I vividly remember a morning in my freshman year of high school homeroom when a classmate turned to me and asked a terrifying question. “Tom, are you gay?”
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-gay-man-breaks-free-from-fear-and-shame-to-fight-for-visibility-8b1eb0663df7

The first time I wore a Pride pin in public, my fingers trembled so badly I stabbed myself twice trying to fasten it. It was tiny — barely the size of a dime — six simple rainbow stripes against the black canvas of my work bag.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/learning-to-show-my-pride-when-anxiety-says-hide-f436ab6e04ff?sk=28f52aae0ebbbf96cded596c2db62a67

CISO Alert: Security Tool Fatigue Is Real — and Dangerous

More tools ≠ more security. In fact, 68% of orgs use 11+ security tools — and many are facing alert fatigue, talent strain, and visibility gaps.

Key lessons for CISOs:

More dashboards = less clarity. Tool sprawl leads to noise, missed threats, and wasted budget.
Redundant tools ≠ value. Many platforms overlap, offering the same functions in different UIs.
Talent gets stretched thin. New tools require onboarding, management, and integration.
The illusion of coverage. Without full ecosystem visibility, risks go unnoticed and unowned.

Solutions that work:
・Take inventory of tools and evaluate actual usage.
・Prioritize integration over expansion.
・Invest in training and unifying data—not flashy features.
・Embrace platform consolidation for long-term security resilience.

#CyberSecurity #CISO #SecurityStrategy #ToolFatigue #SecurityOps #Visibility #ThreatDetection #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/04/07/ciso-security-platform-fatigue/

#TDOV is our gift to the future which, we hope, is more inclusive and compassionate for people of all ethnic backgrounds, religions, genders, income levels, education levels, and more. It is a day when we recognize that everyone has value.
https://buff.ly/jzvfMrH

Arnold: It’s overwhelmingly likely that you both, at some point on your lives, shared a public bathroom with a #transgender person. And that’s what happened.
Rupert: I told you, nothing happened.
Arnold: Exactly.
https://buff.ly/NeEPjmB

How Four Award-Winning Women Change the World Through Photography https://petapixel.com/2025/04/02/how-four-award-winning-women-change-the-world-through-photography/ #leicawomenfotoprojectaward #priyasureshkambli #jenniferosborne #photojournalism #leicawomenfoto #koralcarballo #annaneubauer #Inspiration #documentary #Interviews #visibility #Spotlight #interview #spotlight #Features #portrait #feature #leica

If I had a dime for every time a cis person has accused me of shoving my transness down their throat, I might have been a volunteer instead of an employee for a nonprofit asking for donations for #LGBTQ+ civil rights a couple of years ago.
https://buff.ly/86aqVZv

When all the controversies about #transgender women using public bathrooms began several years ago, I knew #cisgender women would also get targeted.
https://buff.ly/wTaNfaE

I’ve always thought visibility was a strange thing — powerful but fragile and fleeting. Growing up, I learned early that history was most often a carefully curated narrative, one written by whoever happened to be holding the pen at the moment.
https://buff.ly/Zr8dFNE

There’s a psychological weight to being seen that rarely makes it into the celebratory Instagram posts and corporate rainbow logos. I’ve experienced firsthand what I’ll refer to as the “visibility paradox.”
https://buff.ly/RIQc5cX

Flashing some color on my nails for International #Transgender Day of Visibility.

Every right we have, every legal protection, every concession we’ve won — all of them required sacrifice. The more we are out as trans and the more we share our stories, the more people will realize that we are just people, not bogey monsters.
https://buff.ly/OCa7Enj

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Visibility#HumanRights

I’m appalled by the lawless, corrupt, bigoted, cruel, and incompetent #Trump/#Musk administration, so I’ll be attending the #HandsOff protest in #Albany, NY, on Saturday, April 5th. I hope you’ll join me there or at another of the 750 events planned around the country. #USPol #April5 #Visibility

https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

new poster avaiable in the shop: https://ko-fi.com/mudcompany/shop
#visibility #antifa #poster #print #art #graphicArt #MastoArt

Gaining Visibility in the Algorithmic-based Internet by Reclaiming Your Space

https://foo.be/2025/01/Gaining-Visibility

Archaeologists Reveal The Enigmatic Burial Practices Of The Southern Jê [Present Day Brazil]
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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-archaeologists-reveal-enigmatic-burial-southern.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101646 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #burial #grave #SouthernJe #Brazil #Brasil #archaeology #spatiotemporal #date #dating #chronology #burialcaves #cemetery #Kaingang #Laklãnõ #cosmologies #visibility #lineofsight #BrazilianHighlands #symbology #mound #enclosure #deathscapes #mythology #myths #Ethnographic #ethnography #landscape #landscapearchaeology #indigenous #firstnation #indigenousGIS #knowledgesystems

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