| Profile picture alt text | Satellite dish from crystal heart puzzle of Forsaken City, from the game Celeste. Doesn't appear to be transmitting. |
| Header picture alt text | From the game Celeste: Madeline, in the Awake subchapter of Old Site, standing on top of the stone structure that normally houses the crystal heart, looking up into the stars. The stone structure is empty -- the heart is not there. |
#Rails folks, here's an open letter asking the Rails Core to cut ties with DHH and hard fork Rails to a new project with proper governance.
You can sign with a pull request. Let's show that there's demand for this, and that the community won't appease racists.
https://github.com/Floppy/plan-vert-letter
(boosts and cross-posts to other places are appreciated!)
🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live!
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at https://blog.ifcomp.org/
Or just dive straight in: https://ifcomp.org/ballot
This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose the war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.
Doctors at the British Medical Association (BMA) have condemned the Supreme Court’s ruling on biological sex, dubbing it “biologically nonsensical” and “scientifically illiterate”.
The union branch representing resident doctors – made up of around 50,000 medics previously known as junior doctors - passed a motion on Saturday criticising the judgement, which ruled that trans women are not legally women under the Equalities Act.
One year after we first learnt of cows infected with #H5N1 we still don’t know how the virus jumped into U.S. cattle - or why it keeps doing so
“I think we have really under-estimated this pathogen and haven’t made the strides that we needed to in a year”, Seema Lakdawala told me.
Story is here:
https://www.science.org/content/article/mysteries-surrounding-cow-flu-have-scientists-concerned-about-future-outbreaks
Watcher relived her experiences 837 times.
In the hospital room where we learn of this in Ch. 8, there's an image in the background (from a projector?), of a plane flying past a building.
CX837 is a Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong.
[boosting]
🗓️ NEW EVENT: Join Lambda Legal for Know Your Rights: Passports —a free virtual info session on Wednesday, February 26 at 3 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT — to unpack the latest developments and hear answers to common questions re: federal ID policies.
✍️ RSVP today: https://lambdalegal.org/id-info-session
original post: https://bsky.app/profile/lambdalegal.bsky.social/post/3lin2fg4pp22g
Happy to announce my first piece for the #trans publication @assignedmedia.org, which focuses on trans and #nonbinary @wikipedia editors handling the onslaught of #transphobia from the #Trump administration. Includes insights from awesome #Wikipedia editors @tamzin and @TheTranarchist (@yfns-wikipedia.bsky.social). Also shout-out to awesome Wikipedian and crypto critic @molly0xfff who I linked to for an editing tutorial and an interview.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trans-issues-wikipedia-bulwark-against-disinformation
We stay strong against hate and hatred, and in response to the recent abuse campaign on our platform, we have renewed our commitment to fight for a better world. We apologize to everyone who was greeted with an abusive message this morning.
Read about the recent incident and our position on our blog: https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html
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