Quick update to my politics and content warning policy that I'm pinning to my profile.
What's happening in the US right now is not only wrong and reprehensible, but also directly affects me as a trans person, the people who I love and other members of marginalized communities. For as long as it is safe to do so, I will, unequivocally, not be silent.
As such, many of my posts will be political in nature. I sincerely wish this was not necessary, but I didn't get to pick this timeline.
Other content about tech, development, PKMs, neurodiversity, hiking, nerd culture and other interests is still important to me, but may be crowded out by posts that are about US and global politics.
Because accessibility is important to me I will be continuing to use content warnings for all the political content wherever possible. I am imperfect however, and have ADHD, so mistakes will almost certainly slip through. Feel free to let me know if I miss one.
With that said, there is no way to add content warnings to boosted content without changing the nature of boosting (in other words, embedding links in a post’s content). I am not going to avoid boosting things that I believe are important simply because the author of the post did not, for whatever reason, add content warnings. If I do not feel additional commentary is valuable, I am uncomfortable with quoting exclusively to add a warning. I do not care to police other people’s content.
If that is a concern, I highly recommend utilizing Mastodon's great filtering features, which will help you avoid posts you don't want to see by me and others.
It's also a great way to push pause when you're overwhelmed and need to get in a different mind space. Self-care is critical right now and the next few years are going to be a marathon.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#filters
I will completely understand if the frequency of political content or my boosting policy do not enable you to follow me.
I will likely edit this post in the future, you might get random notifications when I do if you engage with it depending on your client/settings.
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