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Corrected McDonald's bus stop ad in London

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Content warning: Israel, Hamas

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We often talk about inequality, but we ignore a significant aspect of it - wealth breeds wealth. Money makes money. While those without income are trapped in a cycle that makes earning income difficult. A basic income each month is a concrete solution to finally break this cycle.

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yeah, that (the first part at least) was the whole point of "capitalism in the XIXth century" from Piketty, that did some noise a decade ago, making a strong point for extremely strong wealth taxes, so wealth is not, in itself, reason enough to get more and more of the share of the total wealth in the world.
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those with money don’t want to stop the cycle! After all, in capitalism’s earliest incarnation (Tudor England, with the enclosure and theft of the commons), the fact that people were now homeless and starving was not a concern of the landed gentry. In fact, it was a boon! They now have folks willing to do anything for a piece of bread. Including becoming goon squad thugs, to squash uprisings and force others off the commons, so the landowners could take more. Poverty is not a bug…


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I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.

Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.

Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).

Yeah Y2K was a one time thing. (Well at least until year 10000)

Isn't 2038 going to be fun.

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Content warning: Zionism

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Future academic: “Why yes, I’m a Trumpologist, but I don’t focus on the insurrection, that field’s too crowded. I tend to concentrate on his early work, New York real estate fraud and sexual assaults, that sort of thing.”

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Something I’m always disappointed by in apps is them not gracefully dealing with intermittent internet.
So many feel like they’ve never been tested on slow/patchy connections.

Why not let me:
🔹press like, cache it, and send it when I get internet?
🔹press send on a message, cache it, and send it when I get internet? (WhatsApp handles this one well IMO.)
🔹open the message notification and see as much text as the notif held, & load the rest on reconnect?

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i remember when youtube would let you pause the video and then you could slowly load the whole thing. Instead of now when you have to stutter through the whole thing with poorc Internet or switch to a terrible resolution

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Friendly PSA: people can be ardently against killing civilians, bombing hospitals, starving children, flattening schools, and displacing millions of people AND be against a terrorist organization that slaughtered people at a music festival. Believe it or not, those are indeed compatible beliefs. Sometimes people are just against killing innocent people regardless of who those people are. If that’s hard for you, ask yourself what about one of the groups of innocents makes them worth more to you.

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A friendly reminder that God kills fertilized embryos at an astounding rate. If abortion is run of the mill murder, let me tell you, friends, God's doing it on a Pol Pot scale.

60 to 70 percent of fertilized eggs do not make it to birth, and thankfully most women don't know they miscarry.

The cosmic joke is that if you wanted to stop the death of babies, #Alabama style, the only ethical way to do so would be to stop all sex, especially the kind that aims for reproduction.

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You know, I am TOTALLY behind the Religious Reich selecting themselves out of the gene pool in such a non-violent fashion.

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Content warning: Contains uncensored, non-sexual nudity


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😂 Elon Musk just crawled from under a rock and discovered something that has been bothering people for years. It is just too funny not to share this one.
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After thinking more about AI making programming obsolete.

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It's time we acknowledge that poverty isn't a personal failing, it's a systemic one. We've created an economy that doesn't care for its people. Universal Basic Income is about shifting that balance. It's about creating an economy that cares for all, not just the privileged few.

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Unless we restore the common good, repatriate, update, reinvent and democratize critical public infrastructure — the funds people receive will go straight into the pockets of the Oligarchs and their corporate and political proxies. A pacifying illusion of social progress.
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In the absence of free/subsidised basic services, UBI will inflate the retail sector and rapidly lose its value. Notice that many rich people support it *as an alternative* to a social-welfare safety net.

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Joke in a German newspaper:
If you want to know what East Germany was really like just take a holiday in England.😎

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The 'freedom' enjoyed by the average British subject is being whittled away every day it seems.
We have 'freedom of expression' as long as we're not too radical.
We have 'freedom of movement' when we can afford it.
We have 'freedom of association' - we can join an emasculated Trades Union.
We are free to stand for election and vote as we choose (not that it seems to make any difference).
Good Innit?

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UK to deny re-entry to radicalised extremist Liz Truss https://newsthump.com/2024/02/25/uk-to-deny-re-entry-to-radicalised-extremist-liz-truss/

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Alabama is only a separate entity to Americans. To everyone else it is America 🇺🇸.

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I really hate to say this, and hate to admit this even more, but the BlueSky user experience is actually quite nice. The Fediverse could really learn a thing or two. Especially the whole concept of "feeds" and finding topics to follow. That's a really nice touch.

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Neurotypicals, what do autistic people look like to you?


Trying to get an idea of how NTs see us. I know that when I see autistic people, I see someone that's like me. Obviously, that's not how NTs perceive us, so what do we look like to yall??
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I'm not normal, but I don't think I have autism. I might be prejudiced based on what I think autism looks like and there could be many people who don't fit this description. I find people pleasers who go out of their way to try to smooth over every little issue to be very challenging to deal with. They create pressure to reassure them under the threat of emotional self harm in blaming themselves.

A lot of autistic people tend to stand out in ways that aren't always easy to describe, but they'll often have problems like hair that's too long or not maintained. A "neckbeard" that's never trimmed or trimmed short using a guide. They also wear dirty or damaged clothes.

I had a white autistic employee who got bullied for being a virgin and eventually got fired for attendance after calling out repeatedly because of it. Then he went on a rant and started blatantly calling the other employees the n-word without actually saying it. It created a bad association.


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If you wear clothes while it's too hot to wear clothes, just because clothes are the norm, your norms are faulty.

#Naturism

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To the person that reported me: *You poor summer child*. > Semitic people or Semites is [a] … term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. ([Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people)) The fact that *anti*-*semitism* has historically not been applied to Arabs, Jews, and others shows the systemic and abject racism that exists within Zionism and Colonialism.


Let's not forget that Palestinians are a semitic people. Anti-Semitism applies equally as much to them as it does to the Jews.

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I think #Threads coming into the #Fediverse, and #Bluesky taking off as its own network, might create the pressure and motivation we need to fix what's missing in ActivityPub.

A lot of people are doing super important work right now, creating proposals and extensions, case studies, and doing research on how we can extend the protocol. That's great!

I think we need our feet held to the fire in order to come together, and try to solve a bunch of problems like Identity, Data Portability, Privacy Controls, and Discovery. It might be enough to push for #ActivityPub 2.0.

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This might come across as a controversial or even hostile opinion, but: I believe that as the dominant player, #Mastodon has been dragging its feet on moving the network forward, and consequently holds the network back.

For all of the incredible developments and concepts newer platforms have made, Mastodon largely just does its own thing. Which would be fine on its own, but its position in the network as one of the largest players has made it the defacto standard.

This is unsustainable.


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Will this change anything among the bootlickers of Israeli genocidal military?


I bet not a single top EU leader will have the balls to stand up against this lunatic and his genocidal gang of maniacs.

#Netabyahu #ICJ #Politics #EU #Biden #Genocide #StopIsrael #SaveGaza #Palestine @Palestine @Israel

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christianity is like a fandom that didn't get any new content for a long time and is now desperately trying to keep themselves entertained by just making shit up, and in doing so they're straying further and further from the original lore

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Due to it being a Mastodon instance, the mods are not the ones forwarding the reports, any user on a Mastodon instance can create a report and also choose to forward it to the remote instance.
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Let's see, how can I effectively express my thoughts on this matter:

Fuck Mastodon.
The mods have a record though of who sent that report I guarantee you, and bullshit reports are just as much SPAM as anything else on the fediverse and waste everyone's time. At the very least they should be against every instance's rules and terms of service.

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Yeah the local mods do also get a notification of the report like on Misskey/Sharkey I am not sure if it tells them if the report was forwarded though.
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There is a cabal of Mastodon users who's primary goal is to brigade and get accounts they don't like suspended and taken down for no reason other than they can. My User Reports tab on the various instances I run/ help run is full of them.
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As you can see by this test report from Mastodon.social I can choose to forward the report as a basic user. This is definitely something the dev team from @Mastodon should change @Gargron
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Mastodon still doesn't have quoted posts so I won't hold my breath that this will even be added to a roadmap before I die.

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Everyone always talks about how much they could accomplish if they weren't tired all the time but no one ever says imagine all the sleepies they could have if they didn't have to accomplish anything :blobcat_noddies:

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Patriarchy despises sex work and sex workers for the same reason it despises abortion and trans rights.

Because like all forms of personal autonomy, it removes the locus of social control over sex, sexuality, etc. from cis-het men and gives people agency over their own lives.

The puritanical nonsense about sex work is largely a distraction from cis-het men's rage over not being able to own and commoditize women's sexuality (and others) for themselves.

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@gwynnion: Would it be presuming too much to qualify "cis-het men" with "power starved and insecure"? In any case, I agree with your assessment. Thanks for the fine toot.

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Now #livestreaming at https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics ! Let's review #AriAster 's new #horror movie #BeauIsAfraid !
(nonsexual female nipples visible at link)

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On violence

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This weekend we had one of the best nudist events in Guadalajara, Nudist Talent Show! It ended up being a night of karaoke and dancing, we had an amazing time! 🎤💃

✨new gallery onP A T R E O N✨
https://www.patreon.com/posts/nudist-talent-98839709

#Nudist #NudistTalentShow #Nudism #nudeActivities


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Hot take:

When furries are trying to lasciviously say 'tailhole' I instead think of this

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If you are mildly annoyed by plastic drinks bottles is that a PET peeve?

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