Mastodawn

after 25 years of a career of trying and mostly failing to make the world a better place with software it is truly soul-wrenchingly exhausting to watch a substantial plurality of the entire software industry decide that actually, it is more lucrative and easier to make the world worse instead

Katja ｢Amethyst｣3h ago

Qasim Rashid, Esq.3h ago

The New York Times Editorial Board denounced Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid for not having 'the experience' to be mayor—despite him being a 3X elected assemblyman—then praised & endorsed a rich white guy named Whitney Tilson, who has never once held elected office.

Their “meritocracy” is really just rich white male mediocrity. Definitely not racist.🙄

Katja ｢Amethyst｣3h ago

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Luke Kanies 6h ago

@mekkaokereke Portland had 100 days of marches, and if anything our city loves our police more than before

Katja ｢Amethyst｣4h ago

Mondoweiss 🇵🇸12h ago

After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/uc-san-francisco-fired-me-for-speaking-out-against-genocide-but-as-a-physician-i-could-not-remain-silent/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

UC San Francisco fired me for speaking out against genocide, but as a physician I could not remain silent

Mondoweiss

Katja ｢Amethyst｣6h ago

Dr. Lucky Tran

6h ago

Fired CDC scientists respond: “Despite recent suggestions to the contrary, health care providers and the US public trust ACIP. For the past 18 years, the National Immunization Survey has shown that 99 of every 100 children in the US have received at least some recommended vaccines by 2 years of age. This does not suggest the population is so distrustful that it warrants dismantling the process by which vaccines have been recommended.”

Katja ｢Amethyst｣8h ago

mekka okereke

8h ago

No Kings marches:
* Over 2,000 marches
* One day (so far)
* ~11 million participants
👍🏿

Black Lives Matter marches:
* Over 7,700 marches
* Multiple days
* ~26 million participants
👍🏿

Whoever told you 3.5% of the people protesting is some magic number for social change, lied to you.

Katja ｢Amethyst｣8h ago

Tucson Sentinel 9h ago

PACC offering free microchips to dogs & cats ahead of 4th of July https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/061225_pacc_microchips/pacc-offering-free-microchips-dogs-cats-ahead-4th-july/
Each year on July 4, hundreds of dogs get spooked by fireworks and run away from home, ending up in shelters. To prepare for the holiday this year, Pima Animal Care Center is offering free microchips for both dogs and cats at the shelter each day through July 3.
#Tucson #Arizona

PACC offering free microchips to dogs & cats ahead of 4th of July

Each year on July 4, hundreds of dogs get spooked by fireworks and run away from home, ending up in shelters. To prepare for the holiday this year, Pima Animal Care Center is offering free microchips for both dogs and cats at the shelter each day through July 3.

TucsonSentinel.com

Katja ｢Amethyst｣8h ago

Katja ｢Amethyst｣20h ago

it's about that time of the month once again. I am entirely out of food. I'd hoped to not have to ask, but I had to buy a new portable air conditioner and I had some annual bills to deal with, which ate up my paycheques.

CashApp/Venmo: VulpineAmethyst
PayPal: sheila@vulpine.house
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/VulpineAmethyst

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Trans #Disability #HelpFolksLive2025

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Katja ｢Amethyst｣10h ago

(not kidding about being out of food, by the way; haven't eaten since yesterday, and that's a problem because I need to take my meds with food.)

Katja ｢Amethyst｣10h ago

public universal transgender, send post

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