Not the Only One

Alt-text is really a big cultural differentiator for Mastodon. Twitter has it, but it's pretty rare to see people use it. Threads doesn't have it at all! And with regards to scicomm specifically, it's a perfect example of how accessibility improves the experience for everyone. I can break down a dense, hard to understand figure that people with vision would still find confusing. To me, alt-text is a non-negotiable requirement of good science communication.

Article on Black Hair discrimination

For example, if you’re an Administrative Assistant who has been put in charge of the entire people operations of your department. Instead of “Administrative Assistant,” go with “Head of People Operations” as your title. Because that’s exactly what you’re doing. Don’t shy away from using a title that honestly reflects your duties.

The German police has just arrested the “Jews Against Genocide” group and taken their banner which stated the same (“Juden gegen Genozid”). The entirely Jewish newspaper has lost access to their bank account and funding the past month due to their strict positioning against Israel's actions in Gaza and Palestine.

This thread! As a “social worker” I could not agree more, I hate most social workers. Social workers have played an especially evil part in the colonisation of this continent, particularly in the separation of Aboriginal families. https://t.co/zZsbAm7Y4Z

More than a third of 441 fines in England and Wales for 'amplified music' events were issued to Black, Asian and mixed race people

Don't talk to me about queer pride if you don't talk about COVID how can we celebrate queer liberation while chronically ill and immunocompromised people continue to be excluded during the ongoing pandemic? how can the queer community really be a community when the most oppressed are left behind because the rest don't care enough to help protect them from a deadly and disabling virus? queer leftists love to think they would have been activists at the beginning of the AIDS crisis, bu...