This visual depiction of #plurality and being #plural , is one of the most relatable ways of explaining it. This was shared via a Discord I'm in, but originates from https://www.tumblr.com/digital-pawprints/771777170851938304/it-can-be-a-bit-difficult-at-times-to-explain-how and I believe them to be the author
This is toot 1/2
top tip to those new to Mastodon and the fediverse:
@iftas @neil @russss @rachelcoldicutt I just still find it very sad, was chatting to the folk who run the Islington CC forum and of course that's one of the ones I'm shutting down, and they're just looking to move to Discord. the Espruino forum will also close and the person who runs that project may consider it an end to the whole project as it's hard to run these indie / craft ventures without an open forum where people can discuss beyond the boundaries of the business about what they're doing with the things. I'm closing a huge French forum because it's not economically viable to run that one without also running LFGSS, and I have to close LFGSS because I can't meet the technical requirements that will be needed.
all that is happening is consolidation onto major providers.
I'm really hoping that on the fediverse at least, that a grand scale disobedience, the sheer number of instances, and the decentralised nature, results in a the Act being ignored.
I hope that the OSA goes the way of the 4 separate Gin Acts which were all widely ignored... although of course, unfortunately the final Gin Act did take effect and resulted in 150+ years of only the large established Gin companies being able to produce Gin... and this is what it feels like, consolidation by law, and the resulting extermination of the hobby instance.
for the small fedi instances that have asked me whether it applies to them... it does, but I've recommended offshoring and using the privacy of DNS, the small size of their instance, and lack of any obvious identifying information that suggests it's UK related... to basically ignore the law... which is what I'll be doing for the much smaller things I help give time to but didn't feel I could do to the moderately sized things that had very clear association to the UK.
it's just sad, that's how I feel about it. oh well
@hongminhee is only-once reading of a list item important to you?
Most people know the poem, "First they came for the communists".
But it is wrong.
History is very clear, before they came for the communists they came for sex workers, trans people, and queer people all via Paragraph 183 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph_183 which had existed in the German criminal code, but was weaponised by the Nazis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_Nazi_Germany .
The canary for "First they came..." is always sex workers, trans people, and queer people.
Now look at what is happening in most of the USA and what the incoming administration has promised to do.
The canary is already dead, the warnings already have been sounded.
People are choosing not to speak out... because they are not a sex worker, trans person or queer... and the poem tells you how that goes.
@benjojo I only just found this, but my read on it is that "within safe levels, little to no effect".
but assuming safe levels is to assume a controlled environment and experienced stage technicians... which is unlikely to be the kinds of environment that you're experiencing smoke in.
another "bet you didn't know this about me" is that I did stage technician stuff for sound and lighting throughout the 1990s off and on... and I used to experience the worst hayfever symptoms immediately after leaving closed areas where we'd used lots of smoke machines (i.e. daytime rehearsals, and then pop outside to the only green space in the Summer). the older tech claimed that the smoke caused a reaction in the air passages like an irritant and that created a temporary far higher sensitivity to any other conditions.
my bet is more the anecdotal thing I experienced than this large academic doc.
@benjojo why yes, I just happen to have this lying around
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Emxe-j5EcuvW9Us2Z-NKxwpt7J3R6PMn/view?usp=drive_link
"HEALTH EFFECTS
EVALUATION OF THEATRICAL
SMOKE, HAZE, AND PYROTECHNICS"
Page 170 for the conclusions.
I know a US based role for a Staff Frontend Engineer to work in data visualization.
And yesterday I saw someone looking for a role in data visualization.
Lack of working search in fedi, and my lack of instantly bookmarking it because I'd see the role in the future... means I cannot pair these two things together as I don't think they used #FediHire or #getfedihired hashtags
Does anyone know who was looking for a data visualization role yesterday?
This is the role in question https://boards.greenhouse.io/grafanalabs/jobs/5391083004
"Your year wrapped" is only possible because companies have spied on you all year.
Privacy conscious companies aren't able to do a "wrapped".
"Wrapped" is such a shitty trade, all your data in exchange for a crappy email that you then use to provide free advertising to a corporation.
Just donated to @qdot as #buttplugio need funds as well as Wikipedia.
a periodic reminder that these places exist:
https://genderdysphoria.fyi/
https://diyhrt.wiki/
https://diyhrt.info/
https://hrtcafe.net/
https://transharmreduction.org/
https://transfemscience.org/
https://gtrr.artemislena.eu/
https://diyhrt.market/transfem-hrt-guide
https://www.reddit.com/r/estrogel/wiki/
and places like these:
https://diyhrt.market/
https://www.unitedpharmacies-uk.md
and some country specific things (please recommend more):
https://genderkit.org.uk/
feel free to boost, and reply with other useful links for #trans people
edit: refining list of links, if you have any you want to add and don't want to reply publicly, DM me
