Vulnerable, but not to you. @drcable@witches.town

hello any new witches! remember to #acab 🏴♥

Okay, was encouraged by @cassolotl to do #introductions

Hi, I'm Kat. I work in #tech as a #webdev & #devops engineer, I'm #jewish, #trans/#nb & #disabled, amongst other things. I do #trans & #nonbinary activism & advocacy stuff too. Also on twitter as @induc3dmania

I do such things as co-running uktrans.info, helping run nonbinary.co.uk, co-looking-after girldick.hosting & running queerapps.net. New things in this field coming soon! :)

Considering going to uni to be a nurse? TBD.

Anyway, hi!

convinced a friend to use a picture of Luigi as a protective sigil, I am doing good

Maybe Hugs:

https://github.com/zkat/maybe-hugs

If someone is feeling bad, you want to offer them a hug, but unsure if that is wanted, then you can use a maybe hug.

Simply offer a hug in the CW label by saying "hug?", and then if the offer's recipient wants a hug they can click Show More to receive your hug text, or they can simply feel good that you offered a hug and move on. This helps promote healthy boundaries.

#girlslikeus on hormones without health concerns, who want to support poorer trans women or ppl without access to medical care

consider takin half doses for a few days or so before blood tests, and then asking to have your dose upped. then start giving the excess away to someone else!

We give our dead
To the orchards
And the groves.
We give our dead
To life.

do crimes. kiss girls.

https://botsin.space/media/jhlZFcESxSZlIP-rjuY

it's a coven of feminist cyber witches doing apparition magic.

Were there no QPOC, queer disabled, queer + some other identity developers involved in the start of Mastodon? Were there no other non-queer minorities involved in the development of Mastodon? Is their erasure part of the reason Mastodon comes off as being very VERY white?

The "politics needs to be hidden" comment certainly comes off as being very questionable.

This post about Mastodon's failures from @u2764 reads a little weird to me - there are casual mentions of POC, disabled people, other marginalised groups being driven off or discouraged from contributing to Mastodon about the same way as the queer developers that originally started it, but somehow ONLY the queer devs get mourned here? Like they were the most important minority group?

https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616

my main complaint with it is that it spends 4000 words talking about how the queer community's been shut out of the decision making process but dances around the fact that POC have never been part of the decision-making process

just read that medium post & imho it should've been called The Decline And Fall of The Masto Empire

Everyone read this incredible essay by @u2764

"Mourning Mastodon"

https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616

If you're wondering why I stopped working in MastoDev, and why my posts about how development already includes marginalized voices are no longer applicable, then read that essay because it gets into all of it super fucking well

@polymerwitch https://icosahedron.website/media/bgGf29RmPiwvFrHpApg