some lurking rando online
dark of hair, first of their name
currently meatspace co-ordinates, somewhere around Naarm, on the Wurundgeri lands of the Kulin nation in so-called Australia
they/them
message to whoever needs it: survival in the face of oppression is an act of defiance
favourite description of the this thing: The Fediverse is the Dwarf Fortress of social media (courtesy @nora)
| Age | Old enough to know better |
| Profession | something or other GLAMR |
| Sex | Why does this matter? |
| Gender | Why do you need to know? |
Transphobic scientists are recruiting trans people for study.
Do not respond to requests from Lisa Littman, Ken Zucker, J Michael Bailey, James Morandini, Kevin Hsu, Paul Vasey, Ray Blanchard, Scott Semenyna or Alex Byrne.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/scientists-behind-the-social-contagion
Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.
Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.
Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about
Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.
We had a really great night last night at the Naarm Solarpunk Meetup, at the great Maker Community makerspace in Brunswick.
We had to cap numbers at 35 because it’s not a massive space, but we had a lot of new faces, and people who were at our talks last month about “getting off big tech”, and “neighbourhood-first software”.
We had some Linux installs happening, a bunch of people started on Raspberry Pi setup to run nodes for https://lores.tech, and we had some discussions about getting off Spotify.
"As for the stuff in your computer that pretends to correct your punctuation or grammar, disable it. These programs are on a pitifully low level of competence; they’ll chop your sentences short and stupidify your writing. Competence is up to you."
— Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft
Transgender World
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Jade
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"
thermonuclear small claims
Nowhere Girl