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the other day in the bus somewhere, a (presumably) Muslim lady in a beautiful multicoloured hijab was kinda smiling at us so I nodded at her and she came chat. you will already be sure that she's not German from this alone, ofc; she turned out to be North African. she said: are you coming from the thing in [redacted]? which is an easy guess cos I had my antifa cap and stuff, so I said: yeah, and she was like, oh that's so cool, I heard about it. and then she said directly: I like you, the antifa, what you're doing is important.

and then she said that when she was young she was a bit of a rebel herself, and studied political science even though it was frowned upon for women. her father came to Germany after WW2 to work in construction so she came along but she didn't like living here (#valid and #relatable) so she went back home, and did nurse school, eventually came back. she said again that she respects us and I said, and I admire *you*, you studied so much and defied everyone and came so far.

then I had to leave her kinda abrupty cos our stop was coming up (in fact had already passed, I stayed to listen to her for longer, but it was time to get down) and as we got up she said, stumbling a bit to find the English words: I have been a lone mother for 15 years now, because, because I said "no". So I fist-bumped her and said hell yeah, cos it's entirely reasonable that she identifies with the antifa girls.

and I was just telling some younger comrades that it used to be that when we went out to work in Germany people would congratulate us, or say thanks, or come report things they've seen the nazis doing. and the climate has very much changed and nobody comes thank the antifa anymore, and then on the same day this lady proved me wrong. only it's not the Germans who are thanking us, but I guess that's like, figures.

Two of the #instances I help manage and run have required #NewUsers to #SignUp with a #valid #Email address since shortly after they were launched.

But not just any valid email address. A non-disposable email address.

If we find out that a user has signed up with a disposable email address their account is immediately nuked. No contact. No appeal. No discussion. It's in the servers' rules. Users agree not to use a disposable email address when they sign up and are told if they do their account will be terminated.

(I have also adopted this policy across all the other instances I run or help run too.)

I say this because I was going through our
#support queue this morning and I realized just how few support #requests and #moderation requests we get for those two instances. And they are by far the instances with the most users and the most traffic.

It's almost like maybe
#users tend to behave themselves more when a real #identity is attached to their account...

Perhaps other instances on the
#fediverse might want to adopt this same strategy.

(
#Privacy-centric email #addresses and #domains are perfectly fine. It's just the disposable addresses, mailboxes, and domains that we don't allow.)

#FediAdmin

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#Olympic #boxer perfectly explains why he doesn’t have to take #testosterone to be a #trans #man.

His #trans #identity is #valid despite his #decision not to take #hormones. He has been highly vocal about his decision not to undergo HRT or surgery. “[I] will never take ‘T’ and will never be on ‘T’, but consider myself a trans man because my heart says so,” the middleweight wrote.

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"that retail job reduced my will to live."

dad: theres probably some homeless people who would be happy to have a job

1) fuck you for acting like my feelings arent valid

2) you know what homeless people want the most? H O M E S

3) you havent had a job in 20 fucking years and you're on SS. you have absolutely no right to tell me I just want everything handed to me

4) you are a cis-het white male and are uber privileged. things are getting worse and worse for women and you are one of the reasons why. so shut the fuck up, boomer

#HTMLFirst” is a fantastic mindset, but html-first.com is a disappointment and a distraction.

Not once does that website suggest that #HTML should be #valid (to even constitute HTML), #semantic, or #accessible.

But HTML First thinking starts with actual HTML, used according to purpose, accessible to everyone.

That’s the “HTML First” we need.

(I’m cooking a book about that kind of HTML First, but it’s too early to make announcements.)

html-first.comHTML FirstPrinciples to make building web software easier, faster and more inclusive.