- lessons learned from marginalized people
- friendships formed and maintained
- worthwhile conversations had
- comments remembered months or years later
- support and validation given and received
- honesty entrusted to one's social circle
- furries petted
- pets received
- stress levels associated with reading home timeline and notifications
- pleasure derived from same
- neat creations shared
- acceptance felt

Crowdfunding for lifesaving medicine for Tatiana $0/$123

Tatiana has gotten to see the doctor, thank you everyone. The doctor has prescribed her medication for broken ribs and internal bleeding, which without insurance costs $123.

Doc says Tatiana could die without the medication, so boosts very much wanted.

Venmo: @Tatiana-Toplitz18. If you only have paypal or cashapp but still want to give, DM me and we can try to work something out.

“So, as a trans woman I’ve gotten a lot of strange comments over the years about my body and appearance.

“And one that always sticks out to me is: ‘You know, wearing a dress doesn’t make you a woman.'”

So, she posted this video. ^_^;

https://nitter.net/ayyy_vuh/status/1351663694879584261

We have domain-silenced gitmo.life , in response to user input: https://toot.cat/@news/105776013377341436

My understanding is that this still permits explicit following of discussions there, but prevents their posts from ending up in our public timelines.

-- @woozle

30 years on and this one’s still all too fucking relevant

Where is the thing? #ADHD

❤️

Welcome to friendly, conservative Heath Trace Park, where the postman saves two heads!

I got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine today, and although there was a line out the door, people in line actively pushed wheelchair users and elderly people ahead, encouraging them to cut the line. If you think "HUMANS ARE INHERENTLY SELFISH" or some such tripe, consider this: your brain has been completely fucked by capitalism, a system that not only robs people materially, but impoverishes them even of the opportunities to show kindness to one another. Humans are very often inherently altruistic.

GENERAL TEXAS MUTUAL AID AND RESOURCE DOC:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11GplfTTLRv6yV-2AC6GFw5Gy4izlPdGSay1HdRQcRjQ/preview?pru=AAABd9oSS2A*bcrCiEQ5KyVs42xFb8nKrw

*Please Boost!

Kickstarter is hosting a product that parents of neurdiverse children are supposed to stick on their child's back.

That device will then beep every 8 seconds which is supposed to help the child to focus.

As a neurodiverse person, I can tell you that this device would not only ruin every chance of me focusing on anything, being forced to wear it would make me kill myself. I am not exaggerating here.

This is one of the worst forms of torture aimed directly at neurodiverse people I could imagine.

Here's a change.org petition to stop the sale of this: https://www.change.org/p/kickstarter-stop-kickstarter-from-allowing-child-abuse-of-neurodiverse-children

I doubt the petition will do much but the campaign does explicitly break a rule on kickstarter banning the sale of medical devices so maybe reporting it (it is linked in the petition) might help.

Along with a colleague, @dzulli , I'm conducting a survey of Mastodon developers, admins, and users. If you would, please take our survey:

https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jk9Fq7Reb12tN3

We're focusing on "freedom of expression."

For more info on the survey, see

https://fossacademic.tech/2021/02/09/MastodonSurvey.html

or

https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/?p=181

#78 "Dragon Fight"

If you like my art, I appreciate feedback, boosts and ko-fis (from people who're able to!)

If you want to acquire the physical canvas, I these as "Pay what you want/can" to the first one who claims it. I need my costs for materials and shipping covered and hope to get a bit extra as my art is very not covering its costs at the moment

Gallery: https://kittenme.ws/art/
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/jglauche
Streams: https://www.twitch.tv/jennyfluff

#abstract #art #mastoart