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20,000 mail accounts.
20,000 blogs.
5,000 mailing lists.
1,500 websites.

In Europe.

Run by volunteers of @cavallette, perfectly legal, and decidedly antifascist, feminist, queer.

Destroyed and shut down by Trump's administration, extra legally.

It is astonishingly quiet.

#Autistici

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@barbra An alternate DNS root only helps to the extent that anyone uses it. Since few people use those, it's unlikely to help much. And the challenges are far wider than just losing DNS names: A/I will lose bank accounts, hosting space, and most other services provided by businesses at risk from US secondary sanctions on those doing business with A/I.
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When it comes to the shutdown of Autistici/Inventati we really should reserve most of our anger for our leaders right here in Europe. They allowed this to happen.

Sure, the US government is beyond evil and before that, optimistically, merely problematic. But they only hold this power over Europe and European companies, initiatives and whatnot because we've allowed for it. That's on us.

The shutdown of A/I saddens me but it is also the only reasonable choice they had and they should be commended not wanting to cause harm to their users.

Europe needs to do better. Today. There's absolutely no reason for us to be in this embarrassingly submissive position.

@cavallette

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I think this perspective is the problem. We should reserve most of our anger for *ourselves*. We keep on speaking about "leaders" and "governments", continuously forgetting that in a democracy WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE THE GOVERNMENT. We don't have "leaders": we have government – our – representatives.

We keep behaving like 10-year-old kids who wait for some mummy or daddy to do something and tell us what to do, instead of adults who understand that unless *we* do something, nobody else will.

We wish so much for a daddy to lead us? OK, no worries, a daddy will surely come to take the burden of responsibility and government from us. The we can simply follow and obey daddy.

And that's what we deserve; that's our choice.

#democracy

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@pglpm You're not fully wrong and you can find plenty of posts where I talk about 'we' instead of just our leaders, but...

Our leaders keep claiming to do one thing and then do another. Whether is when they're campaigning or while in office. Most of them can't be trusted and this is nothing new but at the same time I struggle to judge people for trusting a politician to keep their word, especially as most people just don't have the time to constantly engage with politics.

Many if not most people are also being manipulated into voting one way or the other, believing things will be better. People are responsible themselves for their actions but they also lack the education and live in a media ecosphere that is not regulated. Both are things politics needs to solve.

This is a downward spiral that becomes increasingly difficult to handle and, frankly, is at a point where it may well bring society to collapse.

The situation is not as black-and-white as you portray it and requires a much larger context.

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i've been making images

I made some transgender BDSM flags icons.

#bdsm #transgender #trans
CC-0 images based on what you find on Wikiipedia

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oh my god I found a real working Intalink information point in the year 2026. The keyboard is a bit broken and the touchscreen is miscalibrated but the trackball works!

Most of the websites this thing links to don’t even load. I’m pretty sure it’s rendering them in Internet Explorer 7 or something

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in europe it's called a fursuit lounge because it's a lounge useful to fursuiters, in america it's called a headless lounge because you'll get yelled at if you "ruin the magic" for anyone else

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lewd, tits, like straight up BOOBS, also girlbulge

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kink talk

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kink talk

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On Guard
🐺: Mastix
📷️️: Lee/TheRubberIrbis
👺: @wildgasmasks
#latex #gasmask #rubber #dog #jackal

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Pay me UBI and maybe I can finish one of my ambitious adhd projects within the next few years instead of the next decade.

Maybe I can go back to writing outrageously kinky stories as well.

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Part of my job is taking old research code and trying to turn it into something more production-ready. A lot of that job is optimizing, but also removing a whole bunch of accidental complexity. The original author often didn't know what the solution looked like when they started.

But since the new code had to exist alongside the original code, I had to copy and paste a lot. So ... a whole bunch of naming-things-is-hard instances popped out. FooWidget often became SimpleFooWidget, for lack any more prominent property to describe.

In hindsight, it was a terrible naming scheme. I guess I was only into the S, not the M. :blobcatgooglyshrug:

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why yes, i do use linux. what makes you ask?

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If hosting gay porn makes the Fediverse unpalatable to capital & media, I feel that it should be mandatory for all instances to so host.

If an instance doesn’t have gay porn in their public feeds, I’m requesting that they get a better user base.

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Was in a zoom meeting earlier and we were just talking about things without anyone presenting for a while, and i just kept looking at myself in the screen and at one point i was like, who tf is that im not supposed to look like that wheres the blue yote, and man that kinda hits close. And i dont even think i look bad on human standards but still my brain's like, nope that's not what i want

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It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from:

“I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.”

To:

“I can’t spell the word s*x, or anything a 1960s Mormon housewife might object to, must keep my no-genocide politics on the down low, and constantly beg technofascist corps to let people read what I write”

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So, my uni women's rowing club decided to restrict membership to cis women only. In response, a new "open" division was created that anyone can compete in.

Lots of women left to join the open division instead, and now the women's club are complaining about losing their best rowers.

Be transphobic, lose support.

That's the conses of your quences, folks.

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Today's ponies of the day are Lyra Heartstrings, and Sweetie Drops/Bon Bon, a G4 unicorn and Earth Pony respectively. They both had their first animated appearance in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Season 1 Episode 1: Friendship is Magic, Part 1.

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on consent and bots, not rapey

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Nudity sweaty

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CEO: "SoftBank will be worth 1 quadrillion yen in a few years, artificial superintelligence is just around the corner and if you say it's a bubble you are committing blasphemy"

Same CEO: *slideshow for shareholders unironically showing a goose factory with a conveyer belt of ASI eggs coming out of its stomach*

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As a naturist I love nice weather but this is NOT nice weather. We should be pushing our elected representatives to act faster on the climate crisis before heatwaves like this become the norm.
#naturism #naked #nude #nudism #nudist #fkk #heatwave

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climate change, pol

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I feel like this image might be useful for the non-furries this week.

heat exhaustion = get to a cool place, drink water
heat stroke = get medical attention

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heat stroke victims may be confused or incapable of seeking or reaching help, so be prepared to render first aid and find help for them. Get them to shelter or shade, lie them down in a cool / low a place as possible (hot air rises) and help them hydrate. A cold bath or shower can help lower core temp quickly. Keep their skin wet and prioritize cooling their head, neck, armpits, and groin with water, ice, cold packs, damp towels, anything available.
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Austria-Hungary had a complex internal structure. The head of state was Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary at the same time, or "Kaiser und König" in German. This was often abbreviated as "K. u. K." when talking about institutions that applied to both Austria and Hungary.

So, technically, it would not be wholly inaccurate to describe the Austro-Hungarian throne as "the K. u. K. chair"

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Good to see our future PM being crowned next to British political heavyweights such as Count Binface and the local furry.

*This is a real photo.

#uk #unitedKingdom #countBinface #labour #andyBurnham #politics

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The 'gift' that keeps on 'giving' 🙁
"Brexit" cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests bbc.in/4ekYBRc

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petplay (sweet pet being sweet pet, not lewd)

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Another terrible AI-generated image of the gynaecological anatomy. It must be a day ending in a Y. Let's take a closer look at this wholly cursed illustration of a menstrual cup via @pzmyers

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Yo, all y'all who are laughing/cringing/horrified at this astounding content ... hit the donation page and chip in a fiver, this account is doing world-saving work.

Also, if anyone knows Sam Altman please slip this image into his dinner menu folio with a photocopy of the appropriate pages of the anatomy colouring book. 10 copies, he needs to be in detention for a while for this nonsense.

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The Rainbow Dash Dalek my husband bought at one of his first pony conventions has made its way back into our lives!

#mlp #mylittlepony #brony #drwho #rainbowdash #crochet

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reminds me of the person on reddit who claimed that people change their minds when presented with new evidence, someone replied linking like three studies that show that people don't usually change their minds when presented with new evidence, and the original poster responded saying they didn't care and were going to keep believing that anyway
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Can we please all stop the "newcomers to Mastodon should visit this and that site, follow these rules" etc? Social networks evolve. Trying to control the behaviour of newcomers is condescending and counterproductive in my opinion. I don't want the Fediverse to become a walled garden. #UnpopularOpinion, maybe. So be it.
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@aj We apparently have a choice: an eternal-September big-bang where the unassimilated normies become the majority and the culture becomes thoughtless Facebook boomer culture, or keeping the HOA strong and absolutely insisting that everyone who joins watches the viewing list of Star Trek episodes before posting and puts a CW on photos of pet eye contact in case anyone finds that traumatising.
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T H U R S D A Y

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