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fkamiah17, 1 month ago to UKpolitics

Someone doesn't want to go back to the shed 🙄 😡

GPLB: "David Cameron claims Tories deserve to win election and says recovery for party not impossible"

I'm afraid we can't do that, Dave.

#UKPolitics #Tories

black_flag, 1 month ago to politics

How is thinking the world would go much better if everyone were motivated by personal greed working out?

#politics #economics

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

Fleeing is an entirely reasonable and natural response to being targeted and put in danger (either by war or political violence against you as with some trans people in the USA).

What we need is to help people do it more and organise ways people can move safely and with support. This probably means all of us stepping up as and when we can.

We either help each other or we leave each other without help. There's no in-between.

#trans #lgbtq #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

The UK's Transgender Action Block with their to the point statement on the recently published and despicable Cass Report.

More of this please and less handing over of yourselves to others. Take don't beg.

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary

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black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

"Cisgender-Heteronormativity isn't natural. It's just common. We're deconstructing, rewilding, denaturalising the oppressive structures we face and making room for diversity to flourish and blossom.

Genuinely beautiful."

(Mallory Moore)

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #queer #gay #lesbian

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

You might find it amazing that a supposed medical report into the treatment of trans people didn't interact with ACTUAL TRANS PEOPLE. (It did interact with plenty of antis and treated them as neutral and reasonable.) But so much did NHS England's Cass Report not interact with actual, real trans people that it resorted to generating AI pics of them.

These bigots are literally making up people to get mad at.

#trans #lgbtq #nonbinary #lgbtqia

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

Gender critical tactic: when the scientific community in general, not least the experts in the fields of pediatrics and gender services, don't validate your bigotry or that of your financial and political backers, simply use politics to generate fake science which comes to your pre-determined conclusion.

This is a tactic used by eugencists for at least 125 years.

Its latest face is Hilary Cass’s report on gender identity services in England. Its politicised trash. #trans #nonbinary #lgbtq

thelinuxEXP, 1 month ago to random

All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.

They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.

Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.

fribbledom, 2 months ago to random

"Cryptocurrencies are everything people don’t know about computers combined with everything they don’t understand about money."

Urban_Hermit, 2 months ago to random

THINGS THAT ARE NOT CONSENT:

"We will brick your device if you do not agree to terms of service" is not 🤬 consent.

"The company you worked for transfered your retirement to this company. You will not get access until you create an account and agree to our terms of service and fees and payments. There is no other way to reach us." Not 🤬 consent!

"The money you are owed is on this card. To redeem you have to sign this card which means you agree to our terms of service and fees." Not 🤬 consent!

black_flag, 2 months ago to philosophy

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you're not creating something then you're not living. You're just existing.

And that could be anything. It could be a garden, a book, a picture. It could be a friendship, a building or a boat. It could be some music, a party or a revolution.

Create something. Its good for you.

#philosophy #mentalhealth

black_flag, 2 months ago to politics

Everyone says they hate people trafficking until the person trafficked is Shamima Begum.

Begum was a British 15 year old girl groomed by a Canadian govt spy into joining ISIS. The UK, who covered that bit up, now want to permanently block her from returning home.

She is a victim of govt malfeasance and yet another human pawn in bullshit political games.

#politics

seb321, 2 months ago to random

Labour under Starmer is the homeopathic remedy for Conservativism. Socialism watered down to the point where there is not one molecule of it left.

black_flag, 2 months ago to trans

According to the new UK government definition of extremism you are extremist if you engage in:

"the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on...hatred or intolerance, that aims to:

negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others".

This is the gender critical and sex realist movement in a nutshell.

I look forward to them getting dragged.

#trans #lgbtq #queer #nonbinary #ukpol #politics

Techaltar, 2 months ago to random

Has anyone's Spotify just been borderline unuseable in the last few months? Half the time pages just refuse to load regardless of network. Even the UI doesn't load so I can't even access already downloaded content. Also, note that in the screenshot music is streaming fine, but content doesn't load. Just infuriating

black_flag, 2 months ago to politics

The UK govt, currently trying to whip up a culture war against imagined "extremism", is trying to formulate a definition of what it thinks extremism actually is.

The problem is its having trouble doing so without including Christian nutters who hate gays or random dipshits who are anti-trans.

Its all so hard when you're the extremist but by "extremist" you don't mean people like you!

#politics #ukpol #trans #gay #queer #lgbtq

black_flag, 2 months ago to mastodon

I don't know about you but I don't want everybody on Mastodon thats on everything else. I don't want businesses and journalists and politicians spewing the same old shit they spray all over other social media.

Let this space be different not more of the same.

#mastodon

black_flag, 2 months ago to random

Come on, you can't knock it. That's sound advice.

black_flag, 3 months ago to trans

In an unexpected turn of events UK anti-trans bigot Helen Joyce of Sex Matters (she who thinks of trans people as "a huge problem for a sane world") has been caught reading Harry Potter based child porn on a public train. She has since tweeted and admitted this, trying to claim its "for research".

Into what? Saying that reading Harry Potter porn makes you trans? Laughable noncesense.

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to NewJersey

“Rep Andy Kim, Dem running for #Senate in #NewJersey against the state’s first lady, filed fed lawsuit that seeks to redesign the ballot before June’s contentious primary election, arguing the current layout unfairly benefits candidates supported by party leaders.

The complaint aims to topple NJ’s longstanding ballot-design process, which is unique to the state, by asserting it violates the constitution and permits voters to be “cynically manipulated.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/nyregion/new-jersey-senate-race-ballot-design.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

black_flag, 3 months ago to politics

Dear Alabama,

Aren't frozen embryos non-binary?

#politics #trans #lgbtq #queer #nonbinary

black_flag, 3 months ago to trans

Why do conservatives, the whole right wing and anti-trans people hate "self-id"?

Because, whilst pretending to be all about freedom, it reveals them as the exact opposite. They don't want personal freedom (which "self-id" is in its ultimate form); they want freedom as they define and control it.

Or, in other words, they want the absence of real freedom.

#trans #nonbinary #lgbtq #queer #lgbtqia #politics

kcarruthers, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I’ve been re-reading all my history books about the Nazis. One thing that strikes me is how hard it was to fight back against Nazism from inside. The normative culture is so strong and everybody is just going along. Ordinary folks, with denouncing their neighbours to the Gestapo. The Gestapo was tiny only 32k. It was the ordinary people that were informing on their neighbours. Ordinary people enabled Nazism.

mcc, 4 months ago to random

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