Dan GillmorIf this is accurate, it's heartening. Advertisers are rationally avoiding Musk's site because it's increasingly toxic, reflecting the owner's vile behavior. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-30/twitter-s-revenue-drops-amid-advertisers-concerns-over-elon-musk?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=mobile_web_share
VelvetAlex
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M.D., queer, cree, anti-Zionist Jew. (He/himbo.) Currently living and working in Brook in the bourough of Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom. 🇬🇧
Effin' Birds
Radical Graffiti"Decapitate Macron"
Seen in Paris during the recent protest against the raising of the retirement age
Seen in Paris during the recent protest against the raising of the retirement age
Collin DonnellI was woken up today by a phone call letting me know that due purely to budgeting changes I’ve been let go from my full-time contracting position I just started in January after being laid off in September.
I am a former #Apple #engineer with 15 years of experience making apps for #iOS and #macOS. I also have experience with #Ruby. Available immediately for full time or contract work.
Please boost. #Swift #RubyOnRails
Alice McFlurry 
I told my husband I was going to start cosplaying as Vicki from Small Wonder and he said “I didn’t know you stopped.”
Cait the Proud Trans WomanI'm kind of struck by how left-leaning the Fediverse is - after seeing so many right-wing social media sites stumble and bumble their way to ignominy. And I realised - the right want a social media site where they can own the libs, flex and troll. And it's boring trolling each other instead. While for the left, it's more about wanting a site to actually interact in a reasonable way with grown-ups.
Just interesting to note.
Fedi works because it works; Gab and Rumble and Truth and all the other right-wing circle-flappers just limp along without any users, because they don't offer what right-wingers want: targets.
The Implausible Girl#transphobia #genocide #cpac #recycled_nazism
85 years ago, under the German Nazi regime, the Institute of Forensic Medicine recommended that the “phenomena of transvestism” be “exterminated from public life.”
A few days ago US conservative Michael Knowles said, live streamed from the CPAC 2023 conference in the USA, that “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,” in an eerie, almost word-for-word, echo of Nazi Germany.
Michael Knowles: “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely"
Sharon Machlis“Women make up only 9.8% of the people who contribute to open-source software projects. . . . our research found that women’s negative experiences range from minor to severe harassment, sexism, discrimination and misogyny to explicit death threats. Their expertise is challenged, their contributions are not well-received and their roles are diminished.” - Vandana Singh
https://theconversation.com/the-retention-problem-women-are-going-into-tech-but-are-also-being-driven-out-200625
#OpenSource #WomenInTech
Luna Station QuarterlyLibraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert
LaffyWhen you’ve lost one of the original fascist enablers, Newt Gingrich, well…
“The idea that bloggers criticizing a politician should register with the government is insane. it is an embarrassment that it is a Republican state legislator in Florida who introduced a bill to that effect. He should withdraw it immediately.”
Or as one reply said, “You did this, asshole.”