📣 New Podcast! "25 December 1522: Santo Domingo enslaved revolt" on @Spreaker #black #christmas #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/25-december-1522-santo-domingo-enslaved-revolt--68813153
Neville Park
boosted
#PSA: If you, like me, have a heck of a time seeing/finding something in a dark colour, empower yourself with some nail polish!
Nail polish works great on metal and plastic, wears well (and can be touched up) and comes in a zillion colours for either matching or contrast.
#MedicalDevices often seem to be #black by default, and this week I finally got so sick of my #CGM reader getting lost in my bedding and/or anywhere else if I set it down, I made it the equivalent of #SafetyYellow.
(This is colour 010 "Marigold Maven" Ultra HD Snap! by Revlon, in case you are seeking the same.)
Not my best work design-wise but as I still needed to use the CGM reader, time was of the essence!
(Also, the polish had dried out a bit and I dodn't know about #NailPolish #Thinners until yesterday).
A bit of painters tape over the touchscreen, charging port, and fine print on the back and the result is a NON-invisible device!
#hack
#disability
#diabetes
#vision
#LowVision
#HighContrast
#Usability
#Keet & #Holepunch @holepunch_to teams- following up from yesterday:
Pragmatically, I'll still use your software (though it makes trusting proprietary modules feel even more sketchy tbh). Yours is probably the one #TechnoFascist project I'm aware of that actually has good code & UX. And it's self sovereign, so.
If your response goes further into a downward spiral of innocense & virtue instead of some amends, accountability and recovery, I'll just do what we're doing for #Holochain. Authoring politically assertive #governance processes around my collective's & partnership's use of their software, explicitly calling out the harm and creating guardrails to prevent any upstream contributions (intellectual, social or otherwise). And then we'll open source those docs, surface them everywhere, and make them easily adoptable & forkable.
@holepunch_to in regard to characterising you as #TechnoFascist - your community culture is your responsibility. I hope you do at least as well as #RegenFoundation / #RegenLedger although tbh their efforts in culture work have been minimal and years later they continue their habit of asserting their goodness and silencing #Black voices.
https://pospi.spadgos.com/2022/07/04/blockchain-regen-permaculture-and-white-supremacism/
bhaugen
boosted
Trump’s anti #Somali rants are not directed only at that group. All #Black / #African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful #criminals who are deserving of punishment & scorn. He isn't alone in this thinking.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-somalia
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
📣 New Podcast! "13 December 1971: Ovambo strike" on @Spreaker #black #history #namibia
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13-december-1971-ovambo-strike--68813166
Trump’s anti #Somali rants are not directed only at that group. All #Black / #African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful #criminals who are deserving of punishment & scorn. He isn't alone in this thinking.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/we-are-all-somalia
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/volcanoes-black-death
#HackerNews #Volcanic #Eruptions #Black #Death #Europe #History #Science
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
#HackerNews #Torture #Techniques #CIA #Black #Sites #Alligator #Alcatraz #HumanRights
📣 New Podcast! "9 December 2010: Georgia prison strike" on @Spreaker #black #georgia #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/9-december-2010-georgia-prison-strike--68813158
#PSA: If you, like me, have a heck of a time seeing/finding something in a dark colour, empower yourself with some nail polish!
Nail polish works great on metal and plastic, wears well (and can be touched up) and comes in a zillion colours for either matching or contrast.
#MedicalDevices often seem to be #black by default, and this week I finally got so sick of my #CGM reader getting lost in my bedding and/or anywhere else if I set it down, I made it the equivalent of #SafetyYellow.
(This is colour 010 "Marigold Maven" Ultra HD Snap! by Revlon, in case you are seeking the same.)
Not my best work design-wise but as I still needed to use the CGM reader, time was of the essence!
(Also, the polish had dried out a bit and I dodn't know about #NailPolish #Thinners until yesterday).
A bit of painters tape over the touchscreen, charging port, and fine print on the back and the result is a NON-invisible device!
#hack
#disability
#diabetes
#vision
#LowVision
#HighContrast
#Usability
Matt
boosted
I don't know how I haven't heard about this #book before. It is like someone tapped into my brain and wrote the weirdly specific thing I was hoping to read.
A #Black poet and evolutionary biologist uses #poetry to describe his reflections on Natural History as it relates to #colonialism.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/natural-history-poems-brandon-kilbourne/cd9b212dab2d1851
📣 New Podcast! "1 December 1919: Trinidad and Tobago general strike" on @Spreaker #black #history #trinidad
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/1-december-1919-trinidad-and-tobago-general-strike--68813152
📣 New Podcast! "30 November 1963: Brooklyn rent strike" on @Spreaker #black #brooklyn #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/30-november-1963-brooklyn-rent-strike--68370905
📣 New Podcast! "23 November 1887: Thibodaux massacre" on @Spreaker #black #history #workers
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/23-november-1887-thibodaux-massacre--68370906
📣 New Podcast! "22 November 1919: Bogalusa labour massacre" on @Spreaker #black #history #louisiana
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/22-november-1919-bogalusa-labour-massacre--68689721
Ejaz Baluch, fmr lawyer in DOJ’s #CivilRights Division: “Our job was to find the facts that would fit the narrative that the administration already had.”
“…the #DOJ demand letter to #UCLA asked for $1 billion in damages. We thought, $1 billion? They are making that up out of thin air. There is no way the damages we found added up to anything like that amount.”
Dena Robinson, a lawyer in the #CivilRights Division:
“The idea of the investigation was that #PerkinsCoie supposedly engaged in illegal #discrimination against #WhiteMen. But Perkins Coie is an extremely white firm — only 3% of the partners are #Black. When my colleague pointed that out, the leadership didn’t care. They’d already reached their conclusion. They continued instructing my colleague to just find the evidence for it.”
📣 New Podcast! "16 November 1984: Johannesburg rent strikers arrested" on @Spreaker #african #black #history
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16-november-1984-johannesburg-rent-strikers-arrested--68370912
Joachim
boosted
For #NationalCatDay please admire this absolute masterpiece:
Gertrude Abercrombie (USA, 1909-1977)
#Black Cat on Pink, 1952
Oil on Hardboard, 4.5 x 4 cm (1 3/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
#CatsInArt #WomenArtists
