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  Corporate Democrats who have no intention of delivering progressive policy still hold power. Democrats who indulged in bigoted rhetoric still hold power. Democrats who ran against progressive candidates using right-wing talking points still hold power. Democrats who support ICE still hold power. 98% of congress still takes AIPAC money. Let this radicalize you. We keep going.

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  IT’S HAPPENING

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  This week I finally made the switch from getting my groceries at a big chain store to our local co-op. The co-op offers drive-up service so I can still do my shopping without triggering my social anxiety. But more importantly, they vet every product sold for sourcing and buy local and organic. So I can feel better about buying things like coffee and chocolate.

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  Are there any tablets with a camera around 8” (20cm) that can run Linux?

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  I have never been more burnt out as an open source software maintainer than when people started submitting AI written pull requests. This is hell. I’m in hell right now

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  If you’re a man wondering what you can do about the Cornell 7 situation: cut off that guy you know who has committed assault. That’s literally it. Tell him to his face, “I can’t be friends with people who act like this”.

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  Building the same thing as a closed source product, but making the source available, is not a noble pursuit in itself. The point of free software is that it liberates and democratizes. If you’ve forgotten that, what you’re building doesn’t really matter.

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  Your customers hate your use of AI

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  “AI almost starts WWIII”. No it did not. The people stupid enough to think that LLMs can be used as a reliable source of information did that. That’s like reporting “Tarot cards almost start WWIII”. Completely irresponsible framing.

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  Today in late-stage capitalism I went to book an appointment to get my brows waxed and the app informed me I can pay for my haircut or dye over time with Affirm. That’s where we’re at with wages rn is you can take a loan to get a haircut

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  If you really love CSS and want to get involved with an open source operating system—and more specifically app framework—that doesn’t use AI and really pisses off white supremacist homophobes, I would love your help! https://github.com/elementary/granite

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  “I used to love elementary OS but now all they care about is safety and accessibility” YES these are the kind of hate comments I’ve been working for. Love it

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  We're plotting icon changes for OS 9. I'm really enjoying this page fold to break up the tile shape and add some dynamism Shoutous @mirlo@mastodon.online and @kurisu@sunny.garden for collaborating on it

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  Honestly I’d like to see a leftist president run the righty playbook like, “I’ve declared war on climate change! We’re allocating a trillion dollars of the defense budget to combating the greatest threat to our national security in the history of this nation. We’re going to war and we’re going to create jobs and we will save the planet because this. Is. America. Goddammit.”

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  It’s my birthday! I have a big favor to ask 🙏🏼 This year has been especially financially challenging. Long story short, if everyone who downloaded @elementary@mastodon.social OS this year paid just $1, I’d be up some $30,000 but alas I’m down about $11,000 and I’m really concerned about making ends meet until the release of OS 9. If you feel inclined to help me out, I’d really appreciate it if you’d buy a copy of my AI-free Open Source OS or otherwise help with funding via this page: https://e...

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  Expectation: “The tent is so big because of all the marginalized people we have to fit in it! 🥰” Reality: “The tent is so big because the Nazis need another safe space bro! Just a little more room for white supremacist christofascist patriarchy bro. Just a bit more. I swear. We gotta make the tent big enough for all this diversity of thought bro. Just enough to purify the entire planet bro. Think of the shareholder value!”

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  Don’t waste my time with your AI pull requests. For fuck’s sake.

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  Lock screen is now using Gala instead of its own compositor—essential work for the new input method support and on screen keyboard. Plus it’s all Wayland. And we’re about to land the GTK4 port! Next big steps are fixing systemd session files for installer and making it use gala as well. And then I think we might have an installable daily 🎉

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  Don’t forget to spend some time telling yourself some hot girl shit. You are that bitch. You get the things you want. You are fine as fuck. Your haters are just mad they can’t have you 🩷

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  Kind wild how the whole tech industry is just people who did and didn’t get The Lord of The Rings

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  I literally cannot conceive of a thing that isn’t about politics in our current society. My breakfast is about politics. The weather is about politics. When I buy groceries that’s politics. My job is a political act. When I spend time with friends later today that act will also be political. And not because we’ll be protesting but because existing as queer brown women in public is a political act. The fact that so many of my friends are disabled or neurodivergent or sex workers is political

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  There has to be a genetic component to gayness because every straight girl I know is like, “mm boy smell 🥰” and every gay girl I know is like, “ugh boy smell 🤢”

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  We need diversity in our communities not just at the bottom level but in leadership to represent and advocate for our interests. White men are naturally incentivized to be all “I care about the technology, let’s not get political” because the status quo benefits them and the externalities disproportionately hurt us.

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  I’ve had so many conversations now with long-time very serious open source contributors and advocates from a bunch of different projects that all are basically versions of, “Are we still doing something worth doing? Have we become evil corporate drones but just poor and tired? Am I alone in caring about this?”

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  This year more than most, I’ve really been reflecting on my own disability. It really hit me when I filled out a form recently and checked three of the boxes under disability: PTSD, Major Depression, and Generalized Anxiety. And I’ve had to come to a place of acceptance with being unable to work consistently and even being hospitalized at one point. It’s hard to admit that I can’t function sometimes. One of the affirmations that’s remained on my chalkboard is, “You are disabled, not broken”.

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  Happy last day of pride. I hope you got to do plenty of gay stuff this month and wishing you even more gay stuff the whole next year 🩷

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  Went to a queer women’s event yesterday hosted by a friend who is a sex educator and we had a bunch of awesome discussions about disability! One story I found particularly interesting was about a blind person who was unable to access audio erotica because of the inaccessibility of apps and websites providing this kind of content. She introduced me to the term “arousal aid”—we love terms that erase stigma. And we talked about how to make her own website more accessible

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  Christian nationalism is really accelerating in the USA and “we have to fight the godless communists” rhetoric is exploding after several democratic socialist election wins. Democrats have pledged to put a stop to it, and by “it” I mean the progressive policies

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  Every day the news is like, “Mayor Mamdani launches new program to retrofit orphan crushing machines into billionaire crushing machines and also the Supreme Court decided 6-3 that corporations can poison everything, extract resources from everywhere, and can’t be held liable for anything at all ever. Plus BIPOC and queer people are even more illegaler”

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  A social media platform where white cis men start blocked by default and I have to intentionally opt in to see their posts and comments