Falkreon, when the walls fell @falkreon@cybre.space

Instead of posting a black square I donated to a local protest fund. If you follow me and are in the US and have that sweet tech money then redirect it towards that instead of posting that black square. Thxbye.

#BlackLivesMatter

http://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#state

stonewall wasn't just a riot, it was an anti-cop riot led by black people. any queer not fully on board with black people protesting police brutality is betraying everything pride stands for

GET COPIES OF GENDERWRECKED *AND* EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER S1 IF YOU REPLY WITH PROOF OF MINIMUM $15 DONATION TO ANY OF:

* NORTH STAR HEALTH COLLECTIVE https://www.northstarhealthcollective.org/donate
* RECLAIM THE BLOCK https://secure.everyaction.com/zae4prEeKESHBy0MKXTIcQ2
* BLACK VISIONS COLLECTIVE https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2

boost with content warning would be a really useful feature

From Central Brooklyn DSA’s email, some good information about safety at protests

hi all, the minnesota freedom fund (which afaict is getting a lot of the donation traffic) has recommended also donating to reclaim the block (https://t.co/RfymLGhVc2) and black visions collective (https://t.co/7L4oV1LKtz), both of them local mutual aid organizations

if you're in the same boat as me (i.e. getting a paycheck from a tech job today) consider whether you've got the resources to keep giving, including if you've already made a donation

here's the tweet where they request this btw: https://twitter.com/MNFreedomFund/status/1266053143512653826

the bail fund for Minneapolis protestors:
https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/donate

for donations of medical supplies or cash for medical supplies:
https://northstarhealth.wordpress.com/donate/

Something you can do to help:

Donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, it's a bail fund and they're bailing out the freedom fighters in Minneapolis right now as well as working to protect the incarcerated from COVID-19 through organizing for de-carceration

https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/

Average bail in Minneapolis is $78 a person for trespassing and up to $2000 if there's trumped up charged. I have $108, if you have the means, try to match me, or beat me, or just give what you can

when the characters stay in their original world that's an isn'tekai

Wish I could recommend cool free and open source games to people on here in good faith but I honestly can't because the Culture is so toxic. I was just playing openspades for example, and a player used the n-word and the f-word that is a homophobic slur in five consecutive messages, and when I pointed it out other players claimed it "wasn't worth bringing it up" or even worse asked "why are you offended?" followed by complaints about censorship etc when I obviously took issue with it.

This is an issue with the Free Software community as a whole, either utter indifference to open racist remarks or full-on support of them in the name of "freedom of speech". It stems from the culture of 4chan's /g/ board and infests anything that is open and fairly decentralized, since that draws them in. They know they have a foothold in these spaces because they always have, far before GNU Social and Pleroma. They may not be a majority in terms of actual developers, but unfortunately, by and large make up the most enthusiastic userbase of FLOSS software.

If you are an administrator of networked FLOSS software or a developer of it you have a responsibility to do something about this rampant racism and homophobia instead of letting your free platform sit on idle and feeling smug about yourself for self-hosting. I urge you to check right now if anything you are hosting, from chats to games to file hosting services, is being used by this toxic side of the community and if so to put a stop to it. They feel encouraged by the platforms they are given to the point where they have the fucking balls to join any given server, say the n-word, and expect nobody to take issue with it. If they want a platform, they ought to pay for it themselves or maintain their own fork, etc. Just stop sponsoring their bullshit with your free hosting and labor and they will rightfully feel less emboldened to be assholes out in the open.

#deplatforming #antifa

"Dark Lego, show me the forbidden connection techniques":

http://bramlambrecht.com/tmp/jamieberard-brickstress-bf06.pdf

a leaked PDF of a Lego internal corporate document describing "illegal" connections that must not be used in official kit-building instructions

Much has been written on the analogy between lego connections and programming language syntax; that would make this illegal connection PDF the equivalent of, like, undocumented compiler features or something.