maiki @maiki@mastodon.sdf.org

does anyone know any german speaking LGBTQIA+ mastodon instances or users? i need to improve my gender neutral speech skills.

boosting would be appreciated :))

@LouInABox @deidara @tom

Is there anyone here who is a trans adult but who hasn't transitioned for whatever reason - safety, money, cultural, family? I'd like to talk to another person in this position, because it feels like they're as rare as hen's teeth.

Please boost this if you wish, because I'm not sure I have any followers in this position.

There's a petition to Save the .org top level domain. Apparently, ICANN could still stop it from being sold.
https://savedotorg.org
I know, petitions rarely work, but I also know that _sometimes_ they do.
Please consider signing if you _run_ anything there, or if you _use_ or _care about_ anything that's on a .org domain. Also, boosting this to others who follow you, would be very much appreciated.
#SaveDotOrg

After a lot of combined effort by the F-Droid community and the jitsi team the #Jitsi Meet app is now finally available on F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jitsi.meet/

🎉 🎉 🎉

You know those visual recaptchas that ask you to identify road features like bikes, buses, crosswalks, hydrants, bridges, traffic lights, and other vehicles? I don't think I've ever had one ask me to identify a pedestrian.

Five years ago, we released Tutanota. With your help we've achieved a lot so far: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/encrypted-email/
✅ Rebuilt email client to achieve great speed and design
✅ Published an F-Droid app
✅ Made Tutanota completely Google-free
✅ Published desktop clients
✅ Turned Tutanota into a green email service
✅ Added an encrypted search feature
✅ Added an encrypted calendar
Much more is to come in the future, stay tuned. 😃🎉

We made a minor but important change to the #CopyleftConf Code of Conduct this year. It now includes this text, "This code applies to everyone -- including attendees, speakers, volunteers and staff." Thanks to the person who asked for clarification! https://2020.copyleftconf.org/code-of-conduct

Today @maiki asked the question: How do you make time to write?

It led me to thinking, and writing, but mostly leading me to the next question: How do I make SPACE to write?

https://blogghoran.se/2019/11/01/on-how-do-you-make-time-to-write/

#NaNoWriMo

Nothing gets the heart pumping like a power outage mid partition resize.

#RFC1984 utilising "morality" in order to justify an assault on our human rights by breaking encryption and gaslighting the masses into accepting this in the name of security. Don't let AG Barr break our Internet. #privacy
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RT @thehill@twitter.com
Attorney General Bill Barr: "This is not decay. This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainm…
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1182851865203105792

#nanowrimo is coming up soon, and many of you writers are thinking, "ugh, I don't have it in me to do a full novel this year." That's okay! Why not come play along with us on https://cosmic.voyage instead. Write a few stories at your own pace.

This is a super long shot, but I figure if anyone knows about 'em, it'll be this group. Does anyone know any free (printable PDF ideal) zines that are like, radical leftism for kids? Anarchy, socialism, communism, any mix of the those and more?

There's a halloween trick-or-treat for the daycare kids at my office next week, and they *did* say non-food treats were a great thing to have, after all...

“Newman and St John were mentally and spiritually in love; sharing a long-term same-sex relationship. They were inseparable. They lived together for over 30 years, like a married husband and wife,” Newman called St John his “earthly light” and said, “From the first he loved me with an intensity of love.,,”

In 2008, the Vatican decided to dig up Newman’s remains and move them out of the grave he shared with his “priest friend” in preparation for sainthood.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/13/pope-declares-cardinal-newman-saint-was-he-gay/