Notices by Jay Baker (they/he) (mediaactivist@kolektiva.social), page 11

@nick @dentangle That's really interesting to know - and very helpful! Thank you so much!

@dentangle Yes. Thanks! I thought that might be it. I have someone else handling my domain - would I still be able to do anything at my side of things? I have access to my email and my website but that's it for the time being. I could ask the administrator of my site/domain?

Okay this is getting ridiculous now. My own innocuous little domain email (which ironically years ago integrated with Gmail) is still wholesale blocked by every single #Gmail account I email, so within #ProtonMail I have to switch to an alias with a standard ProtonMail email address to get it through. Apart from constantly screaming into the void that people don't use #Google, does anyone have any ideas on sorting this so I can get my emails to go through? #email #emails #Proton #domain

The UK can afford to house everyone, so why don't we? | Huck https://www.huckmag.com/article/the-uk-can-afford-to-house-everyone-so-why-dont-we #BibbyStockholm #immigration #housing #rent

Firefox desktop extensions to run on Android browser • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/desktop_extensions_coming_to_android/ #Mozilla #Firefox #Android

@gerrymcgovern This! Fairphone, Framework etc are absolutely a better option. And heck, my favourite de-Googled mobile operating system, /e/OS, works on older devices too!

@skuppr Ohhhh *this*! Brilliant! Spot on!

I think the big thing for me about leftists who don't mask is like, if you won't subject yourself to that mild inconvenience how are you going to expect me to believe you won't rat us all out to the feds if you get busted? You'll risk jail to protect your comrades but you won't put some paper over your face because it doesn't feel nice and requires effort? I'm sure you'll last ages in interrogation. I'm sure a plea bargain would never tempt you.

You're telling me if you can't make rent this month and a cop tells you he'll give you £5k in cash for some video footage of our meeting you'll turn him down... But if you get asked to wear a mask you just can't bring yourself to endure such hardship? Ok babe.

At this point if you have the info and don't act on it I just assume you're a snitch.

Ironworkers’ Loud Contract Campaign Gets the Goods | Labor Notes https://labornotes.org/2023/08/ironworkers-loud-contract-campaign-gets-goods #Ironworkers #Augusta #Maine #Cives #union

Cumbrian cops accidentally publish all of its officers' details online https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/cumbrian_police_accidentally_published_officer_details_online/

Here it is! https://archive.is/UIosX

I'm still giggling about the fact that I just read someone on Beehaw say that they asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea -- and it not only told them that it was a bad idea, but also went on to urge Google to drop the proposal entirely. #deGoogle #WebEnvironmentIntegrity #DontBeEvil

I've pleaded with folks to provide high quality masks at their meetings to make the meetings safer and if they REALLY want to do a social hour with food to hold it after the meeting so folks who aren't comfortable participating can leave. I've told these same people how I'm immunocompromised and how isolating it has been to see people drop mask requirements and stop taking precautions.

They said they "heard me" and then did nothing.

I don't know how to describe it but this post 2016 society has kinda broken me in a way that I can't describe. Yes, I get it, "Lol things have always been bad" blah blah blah, but this dystopian shit is something different. I think the combination of just seeing how comfortable people have become just being outright cruel and bigoted combined with the apathy and just flat out resignation of folks who may be decent, but they've just normalized all of this bullshit killed my youthful spirit.

@dotjayne Okay we have a new frontrunner for Toot of the Year.

The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/us-government-about-control-speech-online-protect-kids #KOSA #censorship

Andy Ngo Loses Lawsuit: Portland Jury Finds No Fault for Two Activists in Civil Trial https://itsgoingdown.org/andy-ngo-loses-lawsuit-portland-jury-finds-no-fault-for-two-activists-in-civil-trial/

“So how long am I going to do this? Until indoor air is safe for all, until vaccines prevent transmission, until there’s a cure for long covid. Until I’m not risking my family’s future on a grocery run. The truth is that however immortal we feel, we are all just one infection away from a new life.”

Please read this key piece by Madeline Miller. The pandemic isn’t over until we can prevent Long COVID. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/09/madeline-miller-long-covid-post-pandemic/

@T If anyone's pissed off by facts, I pity them.

@hollybrigstocke That's spot on and very well said!