I just had a video chat over Signal with Nabil (@seengoals) and I’d like to welcome him to the Gaza Verified family.

Nabil is a 33-year-old software engineer and was the founder and CEO of his own company in Gaza before it was destroyed by Israel.

He is also a father struggling to keep his child alive in Israel’s ongoing genocide and the resulting famine.

They are, thankfully, in the South but they still need your help to survive.

“They stole my life, crushed my dignity, they killed me alive.” – Nabil

Please give Nabil and his son a warm welcome to the fediverse, donate to their fundraiser if you can, and share so others might too.

Thank you!

💕

https://gaza-verified.org/

(It might take a little while for him to add the link to his profile.)

#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide #StooIsrael #SropTheGenocide #FreePalestine

Every time I log into Fedi, I see another post with a guide called something like "Activist's Guide to Smartphones" or "Phone Security Guide for Protesters," and every single one of these assumes that the threat model is the kind of police force that exists under liberal democracy where the law will afford significant protections to protesters. The world is changing, and these guides not only fail to address the threat of an actively hostile fascistic anti-democratic occupying force (I refer here to the police), but such guides generally are limited to "what" and "how" but miss the more critical "why."

If you believe that you are facing fascism (or even something close to it), can I please please please convince you to read something written by anarchists who have faced serious repression and are trying to convey just how much phones can lead to the imprisonment of you and your friends for even things that are allegedly "legal."

https://opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloads#mobile-phone-security

I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accessibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧🇩🇪 https://fedisabled.social/about - for all disabled people
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://mentalhealth.social/about - focus on mental health and help
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://a11y.info/about - Acessibility and digital inclusion
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://indg.club/about - by and for indigenous people from North America and worldwide. All First Nation people welcome
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://babka.social/about - A community for Jewish people of all kinds and their allies, safe from antisemitism
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 http://queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://autistics.life/about - space by autistics for autistcs
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://ehr.scot/about - Equality and Human Rights defenders, advocates and organizations
🔗🇬🇧🇺🇲 https://tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies
🔗🇧🇷🇪🇸 https://ursal.zone/about - antifascist, feminist, antiracist, anticolinialist, accesible, and trans-and-nb-inclusive, in Latin America
🔗🇧🇷🇵🇹 https://bantu.social/about - non-white portuguese speaking people
🔗🇧🇷🇵🇹 https://colorid.es/about - queer/LGBTQIAPN+ people

Please boost to reach more people!

We spoke with Akela Lacy from @theintercept about our recent ban from Twitter.

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/twitter-elon-musk-andy-ngo-its-going-down/

Introductory tweet! We are Bizri #6, a collaboration between two Lebanese artists.

We create personal and political comics that are rooted in feminist, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-authoritarian, and anti-imperialist politics.

We want to empower as well as dismantle.

Our first short graphic novel 'A Letter Home' and is available here: https://shop.mangalmedia.net/products/a-letter-home-ayman-makarem-hisham-rifai

We also have an on-going series of comics on revolutions in the SWANA region with @UnicornRiot here:
https://unicornriot.ninja/revolution-in-every-country/

Currently we have a long-running series celebrating important feminist figures with a focus on Arab* women. You can follow us on Insta to see more:
https://www.instagram.com/bizri.6/

The two of us are also quite broke so I would be remiss not to shove our Patreon everywhere I can. If you like our work, consider supporting us here:
https://www.patreon.com/bizri6

New to Mastadon so please share this page and follow! Thanks so much <3 <3

We've two open positions at the Texas Observer:

💼 Business Manager (newly posted!)
🗒 Winter/Spring Editorial Fellowship (open until January 9)

Curious about joining our team? https://www.texasobserver.org/jobs/

Or, find out how to pitch us as a freelancer: https://www.texasobserver.org/pitch/

#journalism #JournoJobs #jobs #job #nonprofit #Texas

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration