Reposted by Jacob MirzaianRachel Lawson @rachel.norfolk.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026Absolutely DELIGHTED that the next @DrupalConEUR will be in Edinburgh!! 🏴💙🏴💙🏴 004
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026True say, aren't there a bunch of alternatives now? I am of the opinion that even an alternative that isn't *provably* better than a politically crappy vendor is still worth trying and investigating in. 010
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianDissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Given tech’s growing role as a political force shaping the conditions of democracy itself, it is no longer enough to organize solely within a traditional union framework that can only win shop-level demands.dissentmagazine.orgRebooting the Tech Worker Movement - Dissent MagazineWorkplace organizing in the tech sector has undergone a steep decline. What went wrong? 041
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026Drupal PDF importer, nice: awards.digileaders.com/AIImpactAwar...awards.digileaders.comWe’re delighted to present the 36 finalists for the 2026 AI Impact Awards. Across 12 categories, our judges have shortlisted three outstanding finalists in each, recognising organisations, teams and individuals delivering responsible, measurable impact through AI. 000
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianMarcus Baw @marcusbaw.com · 24/02/2026Very pleased to have been asked to chat to @digitalhealth2.bsky.social's Jordan Sollof for an episode of the Digital Health Podcast - talking about 'The Case Of The Disappearing NHS Open Source Policies', #insourcing, #nhsbuntu www.digitalhealth.net/2026/02/the-... @dhrewired.bsky.socialdigitalhealth.netThe case for NHS-owned, open softwareIn the latest episode, Marcus Baw calls for a rethink of NHS technology strategy, arguing that the service has drifted away from open source. 373
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Besides the current state of the states - I was genuinely shocked when I found out that DrupalCon North America was only ever held in the USA. If DrupalCon Europe was ALWAYS on Guernsey, surely that'd just be DrupalCon Guernsey, and yet... 130
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Yup, seems to be happening for any app that is associated with Windows Store: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi... Sadly there doesn't seem to be a fix yet :-/windowscentral.comWindows 11 apps won't ppen. What is error code 0x803f8001?Many Windows 11 users are unable to open apps on their PCs and are running into error code 0x803f8001. 120
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianWindows Central @windowscentral.com · 21/01/2026Error code 0x803F8001 is preventing some Windows users from opening basic apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, and it seems to be spreading to third-party apps as well ⤵️windowscentral.comWindows 11 apps won't ppen. What is error code 0x803f8001?Many Windows 11 users are unable to open apps on their PCs and are running into error code 0x803f8001. 0126
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Please no more school bully redemption arcs - thanks. 000
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianCalifornia Academy of Sciences @calacademy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍 692906501
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This is a #CSS solution to a problem I ran into last year where some mobile browsers combined hover & touch events, leading to accidental clicks of non-visible links. It was a pain to troubleshoot but adding a 1ms animation to "pointer-events" cured all ills. codepen.io/crowjake/pen...codepen.ioBecome Clickable... 010
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Ugh... They are that AND a deeply insidious force that eats away at any movement I have found them within. If you want your party to be a husk of what it might have been, with nobody left but swappies patting themselves on the back for "sticking it out" by all means... 020
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Another example of what we call "hunter- gatherers" being much more: rather landscape and #biodiversity managers phys.org/news/2025-11...phys.orgAncient wolves on remote Baltic Sea island reveal link to prehistoric humansScientists have found wolf remains, thousands of years old, on a small, isolated island in the Baltic Sea—a place where the animals could only have been brought by humans. 25619
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025OK it's done! You can use this tool to preview the available system colors across the major browsers and OS's, without having to spin up BrowserStack - also includes the 4 high-contrast themes for windows: codepen.io/crowjake/pen... #css #frontend 010
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The ever moving goalposts! I do appreciate Bitwarden, as a portable, device-agnostic way to manage passkeys (passwords, 2FA)... It has definitely made my life more liveable during the great enshitification 000
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Windows high-contrast modes and Safari coming soon. Very curious that Chrome supports more colors in Dark mode than it does in Light mode. 000
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Been playing with #css <system-color> names emulating browsers and forced colors (soon) and creating fall-backs to help with compatibility testing and prototyping - there's more to be done, but feel free to fork and experiment yourself: codepen.io/crowjake/pen...codepen.ioForced Colors: Scheme... 100
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025"You're some old hiphop heads, shout out to your babysitters!" 010
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025For additional context, in the last month, this happened at TwitchCon: youtu.be/xAhWgWu5nZ0 - Not a great look.youtu.beTwitchCon Situation is Worse Than You ThinkYouTube video by LegalEagle 010
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025So long as you take the feedback consider it during the next meme-cycle please. 010
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Not loving the third tile. Please don't glorify that behaviour. 110
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Hopefully other bodies follow suit... Like this shit-show basically greenlighting the modern version of conversion therapy, whereby anti-trans therapists can tout their services as merely exploratory, and can't be reported for breaching their accreditation: www.psychotherapy.org.uk/news/ukcp-gu...psychotherapy.org.ukUKCP guidance regarding gender critical views 000
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The bar is so low in tech right now, that ethics are just seen as "bloat". They talked about having a "human in the loop" to keep their AI accountable but can never tell you under which circumstances the human will say "no" - although probs just when the bid is too low! 120
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025One benefit is that it can help differentiate AI with spoofed user agents from legit bots who respect robots.txt (the spoofers have cheeto dust on their fingers) 000
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025At least there's that! Might need to get into gaming to escape the garbled monstrosity that will rule over the ruins of the societies that we bankrupted to pay for it. 020
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 04/09/2025This is not cool... Fundamental pieces of technology are at risk from AI activity in the wild. youtu.be/6n2eDcRjSskyoutu.beAI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel StenbergYouTube video by Daniel Stenberg 020
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I must continue to insist that this is not a strong regime. It does not have the kind of pan-societal support needed to enforce Gleichshaltung. It has significant elite buy-in and a small popular coalition, but it is brittle and feeble and will collapse if pressed hard enough. 6436691098
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Happy to count myself among those! I do find irksome that when it *is* remembered it is only remembered as an injustice of forced isolation... We should also remember we did a tough thing to be proud of & saved lives. I've seen YP viewing their problems *only* through the lens of damage, which... 😕 110
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Escaping abusers who flip the blame is self-care, just as resistance is an act of love. Please ground yourself in the root of your compassion, as you persist against white-toothed grinning salesmen telling the cameras that you are somehow the problem. Far from it! Take care of yourselves out here❤️✊ 0103
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianScarleteen @scarleteen.com · 25/05/2025Since we’ve been fielding a lot of questions in our direct services about child-on-child sexual abuse (COCSA), @heathercorinna.bsky.social wrote this article to explain the nuanced details of this term and provide helpful information for youth. Full piece here: www.scarleteen.com/read/abuse... 02111
Reposted by Jacob Mirzaians. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20/05/2025IMMENSELY proud of this tool I've been working on with @heathercorinna.bsky.social and @jmarzipan.bsky.social The Care Web Toolkit is designed to help you keep all your key medical info in one place, useful whether you have one condition or many. Read it, use it, remix it, share it!scarleteen.comCare Web ToolkitOur downloadable and printable templates to help you keep and organize all your healthcare information. 57544
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Just sponsored @ddev.bsky.social - a tool that's become indispensable for my dev work and gives me renewed hope in open source at a time when, well, egalitarian technologies are now more often conveniences or worse, "open-source-wash", for corporate/big-tech ambitions than "the real deal".github.comSponsor @ddev on GitHub SponsorsDDEV is a local web development tool for PHP, Javascript, and HTML developers 151
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianGirl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025There’s a protest at Parliament square, 1pm tomorrow if you can make it: www.attitude.co.uk/news/trans-r... Or here’s how to contact your MP: www.writetothem.comattitude.co.ukTrans rights protest in Parliament Square, London this Saturday: Get the details hereProtestors will meet at 1pm tomorrow as organisers say: "Please reach out to everyone you know" 12310
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025That feels like it's putting it lightly... in some of the worst parts of it they're not just complicit, they're the self-aware, intentional, and deliberate force *behind* the harms. 010
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianNatalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025No it is not "in the cloud", but very much down to Earth. And #ClimateEmergency not the only threat - what about water and other resource use? So we can have such #AI slop as "shrimp Jesus"? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comEnergy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says reportThe IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat to the climate was ‘overstated’ 43116
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Thank you for sharing! It's definitely millions, our last estimate for users since Heather started Scarleteen is 90million and that's not counting people who have accessed their books, or recieved information second-hand, or free impacts of what volunteers have done since being at Scarleteen. 020
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Was talking to my housie about Adolescence, and White Lotus today and how negative viewer reactions sometimes just highlight those shows successes. If the entitled shits of the world identify with the characters you have written, you probably wrote some very accurate and compelling entitled shits! 000
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Totally! Founder, Editor and Codirector, and everything else you can think of! 010
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianScarleteen @scarleteen.com · 09/04/2025Our founder needs some help! Please give what you can to help treat and heal someone who has healed many of us by keeping queer sexuality education and support free to young people, even (and especially) when it was/is politically dangerous to do so. We'd be nowhere without them!❤️🩹 #HelpSky 23861
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Healthcare, including dental, in the USA is a joke and @heathercorinna.bsky.social is having to cover >10k for the first treatments/surgeries, just to keep their jaw from crumbling! If you can spare any $$$ please help save Heather's jaw! www.gofundme.com/f/help-heath... #HelpSky #FundSky #MutualAidgofundme.comDonate to Help Heather Corinna Pay For Surgery, organized by Mark PriceA couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting my great friend, Heather Corinna, i… Mark Price needs your support for Help Heather Corinna Pay For Surgery 089
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025So sorry Killian! Polypane is an amazing achievement and must be so much work: not sure what this other project was but it can be an equally important thing to know when to let something go. 110
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 04/04/2025Here's a concrete thing you can do to help right now. If you rent, start a tenants' union. Just meet once a month. Ask everyone who comes to donate $5-$10 per month to start two things: a rent support fund and a legal support fund for anyone who needs them. Keeping people housed is praxis. 829085
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025I think of the breadcrumb as a slice of a sitemap, with the last crumb indicating "you are here" - I don't think breaking from that pattern would be too much of an issue if everyone did it at the same time, but being inconsistent *could* confuse. Maybe a case for `visually-hidden`? 000
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Precisely... This is a structural problem, and too many adults are taking comfort in the idea that "incel media did it" so "anti-incel media can undo it" - as if just-say-no stopped anyone doing drugs! Must be amnesia! All of this to avoid public spending and open communication with young people. 010
Reposted by Jacob MirzaianScarleteen @scarleteen.com · 04/04/2025This new article is an excellent resource for parents! Demeter Delune outlines some tips and makes some great connections on how dating can become a part of self-care for parents through the cultivation of intimate and meaningful relationships outside the family. www.scarleteen.com/read/relat... 1144
Jacob Mirzaian @jmarzipan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I defer to the expert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d809...youtube.com★★★★★YouTube video by ManBetterKnow 010
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