Right, about time I do another #introduction post. I'm Paul, admin of Kith.Kitchen, I'm a #queer web developer with an interest in #nature and #naturalHistory. I have a (rented) garden in #Leeds, two cats, a lovely girlfriend, social #anxiety, dyspraxia, and lots of musical instruments that I keep meaning to play. I used to do #songwriting as a hobby and hope to do so again. I'm currently of the anarchist-communist persuasion. All I want is to do my best to help other people thrive.
Action: support tennants risking eviction (UK)
151 Sidney Grove in Newcastle is a group of tenants trying to stop their landlord from evicting them. Amongst the actions they have planned, they are asking people who can, to take part in the 'mass email' tomorrow morning.
They have made it easy by creating a template that you can send. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18LXYX-UGtvzxDf6KGJiC51cspMBuQe84kdPAI81mK64/edit
More info about the campaign on this short video, here: https://twitter.com/151sidneygrove/status/1559269419230035970?s=20&t=HgVdhFjyjiG5bi6iU7ztlA
I checked and they would be grateful for support from anyone within the UK, not just Newcastle.
This is their Twitter account https://twitter.com/151sidneygrove.
UK PEOPLE WANTING TO CHANGE NAME!
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You do not. I repeat, YOU DO NOT have to pay to change your name.
Use this service to enter your old & new name, print it, sign it & BOOM!
100% completely legal, no one can stop you, & if they do, well, you can kick up a fuss because it is legal what you are doing
I’ve used it, works perfectly fine. Once had someone question, but I just said it’s a legal document. DONE!
#OtD 1 Jul 1978 at 8pm, the time of its proposed closure, hospital workers, applauded by a large crowd of local people and filmed by the News at Ten, put up a notice announcing the occupation of the casualty unit at Bethnal Green hospital, London
Think Ill start a ‘trans for over 30s’ group
There is not much in terms of things for people in their 30s, especially something that *doesnt* involve alcohol etc
If you live in the Leeds area, in your 30s, trans & need a meet-up for yourself to meet others
Please boost & share so others can see & hopefully boost. I wanna get a gage on here as well as check a few other places & see if there are more folks who need something like this
Request for input from blind programmers
Saw a tweet saying that tabs work better than spaces when you're using a braille display
Seems logical, but this information doesn't seem to be coming from a blind person, so I thought I'd check
Which form of #Python indentation is more accessible to you?
(sighted people: don't vote, be patient)
asking trans people "if gender isn't real, why do you want to be the other gender so bad" is like asking people "if rent shouldn't exist, why do you want rent control so badly": because we live in a society that violently enforces gender, and that makes it real. asking trans people, and only them, to pretend like gender doesn't matter, while everyone around us keeps hurting us for it, isn't fair. it's like asking tenants to not give a shit about rent while their landlord is trying to evict them.
Today I saw the same super weird mushroom in my workplace that shows up at the same tree base every year, #inaturalist tells me it's called Cenoporus squamosus:
#fungodon #mushrooms
Something a bit different today...
There's a really nice Fediverse admin on here called @stux who provides lots of free decentralised public services (public instances of Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Matrix, Nitter, Invidious, Searx etc).
Stux is spending hundreds of euros a month so that these services remain free and operational.
Apparently Stux has had a tough time finding work recently, but has their own small business which provides web hosting.
If you're looking for a small indie hosting provider, this might be a really good choice as the money raised will help keep the Fedi going too:
(I'm sorry to embarass you Stux, but I think you deserve a shout-out for the good work you do!)
I’m a hobby baker from Boston, MA.
My dream is to eat a chocolate chip cookie at every bakery I visit and document them. I’m not trying to find the “best” cookie, they’re all good cookies. I’m trying to describe all of the many variations of chocolate chip cookies that there can be.
I like nature and computers. I'm Admin of Kith.Kitchen and Software Engineer for the British Film Institute.
Currently living in Leeds. I'm learning about anarchism. I try to get my hands dirty.