Emi @emi@radical.town

like i can make a UI that works and looks nice. I can make maintable, modular UIs. I've learned a lot about the design of things and I'm confident that I can do it, but again. I would be a girl doing UI. I would be main character in a barbie learns how to code picture book. I would transform into the diversity character in a sitcom about FOSS.

like one half of me is like "FOSS needs good UI engineers. this is ridiculously important for the health and wellbeing of FOSS as a whole. If users can't use it it's pointless." and the other half of me is like "ONLY GIRLS DO UI, IF I DO UI I'LL BE A GIRL DOING UI FUCK THAT I'M A BACKEND ENGINEER IF YOU ASK ME TO DO UI I'LL ATTACK YOU"

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Every "women and nonbinary people" space or FLIT space I have ever visited has felt unwelcoming towards non-binary people who looked too much like what society says are cis men.
Whether implicit or explicit, the transphobia and rejection has always been in the air.

Unless such a space explicitly mentions that they stand up to this kind of shit and will defend non-binary people who face this type of hostility in their space, I assume their event is unsafe because this shit just keeps happening

Welcome to Mastodon, tumblr refugees, here's your fursona and a copy of the communist manifesto

apparently a colonist had a farm and he was so shit at farming that he depleted literally all of the topsoil and created a fucking desert in the middle of Maine. Incredible.

Soviet propaganda just as relevant today (ACAB)

the person who hacked this must've leaked admin panel screenshots so now there's photographic evidence of censorship and shadowbans that twitter says they don't do

told ya so

"oh, you were probably only hired because you're cis, white and male. You better be ready to actually work for that position because you're not gonna get a pass like that again in a meritocracy"

"you know, you're pretty lucky to be a white dude in tech right now, what with all the hiring initiatives going on. oh? you haven't heard? No, I'm talking about that SUPER big one, literally every tech company is in on it already, it's been going on for a while but it's been massively successful! soon everybody in tech is gonna look like you! :)"

so city pigeons are rock doves, mourning doves are rain doves, where are the flame doves and the wind doves

Pigeon uwu

i think about this post about once a week

abab (all birds are baby)

for fuck's sake

angela martinez gomez, murdered by corporate fucks and their patent disregard for human life, and they *blamed it on her hrt*. its racism, its classism, its transphobia, its untenable and its been like this for so long and nothing's changing. im just pissed off. she deserved better. she deserved dignity. she deserved to rest. every poor brown and black trans woman deserves better.

https://twitter.com/fightfor15la/status/1281681328648273920?s=21

https://www.smdp.com/burger-king-employees-protest-after-coworker-dies/194081

https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-memory-of-angela