Kind: Reposts

It’s approaching June 4th, aka the yearly day Microsoft Bing accidentally filters Tiananmen Square results to airbrush history, due to ‘technical issues’ that have nothing to do with the team who operate from China.

—@GossiTheDog

Would you live in a house made of glass and walls so thin that everyone could hear your every word?
No? I thought so. That is exactly why we need #privacy

—@safing

My fellow cis Americans, I want you to look at this map. Really look at it. And I want you to imagine what it would feel like if those red states were threatening you and your family. Because, ultimately, they are.

This is what creeping fascism looks like. It will harm ALL OF US. And it will take all of us, together, to fight it.

We don’t sacrifice people. We stand with our trans siblings. When their rights are threatened, all our rights are threatened.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti-trans-legislative-risk-map

🏳️‍⚧️

—@fraying

A few months ago, myself and singer Precious Perez were tasked with creating some bespoke #podcast music for a new venture called ‘Disability Inclusion: Required’ and we’ve just been sent the first two episodes. Check it out: https://disabilityphilanthropy.org/resource/disability-inclusion-required-episode-1/

—@Onj

I have sunk
the boats
that were in
the ocean

and which
you were probably
hoping
to sail around Europe

forgive me
I am an Orca
and I hate boats
so much

—@VeryBadLlama

A draft RFC by Stephen Farrell, Farzaneh Badli, Bruce Schneier, and myself: “Reflections on ten years past the Snowden revelations”: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-farrell-tenyearsafter-00.txt

—@SteveBellovin

It’s time for yet another Fun Zone episode, where I will play comedy, dementia, novelty and parodies. Tune in for 2 hours of your requests and random stuff. No theme tonight, so if there’s something specific you wanna hear, tonight’s the night! http://twitch.tv/funzoneshow

—@BrynnLee27

The EARN IT Act is back and it is still bad and it wants to scan all of our messages: https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

—@evacide

hi friends

it’s so easy to think we’re not good enough, that we failed, that we haven’t accomplished all we set out to

but we are always our own worst critics, and are so often unkind to ourselves

don’t listen to the doubt

you’re amazing and I love you 💜

—@tillybridges

I’m thinking maybe I’ve seized the wrong day.

—@qurlyjoe

Server: Any questions about the menu?

Date: I don’t think so, I’ll hav—

Me: *disgusted* Yeah who chose the font?

—@Kickpedal

My favorite exercise is a cross between a lunge and a crunch. I call it lunch.

—@Wilbur72

people: we are really struggling to find places to live where we don’t have to pay 3 job’s worth of income just to be there

tech companies: we hear you. how about we invent software that takes something a lot of people love, namely writing, and sucks all the joy out of it forever? will that help?

—@walruslifestyle

I’ll have a blog entry about it soon, but before then, you get to hear about it first: A full transfer of the USC Cinema sound effects library, which includes the work of Sunset Editorial and their hundreds of sound effects.

You can browse the collection here:

https://archive.org/details/usc-sound-effect-archive

—@textfiles

@rolle I am part of the generation that knew Jabber, that was happy to see Google embrace the Jabber/XMPP protocol: anyone with a gmail address had an XMPP instant messaging account interoperable with all other servers.

And one day gmail closed to other servers. Most users, already on Google, then asked others to create a gmail account to continue communicating.

I don’t want to go through that again. “Embrace, extend, and extinguish”, again.

—@lebout2canap

Bottoms without pockets shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

—@aurooba

@georgetakei You know another great way to ally? Use alt text on your images so those of us who can’t see them can be clued in to what you’re talking about. It’s really disheartening to see a prominent figure who I admire and who regularly promotes inclusion not get in on the alt text bandwagon here. It helps so many, not just blind people like me and it’s not that difficult once you get in the habit, at least that’s what I’ve seen a lot of people saying around here. Think about it, please. And thanks to all of you already using alt text. It makes a big difference.

—@atfarnum

If you would like to suddenly feel a whole lot better about your current relationship, I have a present for you. You’re welcome. 🎁 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13k1x5i/redditors_have_you_ever_gotten_an_ick_from_a/

—@codinghorror