#AutisticDiaperedAndProud is the realization that we don't need to walk out in the middle of a test if we're wearing a diaper. this is huge, this is actually measurably improving our quality of life (and ability to get through uni). #ActuallyAutistic thanks @endeverstar et al.!

goodbye everyone. sorry.

we would like to be turned into leather

Can’t believe “I don’t wanna die or spread a deadly and disabling virus” is still considered a controversial/biased take

anti-#trans/#LGBTQ+ accusations of "grooming" obviously have nothing to do with actual grooming. to find out what these claims are actually about, & why they resonate w/TERFs & conservatives alike, pls read my recent essay: https://t.co/NINlAytzN8

#OpenSource #Strike when

we wonder wtf it'd take to setup an open source worker's strike.

we encourage all open source workers to pull a worker's strike on the raspberry pi foundation. no more support for raspberry pi's. in fact, explicit unsupport for raspberry pi's. (just don't use fucking copyright law for it.)

russians cannot use our software without breaking their local laws, and that's a good thing.

This is not just a "why unions are good" zine, it's step by step instructions on how to talk to coworkers, how to negotiate with bosses, why you would want any of it, AND it looks good as hell.

we'd rather steal art than delete culture.

@timnitGebru @mykola honestly it's terrifying that you can invert an hate speech detection/classification model to get a hate speech generation model and anyone working on those models is irresponsible at best, if not actively malicious.

meet us on IRC, ## autism on libera

I wish we could talk more about conflicting access needs without it descending into weird rivalry over whose access need is more important.

(transparent federation does appear to be even more dangerous when ACLs/allowlists are used, but even without those it's still really dangerous. fedi/mastodon is... not good for ppl.)

we hope our ramblings about Opaque Federation, here and elsewhere, come to be useful to folks some day. we also believe the folks who told us ACLs/allowlist-federation is bad, were actually wrong, at least in the context of Opaque Federation.

Let's talk about safewords. There's a story I've been telling since my kid (now 22) was small. She LOVED to play ticklefight, and she loved to yell "No, stop!" and then sneak-attack tickle right afterwards. She thought this was hilarious. 1/🧵

it's always okay and morally correct to be hostile to corporate interests.

#DropTwitter #AppleProtectsTerrorists

There is, I cannot stress this enough, literally nothing anyone can do to avoid being the target of this sort of attack. Doesn't matter how angelically you live your life, or how good your reputation is, if someone puts your name on the right list, nazis WILL create a convincing