Powen Shiah @[email protected]

photo-taking, queer, extremely internet. also languages, cities, coffee, & (pop)culture. Comms @sovtechagency |

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

Find me over on 🟦🌤️ https://t.co/sM9B4cFHPj or on Mastodon/the Fediverse ⤵️
Still figuring out what to do with my enormous tweet archive here.

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

Kicking the tires over in the #fediverse… waited a while because I couldn't decide which server to go with, but for now I've landed here: https://t.co/hbfBz5BP3T (having intermittent access errors but hopefully more regularly active)

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

@ichbinilya I guess there’s the irony of this being on substack :/

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

2024 Travel and Photo Updates https://t.co/ivr2FF87PA

[SF Elections @SFElections]

UPDATE: The Department of Elections must still process and count approximately 157,000 ballots for the November 5 Election.

This estimate includes: 137,000 vote-by-mail ballots received the day before and on Election Day by mail, at drop boxes, and at polling places; and, 20,000 provisional ballots cast at polling places and the City Hall Voting Center.

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

And here we go again.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

Taken all together, it's a new kind of public institution that looks out for critical digital infrastructure and supports software digital commons, among other important tasks. After all, we're just getting started! 3/

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

Names are powerful things, and what do you do when one like #SovereignTechFund already means a lot to people around the world? When it symbolizes what government and societies can do when they take the #OpenSource building blocks of our digital world seriously? 1/

[Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechagency]

Hello, World! We’re now the Sovereign Tech Agency 🎉

It’s been two years since the Sovereign Tech Fund began investing in open technologies in the public interest, and our mission has grown to be more than the “fund” in our name. The new Sovereign Tech Agency 1/2

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

We're keeping Sovereign Tech Fund, but building the Sovereign Tech Agency around it, and programs like #SovereignTechFellowship and #SovereignTechResilience (formerly known as #BugResilience) next to it. 2/

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Today, I have the solemn responsibility to be the first president to formally apologize to Native peoples – Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan – for what happened during the Indian Boarding School era.

It's long overdue.

[Nancy Wang Yuen @nancywyuen]

This is the Ke Huy Quan action movie I’ve been waiting for. 🔥🔥🔥

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

@Vnlasteamer Oh geeze. I’m almost afraid to ask which insurance allows this (statutory or private?)

[Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechagency]

Today's the last day to apply for the fellowship for maintainers, our new program that will pay #FOSS maintainers for a year for their work on keeping critical software infrastructure running.

Reposts much appreciated! 🔁

Details: https://t.co/ESGrYSWOZv

[Jónas @mejealously]

2024 (und eigentlich jedes Jahr) als queere Person:

[Nic Houghton @40PercentGerman]

There should be a German remake of Ocean's 11, but instead of the gang robbing a casino, they break into the Ausländerbehörde to make an appointment.

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

@WhitlamsBerlin I'm amused that your autocorrect (?) changes just "Friedrichshain" to "Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg"

[Ammar Moussa @ammarmufasa]

NEW AD >> Yesterday, Donald Trump trashed Detroit, while in Detroit.

Today, we’re making sure Detroiters see EXACTLY what Trump thinks of them.

[EFF @EFF]

The German government is trying to push through Parliament, at record speed, a "security package" that would increase biometric surveillance at an unprecedented scale. The proposed measures contravene the government’s own coalition and undermine European law and the German constitution. EFF stands with the opponents of these proposals. We must defend fundamental rights more decidedly than ever.https://t.co/1gQoLgUw4i

[Powen Shiah @[email protected] @polexa]

OH at German doctor’s office:

“Fax…? Fax, Fax. Kein Email, Fax!”