dalloIndia High Court rules trans women are women
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/india-trans-women-high-court-decision/
#transRightsAreHumansRights #transRights #trans #lgbt #lgbtqiaplus
Casey
@Caseydunham@infosec.exchange
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As a former developer, I’m primarily focused on offensive Application Security nowadays. Currently building some things in C++ and Qt as I enjoy desktop development as a break from the state of the modern web.
Andy BellBack in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.
Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments
Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments
Everyone else: boosts appreciated.
The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.
aaronI woke up to a comment so smug, so perfectly soaked in gatekeeping and faux-righteous posturing, it earned its own blog post.
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
You want freedom? You want GNU/Linux to mean something?
Then maybe start by not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves with a smile.
This commenter thought they were defending "software freedom." What they were really doing was kicking people out of the room. Dismissing accessibility. Mocking effort. Pretending that cruelty is some kind of rite of passage. They quoted Stallman like it was scripture, ignored real-world experience like it was noise, and wrapped it all in condescension dressed as virtue.
I’ve spent over a decade in this ecosystem. Writing patches. Rebuilding broken stacks. Helping blind users boot systems upstream doesn’t even test. I didn’t "just install Arch and whine about the terminal." I lived in it. I survived it. I held it together when maintainers disappeared and no one else gave a damn.
But apparently, because I didn’t call it GNU/Linux™ and because I dared to talk about how this OS chews people up and spits them out, I’m lazy. I’m weak. I should "get a dog."
So I wrote a response. Line by line. No mercy. No euphemisms.
This isn’t just about one comment. This is about every time someone’s been told they don’t belong because they couldn’t learn fast enough, code well enough, or survive long enough. It’s about everyone who was pushed out while the gatekeepers patted themselves on the back for "preserving the spirit of free software."
You want a free system? Start by making it livable. Because freedom that demands you crawl bleeding through a broken bootloader isn’t freedom. It’s abandonment dressed in ideology.
And if this kind of gatekeeping is your idea of community?
You can keep it.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/
#Linux #GNU #FOSS #Accessibility #BlindTech #FreeSoftware #Gatekeeping #DisabilityInTech #OpenSource #Orca #ScreenReaders #ArchLinux #BurnItDown #blogpost
Next up for reading. The AI Con by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna and then Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan.
Joni, like in MitchellJust a short post to put it out there that I am pretty much always looking for new clients for ops consulting and systems maintenance, on projects big and small.
More than 25 years of experience building and running internet-connected servers and networks of all shapes and sizes for happy clients, some of whom have been with the company for more than 15 years.
Need your server(s) maintained? Want to move out of the US cloud? Upgrades? Migrations? Let me know! 😄
Boosts welcome 🙏🏻
Gemma HentschI'm a python developer, I'm a tech lead, and I've been a tech architect. I will learn any language you need, and I'll work for anyone provided they're not building bombs to drop on civilians (or assisting in the efforts to do so).
Otherwise, if you happen to know of anyone looking for a contractor or perm twisty brained developer with a need for headache inducing problems.
NeuginYour Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Cherokee street magician.
Trying to preserve our Native American Magic Culture.
If you like my work, please, please, please help support it, any little bit helps a lot and is greatly appreciated.
cash.app/$lostcitymagic
www.paypal.me/JeramyNeugin
Qasim Rashid, Esq.BREAKING: Trump has announced that moments ago the United States has attacked 3 nuclear sites in Iran, specifically Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
The vile hypocrisy of this fascist to break the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 despite Iran’s compliance, and now to attack Iran without reason in 2025.
This is 2003 Iraq WMDs all over again and countless innocent people will pay the price for these absurd lies.
I'm glad I found @joanwestenberg writings. This is one that really speaks to me and is exactly what I'm aiming for.
EngagedPureLandTrans rights activist, feminist, retired firefighter, and Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Michele Kaemmerer has passed away at the age of 80. Michele was the first trans fire captain in the Los Angeles Fire Dept. She was a long-time, valued member of Senshin Buddhist Temple in South Central Los Angeles. Her marriage at the temple in 2000 publicly established that Jodo Shinshu affirms transpeople and their relationships.
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #trans #lgbtq #queer
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #trans #lgbtq #queer
