What's an effective/well managed charitable org to donate to help trans kids? Particularly getting them access to binders, care, etc. I need to use my donation matching still for the year.

This was super fun! Honored to chat with this crew!!

SustainOSS@sustainoss.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Rynn (www.linkedin.com/in/rynnmancu...), Maryblessing (linkedin.com/in/maryblessingokolie) & Mo (www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmc...) discuss OES (ethicalsource.dev) and Contributor Covenant 3.0 (www.contributor-covenant.org/version/3/0/...). Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/277

Every person deserves dignity and healthy, delicious food to eat! We serve an average of 1,705 free meals per day. With SNAP cuts that’s going to go up. Worried about San Francisco’s families.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Something I learned from my public health days is that an easy way to improve health broadly in the U.S. would be to simply increase funding for SNAP so families could buy what they want. Too long we've restricted SNAP because of ridiculous ideas about what lower income people should eat.

Hey Siri? Stop me from using ChatGPT to analyze my whole chat history with Alexa.

Trans elder Miss Major is hospitalized can folks donate a little to her costs? fundly.com/missmajor

I have been trying to figure out how people recover from burnout in a system designed to have them stay burnt out. For all the books and articles I’ve read, my friend put it best when they told me that recovery can only happen when nothing is expected of you for some time.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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I agree with what Erin says here, but would add that Newsom's recent comment citing the age of 25 is especially scary, as that's well beyond centrist-sounding "fairness in sports" rhetoric – it is a hardcore anti-trans activist talking point! it's like he is actively consuming 4thwavenow/TERF posts

Barry Deutsch@barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A really good (and scary) point from @erininthemorning.com... for trans rights, a President Gavin Newsom could be *more* harmful than a Republican would be. www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...

Many Linux users have recently reported their fans running at full speed and high temperatures. They discovered that Firefox was consuming all CPU cores, and it turns out that the cause was Firefox's new default AI features. This is how you ruin your product 😅 www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/f...

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

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We're thrilled to announce Contributor Covenant 3.0, a major revision to the most widely adopted code of conduct for open source and other online communities! www.contributor-covenant.org

Contributor Covenant | A Code of Conduct for Digital Communities

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🚨ROOST is announcing Coop and Osprey: two new, open-source online safety tools. ✅ Customizable ✅ Open source ✅ Trusted integrations A better way to handle online harm, built by people who get it. More here: roost.tools/blog/roost-a... #TrustandSafety

I wrote last week about how the tech dream is ending for mid-career workers. This is a really good companion piece about how entry level tech jobs are vanishing, too, and the Silicon Valley gold rush is coming to a close: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

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kate conger@kateconger.com · last yr.

Silicon Valley today is dramatically changed from a year or two ago. We wrote a series of stories looking at how AI is transforming labor, landscape, innovation, and even religion. Here's my story on the 'shut up and grind' crackdown sweeping through big tech: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last yr.

Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

This but I recognize it is hard to shut down these days.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last yr.

stop doomscrolling. sleep will feel better than staying up late. I know things are super hard right now. I know how hard you are trying. Take care of yourself. One thing at a time.

this isn't what I do, but maybe you do?

fionajanemack@bsky.social@fionajanemack.bsky.social · last yr.

Can any of my fellow writers on here recommend a sensitivity reader (for a historical novel) who specializes in disability issues (Down's syndrome)? Someone you've worked with personally and liked their work? Thanks!

So many leftists are laser focused on never doing anything wrong instead of ever doing anything helpful.

The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.

The South is highly gerrymandered dating back to segregation in order to ensure that Republicans retain their hold. It's much more politically complex than you think.

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last yr.

I don't have much to add to the 'you voted for this haha' conversation that people haven't already said, but something I think a lot about is the real lack of solidarity I see with communities in the South after disasters and the profound lack of understanding about who actually lives there.

I'm so tired of people being enthusiastic about my brain and then being exhausted by my emotions.

a woman in a pink sweater is sitting in front of a window and talking .

Alt: a woman in a pink sweater is sitting in front of a window. She says "they're the same picture.

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change of plans. feeling like I'm just gonna come to terms with my rusty cage

it's pretty fucked up how the information and social media environment for trans people is such that a very small number of trans people are burdened with an incredible amount of movement work, while everyone else is panicking and spiraling and clueless what to do. everyone needs to fight!

Sotomayor points out the similarities between the Skrmetti ruling allowing discrimination against transgender people's medical care to Virginia's argument for its interracial marriage ban in Loving.

House Republicans passed the biggest health care cut in U.S. history. Senate Republicans’ response? Hold my beer. Now they’re pushing even deeper Medicaid cuts—knowing it’ll shut down rural hospitals, strip care from their own voters, and leave millions hanging.

do you have any idea how furious you have to make career civil servants to get them to put their names to a letter

Several hundred NIH employees sign a letter of protest to the agency’s director

Several hundred NIH employees signed on to a letter rebuking agency actions since the start of President Trump's second term

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If I were JD Vance, I would consider whether God is perhaps sending me some fairly specific messages

"God, what have you done? You're a pink pony girl, and you dance at the club," oh mama I'm just having fun On the stage in my heels, it's where belong, down at the...

"Copyleft obligations for thee, not for me." I don't want to teach others this strategy, because I care about the social movement more than helping companies bend it in service of their needs. From a community PoV, I think it was bad when MySQL started it, and it's bad now.

Adam Jacob@adamhjk.me · last yr.

So now both Redis and Elastic are open source again, under the AGPL. Yay! When we teach folks how to do this in the future, we need to start by explaining how copyleft can work for a business. In both these cases, they're using copyright assignment to ensure they don't have to abide by the AGPL.