Geeky tech leftist, just here for likes/RTs, she/her pronouns. As of Nov 24 migrated to other social networks for posting because of management/AI of this one.
@BlueSwirl @feelieking bsky is much like old twitter, and you can setup personal servers for it for your data, and whole infrastructure can be setup by others as well (if they have 5+TB) but its designed to have essentially indexing servers on top so its very central/townsquare/discoverable (like here)
@BlueSwirl @feelieking The fediverse (what Mastodon is part of) is a bit strange but usable if you get used to it and find people. For photography stuff you'll want to look at Pixelfed which is essentially setup to work a bit like Instragram - https://t.co/S29rt8IyRh
Huge and historic victory for transgender rights in Europe--the European Union's top court has ruled that gender changes issued by one member country must be respected in every EU country. The Court ruled “Gender, like a first name, is a fundamental element of personal identity.”
The reframing of trans youth's friendship and solidarity with one another as "social contagion" is one of the most pernicious and harmful lies anti-trans activists trot out. It's pseudoscience designed to portray trans people as a virus in need of quarantine and eradication.
Men's median earnings rose at twice the rate of women's median earnings in part because men are overrepresented in high-wage jobs and women in low-wage jobs. It's not only being paid less for the same work; it's that class inequality and gender inequality are inseparable.