I've seen some posts about laying low and blending in, and /s or not, FUCK that!
If I'm being ushered into a fascist dictatorship, I'm swinging at Nazis until I get put down. I have a queer kid, a lovely trans girlfriend, and a shitload of friends worth fighting for.
Be loud, be visible, be ungovernable.
"Today is the last day before the election and I want to show you how I feel about you as a yournalist" - https://www.youtube.com/live/M2frAp1vqF8?si=-lG3SMQq2KBpbLTV&t=2781
Cynicism is easy. It asks nothing of you or the world. Cynicism delights in despair.
Hope is brave. Hope takes work. Hope makes you take responsibility for doing your part, however small, to steer the world toward where it should be.
Do something brave. Have hope. And then do your part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMrzdKzQTf8
As maintainer of OSS Python scientific libraries, I'm seeing more users sharing screenshots of their error messages instead of copying and pasting them as text. I'm not sure why that's happening. But here's an advice:
Please, share plain text!
Because:
* Text is lightweight to send and store. #FrugalComputing
* Text is accessible: not all of us can see images.
* Text is easily parseable: I can search through it, copy it, paste it, quote it, reuse it.