โThis might be my last video. Weโre now besieged inside al-Shifa Hospital. Weโre being heavily shot at. The occupation suddenly raided the hospital and its vicinity. As you can hear now, there are intense clashes in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital. Weโre hearing sounds coming from the gate. There are shrapnels falling over the hospitalโs yard.โ
Wadea Abu Alsoud, a Palestinian journalist
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Fight Club - The Recall Coordinator's Formula
Clip from the movie Fight Club."On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."I was a recall coordinator. My job was to apply th...YouTube
They're still shooting at Palestinians who are just trying to get bags of flour. It isn't just a one-off occurrence. People in the North of Gaza are starving, and when aid comes, they're killed for trying to get flour to feed their families.
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Something I find interesting and perhaps telling about people who run in yiffy circles and people who complain about them, the people in the yiffy circles are almost always very affectionate and open in far more ways than just sex, while the people who always complain about them misrepresent them as being monomaniacal about sex...
I think the people in the yiffy circles are just open about things in general, and the people who don't like them are just judgemental.
I wouldn't normally turn to British Vogue for a strident defence of Diane Abbott, but...
''none of this parliamentary rhetoric about extremism & MP safety has been mobilised to protect Diane Abbott after the Conservativeโs biggest donor said he wanted to shoot her. Quite the opposite; the system has moved to shield Frank Hester, a poor man who made a little mistake & needs to be given grace and compassion'!
A (rightly) angry piece
h/t @Karenawokekaren
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/diane-abbott-racist-frank-hester-british-politics
โWhen Is Inequality Taken Seriously And When Is It Dismissed As A Trick Of The Light?โ: What Diane Abbottโs Treatment Reveals About The State Of British Politics
Frank Hesterโs shockingly violent, overtly racist comments on Diane Abbott reflect a hatred that runs so deep, he couldnโt help bringing her up in a conversation she had no relevance to, then broadening out his sentiment to every woman of her ethnic โฆMoya Lothian-McLean (British Vogue)
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A message from Ireland to the US ahead of St. Patrick's Day, in solidarity with the people of Palestine โ๏ธ ๐ต๐ธ
#IrishHistory #BritishHistory #FreePalestine #StopGenocide
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That sucks. Puberty blockers are perfectly safe. Damn.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/uk/england-nhs-puberty-blockers-trans-children-intl-gbr/index.html
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And letโs not forget that UBI contribute back to society - 80+% of recipients care for family (young & old), volunteer, work part time, start a business, etc. And UBI translates into savings for social programs by reducing pressure on expensive services like hospital ERโs, ambulances & police.
If youโre not for UBI, youโre shamefully cruel and short sighted.
Many of us #ActuallyAutistic folk, myself included, harp on #AutismAwarenessMonth like it's a stupid idea because it's really about BEWAREness, but I actually would like it if more people were aware that they don't know anything accurate about #autism or that #autistic people exist pretty much everywhere.
In light of that, I have some demands for any media published during AAM:
1. Every article about psychology or mental health includes information about how it is only for NTs and is not helpful for autistic people.
2. All YouTube videos remove background music when someone is talking.
3. Every autistically coded fictional character has to mention they are actually autistic on screen so it becomes canon, while making a subtextual joke about how they are being portrayed by an allistic actor who is undoubtably getting it mostly wrong.
4. Any use of a puzzle piece or the color blue must include an disclaimer that it is being used over the objections of autistic people but they just don't care.
Anyone else have some demands to add to the list?
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The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....
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Most people can recognise a job making a useful and valuable contribution to society, even if its not paid all that well.
The pay for a job is based on supply and demand, not 'value' to wider society.
If a job require a very high IQ or very specific skill set, the supply of candidates will be low. If a job is very dangerous or just plain unpleasant the demand will be low.
If you do a very dangerous job that also requires a high IQ you will be paid very well.
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China: โRemove all VPNsโ
Apple: โSure thingโ
China: โโฆand podcast appsโ
Apple: โCan do boss!โ
China: โโฆand also hand over all iCloud data for our citizensโ
Apple: โI mean why wouldnโt we? Here you go!โ
EU: โAllow alternate app stores, and do it fairlyโ
Apple: โAhhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!โ
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I mean this in the most loving way possible... if there are sexual fluids, boners, or even if the person is just shoving their genitals in your face in a picture, it's not "non-sexual" โ
If the picture is trying to get a sexual reaction outta the viewer, it's prolly sexual. If the nudity is just incidental or just part of the vibe, then it's prolly non-sexual.
Another screenshot from this "Topless Topics Reacts to Euronews article 'Free The Nipple: Why should it still be headline news?'" video I'm editing, showing one of the endless number of examples of images that anyone who "looks male" would be allowed to wear outside and/or post to any mainstream social media or video sharing platform, while anyone who "looks female" posing exactly the same way, wearing exactly the same shirt, could not without having the post banned as "sexually explicit nudity" ๐
Image: nonsexual mostly-covered male nipple
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We need help to pay for our backups. This is a yearly funding campaign that we do, so if you can help us please see here https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/ - we only need 300 Euros for a full year of 4TB encrypted backups.
This means everything from our videos and documentaries, books, websites, including trom.tf (meaning all of the files that users have uploaded to our services - from Peertube videos to Nextcloud files). Everything!
300 Euros to make sure that we have everything backed-up in a secure place.
Please help if you can and thanks a lot for doing that!
#tromlive #opensource #foss #volunteering #alternative
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Yearly Backup Funding TROM Backup 11โฌ of 300โฌ raised We have over 20 websites and some 2-3 TB of files in total. And we need to make sure they are all backed-up in a secure and encrypted place.TROM
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- playing more of the adult game with surprisingly decent writing named Being a Dik (complete with ridiculous character voices)
- continuing work on my CherryChy/Falkor fanart while we play some weird movie in the corner?
About to stream to https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics in half an hour so let me know!
ToplessTopics - Watch me stream now on joystick.tv
Topless Topics Reacts- do Trans Men have Male Privilege?Joystick TV
All people have a right to be safe and free.
(Palestinian civilians are not the same as Hamas. Don't start or I will just block you)
I expected the pushback to this to be more on social media than on derpibooru. derpibooru.org/images/3315509
The usual dumb arguments. Any time you are saying "it's okay to deliberately kill unarmed civilians including children en masse, because..." you should stop right there.
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Also maybe it's not active when I'm in towing mode? I do tow a 42' fifth wheel with it and the truck is definitely aware when I'm in towing mode or when the trailer umbilical is hooked up.
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