🌍🚩🌹 🇨🇭 Sämu 🇨🇭🌹 🚩🌍 @inviolablehuman@socialism.social

If your #LEGO Christmas gift runs on batteries, chances are it can run #Python #MicroPython with #Pybricks!

We launched the new stable release of #Pybricks over at https://code.pybricks.com/ just in time. 🎄

Happy coding!

The mutual aid network I’m part of is working hard to get hotel rooms for our unhoused neighbors during this sub-zero winter storm. There’s a lot of need, and the more funds we have, the more people we can help. Please donate if you can at https://opencollective.com/edgewater-mutual-aid
#MutualAid #WeKeepUsSafe #HousingForAll

ACTIVISM ALERT:

The NIH is making its RECOVER trials for #LongCovid test therapies that are actively harmful for these patients and have long been debunked: graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. (Therapy's great to manage feels about this disease, not a way to cure this.)

Add your name to this petition to tell them to redirect energy into things that we don't already know will do harm:

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-nih

#NEISvoid #covid #mecfs #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #GET #CBT

Wondering when the wind will finally end? Here's a timeline of wind gusts and wind chill temperatures through Monday. 🥶

Along with the wind and rain we've seen all day, this storm will also drop temperatures overnight into the teens. Dress warm if you need to be out in the cold and if you see individuals who appear underdressed for the weather or disoriented, call 911 for support.

Did you know that you can clean up accounts from domains that no longer exist using the @Mastodon Admin CLI? For example, users from mastodon.technology (which finally shut down this month) can be purged from your instance's local storage with the command

RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl domains purge mastodon.technology

This is a vitally important usage as a #MastoAdmin‌ since accounts which are no longer functional only eat up storage space. #FediTips

the man’s trying to prove twitter is super alive by showing views but that’s just convincing me it’s deader than i thought

don't be evil

So...uh, how's everyone doing today? 👀

For the union-curious or people like me in states w/ hostile #labor laws, you can still join a union this very minute to find out what it's all about. It is a worldwide union with a deep history: the IWW (International Workers of the World). Every #worker, especially if you feel stuck in a meaningless #job, should be an #organizer too. Joining the #IWW will help you learn basic #organizing skills. Let me know if you have questions! https://www.iww.org/membership/#SocialistSunday #unions #1u

Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods. Authorities Then Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery.
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The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a #Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state #regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.

“This is not as bad as it sounds,” a consultant wrote in2014 to Microsoft & to a county official. “We should be able to relocate these graves.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia

Your union isn't recognized (yet). Can you organize strikes, job actions, and protests? And can your boss retaliate against you for it?
https://workerorganizing.org/premajority-unionism/right-to-strike/

Mass. teacher's union to prioritize higher support staff pay, right to strike next year #mapoli #bospoli #1u #teachers #union #labor #RightToStrike https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/08/mass-teachers-association-legislative-priorities-new-year

In my next iteration of #followfriday

Organizing/Activists
@AFTUnion
@RMTLondon
@TTDAFLCIO
@BostonDykeMarch
@mallory
@redemmas

Tech/News
@k9mail
@thunderbird
@gbhnews
@themarkup
@portside
@universalhub

Fun/bots
@ancient_catbus
@marxbot
@xkcd
@catsofmastodon

All the stories I cover are personal, as a transgender person covering trans issues, but this story of a UU church group forced to cancel their story time in the face of armed, paramilitary style fascists parading outside holding rifles hits even closer to home than most.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/armed-fascist-group-terrorizes-church-shuts-down-youth-story-hour

I'd like to wish all American Rail Workers a very happy Wildcat Strike.

The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa. Blood testing confirms high levels of carcinogen PFAS in the blood of hundreds living close to US bases.
https://www.militarypoisons.org/latest-news/the-us-military-is-poisoning-okinawa

Elon Musk released "files" about Hunter Biden is to distract from Musk on Friday reinstating a Nazi on Twitter and the report released Friday that found hate speech has skyrocketed on Twitter under Musk's reign. ISIS is even back using Twitter under Musk. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html

Houston DSA supports Starbucks Workers United! ☕️ #sbwu #hdsa