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America isn't "a diverse nation of immigrants of every color and creed", America is a white settler colony, that fist stole the land from the non-white Indians, and then thrived from the migration of white Europeans and the enslavement of black Africans. The "diversity" you are so proud off wouldn't be a thing if the people that are oppressed by that system didn't fight back, and then implying America always stood "for diversity" does nothing but erase their ongoing struggle — he subtooted.

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Something I find interesting and perhaps telling about people who run in yiffy circles and people who complain about them, the people in the yiffy circles are almost always very affectionate and open in far more ways than just sex, while the people who always complain about them misrepresent them as being monomaniacal about sex...

I think the people in the yiffy circles are just open about things in general, and the people who don't like them are just judgemental.

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Are you racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or islamophobic? Do you think all your problems are caused by refugees, Europeans, poor people and the disabled? Do you think paying tax is beneath you? If so join the Conservative Party to meet like minded people and further your self interest at the expense of everyone else.

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I wouldn't normally turn to British Vogue for a strident defence of Diane Abbott, but...

''none of this parliamentary rhetoric about extremism & MP safety has been mobilised to protect Diane Abbott after the Conservative’s biggest donor said he wanted to shoot her. Quite the opposite; the system has moved to shield Frank Hester, a poor man who made a little mistake & needs to be given grace and compassion'!

A (rightly) angry piece

#racism

h/t @Karenawokekaren

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/diane-abbott-racist-frank-hester-british-politics

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A message from Ireland to the US ahead of St. Patrick's Day, in solidarity with the people of Palestine ☘️ 🇵🇸

#IrishHistory #BritishHistory #FreePalestine #StopGenocide

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Repost for Nick in Moldova
@Brit_In_Moldova

Matt has it sussed.

Adding #AltText

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A place down the road is advertising a Ramadan lunch special and I suspect it’s possible they don’t know what Ramadan is.

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If being against children and babies being slaughtered is antisemitic, then I am proud to be antisemitic and will gladly wear that on my sleeve.[/i]#gaza#genocide#israel#warcrimes
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Just a reminder that the increase in National Insurance under Johnson was supposed to end the crisis in Adult Social Care. Clearly Sunak and his crime syndicate Party have given up on making any attempt to address the problem, which has of course, not gone away.
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so the Johnson solution to the crisis in social care was as much a fiction as the £350 million a week for the NHS then.
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The Tories did try! - seeding covid into care homes reduced demand quite considerably.

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Ever notice how folks clamor for financial freedom but balk at the idea of ensuring everyone has a financial starting line? Unconditional Basic Income isn't only about reducing poverty; it's about leveling the entire playing field. Let's redefine what it means to truly live free.

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The rich don't want a level playing field, they want the game to stay rigged in their own children's favour.
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And let’s not forget that UBI contribute back to society - 80+% of recipients care for family (young & old), volunteer, work part time, start a business, etc. And UBI translates into savings for social programs by reducing pressure on expensive services like hospital ER’s, ambulances & police.

If you’re not for UBI, you’re shamefully cruel and short sighted.



The joy of repairing the database after a hardware issue and getting a few days of posts coming in all at once

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in reply to Lumière Élevé - 💛🇺🇦🇹🇼📄:bs_h:

Now I have the urge to change my username to "[object Object]" everywhere just to fuck wit devs.
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Do you think, if these were signs to tell pedestrians of something coming up, instead of signs telling cars what is coming up, they would have put them in the road?

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Many of us #ActuallyAutistic folk, myself included, harp on #AutismAwarenessMonth like it's a stupid idea because it's really about BEWAREness, but I actually would like it if more people were aware that they don't know anything accurate about #autism or that #autistic people exist pretty much everywhere.

In light of that, I have some demands for any media published during AAM:

1. Every article about psychology or mental health includes information about how it is only for NTs and is not helpful for autistic people.
2. All YouTube videos remove background music when someone is talking.
3. Every autistically coded fictional character has to mention they are actually autistic on screen so it becomes canon, while making a subtextual joke about how they are being portrayed by an allistic actor who is undoubtably getting it mostly wrong.
4. Any use of a puzzle piece or the color blue must include an disclaimer that it is being used over the objections of autistic people but they just don't care.

Anyone else have some demands to add to the list?

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An actual Super Nintendo Chalmers. I'm dying laughing

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Honestly though, are we surprised the crowd that likes to pick and choose what parts of the Bible they allegedly believe in, also likes to pick and choose what parts of the constitution they want to follow?

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The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.

Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....

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It's fascinating how quick we are to assign value based on pay, yet slow to recognize the immense contribution of caretakers, artists, and volunteers. What if we flipped the script? Universal Basic Income isn't just about money—it's about valuing all forms of work, paid or not.

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@bobjmsn

Spot on! Most of the “work” that it takes to make a family, community, or society function cannot be monetized.

Let’s provide for the basics for everyone and get back to living. And let’s stop trying to monetize everything.

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Most people can recognise a job making a useful and valuable contribution to society, even if its not paid all that well.

The pay for a job is based on supply and demand, not 'value' to wider society.

If a job require a very high IQ or very specific skill set, the supply of candidates will be low. If a job is very dangerous or just plain unpleasant the demand will be low.

If you do a very dangerous job that also requires a high IQ you will be paid very well.

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China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”

China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”

China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”

EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”

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I mean this in the most loving way possible... if there are sexual fluids, boners, or even if the person is just shoving their genitals in your face in a picture, it's not "non-sexual" :cry_thumbsup:

If the picture is trying to get a sexual reaction outta the viewer, it's prolly sexual. If the nudity is just incidental or just part of the vibe, then it's prolly non-sexual.

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Another screenshot from this "Topless Topics Reacts to Euronews article 'Free The Nipple: Why should it still be headline news?'" video I'm editing, showing one of the endless number of examples of images that anyone who "looks male" would be allowed to wear outside and/or post to any mainstream social media or video sharing platform, while anyone who "looks female" posing exactly the same way, wearing exactly the same shirt, could not without having the post banned as "sexually explicit nudity" 🙃

Image: nonsexual mostly-covered male nipple

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It’s wild how fast I lost interest in space travel when it stopped being presented as a collective accomplishment and became a competition between a handful of morally bankrupt white men.

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Content warning: Nudity, piercings

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We need help to pay for our backups. This is a yearly funding campaign that we do, so if you can help us please see here https://www.tromsite.com/trom-backup/ - we only need 300 Euros for a full year of 4TB encrypted backups.

This means everything from our videos and documentaries, books, websites, including trom.tf (meaning all of the files that users have uploaded to our services - from Peertube videos to Nextcloud files). Everything!

300 Euros to make sure that we have everything backed-up in a secure place.

Please help if you can and thanks a lot for doing that!

#tromlive #opensource #foss #volunteering #alternative

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ok i need a break from editing this video. should today's livestream activity be:
- playing more of the adult game with surprisingly decent writing named Being a Dik (complete with ridiculous character voices)
- continuing work on my CherryChy/Falkor fanart while we play some weird movie in the corner?
About to stream to https://www.joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics in half an hour so let me know!

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All people have a right to be safe and free.

(Palestinian civilians are not the same as Hamas. Don't start or I will just block you)

I expected the pushback to this to be more on social media than on derpibooru. derpibooru.org/images/3315509

The usual dumb arguments. Any time you are saying "it's okay to deliberately kill unarmed civilians including children en masse, because..." you should stop right there.

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Five of our colleagues have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of this war.

Several members of our staff remain unaccounted for.

We reiterate our urgent call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire in #Gaza

#gaza

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The BBC News Verify team has published their first article using a new open media provenance technology called C2PA that we've been working on for the past three years.

This shows where media comes from and how it’s been edited - like an audit trail or a history.

Read about how it works and why we're doing this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-03-c2pa-verification-news-journalism-credentials

#C2PA #news #journalism #fakenews #disinformation #misinformation #technology | @BBC_News_Labs

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excellent, great job folks! This is an important tool to help protect us from disinformation.
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Great feature! Tiny bit of feedback: the time format "1750G (1250 local)" doesn't immediately look familiar. Maybe use a more common format like "17:50 GMT (12:50 GMT-5)".

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Content warning: Discourse

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disabled people deserve more than the bare minimum to live tbh. and i don't mean in the "oh we have extra costs that makes being disabled more expensive" - which is true, but i'm counting those in the budget to live. disabled people also deserve enough money to buy treats, nice clothes, fund their hobbies, take a trip away, and so on. being disabled shouldn't force you into a life of frugality and poverty

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Imagine a world where the arts flourish because creators aren't bogged down by financial worries. Where innovations leap forward because brilliant minds can focus on solving problems rather than making ends meet. Universal Basic Income isn't a cost, it's an investment in humanity's future.

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People still work, but for the luxuries they want rather than just to survive.
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There were several points in my life where I could not take advantage of an interesting education opportunity because it was located someplace where there was no hourly-wage work available.

College took twice as long because I had to work full time the whole way through.

I had to abandon one career because I couldn’t support myself while I ramped up the commissions.

I couldn’t afford art supplies.

UBI would have made a huge difference in my housing stability.


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Testing out a photo studio @ZebraNorth is making and the results are looking fantastic!

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If you use an instance that supports reactions or quoting messages, you can enable "extra features" in the settings of #Fedilab to enable these options.#FedilabTips

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Thank you! Working in the accessibility field myself, it is refreshing to find such a positive attitude!

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The argument that "protests don't do anything" is kinda undermined by how many places are working super hard to make protests illegal.

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