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Trapped in a storm for many days videos.trom.tf/w/jwu1LtBABCHGW…

Several storms hit Spain for almost a month. Raining, clouds, cold and wind. We decided to go to a motorhome parking in Alcaracejos and stay there for several days to wait for the storm to calm down. We put a lot of strain on our batteries and our patience 😄.

#travel #vanlife #motorhome #spain #camper #campervan #storm

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A quickly drawn "Day in the life of a Top free Activist" webcomic page, inspired by an actual conversation between my son and his female friend, both under ten years old, about why society only allows HIM to go in public without a shirt. 🙃

More pages at: toplesstopics.org/webcomic

#freeTheNipple #toplessEquality #feminism #patriarchy #intersectionalFeminism #topFreeEquality #equalityforall #doubleStandards #sexism #misogyny #womensEquality #malePrivilege

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Once upon now in America

#resistance #trump #maga #Uk #world #nato #canada

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Kink is not inherently pornographic.

Kink gear is not inherently pornographic.

Kink expression is not inherently pornographic.

From suits to latex, gear can be just costumes.

Leather harnesses? Ah yes, of course, that spongebob screenshot with mr krabs in leather gear and harnessing, is that porn?

"But it is a mad max reference"
why yes, and it was explicitly kinky in mad max.

Michelle Pfeiffer wearing tight shiny latex and a whip in batman returns, and explicitly calling out materials, molded rubber in batman's suit

was that pornographic?

It was not meant to be just *neutral*, the movie is not subtle about creepy sexuality and hangups.

The pup hoods in the masked singer
Were those porn?

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Yeah... I don't think I overreacted at #emfcamp2024

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@DeltaWye @ftg @Jencen Because Goiâna was hardly the only incident to inspire the change and very long and complicated argument about semiotic value in iconography had to happen first.

In general, radiation safety AND semiotics professionals are not pleased with this.

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About a year ago, my parents made the switch to Linux on their home machines because they really hated Win 10... Today I got a call from my mother to help her out with something, but I did not expect that "something" will be figuring out a sed pattern for a shell script she wrote to bulk rename files.

When I asked her why she didn't use some GUI program she said "I was an accountant in the DOS era, this makes more sense to me than a ribbon menu in Excel".

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Welp, FreeTube, Invidious, and Piped are down again; and probably others as well; so I hope that it gets fixed, but it's likely it may take a bit from what I can understand anyway.

I prefer content variety, PeerTube is kinda meh, and Odysee? Well let's just say: "Absolutely proprietary!" because it's using some OSS, and it's not entirely OSS. This is fine though, I'll just listen to music for the time being, and not fuck around with video content for the time being (which sucks because I was watching a series on it)—but, it happens.

I mean, I've been using FreeTube for the better part of...well, around 6 months already without major issues. But last couple of months have seriously been taking a nose dive, and I suspect this is normal.

Meh, everything will be good, xD

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I don't think enough of a stink is being made about the naked dishonesty of Reeves and Starmer's crap about 'get people “trapped on benefits” back into work'. PIP is *incapable of trapping anyone.* You still get it if you're in work. It is one of the few UK benefits offering no perverse incentives!

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pls boost

radio is the future: "Radio is the ultimate internet circumvention tool because it is not the internet." #othernetworks #radio

radioworld.com/columns-and-vie…

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I am loving that things are finally moving to make European countries less dependent on US software (especially cloud providers), but I am disappointed that there isn't more of a focus on open source software.

There are several government programs within EU counties to fund the development of open source software. We need WAY more of that, coordinated at the EU level.

The best way to avoid being beholden to big tech is to fund viable open source alternatives.

reuters.com/world/europe/dutch…

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Can we take a moment to appreciate the original Mozilla suite icons? How thematically similar they are, while also indicating what the apps are for? For example, almost nobody's heard of Sunbird, but I bet you can tell it's for calendars!

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In the House of Lords today, Lord Bellamy passed a note to Lady Billingham.

This is an example of peer-to-peer communications.

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youtu.be/R55GBIX8VQY
help sweetie bot

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Beat Saber Workout - 02-04-2025


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Please boost and spread the word.
European alternatives for popular services from the USA. This page is far from perfect or complete but just an illustration that there are alternatives.
european-alternatives.eu/alter…

This is also an interesting page with alternatives,
privacyguides.org/en/tools/

#EU #digitalservices #ICT #IT

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#Mastodon is being more blatant—it will add quote posts.

This will piss some people off but frankly, this has been in the works for years.

To those who believe quote posts are abusive, there is no data whatsoever that shows any correlation between quote posts and abuse.

And actually, platforms like #Misskey, #Akkoma, and #Friendica have had that feature for years, and hardly anyone using those platforms has ever complained.

In fact, I use quote posts every day. No one’s complained to me about my use of quote posts.

Nevertheless, Mastodon is doing the right thing—and it takes serious courage to tell the Fedi Gatekeepers that this will happen. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But it’s a change that needed to happen.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…

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@tchambers I’d wager that, properly conducted (which is incredibly difficult to do) there are, in fact, connections between QTs and abuse. I think also that some of the founding Mastodon intuitions about QTs vs. replies and fostering conversation with vs. conversation about are right, and I’ve found it refreshing and interesting to be somewhere where they don’t exist to explore the affordances. I was struck on Threads and Bluesky how annoying I now find many (non-abusive) uses of QT to be. That said, they have uses, and many people want them: crucially, they are now implemented on Threads, on Bluesky, and will be here, with safeguards built in. That, more than any empirical study, illustrates that they did cause problems, and trying to address them has been constructive. ….my take in a nutshell…
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@UlrikeHahn @tchambers
There's been a lot of study on this, and QTs just do not contribute significantly to harassment and abuse. But even if they did, the affordances here are different. Followers-only replies are a *much* larger concern than quote posts.

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/…

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@UlrikeHahn @tchambers
1. The target posts anything at all
2. The harasser replies with followers-only visibility. The reply is visible to the OP, and the crowd of other abusers that follow the first abuser, but no one else. Not even the mods on OP's server
3. The crowd of other abusers pile on, invisible
4. Everyone else gas lights OP about it, saying they've never seen this abuse and so it must be made up, and/or OP's fault.
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Honestly, there's so much more in this vein. This is just the worst one. There's so many affordances that invite immediate, careless replies. And so many that discourage reading or seeking context. Replies are worse here because the software supports reply guys, and hampers establishing norms against it.
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@jenniferplusplus Yep, three years ago, I put in a feature request on Mastodon for comment controls. It’s pretty common sense to have since, yeah, it would cut down on abuse drastically. Haven’t heard anything back from Mastodon, but I certainly got a lot of angry people who demand that this never be implemented.

At the very least, you should be able to opt out of receiving comments. Still not here, but at least Mastodon allows you to opt out of quote posts. Now if only they would allow this for comments.

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@jenniferplusplus @UlrikeHahn @tchambers I call it abuse multi-threading.

You can be abused in broad daylight without a soul seeing it, from multiple sources.

Doesn’t get reported properly as nobody sees it but you. Doesn’t trigger any thresholds.

Massively open to widespread abuse and really skews people’s optics of the situation.

A lot like racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia etc. online generally (“I don’t see it, so it doesn’t happen), but it’s built right into the Mastodon functionally to further enable it.

I see its intended functionality, but I don’t think you should be able to reply with followers only.

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I prefer #SocialWeb to #Fediverse because these imply two entirely different things.

Fediverse implies an enclosed space for which you’re either “in” or “out”. Which is why the Fediverse attracts to many HOA-type people.

In contrast, Social Web presents an effort to supplement a space that already exists, and for which everyone is already included.

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Mostly hidden child "nudity" (shoulders up and some kneecaps)
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Chrissy Teigen posted this adorable photo to Instagram and of course 2/3 of the comments are from absolute freaks sexualizing the hell out of it, because so much of the world (America especially) is so puritanical about "nudity" while any amount of violence is of course totally fine. 🙃

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nsfw furry art, nudity (breasts/vagina)

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To be fair, it *is* a great name for a unicorn.

#comic #comics

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Started the day with the trumpers' kid shoving my 6-year-old to the ground while they were waiting for the school bus... he says that Aeden was being mean to him first but this kid has a history of being rather physically violent so even if Aeden was being annoying, I don't think shoving him to the ground against the curb is the answer. I texted the trumper kid's parents, who I get along with as long as I don't ever ever mention politics, and asked if we could meet with the kids after school and try to work out some kind of conflict resolution, but privately it's not surprising to see the child of loud, unabashed Trump supporters turn out more violent even though he's only eight so far. 😡

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Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers in Auschwitz.

It started with politicians dividing the people with “us vs. them”.

It started with intolerance and hate speech.

It started when people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye.

Remember.

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We're #being #manipulated
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@Lilith111
Cowardly killer?
Folk Hero?
Or can someone be two things at once?

The most balanced think piece I've come across...from the article:
"Obviously, an explanation is not a justification. Nothing justifies murder. I see it as a primal scream from a society that has had enough. I view it as a warning."☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
ekathimerini.com/opinion/12562…

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She most definitely needs a movie. She was part of the Resistance in Holland, and
Damn, she was a badass. She also helped Jewish people escape camps and blew up some train tracks the Reich used.
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Big Tech is using the nationalism card. When the EU wants to regulate American companies and fines them when they break the rules, then they want to see that as attacking American companies.

What does it then mean when the DOJ in the US wants to regulate Big Tech and fines them for breaking the rules?

The reality is that we need regulation. Big Tech has gotten away with too much. They have grown too powerful. They are doing too much damage.

Choose smaller companies, when you can. Take a stand.

#Windows #Macos #Linux #fediverse #Mastodon #Regulation #Politics #Vivaldi

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I like the term “patriarchy” because it implies that men who play the social role of “father” have the most privilege in society.

And that’s something feminism has properly identified from the get-go.

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