Patrick Cook

@Theriq
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150 Following
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I'm a guy in the American Midwest. Husband, father, librarian. Maker of things, player of games, master of dungeons, holder of degrees, writer of words, a bunch of other stuff and nonsense.
With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.encryptitalready.org
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New Save Collective is a Discord community for gamers who want to show up for each other.

Friday (Jan 30) is a national shutdown day (no work, no school, no shopping) calling to stop funding ICE. We’re meeting the moment our way: game + take action together. This Friday (Jan 30), we’re hosting game + action lobbies all day so people can take a few small actions together and feel less alone. (Drop in for 20 min or stay for hours.)

https://discord.gg/YvAJYsD5Rv

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Press start on gaming's virtuous playthrough: connection > isolation | play > despair | friendship > fear | 687 members

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Sign the petition to get ICE out of our nerd spaces: https://c.org/f4THVd9svm
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

ICE Out of Our Conventions - Tell ReedPop to Cut Ties with ICE

Change.org

After 13+ years on the streets and yet, I still don't understand why American people are so concerned with every country EXCEPT or own.... #Illegal2BHomeless in #AmeriKKKa

@altbot

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢

We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects!  

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

Data Center Migration Update and Fundraising Campaign | OSU Open Source Lab

A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.

Anyone in #Ohio that enjoys the #PublicLibrary should alert every #OhioHouse member you can the proposed budget change of removing the #PublicLibraryFund ( #PLF ) is unacceptable. It amounts to losses in millions of dollars in #library #funding for all of our #Libraries. First the #Republicans killed #IMLS and now they're trying to cut budgets at the state level. My local library, #TLCPL, has posted more information. If you're an #Ohioan, now is the time to act.

https://www.toledolibrary.org/dontcutohiolibraries/

Just backed a project that I'm pretty intrigued by.

An #opensource version of #dungeonsAndDragons called #Free5e. I think it will prove a great resource to #libraries and #creators. For $15 you'll get access to the .pdf versions of the books, as well as early access to the #discord. Plus, NO generative #AI art or text content. Take that #WotC.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyrmworkspublishing/free5e-a-free-open-source-dungeons-and-dragons-alternative?ref=thanks-copy

Here are the 10 House Democrats who just joined Republicans in censuring Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s speech

Ami Bera - California
Ed Case - Hawaii
Jim Costa - California
Laura Gillen - New York
Jim Himes - Connecticut
Chrissy Houlahan - Pennsylvania
Marcy Kaptur - Ohio
Jared Moskowitz - Florida
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Washington
Tom Suozzi - New York

Way to #Resist

The Trump administration has launched a portal where you can report DEI in schools, "ensuring all students have access to meaningful learning free of divisive ideologies and indoctrination."

You know what to do: https://enddei.ed.gov/

Department of Education Form

"Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing." -David Almond