still $0/27. i'm -$7 so i rlly need help FAST. any help w this, including shares, would be much appreciated

@mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaid@ovo.st @disability @lgbtq

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive2025 #Crowdfund #DisabilityCrowdfund #QueerCrowdfund #Disabled #Homeless #Queer

still $0/27. i'm -$7 so i rlly need help FAST. any help w this, including shares, would be much appreciated

@mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaid@ovo.st @disability @lgbtq

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive2025 #Crowdfund #DisabilityCrowdfund #QueerCrowdfund #Disabled #Homeless #Queer

#Introduction

(Even though I've been here for 2 years. Intros make me that anxious. 😅)

Curious. Introvert. I always try to be compassionate. I live in a small town in the state of Rio; grew up in one here too.

Now, in no particular order, I'm gonna drop lots of hashtags somehow related to me, 'cause it feels less intimidating: #queer #bi #nb #transfem #autistic #ADHD #bipolar #SpeculativeFiction #animanga #pop #alt #electronica #goth #solarpunk #feminism #left #LearningFrench #LearningSpanish

🚩 Gerechtigkeit für Maja: Solidarität gegen staatliche Willkür

8 Jahre Haft in einem Land, das für die systematische Aushöhlung des Rechtsstaats und seine offene Queerfeindlichkeit bekannt ist. Das Urteil gegen die nicht-binäre Person Maja T. ist kein Akt der Justiz, sondern ein politisches Exempel.⬇️

#FreeMaja #NoPasaran #QueerAntifa #Solidarität #Menschenrechte #Humanrights #Queer #LGBTQIA #Linke #Antifaschismus #Antifa #Ungarn

US #trans #queer and other marginalized people who might be looking for migration options and might have a connection to Canada:

Until a few weeks ago, Canada had a single generation rule for citizenship, meaning you could only inherit from your parents. The supreme court found this was unconstitutional some time ago and in December, legislation fixed the gap. It's now possible to go as far back as you can, as long as you can show, with documentation, that your ascendents were citizens of Canada.

This is a simplified update and you can search to learn more, but if you are looking for a way out of the US and have a grandparent or beyond that was a citizen but hadn't believed it was possible, then you should be made aware of this news.

🚩 Gerechtigkeit für Maja: Solidarität gegen staatliche Willkür

8 Jahre Haft in einem Land, das für die systematische Aushöhlung des Rechtsstaats und seine offene Queerfeindlichkeit bekannt ist. Das Urteil gegen die nicht-binäre Person Maja T. ist kein Akt der Justiz, sondern ein politisches Exempel.⬇️

#FreeMaja #NoPasaran #QueerAntifa #Solidarität #Menschenrechte #Humanrights #Queer #LGBTQIA #Linke #Antifaschismus #Antifa #Ungarn

Hi, I’m Ro! I’m a self-loving antizionist Jew and a self-hating lawyer.

I live on unceded Interior Salish land in the Pacific Northwest of what’s known to some, for now, as the US with my wife & our dogs. 🏳️‍🌈 Our family is WASP, Ashkenazi & Nicaraguan. 🥰 I practice deportation defense and I’m an abolitionist.

✨Find me enjoying hiking & biking & reading & writing & music & collage.✨

🏔️For hiking & snowshoeing I’m usually somewhere in the PNW, preferably going to the top of something or at least seeing some cool trees or rocks or moss. I’m a bike commuter! 🚲

📚Favorite novels include Babel by R.F. Kuang, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, No.6 by Asano Atsuko, Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zi & Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. Favorite nonfiction includes Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernández, The Other Slavery by Andres Reséndez & Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. And my favorite manga ever is Fullmetal Alchemist - unbeatable IMO (although I am loving The Summer Hikaru Died these days). I’m rodile on Storygraph.

✏️Current writing projects include a novel about lesbian ecoterrorists & an amorphous story about an anarchist-reformist enemies-to-lovers-to-enemies? situationship.

🎶Music I love includes Mitski, The Muslims, The Gits, Left at London & Doechii. I also love swimming and sleeping and petting my dogs!!!! And persimmons 😅

English, español, 普通话都可以！I usually follow (back) if it seems like we’d vibe. I’m honestly a nice person but I’m angry all the time. I like emojis and ampersands and alt text. This post is very long but I wasn’t sure what to include & I believe it’ll get cut so I hope it’s not too annoying! I am hoping to connect with more people on here. Here are a bunch of tags to either filter this post out or find it! :)

#longPost #introduction #mosstodon #vegan #languageLearning #writingCommunity #lesbian #USpol #books #reading #law #immigration #Jewish #LGBTQ #queer #music #abolition #fuckICE #freePalestine #hiking #bikeTooter #PNW

A few #introductions:

I run Systems Structure Ltd., a US consultancy that provides fractional CISO services for pre-A to post-C round #startups, along with #threatmodeling training and #securityarchitecture reviews.

I've been working in #security since 2003 and did a spell in NGOland from ~2011 to 2016, working with NGOs and news organizations targeted by states and on tools they use, including the #briar messaging app. The field work I did then fundamentally reshaped my approach to security, and I recommend that everyone in the field learn about the reality of being a high-risk user.

I live in #Helsinki the days, although in the before times (and hopefully soon again) I spent a fair bit of time in #NYC and #London. I run a #queer performance space out of my home, along with my partner, called The Attic (@theatticfi on insta), where we make space for #drag, #burlesque, #performanceart, and music, along other things. Before I moved here, I spent six or so years traveling full time.

I have written various essays over the years, which you can see on dymaxion.org, and I'm slowly writing a book. While security pays the bills, I spend a lot of my time thinking about #complexsystems, and in particular how the human and technical bits mesh, how they fail, and how to redesign them to fail better. In practice, this has meant everything from consulting on a constitution to thinking about what comes after the #climate apocalypse. The "recruiting barbarians" in my bio refers to being more comfortable outside of institutions, but I'm starting to think more about community and infrastructure building now that I live somewhere.

I'm also an #artist; I paint and am slowly learning my way around a #synthesizer, and I've been accused of being an #architect. I'm active in the #nordiclarp scene, where we take larp serious as a dramatic form and do everything from a reworking of Hamlet played at the actual Elsinore castle to a larp about the early days of the HIV crisis. I'm primarily a theorist and critic there, as well as player, and I've edited two books and written a number of essays. Nordic larp has the best toolkit I've seen anywhere for analyzing the human parts of complex systems and especially for building new systems; it's heavily influenced my security work, along with my #designfutures thinking.

👐🏼 ¡Lanzamos un fanzine!

💞 'Utopías Trans: Una reflexión comunitaria para impulsar cambios narrativos hacia futuros mejores'

Parte de un ejercicio de imaginación colectiva sobre cómo será el mundo cuando acabe la transfobia y vivamos todes felices... y propone algunas vías para llegar ahí, con poder narrativo.

Esperamos que os resulte inspirador.
👇🏼 👇🏼 👇🏼 👇🏼
https://lainterseccion.net/content/uploads/2026/02/UtopiasTrans_ProyectoHortensia.pdf

#trans #queer #narrative #utopias

👐🏼 ¡Lanzamos un fanzine!

💞 'Utopías Trans: Una reflexión comunitaria para impulsar cambios narrativos hacia futuros mejores'

Parte de un ejercicio de imaginación colectiva sobre cómo será el mundo cuando acabe la transfobia y vivamos todes felices... y propone algunas vías para llegar ahí, con poder narrativo.

Esperamos que os resulte inspirador.
👇🏼 👇🏼 👇🏼 👇🏼
https://lainterseccion.net/content/uploads/2026/02/UtopiasTrans_ProyectoHortensia.pdf

#trans #queer #narrative #utopias

cute, abstract digital art for sale ($0/$27 goal)

my bank account is currently -$7, and i need $20 for other expenses. i'm p broke so i could use help ASAP.

pls consider helping a homeless, disabled, queer person who struggles w severe depression & anxiety. selling my art and tips are my only income. truly anything helps, including shares.

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@mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutualaid@ovo.st @disability @lgbtq

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive2025 #Crowdfund #DisabilityCrowdfund #QueerCrowdfund #Disabled #Homeless #Queer #Art #DigitalArt #ArtForSale #CommissionsOpen #ArtistForHire #CuteArt #AbstractArt #QueerArtist #DisabledArtist

#lgbtq #queer #anarchis #trans #fediverse #mastodon #diversity

#lgbtq #queer #anarchis #trans #fediverse #mastodon #diversity

Edited 2025 to update gender and a few other things.

I'm a software engineer with a degree in Anthropology. I highly recommend the combo.

Most recently I was tech lead for Scaled Human Review at Meta. I worked in the Integrity Foundation (what other companies call "Trust and Safety") on Better Engineering initiatives and #Metaverse integration, with the teams that build human review software for the 30-40K external reviewers. I'd sworn I’d never work at Facebook, but I decided to see if I could make a difference. I couldn’t. And it wasn't a good fit for either of us. But I learned a lot about how the sausages are made and why they have such a hard time with #contentmoderation.

I've been on #socialmedia for four decades (seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978—this stuff isn't new), and virtually everyone I know I met online somewhere—many I've still never met in person. Needless to say, that's made me pretty passionate about making online communities safe for everyone, and especially marginalized groups.

I'm now a freelance #consultant and semi-retired, working on my own projects (I'll write more on that later), and with my wife's #consulting company (see below). I'm planning to do a lot more writing about #society and #technology (as well some #SFF), and to travel more.

I tend to write long posts (like this one). They may get shorter once my blog is back up. I don't stick to one topic, but I'll try to tag them so you can filter. I post about tech stuff (recent, as well as old geeky #Unix stuff), #social issues, #LGBTQ issues (especially the T), pretty #photos, and random personal anecdotes. When I boost, it's because I think it's something that might be interesting to someone, or some group, that follows me. Those tend to include all the above topics, plus SF&F-related things, and cool science stuff.

I'm #pan, #poly, and #trans. I prefer "they" or "she" for pronouns, but "he" is fine. I spent most of my life thinking I really was a straight cis man who just happened to be a bit quirky and a passionate and tearful ally, so I'm not too picky about how you refer to me. I'm also more than happy to answer any questions about all that, public or private.

I grew up mostly in #Maine and then lived in Massachusetts for a long time, but I now live on sovereign #Swinomish land in #WashingtonState (US), on the edge of the San Juan islands. Despite my first name (that's a story) and current location, I'm not Native American, although I focus a lot on Native American rights. My parents were both active in that area, and that was my introduction to civil rights in general.

I've been a #software engineer at various levels (from programmer to CTO to company founder) for 40+ years. I learned BASIC in high school, taught myself Pascal, FORTRAN and PL/1 in college, learned C as an intern at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, one floor up from the Unix crew), and went on from there. In college, I majored in #Anthropology with a concentration in #Psychology, and that's influenced the way I look at software ever since. Software is designed for people. Software systems build communities (whether intended or not). Anyone who does that damn well better understand how people and #communities work.

I've worked for Bell Labs (psych stats), Sperry Research (window systems, UX design), Apollo/HP (programmable shell, windowing systems, Unix porting, UX design), Bright Ideas (cookbook, educational games), OSF (windowing standards), Alfalfa (multimedia email - SMTP *and* X.400 :)), Wildfire (phone-based voice assistant), Utopia/USWeb (web and security consulting), Saroca (small boats), Messagefire (anti- #spam software), MessageGate (corporate compliance software), Somewhere (software consulting), ZeeVee (web video aggregation, metadata scraping), TiVo (video content correlation, #metadata pipelines), and Meta. Plus a few others.

I've been with my wife, Dr. Mollie Pepper, for over a decade. She's a #sociologist with a focus on #refugee migration, #gender, and violence; the kind of work that gives you PTSD. She did her dissertation on women's roles in the (now extremely defunct) peace process in #Myanmar (aka #Burma). A few years ago she was at a military base frantically processing thousands of Afghan refugees and managing translators (whom Trump is now deporting). She has a consulting company that specializes in evaluating and designing social service projects. You can find her at https://carlsonpepper.com/. Everything I know about #feminism, #intersectionality, #queer theory, #CRT, and #racism I either learned from her, or she gave me the theoretical underpinnings to understand them properly.

I have two grown daughters from my first marriage with Nassim Fotouhi; a kick-ass software engineer/engineering manager who came to the States just before the Iranian revolution.

Shadi Fotouhi is an artist (see my profile background photo, go look up the drug codes and compare them to the mermaids' behavior) turned software engineer; building dynamic room installations will do that to you. She worked in QA at a gaming company, and then at Jibo; a robotics startup. Now she's a senior software engineer at Wayfair--Kubernetes, release configuration, and all that fun stuff.

Shireen Hinckley is a documentarian, digital image technician, video editor, and co-founder of Somewhere Films (https://www.somewherefilms.com/shireen-hinckley); a womxn's filmmaking collective. She works for #Beyoncé at Parkwood Entertainment, where she's an editor and post-production supervisor for all of their video releases. She worked on "Black is King" and just about every video since then, whether it's for Instagram, Times Square, Tiffany's, the Oscars, or Chloe x Halle.

I'm incredibly honored to have those wonderful women in my life. I wouldn't be who I am without them.

A couple other things that may come up, especially in my photos. My mother is an artist who lives in Maine in a round house she designed, and the family built, when I was in high school. And I'm part owner of a #lighthouse on Cape Cod.

--kee

My friends my live stream has started. Today is a day to talk about anarchism. Details will likely be included at my account @RosethornRanger@spore.social

hand tracking, arc raiders, and news

#anarchist #queer #disabled #accessible #videogames #tech #chatting

https://anarchism.boats

My friends my live stream has started. Today is a day to talk about anarchism. Details will likely be included at my account @RosethornRanger@spore.social

hand tracking, arc raiders, and news

#anarchist #queer #disabled #accessible #videogames #tech #chatting

https://anarchism.boats

There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.

The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.

Let's show them the power of Mastodon. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.

Sign 👇

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/738780

#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse