Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Hey Mastodonites, asking for a friend who is legally blind and uses a screen reader - are there any mastodon apps that are best for the vision impaired? Are there recommendations for servers? He’s Australian based. #Vision #Accessibility #visionImpaired #ScreenReader

2010s were a wild time. when you ordered lunch, theyd serve it to you on a railway sleeper. the tea had bubbles in it. avocados were brand new - nobody had heard of them. they were wrecking the economy in fact. everything else in the meal wasnt whole, but in small fibres. they called it 'pulled <animal>'. and because it was on a railway sleeper it tasted of creosote. you would take a picture of the food of course, and put it on some website, i forget which. the pictures were always square. 1:1

We have decided to create an account at Mastodon. We need time to learn how this platform works but also how to synchronize our work here with the Twitter account.

Thank you all for joining us here. No matter where we are, the mission stays the same. We are in social media to commemorate the victims of Auschwitz and educate the world about the tragic story of the camp.

It is profoundly intellectually lazy and offensive to the soul to think that the sum total of human expression could ever be mediated by any single entity.

I built the foundations of Twitter with my bare hands and watched in awe and sadness as it grew into a cynical temple of ego.

I delight in its destruction.
We're better off here.

I just saw like the fifth variation on “I see lots of posts from people explaining the basics of Mastodon, which is a sign the platform is difficult to use. I hope it improves.”

I’d say that’s actually a sign that the community is eager to make people feel welcome and comfortable, but what do I know?

I’ve asked this on Twitter before but let’s also try it here in the hope to reach more people outside of the #infosec bubble.

Do you use a password manager?

Reblogs appreciated!

After an Era of Austerity, What is Left to Cut?

Sian Norris digs into the data on a decade of cuts, assessing its impact on people and public services, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt lines up Austerity 2.0.

The Government had pledged that by the next election (due in 2024) it would restore school funding to its 2010 level in real terms. That should be enough to tell you the scale of real-terms spending cuts over the past 12 years, but here’s another figure: school spending per pupil fell 9% between 2009-10 and 2019-20, adjusted for inflation.

Grants to local governments from the central government were cut by an average of 49% in England between 2010 and 2017. This has had a huge impact on local services, which in turn have had an impact on people’s health and wellbeing.

Sian Norris @BylineTimes

#ukpolitics #austerity #PublicSpending #PublicServices #autumnstatement22 #jeremyhunt

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/17/after-an-era-of-austerity-what-is-left-to-cut/

Mike Pence is an example of toxic Christianity. We should have freedom of religion, yes, but we must also ensure freedom *from* religion. Your religious freedoms don’t give you the right to deny freedoms or civic participation to others. Period.