Notices by Rowland Mosbergen (rowlandm@disabled.social)

It's not the strangers/drag queens/LGBTQ people that you, or especially kids, need to worry about. It's the men in the family. After working 11 years at a crime lab doing DNA, I don't know if I've come across a kid rape kit with a trans person as the suspect. But there are thousands of them from the dad/stepdad/moms bf/step brother/grandpa/etc. If you want to protect kids, start there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1lwtgyx/comment/n2h7z6j/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

#Rape

For propaganda to be effective you have to stop people from thinking critically.

The best way to stop people from thinking critically is to stop them from asking questions, attacking education generally including anti-intellectualism, and taking away humanities arts and social sciences as the focus of university courses.

Summary of US foreign policy

Ukraine: We need help
USA: No
Palestine: We need help
USA: No
Israel: We want to attack Iran to help people forget about committing genocide against Palestinians
USA: Yes

:(

#Israel #Iran #USPol

@inthehands

I've had some experience trying to explain relatively complex diagrams in alt text for the 2024 equivalent of #RSAA25

The biggest challenge was to ensure that the meaning behind the diagram was explained.

Here is a relatively simple example that I did last year. There were about 10 or 12 I had to do for the keynote last year.

If I was going into more detail, I would explain more about kubernetes etc.

Imagine fighting for this country as it were and then turning around and voting for a Fascist that blatently said to everyone "Im going to ignore the constitution and rule of law". Just blatantly declaring his intentions to be a traitor to our state. And they cheer it on.

What. The. Fuck.

Clearly it all come down to nothing but bigotry and rascism for these fucking cockroaches.

Via

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1k1fwv6/comment/mnmoywl/

#LeopardsAteMyFace

Does anyone know how to turn off edit notifications in the official #Mastodon Android client?

Study and settle in Australia.
Applications open to refugees in Malaysia, Thailand or India for the Refugee Student Settlement Pathway
Applications due 5.00pm AEDT, Sunday 29 December, 2024.

https://skillpath.fillout.com/RSSP

#Refugee #refugees #Malaysia #Thailand #India

@taatm @dotproto @paul_ipv6 @mekkaokereke

"I used to have what I called ‘the Sargent’s network’. We all knew who was the grease in each department and we’d constantly talk and keep things from breaking."

I totally get this!

@paul_ipv6 @mekkaokereke in my terminology, I call them translators or generalists.

They not only know how to talk to people to get things done, but also can push back because they have enough knowledge to know when others have already done it/ know that it is possible.

@tmalsburg

One of the reasons why rseaa.org exists!

There has been a lot going on in the last 4 weeks.

My son had major surgery on both his and has been in a double leg cast for the last four weeks.

My wife has been looking for work as a clinical data analyst and preparing applications and getting ready for interviews takes time.

Brand new intake of 30 students across 9 projects that I organise and cosupervise started at work.

Getting the house ready for my sister-in-law's visit.

Finding out my role will turn into a continuing position!

Similarly, I can only provide mutual aid in small ways, not the way I would like to. It's a combination of personal limitations (call it greed) I put on myself and the fact the world willfully ignores helping those who need it most is systemic.

I'm aware of my privilege and I know it's still been stressful.

I see all the mutual aid on here and Twitter and help from time to time. But it's not enough.

Working in #DEI means that I'm always having to recognise and accept that I have limits to how I can help.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't change white institutions to be safe spaces, you can only create local safe spaces within those hostile organisations.

Maybe I wouldn't feel so guilty of more people with stable financial situations would be willing to directly help people asking for mutual aid.

I do try to mention this in my presentations on #DiversityEquityInclusion but it is not front and centre.

@shekinahcancook @libramoon @ryanhoulihan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting

You can literally shoot people dead and get away with it provided you are on the good side of the law.

@liztai

Thanks for this.

I might try it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8oVpL7770I&t=34

Please give if you can to @Tinu

Tinu, a devoted advocate and volunteer for Black women and disabled people, lives with cancer and asthma and is now hospitalized with COVID pneumonia. As a high-risk person, she and her family need our help: cancer is expensive, and without her income this month while she is in the hospital, she and her household need financial support. Hospital stays are expensive—please help her.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/fortinu-covid-recovery-expenses

@Tinu we are all hoping you get well soon.

It is ridiculous that you need to worry about money to get healthy. We need you to be ok without the worry :(