🦋 Ben West 🐒🌻 @BenWest@denizens.social

This article about Charles Babbage's ideas about labor discipline, worker surveillance, and control, and the roots of these ideas in plantation slavery and anti-blackness by @Mer__edith is fire and you should read it: https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

Hello everyone. I'm trying to start a trend. So help me out by boosting if your interested.

I'm volunteering to be a Masto-buddy for this week. (Meaning anyone who needs emotional support can contact me)

If you our anyone you knows needs some emotional support either with supportive feedback or just to listen please feel free to contact me.

#mastobuddy

PLEASE BOOST to help our community easy the horrific nightmare of loneliness, isolation and lack of connection that has gripped our modern culture.

♥️🙏🏿🧡🙏🏻💛🙏🏽💚🙏🏿💙🙏🏽💜

Update: Mastobuddies is a thing now. Come follow us:

@MastoBuddies

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Another project of mine:

Please consider taking a look this petition if you support transgender rights.

https://tech.lgbt/@AndHuman/110301329303415256

(CW: MAY BE TRIGGERING)

People think to themselves, “I don’t live in Mississippi, or I’m not trans, how is this hate relevant to me?” I am writing from Canada, where school boards across our country are being disrupted by bigotry. All of us should condemn transphobia. What’s happening in schools is a microcosm of society. Pay attention. Stand up as an ally, wherever you are. #TransRightsAreHumanRights https://www.mississippifreepress.org/33223/trans-girl-sues-over-order-to-dress-as-boy-at-harrison-county-graduation

This Mother’s Day, give her what she really wants: the choice when or whether to become a mother.

Too many have had that right stripped from them in the last year.

#HappyMothersDay #MothersDay

Leading lawyers say they will refuse to prosecute climate protesters or represent new fossil fuel projects.

More than 120 lawyers have vowed to not act against activists from groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil who are "exercising their democratic right of peaceful protest".

They have published a "Declaration of Conscience", and face the prospect of disciplinary action.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65067321
#climate #conscience #Uklaw

#DragIsntDangerous
But these political attacks are.

According to the ACLU, there are currently 467 bills in the United States legislature targeting the LGBTQIA+ community. Many seek to ban drag on public property, as well as in any locations where individuals under the age of 18 could be present.

A significantly more dangerous series of bills are the ones seeking to ban age appropriate, medically necessary care to transgender youth under the age of 18. Several states are already trying to extend these harmful bans to include gender affirming care for adults.

This proposed legislation is a direct attempt to force the LGBTQIA+ community, particularly transgender and non-binary individuals, back into the closet, and the number of bills is growing exponentially by the week.

Many of these bills, if passed, will prove deadly for trans youth across the country. As anti-trans rhetoric continues to spread, it’s no coincidence that according to the 2019 annual FBI Hate Crime Statistics report, nearly 1-in-5 of any type of hate crime is motivated by Anti-LGBTQIA+ bias.

Drag Isn't Dangerous is a new charitable effort led by LGBTQ management firm Producer Entertainment Group in partnership with Black Queer Town Hall, a registered 501c3 charity. Co-presenters include GLAAD, GLSEN, HeadCount, UTA, Concord, Queerty, Obsessed, Loyal Studios, OUTtv, SERV Vodka and others.

https://gofund.me/7ffe8015

Screw you Owen Comics. 😄

#WebComics #funny

Last year we announced we would be joining Mastodon to explore an alternative to today's social media. 



We’re excited to announce we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta, with hopes to open to the public soon.

This is just the beginning. Read more about the launch of our instance, including how to join the public waitlist. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

A TRUE public servant and American hero…

Fauci's warning to America: 'We're living in a progressively anti-science era and that's a very dangerous thing'

https://apple.news/AvchKyb-1TxKbXwOKT7H2Nw

I would appreciate it if people could help me get more federated on my new instance. Please boost this post if any of the following tags apply to you so I can follow!

#actuallyautistic
#adhd
#disabilityrights
#auspol
#trans
#lgbtqia
#socialism
#communism
#leftist
#maths
#computerscience
#science
#sciencefiction
#books
#philosophy
#plushies
#calckey

An ominous heating event is unfolding in the oceans: Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs

To call what’s happening in the oceans right now an anomaly is a bit of an understatement. Since March, average sea surface temperatures have been climbing to record highs, as shown in the dark line in the graph… “It’s above-average temperatures nearly everywhere”

#climate #climatechange #environment

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ominous-heating-event-is-unfolding-in-the-oceans/

“Twitter made it easier to harass transgender users” https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/18/23688192/twitter-harrass-transgender-users-policy

"The platform quietly removed specific protections against targeted misgendering and deadnaming from its Hateful Conduct Policy."