And to those saying Texans "deserved it" because they voted red, y'all need to chill.

Notwithstanding that Texas is a voter suppression state, our compassion cannot ever be limited to our fellow human beings. Let's be and demand better.

a deal is a letter, ninety equals two, a promise is a butterfly, and a tariff is not a tax.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DLxKpmupi26

Software is political. Open source is completely irrelevant if we allow Nazis, misogynists, abusers, racists, and ableists to thrive while people who believe in human rights and accessibility are made to feel unwelcome and unsafe.

Refusing to use commercial software does not make you a good person.

here is a non-exhaustive list of people who have been defended in open source communities:
– serial rapists. Yes, that's a plural.
– people convicted of possessing child abuse materials.
– people defending lower ages of consent
– a guy with a massive Nazi swastika tattoo on his chest.
– people who have made blatantly dehumanizing statements about people with disabilities.
– people who have made blatantly racist statements in public
– People who are the system administrators for far right terrorist groups.
– people who have doxxed and swatted women for existing in public, developing free video games, or documenting hatred of Black women online

for every one of these cartoonishly evil people, there is an army of "both sides" defenders who oppose the existence of a code of conduct of any kind. For every one of these cartoonishly evil people, there are men (and a fair number of white women) who defended them and kept their jobs in positions in open source communities, while everyone who spoke up for human rights was ostracized.

I don't care about your open-source license unless you get your attitude towards human beings in order.

Wait.

Elon Musk now has the email for every federal employee?

Isn't THAT a bigger story than the stupid request for 5 bullet points of what they've been doing?

I just donated a lil bit of cash to every single HBCU. Every single one.

No one can stop you from doing this. You can just... do it.

There's almost no better way to directly contribute to the number of Black women doctors, computer scientists, attorneys, business owners, etc.

This November is extra weird. Without a shred of self-awareness, a lot of people are about to go from:

* Getting on social media to blame Black men for Trump winning the election

* Going home to eat Thanksgiving dinner with their family, most of whom are Trump voters🤡

* Getting back online to despair about "Whatever shall we do now?" And "Something must be done!" And "Why did men do this to us?" And "Why didn't Black women save us?" And "What's up with Latino men?"

1/N

Forgetting --for the moment-- about ALLLLL the other horrific reasons Trump is so vile, and just imagine this one thing if he gets in again:

He's anti-regulation, will try to dismantle vital agencies, esp those with oversight.

So: All these listeria outbreaks we're having? (Hi deregulation efforts by GOP & SCOTUS!) Imagine our food supply without effective checks.

Now imagine how other countries who import our food would respond.

Now imagine the economy after JUST that.

Kthxbye.