Notices by Red Oak (redoak@social.coop), page 2

OK. We fight the death cult by honoring life. I got some plants to tend and some people to care for. Rise and grind let's fight this dread

Solarfunk

Yeah. I want solarfunk

I think it's great that they are finally changing the default for new mastodon servers away from open registration, but I also know that people (mostly women, many of whom were harrassed out of these conversations or even clean off the fediverse) have been advocating for it for years.

I don't say this as a gotcha, but because people like Ginny and Marcia deserve credit, and because we could learn from this experience not to ignore voices like theirs for so long before getting it right.

Proud to announce the release of my free career guide for climate-conscious tech workers

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/mode/1up

Share to help build an eco-friendly tech industry!

@ophiocephalic starting by adding fedi read-only is also a naked cooptation, making us more fuel for the ad machine without building any community or giving much back.

Free Palestine

#Merchtodon

Men will literally learn a complex set of rules and spend years constructing a shared setting and story, in order to talk about their feelings

society has men so fucked up we're out here buying special dice, for chrissake

kolektiva social put alt text on your memes challenge 2023

you don't have to be open-minded towards corporations, they're not people, and they are legally obligated to eat us when the money's right

OK! gonna try something here. feel free to boost or reply or neither.

IF you reply, please reply with the name and author of a (ONE! only ONE!) book that you think should be read. either something i should read, or something "people" should read, or whatever.

if you absolutely must add context, please keep it brief?

let's have a dang book thread!

y'all ever get that heartache for a kinder, softer, more equitable world?

@trashheap we're hearing that Eugen and some other big devs and/or instance admins went to a meeting with Meta and were required to sign NDAs about it. Some of their posts discussing it have been deleted.

(edited to reflect uncertainty about participants)

good thing there was only one dangerous fascist in the republican party! our work is done here!

@thomasfuchs not actually as sharp as the cool s though!

petition to create a Cool S in unicode, and furthermore to reassign the Cyrillic Capital Letter Er to a new code point

stop playing with the chatbots, you're encouraging them

did y'all know you can read weird bullshit any time you want without teaching a computer to write it? it's called the Federated Timeline

Fortunately i am immune to all "hey i'm new here and i know why this won't work" posts, because i have tried to organize leftists in person before