Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online), page 7

If you’re a white, cis, straight person and especially a man, you have freedom. You can go anywhere. Do anything.

I can’t buy a T-shirt, eat a chicken sandwich, buy a TV subscription without worrying about if I’m funding my own oppression. That’s why I talk about politics all the fucking time. It’s in my face every second of every day. I don’t have the luxury of only participating when I have the bandwidth for it like you do

Me, never having shopped at American Eagle in my life, on a whim going in and buying a number of cute items at reasonable prices: “Oh hey, I might have found a new store I like”

American Eagle, for some reason: “Eugenics and white supremacy are our brand now”

If you’re looking for a great set of quality free software and Linux podcasts that are explicitly anti-fascist, I can’t recommend enough @latenightlinux

Mehdi Hasan went on Jubilee’s “Surrounded” under the impression he would be debating conservatives, but instead is met with open racists and self-proclaimed fascists. Your reminder that Jubilee pretty much exists to normalize extremist views

@dalias yeah which is “male socialization” rhetoric which is transphobia

@ska @david_chisnall

The idea that trans women experienced “male socialization” is a transphobic talking point and I have zero tolerance for it. This is an insta-block. No we can’t have a “nuanced conversation”. Blocked. Not a debate. Fuck off

Trans women are women. Period.

Trans women in STEM are women in STEM. Period.

@ska I think you should think about how the entire premise of your post is the trans women aren’t real women and then delete it and feel bad

@dalias @david_chisnall

I keep seeing this sentiment that desktop Linux has become woke and gay.

Desktop Linux has been woke and gay the whole time. Y’all just for some reason decided you suddenly have a problem with it. We didn’t change, you did. Okay some of us came out of the closet. But we’ve been talking about diversity and inclusion for decades and equity has been the entire focal point of the free software movement since like the 70s! It’s woke gay anarcho-communism and you fucking loved it until 2016

Trying to create a proper swipeable row widget for Gtk4 instead of abusing Adw.Carousel, which means learning to make some multitouch primitives for Granite and thinking of a sensible API for adding swipe actions

https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/881

https://github.com/elementary/granite/pull/880

Also, Drag n Drop and event controllers in general in GTK4 are so good. Really fantastic work. The toolkit just keeps getting better at making it easy to do hard things

One of those days where a lot of hours reading docs and prototyping and making mistakes doesn’t convert to the GitHub contributions graph 😅

Working on our background portal implementation with @leolost

https://github.com/elementary/dock/pull/394

Today I went through my notes from @zersiax’s recent accessibility live stream and made branches for things that were straightforward to fix and issues for things that might take some more time and consideration.

It feels really good to be able to take action. It’s one thing to say, “as an org we support [marginalized group here]” but to be able to actually do something material scratches my imposter syndrome itch in just the right way

I’ve started down a dangerous path that I fear is going to lead me to learning math that I don’t want to know

Two standard URIs we need in [current year]:

1. Music. I should be able to share a platform agnostic link to a song that your music service can match and open correctly

2. Maps. This one should be like especially straightforward. Why can’t I send you a link from Apple Maps that opens in Google Maps or Open Street Map or whatever.

Let’s go standards body people. I know y’all are on Fedi

Menubars are shit design and they should have been allowed to die https://mastodon.social/@agiletortoise/114797525277979539

I know I’ll never be rich person because as soon as I have anything at all, I’m treating and helping my friends. Can you imagine having a billion dollars and not giving it all away? I can’t

Gonna put on my evil capitalist business owner hat for a second:

Trying to appeal to a broader audience is bad for engagement.

If you want followers/customers/volunteers/community that strongly identify with your brand, you need to be confident in excluding people who don’t resonate with your stated values. The things that will create powerful brand loyalty with some people will be deal breakers for others, and this is okay. Being bland, generic, and safe is plainly unattractive

@gamingonlinux oh that’s super interesting to see “freedesktop SDK”. I’m guessing that’s where we show up haha