I remember when I was a kid, if someone was in therapy, people talked about it in hushed tones, like it was a shameful secret, and now people talk about it casually in every day conversation. It's good to see that things can change, even if it's just a bit.
this ties into a big lesson we've personally learned from queer history and enjoy applying elsewhere. when something is unspeakable, and you want it not to be, the most important step is to speak it.
@irenes@RickiTarr This has always been my reason for being really open about mental health, queerness, polyam, kink, and, as I work it out for myself first, plurality. The more I can humanize myself to others, the more it destigmatizes these experiences. This is the kind of 1:1 and day-to-day activism I think is some of the most important work, if you’re in spaces safe enough.
@dcjohnson Imagine if just stepping into an ambulance cost you £1000.
Imagine if not keeping up private health insurance payments because you were too ill to work meant your cancer treatment would abruptly end and you would soon die.
I'm in the market for a GS instance to move my presence there. Also for a Friendica instance that isn't Libranet.de (intolerably buggy, and since I've hosted ~F instances in the past, I know it wasn't anywhere near this bad in the past).
While I'm at it, I'd like to set up new secondary accounts on a couple of Misskey instances.
In all cases, I desire an easy ToS and less power-mad administrator ... but not so easy or hands-off that racists and a$$holes congregate there.
I'd run a (similarly small and closed-registration) Friendica instance, and used its built-in RSS functionality, but TT-RSS was just so much better for me.
At the time, it even had a mobile client.
I originally dropped it because the main developer stopped doing releases and recommended that people run it from git. To me, that was like being in perpetual beta, and I didn't want to do that.
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has released their latest results, including this image of polarized light from the region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
@CorioPsicologia@IoannesEnsis Nada que no pueda resolverse con el siguiente simple proceso 1) corregir 2) corregir, pero de verdad 3) darle a leer a alguien 4) corregir otra vez 5) repetir en ciclo los pasos anteriores hasta la fecha límite o hasta perder la cordura, lo que suceda primero 6) corregir por última vez antes de enviar 7) después de enviar, darse cuenta de que quedó error y ejecutar un 🤦♂️ 8) una vez publicado, darse cuenta de que en realidad estaba todo bien 9) respirar
Chandra, the space-based observatory that brings us incredible x-ray images of the most extreme environments in the cosmos, is at risk of cancellation. It’ll be a huge loss to astronomy if the mission ends prematurely for budget reasons. Go to https://www.savechandra.org/ to find out how to help #SaveChandra
You can read more about the image above here https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2023/cena/ and browse the Chandra photo gallery to see some of the other incredible images and science the Chandra Observatory has brought us. #SaveChandra
Thrilled to share the website for Asian Americans for Democracy, a group that's aiming to raise $2 million for local AAPA groups in swing states to get out the vote against Trump! Check 'em out and feel free to donate if you're inspired! https://asianamericans4democracy.org/
Physicist Caroline Herzenberg was born #OTD in 1932. She is known for pioneering early work in Mössbauer spectroscopy, including an analysis of the first samples returned from the moon by the Apollo astronauts.
Image: Herzenberg as Finalist in the 1949 Science Talent Search
A #Linux user and a #FreeBSD user walk into a bar. The Linux user loudly proclaims, "My distro is the best!" The FreeBSD user smiles quietly, sips their drink, and thinks, “They just don't know what they're missing.”