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For those who don't know, & maybe only follow my art, I'm also an activist.
And, I've decided to run for Galway City Council this year.
I've just launched a GoFundMe for my campaign, and any little bit would help get me on the council fighting for workers as a socialist voice.
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For those who don't know, & maybe only follow my art, I'm also an activist.
And, I've decided to run for Galway City Council this year.
I've just launched a GoFundMe for my campaign, and any little bit would help get me on the council fighting for workers as a socialist voice.
https://

I found this article interesting
[[who hosts the fediverse instances]]: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances
Publicly available information for our own instance,

Where is all of the fediverse?

Violences et abus sexuels Š Notre-Dame de Bétharram : 43 nouvelles plaintes déposées - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/violences-e…

Violences et abus sexuels à Notre-Dame de Bétharram : 43 nouvelles plaintes déposées
L’enquête préliminaire sur des maltraitances et des abus sexuels présumés au sein de cette institution scolaire catholique de Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) porte désormais sur 76 plaintes. La dernière salve dénonce des faits survenus pour certains à la fin des années 1990.

If I were rich, I’d pay a freaking army to stand in front of #adoption agencies passing out free copies of this book & Gabrielle Glaser’s American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption. https://www.

Adoptee Reading on Instagram: "NEW! We are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, this book by sociologist Gretchen Sisson features the in-depth testimonies of American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption--stories about our country’s refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. Find it on our website and in our bookshop. Links in bio. #AdoptionResearch #BirthMothers #AdoptionPolitics #AdoptionHistory #politics #history #AdoptionVsAbortion #ReproductiveChoice #ReproductiveFreedom #FamilyBuilding #motherhood #bookstagram"
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2024 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute
Technology, Policy, and Democracy in Flux
https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/oxford-media-policy-summer-institute-2024/
Applications due 24 April but early decision for applications submitted by 24…

Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute - The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP)
  2024 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute Technology, Policy, and Democracy in Flux Jesus […]

I've officially launched my campaign fund for the local elections! #LE2024
As a socialist I will fight for workers & ordinary people in Galway City Council. It's time we had a voice for people instead of the private interests of landlords & the wealthy.
#Galway #Ireland #LE2024 #PeopleBeforeProfit #Socialism #EcoSocialism

“UX pretends that capitalism can be coaxed into giving a shit. It chugs along as if UX designers and researchers are the ones who are going to cause a revolution of socialist CEOs who consider users beyond their money and their data.
But the inside secret of commercial UX is that the empathy is just a posture and the businesses benefit from the aura of care without having to entertain it.”
– @…

The Aura of Care.
The UX profession has an aura of empathy and care for the people who use tech products. Businesses capitalise on this aura without having to entertain it.

Someone asked today what a 'sense of self' is.
I want to tie this into ideas of relationality. I am a distinct individual, let's start with that. I'm not disavowing that entirely.
But I am also ‘an unschooler’: but this is not an attribute of my education for comparison. It is a community, a network of relationships with people working in similar ways. It's connections to anabaptist traditions and to a mode of interacting with parents (both in concept and my actual parents)
I'm from Colorado. But it's not just a place on the map: it's my relationship to my sense of smell, and my tolerance for cold weather and bright lights. It's a love of dark skies and clear views of the milky way. It's a relationship to knowing I am very very small in a vast universe. This is not a universal explanation of from-Colorado-ness, but it's mine.
I'm transgender, but that's not just I-myself-was-born-in-a-wrong-body, but I have a community and network and sense of belonging outside of myself. I've got embodied knowledge of being a dozen ways that others don't get to experience. It affects and informs my relationship to my communities and my work.
I’m argumentative and sometimes a little arrogant, but this is also because of how I'm connected: there are things I know deep in my body that I cannot explain how I know, but I do. I forget that others see me as a ‘you' and not a 'we' sometimes, and so misunderstandings happen. But to change that would change me in ways I'm not quite willing to grow into, so there is going to be a small callus in how I socialize. And it's fine. It works. I am who I am, but I also don't think about _me_ that much. To think about me is to think of all the connections instead. They're inseparable.

Poll: 44% of Ukrainians believe West tired of supporting Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/poll-of-ukrainians.html