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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Leaving email lists and entering Facebook means Goodbye "internet routing around the damage" and Hello "single point of failure"
Or Goodbye "Can't Stop The Signal" and Hello "Ministry Of Truth"
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The internet needs rewilding
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The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.Maria Farrell (NOEMA)
I feel like something that is rarely discussed here is that the number and kind of people online have changed a lot.
Nowaways it's roughly everyone, back then it was mostly enthusiasts of something.
Forums are great for a community that shares an interest and wants to discuss it.
But many people don't have a hobby that has a community.
Also social media nowadays is a passive medium for consumption, that doesn't work with forums.
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I wonder if specialised communities will go back to something like forums though.
My impression is that these kinds of info are kept in wikis nowadays. Easier to search but no community.
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But you can.
Sex. Sex sex sex.
What you do with walled gardens that want to censor - or any forum you find offensive - is go elsewhere. The door swings both ways - if you can't express yourself, you can go elsewhere. You don't have to participate in the censored billionaire-sponsored ad farms.
Back in the late 90's, I ran an ISP. You could put up web pages with anything you wanted. That's never changed. You can get free web hosting today, lots of places.
Don't mistake the meta and google and such for the real world.
@tbortels sadly "decentralized" is not always a solution, i was banned from multiple server because i said the truth about some project, like @Vivaldi who is an US tech making EU wasing as all their server are in US (Server in EU owned by US big tech is US server).
The issue is also the mentality of half the people of internet that want to delete anything they don't like
Radio went through the same arc in the 1920s. Wide open at first, then heavily regulated once it got big enough to matter. Every new medium seems to follow this same curve from freedom to control.
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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GOOD.
Sucks to be a terf I guess oh well who cares. Fuck them all the way to last place and also hell 🖕
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Quence conserve on toast!
[pours tea for all]
This is how we resist:
Solidarity. ✊
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I always just add one word to that: go woke or go broke.
(added: ...because, in actual fact, it does tend to work out that way: the majority are not again with all the bigoted shenans.)
I am reminded that a college friend, male, rowed on the men's lightweight four and coxswained one of the women's boats.
Nobody complained.
It might make sense, at least in some sports, to have age, weight and/or height classes, rather than sex restricted teams. I am not sure it would work for all sports--but I'm not sure it wouldn't.
But it's worth a try. At the very least it would be interesting. It might even answer some questions about how sex matters in sport.
i’m a trans masters rower and the rowing community is generally very good with gender stuff!
over the winter there was a scare that trans women would be banned from rowing entirely, but us rowing essentially said that they will never check or respond to any reports that a rower is trans and should be disqualified. also pretty much all of the regattas have rejected that policy entirely. also my team and coaches said that they would openly defy the ban if it came to it.
also the coxswains (the people who steer the boat and give instructions and who dont contribute with their muscles but absolutely contribute to the boats speed) dont have to be the same gender as the rowers. so cis men have won medals in women’s events at the olympics ever since 2020, and cis women have won medals in men’s events.
I love rowing. It's the only exercise machine I've considered buying because the old folks center where I work out doesn't have one, or room for one.
Were I in college, and rowing, I would have joined the walkout. Good for them.
Players are considering only competing in the ‘open’ category, which allows people of any sex or gender to playGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
Now the ones that remained are the Rowling club.
I'll see myself out.
my experience in the sports that I've done with any level of seriousness is
women would generally prefer to compete against everyone, and finish in the middle of the pack (or even lower)
than be at the "top" of women-only divisions
ALL athletes like to push themselves against the best competition, and care more about how other athletes see them than some result in the newspaper
I both love this as like a FU to TERFs in general. But also the phrase "conses of your quences" is gonna stick with me, thank you for that.
I wish the new rowing club much success and joy!
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never thought I'd see quences getting consesd, yet here we are.
(I'm all for this)
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Keep waking up due to the heat but at least I get to wake up next to Pompom 
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Your very clever, you built a robot that makes tea. You want to share your brilliant new robot with everyone. Everyone likes tea right? So you make it a nice mobile base and give it some arms and set it off around your town.
At every house it stops and knocks on the door. If someone answers it asks "would you like a cup of tea?"
"No thank you" They say and slam the door.
Three hours later the bot comes back, it's been round all the houses and has started again.
"NO THANK YOU" The person who lives there yells, "I don't drink tea, I'm allergic to it" you didn't think of this possibility. The bot doesn't know how to handle it so it ignore it and carries on.
Three hours later it comes back.
The person is now pissed off and calls the cops. It's operating on a public street they say there is nothing they can do about it.
Three hours later it comes back again.
This time the person follows it. All the way around it's loop. Eventually it stops back at your house to restock on water and tea bags.
They knock on your door. "Will you fucking stop your damp bot it's really annoying"
"Oh, but every one likes tea"
"I don't, I'm allergic to it."
"Huh, really?"
"Yes really, and fuck you for that tone. If it knocks on my door again I'm going to smash it."
"That would be destruction of property, I'll call the cops"
"Look just add my house to a list or something so it leaves me alone."
"It doesn't have the memory for every house in the world , I can give you a sticker to put on your front door, it'll ignore it then"
Next week someone else makes a bot that makes coffee and we start this entire cycle again.
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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*
Same as SpaceX, tbh, their IPO reads literally the same.
"I know we are literally just burning money with both hands, but in three years we will make more money than the entire USA and in ten years we will make more money than the entire UNIVERSE"
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The great thing about the idea of a maximum working temperature is it acts as an automatic workers strike for climate change.
Like imagine everyone walking out of every office and workshop today. How long would oil companies bosses last with every other rich CEO unable to make money.
But also remember how greenhouse gas emissions dropped like a stone with the lockdowns?
While a max working temp law is great from just a protecting people point of view, it's secondary effects are massive and why I think there is a going to be a huge pushback from some of the most polluting companies. But I think it'll happen eventually.
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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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I experienced this sort of "transition" from heat exhaustion to heat stroke some years ago. I fell asleep at a 110 °F heat and It was afternoon. I woke up at around 1 AM.
I wasn't sweating anymore, felt dizzy with a throbbing headache but I still had a cool skin. I feel like my legs would cramp anytime at that moment too. I was never hungry for water until that moment.
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Attached: 1 image Every year when it gets hot, infographics go around that incorrectly say that heat stroke is identified by one stopping to sweat. This is not a diagnostic criteria.Håkan Geijer (kolektiva.social)
fascinating, is it possible to learn this antipower?
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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"
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
Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.Faisal Islam (BBC News)
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not having a japanese keyboard in arch ->
the CD Database has a japanese song on this CD in scrambled text ->
needs to type japanese to fix my cd rip ->
messaged a cute adorable pet that understands japanese and can type japanese, ask her to type out the characters
yeah, i guess i will not install a japanese keyboard anytime soon
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And here's some more fun facts about the (presumable) vagina which differ somewhat from what this diagram tells you:
-The pubic symphysis is not inside the vagina
-Neither is the bladder
-And neither is the sacrum
All of these bits are nearby the vagina and might appear on a diagram with it, but are definitely not inside it.
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But that's exactly how generative AI works. We explored how ChatGPT is working *exactly as it is designed to do* when it generated this horrifying pregnant penis-rectum image masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100…
Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.
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And believe us, you are not going to get a decent diagram of the gynaecological anatomy using generative AI. We tried. We used "good prompts". But the tech is doing exactly what it's supposed to do, which is making shit up vaguely based on proper actual sources that it's eaten. masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115231…
When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability... masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100…
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this is a monstrosity
It makes me so mad
wow. wow and yikes and oh no.
brb downgrading my already fairly low opinion on what kind of things generative "AI" products can reliably get sorta-kinda-mostly-right-enough for casual use.
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also ... *ALSO* THERE IS SOMEHOW A PART OF A HUMAN SPINE INSIDE THE UTERUS !?! WTF !?!
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Ohh god ok, i didn't read the AI part, and thought my understanding of anatomy greatly lacking because i struggled to interpret what on earth is going on in the pic...
Phew, it was just slop
Da musste ich doch mal nachschauen, wie sie tatsächlich verwendet wird.
Und ja, die Menstruationstasse scheint ja wirklich nur Vorteile zu bieten.
My GOD! This image traumatized me. You may need warnings for Bad AI. Imagining sticking the cup through my bladder is horrible, not to mention the bad labeling.
Thanks for the warning. I will never ask A.I. to show me the reproductive system now.
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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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Keir Starmer: "I am not prepared to compromise on the safety and happiness of our children."
Ok, good. Then give them all free school meals, well funded community centres with caring and emotionally mature staff, access to the arts, free spaces to exist in public, residential streets with less cars and more room to play, free higher education. Something to do during the summer holidays that doesn't make them feel like an inconvenience.
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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
My dad had this conversation with me just before he left for work (night shift):
“There’s a new person at work…He’s a she. I mean… She is a she— Now. We’re supposed to call her that now.”
[long pause]
“Anyway… I don’t care about this gender, pronoun, stuff. It’s not my business. All that matters is that she’s very helpful.”
[dad pauses thoughtfully]
“She’s a good colleague… Don’t understand all this fuss about people’s gender these days. She works hard and is always friendly. This media malarkey… About what’s in their pants. Now, that don’t make sense to me.”
“These ‘journalists’ should spend a day with her and see the trans people are good and honest regular folk.”
Based dad???????????
>hears new information
>processes new information accordingly
>doesn't go into a petulant rage about it
Why is it this simple for my dad but apparently a struggle for so many others?
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Also, remember why people don’t. Some people just want to read. Their accounts are there because you need an account to be able to follow multiple people or hashtags in the fediverse. If they want to be passive observers that’s okay. They aren’t being nefarious by not posting personal information that will cause people to send them unsolicited messages, they’re just shy.
And when people block follow requests for these people, don’t be surprised if they go and tell all of their offline friends that there’s nothing worth reading here.
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I fully agree with your points. Especially the second one.
The first point might cause confusion for some of the people you mentioned, as they might ask themselves: ‘Well, why are your suggestions acceptable, but mine aren’t?’
That’s the difference between addressing a newcomer and someone who knows how things work.
@Tattooed_Mummy @sternengucker
Ich lache mehr, als ich sollte
@Tattooed_Mummy @sternengucker Twitter’s Ragebait algorithm is the problem. Fediverse is free and everyone should be invited. We just see too many inofficial web police officers in public posts that flame new people who just want to talk.
Just be polite and have some sort of filter, if not these people are wrong on any „Social“ platform
yeah, this. We are trying to foster a better social culture here,and because of how other networks operate,we have to be vocal about reminding newcomers that certain behavior is actually not OK and certain things are expected when someone takes responsibility for their own social media.
Things work differently here, people shouldn't have to guess or figure it out on their own when we've already learned the hard lessons and wrote th down.
We tried making a railway without track switches
It was pointless
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Mystery Biscuits!!!
(I know that is old format, but still)
FUCK YES
-carrie
sparkly!
Loved that show, for many of us viewers this really felt like coming home (to somebody's kitchen table...)
Well done!
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if any of these laws were passed when i was a teen, i would be long, long dead, probably because i would have ended my life by suicide.
sincerely, a queer neurodivergent former kid who grew up in an abusive religious family in a country with no queer rights and whose only lifeline were other queer, neurodivergent and furry people online
fuck the law
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Age verification is being used around the West to implement fascistic censorship, and its proponents nakedly just want to kill free speech on the Internet. That's the only reason they're doing any of this.
Free expression is the light and air of any movement to make things less bad.
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the shitmongers rely on silencing their opponents in order to win. Otherwise they know their time is limited.
If free speech was undisturbed, then trump and his fascist goons know it is only a matter of time before they're all killed like Mussolini.
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I wouldn't be here if they'd managed to censor the internet when they first tried. (yes children, there have been previous reactionary censorship attempts.)
Same reason, different path to getting there. Disability and an overprotective mother.
I didn't know that there were other people like me in the world /at all/ until I was an adult in the eyes of the law. And I don't want anyone else to experience that hell.
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almost certainly same
that or i would have figured out every damn way to circumvent it because, i had no community for people like myself
-carrie
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Internet helped me to figure out my gender identity in an environment that had strict gender expectations for me. It helped me to get free from cult-ish religion and become more open minded and shed biases that had been stuffed into mh adolesent brain against my will.
Internet can be a great asset an escape.
They should instead be banning LLM:s stealing everyone's data, and making people addicted to it on purpose. "AI" reliance is way worse than TikTok to growing brains.
SIRI AI WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE IN THE EU
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
WHY WOULD THAT BE HUH
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If you find yourself on a timeline filled with therians and otherkin, you may be told you will discover something new about yourself.
I agree.
You may discover you're the single human character actor in a muppet movie.
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i legit feel like this, my entire friends group is just therians and furries and trans people and i'm just A Guy (tm)
it's even wilder when your only known headmate is a therian lmfao
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$12,047 raised of $90,000 goal 13.4% funded Campaign ends August 1, 2026 at 00:00 -0700 59 days 07 hours 42 minutes 09 seconds Campaign closed.furry — A Top-Level Domain For Our Community
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@gray but who would get gay.furry?
maybe the give away could start with a more fair mechanism where people who deserve it more get it instead of who is faster to register it
people could request a domain and justify why they should get it. there could be clear criteria, like who is using a name longer
i think there are some laws for domains, but i don't think you have a trademark for your furry name
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A flogger made from USB c cables. The handle of which is an evil USB drive that will exploit anything that its plugged into.
Perfect when you aren't sure if the entity you are meeting is human or machine.
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Just a note to everyone - Pride Month is no excuse to use generative AI to make "happy PRIDE" posts, merch, or any image or text related to it.
Generative AI is funded by facists who hate LGBTQAI+ and who fund laws against us. It is the tool of the enemy we all should resist together - not generate useless slop that muddies the message with AI vomit.
Using it shows no care, no love, and no solidarity.
#fuckAI #NoAI #PrideMonth #PRIDE #NoAIInPride
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Dam #pride month already 😎? Time to put together something to beat last year's outfit 😆💜😘
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meal deal alignment chart
(obviously a lot of food, not vegan)
Good ol’ market capitalism.
The portable air conditioner unit that I ordered a week ago is now £100 more after a week of hot, sunny weather.
Hello, world!
We're Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
This account will share updates on our organizing effort, relevant news/info, and maybe the occasional meme. We promise to keep posting volume reasonably chill.
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hey folks. In response to my request to cancel my donation, MW sent me this update from the CEO. What’s your response to their claims?
@boffbowsh less talk and more action. They better start firing the union busting law firm they have im their payroll and hire the union organizers back.
I do not trust a single word of their bullshit coorporate union busting law firm written statements.
someone needs to invent a device that lets me hug my friends over the internet when they're in distress.
i cannot express how badly I need this right now
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in reply to Tanzureir • • •Awrf, can relate.
"Wait, that's not what I'm supposed to look like..."
It was doubly bad before HRT for me, like I wasn't a bad looking human guy, but holy fuck did looking at myself in the mirror feel wrong.
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I really wanna play vrchat more but im just forever ailed by motion sickness within an hour of that, guaranteed 😔
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yeah i love vrchat too! i just wish i can play it without getting motion sickness within an hour 😔