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my friend andy and I had flag duty in 7th grade for a week, which meant we were responsible for bringing the us flag from the school office, putting it on the flagpole, raising it, saluting it, and going back inside

we got in trouble one day because no one told us we were supposed to fly it at half-mast and neither of us had this knowledge innately, and that was how I started to figure out maybe worshipping a length of colorful fabric might be kinda problematic

—@biscuit_tornado

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We need to move past only talking about accessibility to recognising that understanding and coming to terms with how ableism works is necessary to even do accessibility well.

Accessibility is the work to remove barriers constructed for disabled people produced by ableist systems.

If you fix the barriers without addressing the systemic issues that produced the barriers they’ll just come back again.

—@nickcolley

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⚡ Heard of @gotosocial ?

GoToSocial provides a lightweight, customizable, and safety-focused entryway into the #fediverse, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles.

Consider #GoToSocial instead of Pixelfed if you’d like a safety-focused alternative with text-only post support that is maintained by a stellar developer community!

We ❤️ GtS, check them out!

🌍 https://gotosocial.org/

🔍 https://fedidb.org/software/gotosocial

—@pixelfed

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“Lately I’ve been really annoyed with the things I’m seeing in my feed, you’re all being so—“

Of all the things that annoy me the most, someone tone policing the Fediverse because they don’t know how to unfollow, filter, or Mute is at the top.

It’s controlled by who you follow.

So change who you follow.

—@oliphant

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One of the easiest ways to be courteous when arranging a call with another person in a different timezone is to specify times in their timezone, or at least be really clear which you are referring to.

This is a subtweet of all Americans who have ever asked me if we could do a call “in the morning”. I’m only mildly sadistic but generally this does make me suggest 11am… CET.

—@solar_chase