Joshua K. Farrar 🌠 @joshuakfarrar@arlington.social

More suffering for the Palestinian people.
The PM is a monster. How was he allowed to run for office after all of the crimes he and his wife did?

Netanyahu government makes West Bank settlement expansion its priority | Israel | The Guardian

Hardline coalition vows to legalise dozens of illegally built outposts and annex the occupied territory

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/28/benjamin-netanyahu-government-makes-west-bank-settlement-expansion-its-priority

#introduction: my battles

I was the first trans person to change my name on already-published research papers. I didn't think I was the first when I did it, which helped.

I'm part of the Name Change Policy Working Group (https://ncpwg.org) to make this easier for others. Many journals now allow name changes.

Google Scholar refuses to call trans authors by their names, or even talk to trans people. I made https://scholar.hasfailed.us. Google should either listen to us or shut down Scholar.

A Texas Superintendent Ordered School Librarians to Remove LGBTQ Books. Now the Federal Government Is Investigating.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the Granbury Independent School District after it banned school library books dealing with sexuality and gender.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-banned-books-library-granbury-lgbtq @ProPublica @NBC #lgbt #bookban

sciences.social is now hosted by the Open Collective Foundation! OCF is a non-profit that serves as a "fiscal host" for collectives providing a social service. We now can accept U.S. tax-deductible donations and will have a public budget showing all expenditures. I've transferred Ko-Fi funds over & would recommend folks with recurring donations move them to OCF. Go to https://opencollective.com/sciences-social to make a holiday-season tax-deductible donation.

Digital Ocean, provider of some of the most helpful tech tutorials around, just published one for how to set up #mastodon !

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-20-04

I wish this had existed before I stood up my own instance, but now it'll help others.

Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

A reminder, if you own your own domain you can quickly setup webfinger like this https://www.hanselman.com/.well-known/webfinger (can just be a static file, or dynamic) so that if someone searches mastodon (use me as an example) for @shanselman then it will call out to my domain, find me, and tell you my aliases, which is my account at hachyderm.io. Cool eh? Should take you just a few min to implement!