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Fluffy: Survival is an act of defiance

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"Person with autism" they say, to remind me I'm a person first.

"Autism Epidemic" they follow with to remind me I'm a disease that needs to be eradicated.

There is no personhood if I am required to remain invisible in order to exist.

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The controversy is that this is a mediocre franchise which funds a billionaire bigot who keeps harming a minority while most people look the other way.

"Iconic role"

Pushing it a bit, c'mon now.

#JKRowling #HarryPotter

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My local funeral home changed its web hosting platform for a corporate funeral industry stock hosting platform, and it doesn't have an #RSS feed because corporate funeral home service industry provider wants you to visit the website to hawk its merchandisingโ€”flowers, caskets, trinkets, hardcopy guest books, etc, all the things they get a commission on.

I read the whitepaper for sales and marketing from the big corporate funeral service provider that says just that. It read that merchandising makes up 60% of the profit that a funeral home gets on an annual basis.

RSS kept me in the loop. I still visited the obits and left condolences and saw their merchandise.

#rss
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Draft Executive Order appears to essentially abolish what we now know as the foreign service.
Immediately ends the foreign service exam.
Institutes new system based on things like "demonstrated charisma", "verbal authenticity", "alignment with President's foreign policy vision", et al.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:sโ€ฆ

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definitely seeing the "protests aren't effective" folks out this evening

y'all read that article about the law enforcement disinformation bots, right?

it's hard to tell if these are bots, foreign actors, or DIPSHITS

but it doesn't really matter

the guy telling you to get violent because nothing else ever works? almost always a cop

in reply to Grumble ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@grumble209 I think most of the time both are appropriate

and if you were familiar with the history of the Panthers, you'd show more respect for the diversity of the organizing tactics they used

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@grumble209

If Grumble is talking about setting up breakfast programmes, so schoolchildren don't go to school hungry, then great... :D



Curebies citing autism incidence rates reminds me of McCarthy citing the number of Communist infiltrators in various government agencies. It's like they're pulling numbers out of their asses.

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Deedap is very attached to Lilfip; has been since kittenhood.

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Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an โ€œunauthorized alien."

Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the United States. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway.

This is absolute fascism. They are absolutely coming for all non-white US Citizens next.

in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Here's an article about this fascist move

nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-borโ€ฆ

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@DeliaChristina He's been released, thankfully! Not that anything else will change for the better, but at least this kid is back with his mom.

independent.co.uk/news/world/aโ€ฆ


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AI (LLMs), accessibility, gatekeeping and capitalism (a rambling thread)

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AI (LLMs), accessibility, gatekeeping and capitalism (a rambling thread)

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"El Salvador didnโ€™t allow a Senator to see inside their mega prison thatโ€™s wrongfully housing one of his stateโ€™s residents.

But they allow lots of influencers to film propaganda videos."
-S Hackett

"I just toured #CECOT -this max security fac houses the countryโ€™s most brutal criminals... Several inmates were extremely violent criminals recently deported from the US.

I leave now even more determined to support Pres Trumpโ€™s efforts to secure our homeland."
#Sadism #USPol
dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/16โ€ฆ

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Iโ€™m going through our events page on the Small Technology Foundation web siteยน and porting the entries there to the new version of our web site that Iโ€™m building in Kittenยฒ and itโ€™s depressing how many event sites have just disappeared.

Thank goodness for archive.org.

ยน small-tech.org
ยฒ kitten.small-web.org

#links #archiving #web #SmallTechnologyFoundation

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Since I'm sure you could use some encouraging news for a change, I looked at the text above and thought, lol, the reference to web3 seems sort of, um, dated.

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did you ever see like just one guy with a sign protesting

make sure you honk and support that guy

lot of people don't seem to know what's going on


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โœ‹ ROI - Return Of Investment
๐Ÿ‘Œ TTE - Time To Entshitification

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Everybody on the planet stop what you're doing and see how much America is 'winning' right now.

lol, they think they're so 'exceptional', don't they?

Nothing more than Russian peasants now, but at least they can say r*tard and f*ggot as much as they want, what victory /s

cbc.ca/news/world/easter-eggs-โ€ฆ

#USPOL #Potatoes #Fascism

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in reply to Lazarou Monkey Terror ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’™๐ŸŒˆ

worse than the Russians, who are still only paying around equivalent of $2 per dozen for eggs, despite similar price rises and being in an actual war.. there was a crisis, but Russia appears to have got round it - there is also the same issues with birdflu etc in Northern Europe, but not quite as much volatility of prices..

poultryworld.net/poultry/layerโ€ฆ


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The publication The Markup says it will keep updated this searchable database of municipalities where local police departments have agreements with ICE, enabling local law enforcement to engage in some kind of immigration enforcement

Database:
themarkup.org/tools/2025/04/16โ€ฆ

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Thread explaining Judge Boasbergโ€™s finding โ€œprobable causeโ€ that the Trump executive is in criminal contempt of court. Bottom line: he is giving the government an opportunity to โ€œpurge.โ€ If they donโ€™t he will identify specific individuals who are in contempt and refer the matter for prosecution. 1/ #LawFedi

(Full opinion at storage.courtlistener.com/recaโ€ฆ)

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executingorder66.wordpress.comโ€ฆ

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@Gladiator generalstrikeus.com/

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Congratulations to the UK government for proving once again that they're the creepy uncle at the holiday table who nobody wants around, but who'll keep going on and on about what's in his neighbours' pants.

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I have a strict policy of never signal boosting any post that links to NYTimes, theatlantic dot com, or ANY British media (even Pinknews is dead to me).

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The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers was a movie about developers being peer-pressured into using LLMs.

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Once again the NatACTs are hauling out the "dependency" language to shame people on benefits, as if needing to pay rent, bills and eat is some kind of vice;

rnz.co.nz/news/business/556428โ€ฆ

Our society is structured so people need money to meet our basic needs, but much of the work it needs done it won't pay for. So a lot of people do unpaid work and make use of a welfare benefit to survive. Why the hell should beneficiaries feel ashamed about that?

Dependency my lilly-white arse.

#SocialWelfare

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"The government comes in and gives us funding for something to fix a problem, that lasts a year and a half and then the government changes and they have a new idea to try something else. It's death by 1000 bloody pilot projects. We can come up with our own solutions to get us ahead. They just have to pass money over, get out of the way and make sure it's sustainable."

#MokoTepania, Mayor, Far North District Council, 2025

rnz.co.nz/news/business/556428โ€ฆ

#LocalAutonomy

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Everyone who joined the Trump administration has irreparably ruined their own lives.

RESIGN NOW. If you cannot salvage your reputation, you might at least avoid prison.

#ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol

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Do people not think that women can be oligarchs too?

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i love it when companies sell a solution to a problem they created

that's fucking awesome /s

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partyon.xyz/@nullagent/1143325โ€ฆ

#BobFerguson #WA #PNW #Democrats #workingclass #taxes #regressivetaxes #meme


Bad Democrat, no cookie.

WA Governor Bob Ferguson has been putting forth policies more inline with Trump's white house than what you'd expect from a Democrat.

The new governor's policies has been a loud promise to drastically increase the number of cops in the state while at the same time over seeing budget cuts that could shrink social services and cut state worker hours in an economy drowning in rising costs.

theolympian.com/news/politics-โ€ฆ

#BobFerguson #WA #PNW #budget #furlough


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We know that Putinโ€™s troll farms create social media bots of the far-right and far-left.

I have realized that they create โ€œcentristโ€ bots as well.

These bots exist to spread propaganda and misinformation, but also to flame divisions to keep people too busy arguing with each other to organize.

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As far as you know, what are the pet issues of a typical Russian influenced centrist? Would the self identified "radical centrists" be in this category? They seem the type.

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ICYMI God Hates Figs was a website I ran back in the day:

buttondown.com/charliejane/arcโ€ฆ

(This could be a coincidence IDK. They might have just thought that was a funny band name. But my website actually did get a lot of attention back in the day so...)


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Question: If you use an XBox Series X normally up until it receives the 2024 update that causes it to announce that in one month it will be cutting off support Brook fightstick adapters, then immediately turn off updates, disconnect it entirely from the Internet, wait most of a year, turn it back on, and plug in a pre-2024 Brook fightstick adapter, will it work?

Answer: YES AND I AM HAPPILY PLAYING PAC-MAN CE DX RIGHT NOW

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First Iโ€™ve heard of XBox cutting support for Brook. Iโ€™ve been poking at their website and donโ€™t see any mention of it (which is unsurprising). Have you heard of Sony coming after them?
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@DJTentMode ign.com/articles/why-xboxs-thiโ€ฆ

This is what I'm referring to. I think Brook may have an updated adapter now however.


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I'm being told by website that I've read my last complimentary article, is that not a death threat ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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What these people still donโ€™t get is that almost nobody is going to subscribe to their entire frigging publication just for the one article a month they read on it. However, I, and Iโ€™m sure many others, would be all too happy to pay a reasonable monthly fee to cover all the articles I read, divvied up among the publishers of the actual articles I read. If they can track me across multiple sites and platforms that should also be possible.

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@khoji what a terrific idea!

I had the thought of micropyments. .50c to satisfy my curiosity. but yours is way better.

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For example, it should be easily possible to do this through news aggregators like Flipboard and Feedly, with the added benefit of reducing ads there.

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@khoji Solid idea.

Yeah, I donโ€™t know how many article links Iโ€™ve clicked on that go to a paywall and I shrug about not being able to read the article, because Iโ€™m not paying that for so relatively little I get, and move on with my life.


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Seattle cops have just activated their new citywide AI surveillance cameras.

Cops at operations centers will be watching the video from over SIXTY HD cameras in three neighborhoods.

The cops are storing video for 30 days, or indefinably if a cop decides they want to keep it for "investigation".

Seattle residents tried to stop this dragnet, saying it will only empower Trump in our region.

stopsurveillancecity.wordpressโ€ฆ

#Seattle #SPD #ACAB #Trump #PNW #Privacy #surveillance

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If enough people wear masks that cover their noses and dark sunglasses to cover their eyes, that will provide cover for migrants and political fugitives to do the same so AI and facial recognition can't identify them.

Also these cameras are vulnerable to all the usual tactics including paintballs for temporary results at moderate risk. The labor to take a paintballed camera down for cleaning is the same as the labor to replace one with a rifle bullet in it. Enough paintball attacks and the camera will come down.

The headline then becomes "Seattle's big brother camera network is being DESTROYED along Aurora..."

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@LukefromDC
High powered lasers work if you want to damage cameras that belong to you.
security.stackexchange.com/queโ€ฆ

Could be done at long range too. But wear eye protection.

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< and > are stairs. looks like it's those next to | which is walls.

you can use ; to look at tiles and read their meaning

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Since someone suggested Open Doors, I say Broken Doors :)

But I have never see that symbol nor do I know what #GhosTTY is. Are you running on a non-Linux/BSD ?

#Nethack #GhosTTY.


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Just ordered a Kobo Libra Colour so now the only money Iโ€™m paying that asshole Bezos is for a couple of S3 buckets that I havenโ€™t had time to move off of AWS.

Very much looking forward to the time when his fascist collaborator ass doesnโ€™t get a single euro cent from me.

(Another plus: Kobo works with Overdrive and I checked and Dublin libraries support it so you should be able to check out library books directly on the device. And Iโ€™m quite looking forward to a little bit of colour and the notetaking features.)

#ebooks #ereader #kobo #amazon #bezos #trump #USA #fascism #notAnotherCent #boycott #EU #Ireland

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i love my kobo! please share your experience with the handwriting and annotating features !


Is there any plan to make #ShinigamiEyes colors visible on #Friendica? Which entity would be in a position to implement that?

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Christians might have better luck with their ads if they gave Jesus a trident.

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heck - even if they had pictures of him holding the wine he made, it would go a long way๐Ÿ˜œ

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USA 2025: where wearing a mask is illegal, except for the secret police force

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Information asymmetry. It's also why cops wear mirror shades.

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is there a more banality-of-evil phrase than "ICE quota"?

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During Stalin's purges, the NKVD had a weekly quota of arrests. If they couldn't find someone on the list, they arrested someone else to fulfill the quota.
Someone warned my grandmother's cousin's wife he was on the list. He left town for a week, returned and went back to his job as if nothing had happened.
ps Arrested in 1952, did 3 years north of Arctic Circle.
pps He really was a Trotskyist, thought until death in 1988 that Lenin good, Stalin bad.

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Being trans is demoralizing right now because we had a brief period where we were treated almost like human beings and then everyone abandoned us. Because our rights are "frivolous." There are too few of us. We don't matter. We're "weird," "gross," "fake." All any of us wanted was to live authentically and largely anonymously. And instead there's a giant fucking spotlight on us every single day, blaming us for Trump and reminding us we're not welcome. And our cis "allies" mostly don't care.
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the acceptance of trans people by cis was for many forced acceptance. Thatโ€™s what happens when too many questions is unanswered by way of self censoring and cancellation. People need time to reflect, discuss openly and adapt.

What you are experiencing now is what has been all along, just not openly expressed for the last couple of years.

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