Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

I also understand—and empathize—that people often have no choice and must use Twitter.

If the choice is between making rent and eviction, I get it.

But that’s not everyone. If you’re privileged enough to leave Twitter, it’s your duty to log off forever.

That’s how you can thwart the spread of Fascism.

I’ve written an open letter asking organisations that engage online with the blind community to come to Mastodon in light of the significant #accessibility regressions at Twitter.
If you agree, please sign it and share it as widely as you can. This is one occasion where if we can show how many of us care about this issue, it will make it clear that it’s worth companies putting in the effort to be here.
I would also be very grateful for the support of our sighted friends.
Thank you.
https://bit.ly/BlindMastodon

I’m a huge fan of science, like most Aries

Flaws in systems don't get fixed by people who think they're great and should just be bigger.

They get fixed by people who listen to those who've noticed the flaws.

Ever since November, I’ve told everyone who would listen that continuing to use Twitter helps Fascism.

Certain people said that statement was “extremist and alienating”.

But now it turns out that Twitter is deliberately amplifying Russian propaganda. And Russia is, in fact, a Fascist regime.

It’s time you all realize the stakes of your social media use.

https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/kremlin-twitter-accounts-get-a-boost

Look at the massive extent of warm anomalies across Eurasia over the last three months...

Red 🔴 - warmer than average
Blue 🔵 - colder than average

Questions about the data: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/. Code for the data: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/sources_v4/

Incredibly, Twitter has now made it impossible for public safety bulletins to be posted automatically by weather services, tsunami warnings, the MTA etc. This is consistent with Musk’s particular lack of interest in public service. But it also highlights the general problem of building networks on private property - precisely why we need Mastodon and other open source apps to take their proper place at the center of our online communities

@bullivant Richard Dimbleby's BBC report on Belsen after its liberation is intense. What he we was reporting was so extreme they didn't want to broadcast but he threatened to resign if they shelved it.

@vitaminsludge @bullivant @georgetakei many interned by the British in Ilfracombe joined up and were only allowed in the Pioneer corps. Isle of Man seemed to have been not too bad. But UK invented the concentration camp used in South Africa first and just as deadly through disease in Malaya

@zleap I'm already here and someone else already maintains @APoD so there's no need for me to replicate their efforts. I was only complaining about the manner the API termination was done, not asking for advice on what do do. I'm explaining that there is nothing I can do given I'm on holiday.

Edubuntu 23.04: Ubuntu Desktop Packed with Educational Software https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/edubuntu-23-04-ubuntu-desktop-packed-with-educational-software/

Saying women can’t choose to have abortions unless we’re raped is telling us we don’t EARN autonomy over our own bodies until a man violates it.

By the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year.

That would be enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty and fund a global plan to end hunger.

We can't afford NOT to tax the rich.

And we have liftoff!
#JUICE #ESA #Jupiter
7/n

Texas judge’s abortion pill decision cites research based on anonymous blog posts, cherry picks stats that exaggerate the negative physical & psychological effects of mifepristone & ignores hundreds of scientific studies attesting to the drug’s safety.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/13/abortion-pill-safety/