Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

I could never figure out what N.W.A. had against these guys.

Slashdot: Astronomers Just Discovered an Unusual Object Pulsing Radio Waves in Space for Decades https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/22/0332245/astronomers-just-discovered-an-unusual-object-pulsing-radio-waves-in-space-for-decades?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #Tech #slashdot #Technology #space

Stephen Hawking once held a party for future time travellers, but only publicised the event after it had happened.

No-one attended.

#SomethingToThinkAbout

How many people/accounts are you following here on Mastodon?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the Fediverse!

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Following #Mastodon #Fediverse #Tech #AllThingsTech

⬇️ This is a fact. ⬇️

It’s not a meme. It’s not an opinion. It’s a fact — a fact I wish everyone could accept, take to heart, and use to motivate action!!

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Let's boost this post that #transgender people exist

Windows 11 is just amazingly awful. The start menu replaced with a button that brings up a big window full of ads. Nags to log in to a Microsoft account, lying that it will increase security. Total enshittification of something that was bad to start with. #windows #enshittification

Friendly Reminder:

There is no "official Discord" for either the #Fediverse or #MastoAdmin.

Extraordinary that there's virtually no coverage in western media of China's extraordinary expansion of its railway network, and no questions about why we can't or don't do the same
#Railway #China #Europe #US

Public Money, Public Code! Code paid by the people should be available to the people!
🔹 Sign the Open Letter: https://publiccode.eu/en/openletter/
🔸 Listen to @johasjaguar
explaining this demand in this podcast: https://egovernment-podcast.com/egov139-fsfe-pmpc/

#PMPC #SoftwareFreedom

@zleap as is

Hello Fediverse! I am coming before you all today to promote my new instance: blackqueer.life! You may have seen my post on my old account about it a few weeks back. I wanted to wait until I finished migrating my old account over here, got the instance up and running to where I wanted it, etc before promoting it fully.

We all know Fedi isn't always kind to Black users, doubly so for Black queers. My instance represents my attempt to continue the amazing work some folks are doing in the Fediverse to make these platforms more accessible and safer for all users, ESPECIALLY marginalized folks.

When I joined the fediverse, the first thing I was searching for almost from the beginning was an instance dedicated to or centering Black queer people explicitly. While there are a few amazing communities like that out there, many of them are either not federating, offering limited federation only, or are currently closed to new users.

This allows them to have much greater control over the content their users are exposed to, which I have tremendous respect and appreciation for. Hell, I've got alts in some of those places!

However. As a newcomer to Fedi, it was not overly easy for me to find these places and gain access, which I recognize is somewhat by design. Limited or no federation meant the only way to locate them was by word of mouth and extensive research.

This is where BlackQueerLife comes in. I want to build a place where Black queer, trans, and GNC folks can feel safe making a home while also being able to venture out into the rest of the fediverse. I want somewhere they can use as a landing pad. I want as many multiply marginalized Black folks off of corporate hellsites like Twitter and Bluesky as possible. We are not safe being corporate playthings.

Most importantly, I want every Black queer person who joins Fedi to know that they have somewhere they can go. I don't expect that all would necessarily want to join, but I want all Black queer fedizens to know that they are welcome to.

So if you see this, please boost this post to spread the word. If you already boosted the other posts that have gone out about this instance, no pressure. Thanks so much!

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ