Notices by Layne 💫 (glittercleric@corteximplant.com)

Few things infuriate me as much as someone posting screenshots or pictures of text pages and then just writing "screenshot of a text" or "a text page in a book" in the ALT text.

Visually impaired people have the same right to information as sighted people! It's not accessible to exclude us from the written content. And no, a brief summary like "a funny text about dogs" isn't accessible either. At least give some more details if you don't want to type out the whole text.

Stop excluding us!

@frogglin that's what I've been saying! Why would I see anyone genitals? But it's probably because they also have this mental connotation that men = dangerous perverts who will randomly whip out their dick if allowed to enter the sacred women's bathroom. And since trans women = men to them... It's absolute bogus, of course. Many cis women really need to confront their bias about men in general because a lot of their transphobia stems from that, I think.

And so it starts ...

Neonazis, a mix of skinheads and guys in miltary jackets with combat boots and facial tattoos, have stationed themselves at the train station and carefully watch the stream of travelers. Whenever they notice someone who's not white, visibly queer or wearing something Antifa-related, they step in their way and tower over them with a mean expression before letting them pass.

An intimidation attempt and a warning, I reckon.

Happened to me. Happened to a Black woman before me. Happened to a couple people behind me who I recognized from antifascist protests. All in plain sight of a bunch of cops in their cars, who just ignored the whole thing. I actually hailed down one of them to point the guys out, but he just shrugged and said well, as long as they don't insult anyone and aren't getting physical, they're not doing anything illegal, so there's nothing they can do.

Bestie and I also saw an uptick of visible fash on public transportation. We had two kinda boxing us in on the tram today, just watching, but I was still on high alert ready to get bestie and me the hell out of dodge if necessary.

But yeah. That's Germany after the election. Fash can just silently harass you in the streets in line of sight of cops and you're told that's something you have to live with. The AfD didn't even have to win, the CDU under Merz making a hard turn towards right-wing politics was enough.

Hello Fediverse swarm intelligence!

We have the opportunity to buy a selection of new media as part of a project at our #library.

For that, we'd love recommendations for #books (fiction and nonfiction), #movies and #VideoGames on the topics

#solarpunk
#hopepunk
#RenewableEnergy
#ClimateAction
#FightFascism

and generally anything that inspires hope for the future and gives actionable advice how to help change and save the world. Our target group is teens / young adults and we're looking for media in German and English.

We're grateful for any suggestions! For hashtags I could look at too. Of course we'll research too, but you folks always know real gems.

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@esther Terrible Day of Vacuuming

My favorite neurodivergent friendship thing is what I call "echo stimming" where you just repeat the same noises/words/phrases or variations of them back to each other in an extended loop, maybe in different funny voices. It's so soothing and fun!