Jo (she/they)

Trans Pride Australia won our category at the Wayahead Mental Health Matters awards for our Friday Night Social online meetup. I coordinate the group, but it has had many years of good people running it, and I made sure to mention that as I accepted the award. These include @ada@blahaj.zone & @supakaity@blahaj.zone who handed it to me. The award also comes with a cash gift that will go towards the work of Trans Pride Australia. #australia #trans #mentalhealth #transpride

Happy anniversary to those who joined the fediverse this time last year.

A big thank you to Kim, Erin, and an anonymous person who bought me groceries this week. It's absolutely very much appreciated.
Now, I need your help to help another blahaj.zone person who needs to buy food. Please check out @sewerkat@blahaj.zone 's post or just drop some euros here: https://donate.stripe.com/aEU17p2yzc5ccZW288
Thank you so much for helping folks eat.
#MutualAid #TransMutualAid

The more I see the #fediverse culture change with the influx of redditors to Lemmy & Kbin more I wonder how long the microblogging side of things is safe from the encroachment of the reply guys et al even before Facebook Threads shows up. I follow Ada's Blåhaj Lemmy account here and seeing the reply threads to one of her recent #Lemmy moderation decisions in my #Firefish timeline I wish most of these folks were siloed elsewhere.

@ada@blahaj.zone @shoq@mastodon.social It's still only getting half of it right if #calckey is gonna be a voice for decentralisation of the #Fediverse but not for safety. There's a large conversation going on about marginalised folx and safety and most devs seem to be absent from following it, and the evangelists silent in raising it.

Let me point you to my QT of part of just one of @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 's threads in case you've never seen them.

It's absolute privilege to be pushing the tech conversation with the bros while absent from the ones about actually existing safety issues.

Moderators seem almost invisible at calckey.social for example, despite @atomicpoet@mastodon.social stressing moderation when allaying fears about QTs; it's often left to individual users to mention using CWs, and for the most part folx there aren't using them. That's taken a lot of the shine off for me tbh.

@thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me @panos@calckey.social

I'm putting together an Amazon wish list so folks can send me groceries and I'm wondering if there's non-Amazon platforms that would also allow similar so say someone in the States can order off a list & send me groceries and toiletries here in Australia? Any suggestions?

Seeing I'm briefly able to post, just letting you know that we're still experiencing performance issues and outages here. Probably related to an upgrade. Folks are working on it. If you need to contact me in the meantime I'll be over at joalchin@aus.social

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