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But imagine sitting down at Starbucks. The room is full of normal laptops. Clean lines. Thin aluminum. Civilized.


I don't want to imagine it. That sounds terrible. That's not civilized at all.

I'd rather imagine sitting down at a hackerspace. The room is full of crusty old Thinkpads and other weird and obscure hardware. Retro-futurism. Cyberpunk RGB LEDs everywhere.

This fits right in.

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a quick look at their blocklist.

>furry.enginer reason: racism, conspiracy, harassment
>blob.cat reason: freespeechextremist.com association, federating with Kiwifarms
>labyrinth.zone reason: Engaging in racist dogpiling, extreme MH ableism from the admin
>lea.pet reason: participating in harassment of BIPoC
>mitra.social reason: Crypto, conspiracies, ableism
>mk.absturztau.be reason: Reason: interacting with known scum, freeze peach/anti-moderation, cryptocurrency
>outerheaven.club reason: alt-fedi
>tech.lgbt reason: Platforming and excusing racism and racist harassment
>unix.dog reason: alt-fedi

honestly the fact that they are banning so harshly makes me feel like their admins are trying to keep their users from communicating with air.

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Just so disabled people in the UK know, if Reform UK get in, they would repeal the Equality Act, describing it as divisive and a political fashion statement. If you aren't interested in politics, it's worth bearing in mind that politics is interested in you - the immigrant carers that help you, your benefits, your access to work, your right to live free from discrimination, companies' obligations for accessibility, Uber's obligation to take guide dogs.

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It's something everyone should be concerned about. Even if you don't belong to one of the protected categories, one day you will be older.

Do you want it to be like the bad old days where someone in their 40s or 50s could be told "yes you've got great experience but older people don't fit with our image, I'm sorry but you just wouldn't fit in".

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selfies, eye contact, full body nudity, chastity, teasing and boosts totally okay :3

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Let's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍

Share this & Spread the word!

#SaferInternetDay26 #SID

#saferinternetday26 #sid

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@strigga_
That is Stigmata what you are saying. You are correct on the 3rd but nut on the first 2. The First two has to be regulated and not to be banned. And i mean it also in context of minors. Because you are make it as a Tabu and this is violence the minors indirectly. This is Double Standard if you argument that censoring everything is a good way to protect minors because that will make more victims if that Topics are stigmatized by everyone. That will get more violence not less.
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Reminding y'all that:

Discord is not documentation.

ID laws disproportionately harm minorities.

Leaking current ID details constitutes harm.

Data is radioactive.

Complying proactively with fascism is perpetration of harm.

"Legal" and "right" are two very different qualities.

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do you have a source at hand? I only found this
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From 4chan to Elon Musk, what’s in the latest Epstein file dump?

Disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a gamer who liked to share 4chan links and once chatted with Elon Musk about coming to a “wild” party on his notorious island, per documents released Friday.
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My latest video is now available on Nebula and Patreon.

I don't use Google Maps when cycling in Amsterdam, because some of the routes it gives are absolutely terrible.

But what's more interesting is WHY Google Maps provides such poor cycling directions, because it reveals some really interesting differences between the way cities are designed in the Netherlands vs. America.

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Not Just Bikes — Why I don't use Google Maps in Amsterdam

Google Maps is an application that is used by over two billion people every month. But as an application that is primarily designed by and for car drivers, it often fails in a human-sized city like Amsterdam.
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#openstreetmap #googlemaps #osm
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Now livestreaming at www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics and through Discord (join at www.toplesstopics.org/chat ) while I edit my "patron donor /promo squad member topless karaoke" videos! come hang out and tell me what a good singer I am XD

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Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP

In response to the GPG.Fail attacks, a Hacker News user made this claim about the 64-bit "Long Key IDs" used by OpenPGP and GnuPG, while responding to an answer I gave to someone else's question: OK, to be clear, I am specifically contending that a key fingerprint does not include collisions. My proof is empirical, that no one has come up with an attack on 64 bit PGP key fingerprints.

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Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP - Dhole Moments

In response to the GPG.Fail attacks, a Hacker News user made this claim about the 64-bit “Long Key IDs” used by OpenPGP and GnuPG, while responding to an answer I gave to someone else…
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just started streaming on joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics I'm trying to rest my voice since I still have this dry cough that won't go away so I'm gonna draw while we watch a movie together ❤️

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Bands are playing in the nude again The 90s are baaaack baybee! (The Ninks, a Japanese punk rock band)

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If there's one thing government ministers love it's corporate gifts and freebies, (which some people rudely refer to as 'bribes')

So hopefully this offer of a FREE FLIGHT to the International Criminal Court at The Hague will get their attention.

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Nothing beats a Jet2Jail! And right now, you can save £50 per war criminal! That's £200 off for a party of four! We've got millions of free prison cells available with 22kg of baggage included! Book now with Jet2Jail - International tribunals you can trust!
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79

McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49

Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.

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#patriarchy #Feminist #topless

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just started my tuesday livestream at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics ! gonna work on editing those "topless equality karaoke videos" for patreon donors!

Or for Patreon donors, you can participate in the #stream room on our discord server which you can join at toplesstopics.org/chat !

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now livestreaming at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics and on our discord server that you can join at www.toplesstopics.org/chat while I put the finishing touches on the patriarchy-safe version of my "why it's rude to tell a woman 'nice tits'" video!

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Mastodon character limit is such a weird concept and useless and pointless I can't believe is still there. People who want to say more than a paragraph need to split it into "threads"...insane!

Look:

How the fuck you get to read and interact with a post divided into tens of comments.....

This is silly as fuck people.

If you have no character limit, guess what, you can still make short posts. But not vice-versa.

It is beyond me why this is still a thing in 2025. Artificial limitations.

Man I LOVE Friendica! A proper way to make posts and interact with people. And yet not many are aware of Friendica and how awesome it is.

@Meredith Whittaker you should either move to a Mastodon instance without character limitation or try Friendca. You can even use our node social.trom.tf - and that's for anyone else who is bothered by this artificial limitation of Mastodon.

#fedi #fediverse #mastodon #friendica

#fediverse #mastodon #fedi #friendica @Meredith Whittaker

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"if an admin can extend the post size limit in Mastodon then that's a cool feature"

I learned it is not a feature to extend post size limit in Mastodon, but a hardcoded value in code, which is very difficult to change depending on deployment method, but possible. They should make this a feature.

And talking about friendica, it looks outdated (the original theme), which does not provide overall confidence, if comparing to new highly extensible, innovative and beautiful bonfire (for example, a flavor of it for scientists: openscience.network/)

Open Science Network

Reclaim scientific discourse with federated digital spaces where researchers shape their own conversations, data, and collaborations
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Meanwhile in Ireland, a cultural Basic Income (focussed on artists) has moved from pilot to sustained policy, with the confirmation of an ongoing programme of awarding 2,000 artists €18k per annum.

Interestingly the cost of the programme was less than the benefits to the Irish economy, and the artists in receipt of funds were able to switch earnings from non-art activities to work related to their art practice.

A more general lesson here for UBI?

#UBI #workers
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Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent

Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.
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#ubi #workers

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I was going to use the phrase 'avoid it like the plague' but, given recent years, I suspect the literal meaning of that is 'make a small token effort to avoid it, unless doing so would impact the economy or cause inconvenience'.

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Now livestreaming at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics and for Patreon donors on our Discord server which you can join at toplesstopics.org/chat ! Today's project is to draw some "erotic fanart" from whatever fictional media franchise I'm currently obsessed with--maybe some Genshin Impact Gooner Pin-ups, maybe some giantess fetish Lady D art from Resident Evil! Come hang out and see!

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Let's play a Sex Game: Being a Dik
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There are people who hate art precisely because its value isn’t tied to utility or productivity.

We call them Philistines.

Philistines only crave comfort—technology, convenience, consumption. The idea that art might make you a better person offends them. Even worse if the art doesn’t flatter them.

What defines a Philistine is their demand that art serve an immediate function. If it doesn’t, they dismiss it as worthless.

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@Crissy There’s a book that goes into this in far more detail called Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset, written just before the Spanish Civil War. He called Philistines by another name: mass-men.

The idea behind this book is that mass-men and authoritarianism go hand-in-hand. And I would agree. Elon Musk, for example, is the consummate mass-man. He has no appreciation for aesthetics beyond utility, spectacle, or status.

This, by the way, is why the Cybertruck is so awful.

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Bliss

thanks for sharing about the book & concept of mass men.

What's wonderful (and antithesis to the Cybertruck's shock value and hideous looks) is the Porsche 911, which balances performance with aesthetic coherence developed over decades of refinement!

My takeaway from learning about this is genuine excellence, thoughtful design, and authentic human connection is possible when we are being respectful and kind to all.

Which also raisesCritical Questions for #FediCollective and #PeerTube co-op like

1. How do we build businesses that serve mass markets without adopting mass man values?

2. Can technology be designed to elevate rather than reduce human experience?

3. What's the entrepreneur's responsibility to resist the race to the bottom in taste and standards?

#peertube #fedicollective
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The situation in North Gaza is beyond catastrophic.
Entire neighborhoods are being wiped off the map — home by home, street by street.
People have no electricity, no clean water, no food.
Displaced families are sleeping on rubble. Children cry from hunger. Disease is spreading.
There are no hospitals left. No aid. No safe zones.

#GazaIsBleeding
#NorthGaza
#LetGazaLive
#CeasefireNOW
#EndTheSiege
#GazansUnderAttack
#GazaGenocide
#StandWithPalestine
#SaveGaza

#gazagenocide #northgaza #ceasefirenow #savegaza #LetGazaLive #gazaisbleeding #endthesiege #gazansunderattack #standwithpalestine

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Hello Fediverse I want to make a short announcement about the social.trom.tf Friendica instance run by my friend @tio

Currently that instance is going through a big server migration process and it will take a couple of hours for it to get finished. So if you mention or send anyone messages during this time it might not reach them.

#fediverse #PSA #Friendica #TROM

Welcome to nginx!

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#fediverse #friendica #psa #trom @Tio

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In other news, here's a new video.
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Let's see if releasing this on labor day weekend was a good idea...

Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone

A whole new meaning to "spin dry"Connextras experiment: https://youtu.be/0xLzDF7PZW8Original video: https://youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8Other stuff:Technology Connec...
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Rotary desicants are of some (if limited) use in some parts of the United States. I live in an area with lots of streams, rivers, creeks, swimming pools, and a few lakes, so humidity can be quite high in the shoulder seasons. My garage's dehumidifier suffers from the freezing issue during spring and autumn when I normally need heat, and the garage isn't "plumbed" for the HVAC system, so I might end up getting a rotary desicant at some point.
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