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If you're an activist and you deal with journalists, you've probably run into issues at some point with your statements being misrepresented.

Ultimately, journalists and editors are human beings like everyone else, and so they will generally take whatever approach requires the least effort, for the best result.

What this means in practice, is that you should *always* proofread your answers to written interviews before giving them (same for your prefab press materials).

If you format them so well that they can be literally copy-pasted into the article, that is exactly what will happen, and the editor won't touch them! Misrepresentation almost always happens when the editor tries to rephrase your statements, so this is an easy and effective strategy to prevent that.

(Big companies know this too, which is why they always have press kits and canned statements ready. *Especially* for anticapitalist activism, it's important to understand their tactics and learn how to use them for social good.)

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Two flash clips, a flash emulator, a flash programmer, surface mount soldered test points, oscilloscope probes, cat5 crossover cable, and both a TTL serial adapter as well as an RS232 serial adapter with null modem & genderchanger. Finally got my emacs setup just how I like it.

Hello!! here's some of my artwork as a lil introduction to mastodon! I'm a scottish illustrator currently studying for my degree in Illustration and i'm basically a pink blob 💗 I'm excited to share and see lots of artwork on here!

Women: I was gonna get some pens anyway, but these ones are in some fun colours so I'll get them instead of the boring blue ones~

Men: HRNNGHHHH I DON'T KNOW IF I'M ALLOWED TO TAKE BASIC CARE OF MYSELF WITHOUT BEING SPECIFICALLY REASSURED THAT IT IS NOT GAY TO BRUSH MY TEETH

If this gets 10 boosts, I'll post a scifi story I wrote in 2011 about Dustbowl Era gangsters and a thermionic tube-programmed robot

(Please RT) How would you feel about news publications hosting their own Mastodon instances?

Who's everybody's favorite women writers? I'm building a list for myself to read more women

Yall should get a commission from @rye, here's an #emacs OS-tan:

Greetings, new users! Welcome to Mastodon and the greater Fediverse!

You may want to consult my Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

It covers topics like:

* How do I get verified on Mastodon?
* Why should I caption my images?
* What the hell is with all the pineapples?

friendly reminder uwu since apparently artsists are showing up in bulk: pls dont give criticism when not asked for

it can really destroy an emotional relationship with art if it's something they're already worrying about, not prepared for, and generally uncomfortable with

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• Genderfluid
• Gender superfluid
• Gender ferrofluid
• Gender non-Newtonian fluid
• Gender supercritical fluid
• Genderfluidised bed
• Genderliquid
• Genderpyroclastic flow
• Gender quark-gluon plasma
• Gendergas
• Genderviscoelastic
• Gendercolloidal suspension
• Genderslurry

this is an extremely good #Rust resource

https://cheats.rs/

I threw up a website in half an hour the other night after working a 16-hour day so that I could print the address out big and tape it to my tech cart and pad my freelance work list. It's ifixcoinops.com.

Many thanks to everyone who collaborated on the "alternatives to recaptcha" thread a couple of weeks ago.

I've now added a recaptcha alternatives page based on people's suggestions in the thread:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-google-recaptcha/

Feedback welcome 👍

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