Today is #WorldBackupDay. Don’t forget to make a backup and verify your backups too. I use the rsnapshot on my FreeBSD machine https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-install-rsnapshot-filesystem-snapshot-backup-utility-in-freebsd/ but can be installed on Linux too https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/redhat-cetos-linux-remote-backup-snapshot-server/ What do you use to make backups?
It's Trans Day of Visibility today and we're sending love and solidarity to trans people everywhere - whether you're able to be open about being trans or not.
It's also the 5th birthday of our website! Yes, our website launched on 31st March 2020 and was the catalyst for TransActual becoming the organisation that it is today.
One of our first pages was our crowd-sourced definition of transphobia: https://transactual.org.uk/transphobia
The words "detain" and "detention" have definitions that are mostly benign -- e.g. "detained by traffic on the way to lunch" and "grade-school kid has after-class detention..."
That's why using "was detained" is carrying water for ICE when the reality is "was kidnapped off the street and imprisoned..."
Journalism needs to be much more precise, but that would require less stenography and more thinking before publishing.
America under Trump isn't feared for its strength.
It's avoided for its ignorance.
It's the drunk, belligerent, painfully racist uncle at the party that nobody wants to get stuck talking to.
It is, in fact, the perfect representation of Trump's own voters.
https://www.theindex.media/donald-trump-is-too-weak-to-understand-soft-power/
Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement
The French far-right icon will be sentenced later Monday
By Victor Goury-Laffont
PARIS - Marine Le Pen and eight other former MEPs from the French far right were found guilty Monday of embezzling European Parliament funds
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.
Iris.
Maurice Pillard Verneuil, from "La plante et ses applications ornementales" by Eugène Grasset, Paris: [ca. 1896] #illustration #art #design https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/iris/
happy trans day of visibility!!! 
exploitation is bad and everything but the most offensive thing about billionaires is that they could do cool shit all day every day and choose not to.
Awesome!
Our EU Open Source Solutions Catalogue is live !
Pine Marten
Standing tall to check for danger, as it moves through the woodland, and catching the last light of the day too.
THE MAASAI REFUSE TO BE ERASED!
Their homes burned. Families forcibly evicted and pushed over 700km from their ancestral lands, where they are now caught in conflict with those already living there.
All this to make way for trophy hunting and carbon offset deals that profit corporates while destroying lives.
Maasai leaders are calling for the Tanzanian government to do the right thing for its people and the planet.
Add your voice to theirs 
https://act.gp/4hZdwz0
It’s my birthday! 
It’s also #TransDayofVisibility 
which seems fitting!
I’m turning 30 and it’s such a privilege! Looking back at who I was 15 years ago feels surreal. I have grown so much and learned to find and create my own happiness in simple things around me and cherish as many moments as possible, and I wouldn’t be here without @lindenshieldarts .
Being a happy trans person is one of the biggest act of defiance in a society that tries to mark us as the enemies.
#trans #lgbtqia
#OTD in 1862.
The first two volumes of Victor Hugo's epic historical novel Les Misérables appear in Brussels, followed on April 3 by Paris publication, with the remaining volumes on May 15. The first English-language translations, by Charles Edwin Wilbour, are published in New York on June 7, and by Frederic Charles Lascelles Wraxall, in London in October.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables
Les Misérables at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Les+Mis%C3%A9rables&submit_search=Search
Today’s walk in Fukuoka
#CherryBlossoms #Bloomscrolling
Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"
The order includes:
* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;
* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;
* preventing millions from registering to vote;
* severely limiting voting by mail.
Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker
Loving how the signal drama is more focused on the fact the boys group chat got leaked and not the 20 or so innocent people they buried under rubble with missiles
GIVEAWAY
I’ve been blown away by the kindness everyone has shown me here since I joined the fediverse so today I want to give something back to the community. 
One lucky person can win this original acrylic marker painting! 
I‘m not a fan of overcomplicated giveaways so I am making it real simple.
To enter, all you have to do is tell me in the comments why you enjoy following my account.
Boosts are welcome but not a must!
Open internationally; ends 09/04 midnight CEST.
(D.Burch) 
