blogdiva

blogdiva, 1 month ago to random

PEOPLE, I BEG YOU
post links directly to the source, don't use Apple News or Bitly or other links hijackers. if they decide to change the service or go out of business, we have lost link to the original source.

keep the web as open as possible. say no to link shorteners and traffic hijackers 👍🏾

blogdiva, 5 months ago to random

CONGRATULATIONS CORY DOCTOROW @pluralistic 🥳

"2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

blogdiva, 5 months ago to random

"They used to throw women in the water to see if they were witches. If they drowned, they were innocent. Now they're saying the only #abortion exception is if the woman's life is at risk. If she dies, she was at risk.

You can see the recurring flaw in the methodology."

h/t @gfarrell
source: https://mastodon.social/@gfarrell@mastodon.world/111573387801867541

blogdiva, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

CONGRESSMAN JAMIE RASKIN, who is Jewish and one of the prosecutors of Trump's first impeachment, has written the closest any American politician will come to saying FU to both Netanyahu & Hamas

https://raskin.house.gov/2023/10/statement-by-congressman-jamie-raskin-the-terrorist-attacks-on-israel-israel-s-right-of-self-defense-the-laws-of-war-hostage-taking-and-the-protection-of-two-million-palestinian-civilians-in-gaza

THIS 👇🏾
"Contempt for civilian life is the hallmark of terrorist regimes and actors, not liberal democracies. Unlike the terrorists, we reject all notions of mass guilt, collective punishment and deliberate sacrifice of civilian life for military or ideological purposes."

blogdiva, 8 months ago to random

every woman in academia needs to stop and read this 2021 profile of Katalin Karikó. it’s enraging and inspiring all at once.

and every man should read it for a very simple reason:

🗣 THIS IS WHAT A REAL GENIUS LOOKS LIKE

not Jobs.
not Musk.
not Zuckerberg.

not 99.99% of the Silicon Valley conartists calling themselves geniuses.

no.

it’s this middle-aged mother who works at a lab.

❝ Messenger RNA vaccine pioneer Katalin Karikó shares her long journey

https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/19/katalin-kariko-messenger-rna-vaccine-pioneer/

blogdiva, 11 months ago to random

"nerd immunity"

brilliant

blogdiva, 10 months ago to random

i think we should start calling AI what it is: "Corporate Piracy".

para$$$ites have paid data hoarders to scrape whole websites, digital libraries and archives filled to the brim with copyrighted work; so they can repackage all that knowledge as if it were the serendipitous labor of sentient ghostly robots.

it's bullshit.

if unpaid sampling is copyright infringement; then scraping our social media and blogs, and passing it as their own knowledge, has to be as well.

bitch better have my money

blogdiva, 7 months ago to random

Vote for the people who want to INCREASE library funding and hire more librarians

Vote for the people who don't want to criminalize renters

Vote for the people who want more unions and cooperatives

Vote for the people who want to make roads more accessible to bikes & pedestrians

Vote for the people who want to feed your kids at school

Vote for the people who want to defend our trans brothers & sisters

voting is harm reduction. it's the minimum to do. so go out and vote against the fascists

blogdiva, 5 months ago to random

REMINDER FOR
LAID-OFF & UNEMPLOYED
AMERICANS

there is no shame to use all the social services you have paid with your taxes, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A WHITE, MID/HIGH INCOME EARNER.

welfare is racialized in this country to deprive all Americans of the social services WE PAY for.

it’s imperative y’all flood social services offices because if you don't, that's why the griftocracy keeps cutting local, state & federal budgets.

so here’s what you can do after losing your job:

/1

blogdiva, 9 months ago to Tennis

just heard that #AlexanderTserev just stopped dead cold in the middle of his #USOpen #tennis match because an asshole screamed the Nazi "Germany Above All".

Sacha goes to the umpire, says "no, this is not acceptable". the umpire asks who said it AND ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND THE NAZI RATTED HIM!!!

so the guy got summarily ejected from the stadium.

i know Sacha Tserev can be problematic but good on him for being #ANTIFA first and foremost

blogdiva, 5 months ago to streaming

if all #streaming services in the United States are now charging you to watch ads, then they aren't streaming services. they are #cable #TV channels.

#FCC needs to do their job and regulate these fake #internet companies as they are supposed to regulate cable & legacy #broadcast tv stations.

blogdiva, 3 months ago to firefox

it's time to fork #Firefox and turn it into a cooperative-owned project.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

cooperative membership is the element missing from FLOSS.

fuck the non-profit's faux neutrality when in truth it's just a broke doppelganger of the top-down structure of the corporatist kleptocracy.

make the project a cooperative where members --users and developers-- get to vote on the future of the project with their paid memberships and contributed labor.

blogdiva, 8 months ago to RSS

i do not understand why a news site would not have an #RSS feed of their latest headlines.

you don't have to give your content away if you don't want to. but you cannot bitch & moan about #facebook or #twitter cannibalizing your readership in their fascist gated communities when you've turned your back on web standards and the open web.

blogdiva, 23 days ago to random

you're not an American-living-abroad. you're a migrant. an American migrant. same with the UK. fuck with that expat bullshit. you're a migrant.

blogdiva, 2 months ago to random

for the love of the internet: DO NOT USE TINY URL OR LINK SHORTENERS UNLESS YOU OWN THE SERVERS AND PLAN TO KEEP THEM RUNNING BEYOND YOUR DEATH

the amount of dead links on my pre-2015 tweets it absolutely painful. there's no way to salvage any of it: Twitter won't include the actual URL in the data dump they give you.

i know people use them for metrics but for what you're paying them, get a blog with ActivityPub (ohai Wordpress) and push your toots from there. voilá! now you have metrics

blogdiva, 7 months ago to random

HEY! ANTIFA!
HEY! COMMUNISTS!
HEY! SOCIALISTS!
HEY! RADICALS!

let's celebrate these electoral wins that look small to some of y'all, if not completely antithetical to your definition of radicalism.

why?

HARM REDUCTION IS POLITICAL WARFARE.

because it is a BFD for us, the targets of racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic harm.

self-care —from the privacy of health care to the public sphere of voting— is an act of political warfare

so celebrate today's #electionday wins

blogdiva, 5 months ago to Disney

and here it is, laddies and germs:

STEAMBOAT WILLIE

#PublicDomainDay #Disney

video/mp4

blogdiva, 5 months ago to random

LOL

supposedly the 5 nazi accounts #Substack is getting rid of, makes them no money and have less than 100 readers each (or is that in total).

the fascist fucks really had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for an empty gesture.

if you're a subscriber or a writer, y'all know what to do.

blogdiva, 4 months ago to tech

Since am seeing a new wave of people in the #tech industry being laid-off; presumably without severance packages of any sort, here is a reminder of what you need to do regardless of how easy you think you will land another job; and no matter how big is your savings account:

YOU NEED TO GET THE #UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS YOU PAID FOR

so go thru this thread I posted in December and read the comments:

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111607803802146802

#labor #layoffs

blogdiva, 2 months ago to cooking

DON'T KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS, but the amount of garlic in a recipe is only a suggestion. of the barest minimum, at that.

#cooking

blogdiva, 7 months ago to workersrights

you know what this country needs? to unionize all tech workers in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Apple gets a #union
Goldman Sachs gets a #union
Google gets a #union
Citibank gets a #union

everywhere capitalists go, let #labor #unions bloom and grow

tech workers, unionized.

capitalists are terrified of not just the thought of labor unions for engineers but specifically, of unionized software developers.

blogdiva, 10 months ago to random

the virtue signaling about Mitch McConnell has begun.

Mitch McConnell helped kill my father, mother & brother because we never had enough money to take care of their medical issues.

McConnell normalized EUGENICS with his relentless attacks on health care rights.

anybody who says you do not have a right to live unless you have all the money in the world? that person wants you dead

thru legislation, McConnell killed my family. Nazis had a name for that: MURDER BY BUREAUCRACY

blogdiva, 5 months ago to random

IF STATE LAW SUPERSEDES FEDERAL LAW, THIS IS #SECESSION

i have said for decades now, #abortion is the gateway drug for the #neoconfederacy and the destruction of the federal United States.

this is the losers of the Civil War saying, if we make lynching legal you can't do anything about it.

because, let's be clear: letting a woman die by not giving her the medical intervention she needs to survive is an extrajudicial death sentence.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/02/texas-abortion-fifth-circuit/

blogdiva, 1 month ago to Futurology

"Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist. and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist."
—Winona Laduke, #Ojibwe economist & environmentalist

took your meme to add it #AltText
(am i doing this right?!?!)

image via @indigenous_commentator
https://mastodon.social/@indigenous_commentator/109570976983695319

AltText via @aral
https://mastodon.social/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/112326950282914642

#ecocide #water #NDN

blogdiva, 1 month ago to random

after #abolition many Black people who had nowhere to go, were charged rents by their former plantation owners if they didn't leave. if they didn't pay, they were either re-enslaved thru prison OR indentured into financial servitude.

when the numbers of indentured Black servants weren't enough, that's when poor migrant workers became key to this new form of renter slavery.

this is what GOP fascists want to bring back with #prisons & #farms

https://reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only-served-10-months-behind-bars-florida-still-slapped-her-with-a-127000-bill/