women back into the history of technology (through the lens of design). This is a companion to the book. What's your story? What challenges have you faced? What successes do you want to share with the world? https://womenofixd.com/whats-your-origin-story

Definitely do not go to these websites to get free study books. Also, don't go to https://12ft.io/ to unlock paywalls.

libgen.is, pk1lib.org, ethos.bl.uk, sabaq.pk, sci-hub.se, archive.org, lej4learning.com.pk, pdfdrive.com, unpaywall.org

The elites organize and grab all for themselves as the commoners grieve and struggle. Please don’t turn a blind eye. #Water #Maui #Justice #Greed #Power https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism

Five years ago I looked at the pay wall economy… the big change since then is that subscription prices have gone up well ahead of inflation.

https://billbennett.co.nz/pay-wall-economy/

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor; and if one is a member of a captive population, economically speaking, one's feet have simply been placed on the treadmill forever."- James Baldwin; Fifth Avenue, Uptown #bookquotes

It is obscene that the BC NDP is still behind cutting old-growth forests and arresting the people trying to stop them. #environment #climate #politics

https://www.kelownanow.com/watercooler/news/news/Provincial/Police_arrest_3_tear_down_blockade_during_enforcement_at_Fairy_Creek_blockade

Hard to understand why so many people spend their energy doing free PR work for a virus.

The French government is working on a law that would require web browsers to block websites in the browsers themselves. It would set a dangerous precedent, providing a playbook for other governments to also turn browsers into censorship tools

Context: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2023/06/26/france-browser-website-blocking/

Petition: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/sign-our-petition-to-stop-france-from-forcing-browsers-like-mozillas-firefox-to-censor-websites/

NEW ILLUSTRATION

"Call Jane"

This work is an homage to the Jane Collective, which was started by a Jewish woman and whose main participants were almost entirely of Jewish women. The "Janes" provided safe, discreet abortion access to low income women in the early 1970s Chicago when abortion was mostly illegal in the USA.

The sign on the phone booth is one of the ads they placed in a paper. The background contains Jewish texts addressing social justice, resistance, abortion, and medicine. Photos from the days of the collective are also there.

The AT&T logo on the payphone is stylized to be a hamsa, with RM"K (my Hebrew name initials).

#Mazeldon @mazeldon #MastoArt #Illustration #Abortion

Yellow stagshorn thriving in the wet Dutch summer #sporespondence #fungi #mosstodon

The new stupid right wing trend is describing crimes as vaguely as possible to pretend they're not crimes.

EXAMPLE: guy stands accused of walking into a bank in a ski mask, brandishing a gun, and demanding the tellers put $100,000 in unmarked bills in the bag or he's gonna start shooting

MAGA: wow so it's illegal to withdraw money now huh

It's hard to predict who will win this fight.

📷 "The Grand Tetons"

August 17, 2023

#FediversalPictures #Photography #Mushrooms #Français #Sporespondence

Genetic genealogists working with US law enforcement have routinely been searching genetic databases that were opted out of forensic searches violating DOJ guidelines (and covering their tracks). #GeneticGenealogy
https://theintercept.com/2023/08/18/gedmatch-dna-police-forensic-genetic-genealogy/