Support can be shown in weird and unexpected ways. It looks and sounds different for everyone, but there are some basic things you can do to support your trans loved one.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/what-support-for-your-trans-loved-one-looks-sounds-like-95e7034bb5d8?sk=14eea1b1cab72b6514b54a7f690755d3

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Allies #CisAllies #Support

Creating powerful meetings instead of power-over meetings enables co-creation, benefiting both individuals and the group.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/06/create-powerful-meetings-instead-of-power-over-meetings

#meetings #power #allies #eventprofs #assnchat

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Yehuda/115503258078206595

Update: Mastodon v4.5.0 upgrade complete
#Native #Indigenous #Allies

Woohoo! Mastodon v4.5 upgrade pending on TurtleIsland.social

"Add support for allowing and authoring quotes"
#Native #Indigenous #Allies
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0

#Senate passes resolution to end #Trump’s global #tariffs; 4 #Republicans side with #Democrats

4 Republican senators voted with Democrats on Thursday to approve a bipartisan resolution to repeal Trump’s global tariffs, including steeper rates on long-time #allies such as the #EU, #Japan & #SouthKorea.

Sen #RandPaul (KY), #GOP sponsor of the resolution, & Sens #MitchMcConnell (R-KY), #SusanCollins (R-ME) & #LisaMurkowski (R-AK) voted for it.

#law #economy #AbuseOfPower
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5581377-trump-tariffs-senate-republicans/

#US to withdraw some troops from #Romania, #NATO's eastern flank

The decision was expected given changes in Washington's priorities, but roughly 1,000 U.S. troops will continue to be stationed in Romania, the country's defense ministry said.

#Trump #allies #alliance
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/us-troops-nato-eastern-flank-romania-russia-war-ukraine-rcna240436

“We also do our best to keep track of various campaigns and differentiate ‘real or scam’, to the degree that we are able. For campaigns that are identified as scams, we do our best to research and prevent that traffic from coming to Hachyderm …

We also recognize that there are legitimate campaigns. One relatively new effort is the Gaza Verified project. I (Quintessence) spoke to Aral to ask questions and generally understand the process, and am comfortable confirming that 1 ) Aral is a real person who is doing the work he states and 2 ) that the people that are being listed on Gaza Verified are confirmed with in-person verification with the network that he and Joy are building. To be overclear: the work is being done, and being done the way it is being communicated.

In-person verification is slow work, as it requires each new contact to be verified by an existing contact. They also take the time to attempt to onboard people who mostly are unfamiliar with the technology we take for granted, and therefore both do not have prior exposure to cultural norms and also due to suffering, do not have a lot of mental bandwidth to ‘just learn it’.”

https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2025/10/27/a-minute-from-the-moderators/

A big thank-you to @quintessence not only for this lovely article (that goes into mental health tools to protect yourself online and which you should read in its entirety if you can) but for standing by our friends families in Gaza and for making Hachyderm.io a safe server on the fediverse (https://gaza-verified.org/guide/#servers) for people being forced to endure genocide and famine in Gaza.

💕

#Hachyderm #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #allies #Mastodon #fediverse #moderation #mentalHealth