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brianbilston, 2 months ago to random

Here’s a short poem entitled ‘Name Calling’.

abovemybelow, 2 months ago to random

#uspol #antifascist #antiracist

foufoutos, 2 months ago to linux

#Linux #LinuxMemes
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1bbo8ke/_/

ThatWeltschmerz, 2 months ago to random

A quick primer on a certain facet of fascist ideology:

One thing worth keeping in mind about fascists is that they often are very invested in a cyclical understanding of history. That's not just some kind of superficial, aesthetic tic or something. It checks a lot of boxes for them.

#chronopolitics #fcknzs

Anoia, 2 months ago to random

#Sporkast for Wednesday 14th March

Today's warning : egg slicer

Today's lucky implement : spatula

Today's wild card : forgotten receipt 🧾

Rattle your drawers and pray 🙏

transactualuk, 2 months ago to random

TransActual condemns the new NHS England policy to stop commissioning puberty blockers for trans young people. This is a cruel new element of the war on trans youth. We welcome the news that those young people who are already being prescribed blockers will continue to have access to them. But the majority of trans young people will now be only able to access blockers via private prescription, on the grey market without medical support, or via a proposed research trial
http://transactual.org.uk/blog/2024/03/12/transactual-statement-on-nhs-englands-decision-to-stop-commissioning-puberty-blockers/

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

Imagine really caring what gender someone is. The only reason you would really care is if you intend to treat one gender in a different way than the other.

"I don't know what to call them!"

Call them by their goddamn name.

webuiltthiscity, 2 months ago to animals

Today's #whippet and #greyhound blog post: Princess Comet (2024) 🐕❤️ #DogsOfMastodon
https://rocketsnacks.tumblr.com/post/744417382975635456

jonpsp, 2 months ago to cycling

'An official study of low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) ordered by Rishi Sunak amid efforts to stop them being built has instead concluded they are generally popular and effective and the report was initially buried, the Guardian has learned.'

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/08/low-traffic-neighbourhoods-generally-popular-report-ordered-by-sunak-finds

'However, after its findings emerged, government advisers asked that it be permanently shelved'

#LTN #LTNs #ActiveTravel #cycling #walking #biketooter #biketodon #Sunak #RishiSunak #UK #politics #transport #motorists #cars

dgar, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

My son was SO cute today, he asked me “Dad, are clouds candy?” I told him they were water. Then he asked “Dad, what’s the Earth’s defense system?” and then I remembered I don’t have a son. And he asked again, with his eyes obsidian black. “What is the defense system father?”

~ Omar Najim

kevinrutherford, 2 months ago to random

To whom it may concern:

As an #autistic user of your website, I'm working hard enough just to cope with reading your text. Please don't also make me cope with stuff that moves or slides or fades too. Just present me with a static, stable thing to parse in my own time. And don't have things that move or slide (eg. fancy navbars) when I move my pointer (which I may be doing as a reading aid).

Because I'll probably just go shop elsewhere.

Thank you.

bitterkarella, 2 months ago to random

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Ai Jiang: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the town where all the houses are haunted
Barker: that rules
King: yeah that sounds really cool
Jiang: oh you would think
Jiang: but in fact
Jiang: it's actually kind of depressing

cstross, 2 months ago to random

Neural networks don’t work like the human brain because they ‘learn’ differently

A neuroscientist explains why it's not so simple to make machines think like us

https://thenextweb.com/news/neural-networks-dont-work-like-the-human-brain-because-they-learn-differently

futurebird, 2 months ago to random

What have you done for your family & community today? This ant escaped an “escape proof” ant prison, found a treasure of immense value in the wilds (dry cat food) avoided being eaten by a house spider, & climbed a sheer cliff clutching her prize.

And I think she’s just getting started. Her bookshelf free climb is equivalent to a human climbing to Everest base camp… if base camp were up a 90 degree wall with eight-legged monsters in it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MglPfnuGMKs?feature=share

ada, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

I've been meaning to do a "State of the Shark" post for a while, and go through and explain some of the history and important moments that blahaj.zone has been through. For those of you who have been here for a while, you know it got a bit rough at points, and I want to take the chance to explain some of what happened.

I joined the fediverse in April 2022, around 6 months before the big twitter exodus in November 2022.

I fell in love with what I perceived to be the freedom of instances to create safe spaces for trans folk that had been harassed on twitter (At the time, I didn't have an awareness of how that inclusion doesn't always extend to trans folk that don't have white privilege)

I was talking to a friend @supakaity (well, friend at the time. Now we're partners, together with @internutter) and she said that she was planning on spinning up a fediverse instance. Kaity would supply the technical skills, and I would bring my community building and development experience and be "front of house". We did some brain storming, and came up with several names centered on blåhaj, because we wanted the instance to be focused on trans and gender diverse folk, without being specifically restricted to trans users. And so, in late November 2022, blahaj.zone was born.

Initially, we tried Misskey, mostly because I hated the Mastodon interface and wanted something prettier. But Misskey has very little documentation in english, and not much usage outside of Japan. At the time, there weren't many Misskey forks, with FoundKey and Calckey being the main options.

We had a look at Calckey, and decided to go with it. It had a small but active development team, and several instances already running it. And so we went live with Calckey. Kaity, being Kaity, would listen to some of my frustrations around usability, and started to expand the feature set of Calckey. Many of these fixes got pushed back to Calckey main, but not all of them. Those that were not pushed up to Calckey stayed in use on blahaj.zone though, and eventually we named our little soft fork of Calckey "Hajkey" (pronounced Hi-Key).

Around this time, Calckey was starting to get traction, and we were starting to get users who would join, just to try out some of the features that Kaity was working on. And for a while, all was good.

But for reasons that don't belong in this post, we eventually fell out of step with the Calckey development team and decided to go our own way. When Calckey rebranded as Firefish, we formally parted ways.

But that left us a dilemma. We did not want to move to the Firefish software base, as it was moving in technical directions that we didn't want to go. And we couldn't stay on our version of Calckey/Hajkey, as some of the bugs were show stoppers. So we had to look at alternatives, and decided to rebase Hajkey off of Iceshrimp.

And then Kaity got in to a really bad accident. Concussion, broken jaw, and an injury to her arm that even now, still hasn't been resolved. So blahaj.zone entered limbo. We were partially rebased on ice-shrimp, but without the chance to fully integrate all of the Hajkey features, and with federation bugs and issues. The instance was up and running, but it was wounded, and the task of updating it seemed impossible, especially whilst recovering from a major accident.

And that's how we existed for many months...

Ultimately, we made the decision to rebase again, this time on Sharkey, but even then, the work of implementing all of the Hajkey specific changes was huge, and so, we made the decision to let Hajkey go, and move to vanilla Sharkey.

And here we are now, running Sharkey, and with the instance humming again! I've made Kaity promise to try and not end up creating a huge workload for herself by re-creating the Hajkey features as Hajkey, so our hope is that over time, we will add at least some of them to Sharkey itself. That way, every Sharkey update will not involve a day of code merging from Kaity.

As much as I miss some of our old features, I am so much happier to have blahaj.zone buzzing and alive again!

Thank you to everyone, and here's to a strong future!

​:blahaj_is_fine:​ ​:BlahajSpin:​ ​:Blobhaj_Ani_Hophop:​ ​:Blobhaj_Heart_Trans:​ ​:Blobhaj_Thanks_Wow:​

#blahajzone #sharkey #hajkey #firefish #calckey #iceshrimp

Freyja, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

-- English Version --

Hi everyone,

In case you're not aware, French-speaking Wikipedians are pushing some highly transphobic rules approved to ensure that all bios of trans people include their deadnames, even if they were unknown before their transition.
These rules have been approved by very few people, which shows a distinct lack of respect. Any voices that disagreed with them were silenced to such an extent that Wikipedian contributors were banned.

For example, in the case of Andrea Furet (French actress and Miss France contestant), who wasn't known before her transition, they published her deadname on French Wikipedia and refuse to remove it.

In any case, it is very dangerous for trans people to have their private information (the fact that they are trans and their deadnames are private information according to French law) exposed on the internet.
We don't want Wikipedia to be a doxxing site targeting trans people like Kiwifarms is. We want to protect trans people from harassment.

They are even pushing to misgender trans people in a future poll!

We tried to get Wikipedians to understand that this is not acceptable because it puts all trans people at risk.
We failed.

Now, we want to push this information to the Wikimedia Foundation and we need your help.
We believe that one email won't be enough for the Wikimedia Foundation to take a stand against what is happening in French Wikipedia.

You can use the template below to send an email to legal@wikimedia.org (legal department of the Wikimedia Foundation).

The email below is a suggestion, but feel free to adapt it to your needs.

Please help us reach the Wikimedia Foundation and make sure they are aware of the situation.

Many thanks to all trans people and allies who are willing to help us against the transphobia in Wikipedia

Retoots are sweat and please spread this message as much as possible (even on other social network platforms)

#WikipediaIsTransphobic

-- French Version follow / Version Française dans le prochain toot --

Lana, 2 months ago to random

For the last time:

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

Please stop screaming into the abyss we are not insured for that

RealJournalism, 2 months ago to Utah

Henrietta Lacks died of #Cancer in 1951. Johns Hopkins University obtained specimens of her cells without her consent before she died, and those cells are critical in ongoing cancer research. Now, we have HIPAA laws to protect against that sort of thing. Lacks, who was Black, was recently honored by Salt Lake Community College in #Utah. #BlackHistory #BlackLivesMatter https://amplifyutah.org/the-story-room/where-these-cells-come-from-slcc-honors-a-woman-who-changed-medicine-and-bioethics

PacificNic, 2 months ago to random

Given how boring a real pandemic is, I find myself wondering what else does Hollywood portray as super intense but is actually hella dry?

I mean, working for the FBI or CIA is probably actually pretty dull.

Space wars? Aliens are actually suckers for a good bureaucracy, probably.

Demons? They love meetings with no agenda and grind culture.

Unixbigot, 2 months ago to random

They say that Inside Cats live longer, and that native populations can be decimated by cat predation.

But when your cat trills excitedly and scratches at the airlock, how can you not help them suit up and let them outside to play. They know not to bring any mynocks they catch back inside.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot.

cat_news, 2 months ago to Cats

Doug (Somerset, UK) has written in to tell us that he checked five times and there is definitely nothing edible in the shoe-rack.

#cats #cat #CatNews #CatsOfMastodon

https://www.cat-news.news/

morandi, 2 months ago to random

I see the tech feudal overlords are now saying there’s no longer a need to learn programming because AI.

These are the same wnkers who earlier said there’s no need to buy or keep physical media (books, music) because they wanted to sell you the same sht on-demand, only you never really owned it only leased it and sorry you have no rights and we f*cked you over.

F*ck them.

Learn programming.

We’ll need your skills when we’ve burned all this sh*t down and we’re rebuilding.

bridget, 2 months ago to random

We have a cat who hates men, but I’ve always been his favorite person even before I transitioned and we’ve joked that he always knew. This past Halloween my son had friends come over to go tricking or treating in our neighborhood and while his friend group is pretty queer(he’s trans himself), they did have one token cis straight guy friend in their group and the cat really liked him and we joked that we won’t be surprised if he came out as trans, and now 4 months later we know why the cat liked her. So if you’ve got any friends you think might actually be trans women, bring them on over my cat will let you know.

jvw, 2 months ago to FolkMusic

When you grow up singing unattributed folk songs, you grow up singing "The ants are my friends, they're blowin in the wind, the ants they are blowin in the wind."

#FolkMusic

faraiwe, 2 months ago to random