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I hope people will post a lot about how the union has asked people not to read anything from the Washington Post tomorrow, bc it's enough part of my normal day that I'll need the reminder to be regularly refreshed.
RealGene ☣️
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I recommend uninstalling the app before bedtime tonight. You can reinstall it after the strike.

That's a metric Bezos will see.

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having to use facebook for family stuff and real life events still makes me feel like im being forced to dig thru toxic waste
deilann
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feels like implies you aren't

Does Big #Oil Deserve A Seat At #COP28?

https://handbuiltcity.org/2023/11/29/does-big-oil-deserve-a-seat-at-cop28-in-dubai-uae/


Does Big Oil Deserve A Seat At COP28? - The Handbuilt City

COP28 kicks off tomorrow in Dubai, the crown jewel of Middle East oil wealth and global capitalist excess. Are we surprised? Well, no.
Nat M. Zorach (The Handbuilt City)
#Oil #COP28

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Avoid the Washington Post on December 7, 2023.

“A letter to our dedicated readers:

On Dec. 7, we ask you to respect our walkout by not crossing the picket line: For 24 hours, please do not engage with any Post content. That includes our print + online news stories, podcasts, videos, games and recipes.”

#PostGuildStrike #PostGuildStrong #UnionStrong

THE WASHINGTON POST GUILD ADVISORY: WASHINGTON POST WORKERS WILL STRIKE FOR 24 HOURS ON DEC. 7 Unfair labor practice strike protests the Post's disregard of the law in bargaining, failure to reach strong contract for everyone WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 5, 2023 - After 18 months of bargaining with Washington Post, Guild workers - including reporters, editors, cartoonists, visual journalists, advertising sales people and circulation drivers - are walking out. [some text removed to fit alt text] Post workers are walking out for 24 hours, because we know there is no Washington Post without us. More than 700 Post employees have pledged to walk off the job at midnight on Dec. 7. The Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike will include workers in Washington D.C., San Francisco, New York, other cities across the country and around the globe and will include a public campaign to inform readers about what is at stake at The Washington Post.
#UnionStrong #postguildstrike #postguildstrong

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Graham C
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who could ever imagine that a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos would have staff who are unhappy they aren't being paid fairly
Carolyn
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@adamantichrist Ugh. I did not know he owned it.

I wonder how many catch and kill articles he's responsible for?

@Graham C

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Following tags is nice because I get to block people who spam them

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are dyson vacuums from dyson spheres

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What would happen if I took the text for, say, Jane Austen, and did a find/replace to turn all masculine pronouns to feminine ones, plus other bits like “man” and “husband” and so on? It’s absolutely heretical but can I make Austen sapphic?
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David Hull 胡大衛
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Well, I didn't know I needed that, but I certainly did.
Lorraine Lee
Lorraine Lee  
What would happen if I took the text for, say, Jane Austen’s Emma and did a find/replace to turn all feminine pronouns to feminine ones, plus other bits like “woman” and “wife” and so on? It’s absolutely heretical but can I make Austen sapphic?

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Your Daily Reminder
#Liz #Cheney is not a good person

Yes, she maybe right on #Trump but she has been wrong about everything her entire life

look it up

#USPol #Iraq

PS: bet you she is anti trump only cause trump dissed her dad, noted war monger and chicken hawk Dick Cheney

#uspol #trump #Iraq #cheney #liz

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I find it odd that the Feds are concerned the Jetblue/Spirit deal would reduce competition but are absolutely fine with Musk owning 80% of GLOBAL satellite launches and controlling the only satellite communication service available to countries highly depending on it to survive.

Weird.

BKM on a Shelf
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite

Frank Kendall is obviously not on the board concerned about 2 sh!t airlines merging

@OddOpinions5

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If the apocalypse were to happen tonight, and I had 20 seconds to call someone to warn them, without access to my contact list to find their number, I could really only warn Empire Carpets. That jingle is burned in my brain and is the only phone number I know by heart aside from 911.

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btw if you wanna be put here, there's only 4 steps!

1. be my fren
2. make an 88x31 button
3. have a website
4. send me the button and a link to your site

the top part of my website with all of my friends' buttons

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i tried to make a button once, but it wasnt very good
Lorraine Lee
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Sorry if duplicate post, other seemed not to propagate for some reason

88x31 button featuring amateur radio call sign N8CHZ

https://n8chz.neocities.org/

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#UK #government has ‘#blacklist’ of 50 #countries and #US #States that let people #transition ‘too easily’.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Tories #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #TERFIsland

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/12/04/uk-government-has-blacklist-of-countries-that-let-people-transition-too-easily/


UK government has ‘blacklist’ of countries that let people transition ‘too easily’

The UK government has drawn up a blacklist of countries they say let people transition 'too easily' in its latest attack on queer migrants.
Chantelle Billson (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
#us #government #uk #LGBTQIA #transgender #lgbtq #transition #terfs #tories #blacklist #hate #transphobia #discrimination #women #states #bigotry #Countries #terfisland

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vruz
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Is it possible to obtain a copy of the list? I would like to know which countries are more deserving of my touristic interest.
Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
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A CW saying "transphobia, ukpol" or something across those lines would be really nice.

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The Most Unlikely Trans Allies...🚛

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYd7Vce0vCI


The Most Unlikely Trans Allies...🚛

The best (worst) trans vehicle related puns Shaaba's music: https://hyperfollow.com/shaabaOrder my book here: https://lnk.to/TheTinLGBT Join this channel to ...
YouTube

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It feels surreal sometimes watching two cis people debating trans rights on YouTube

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Sometimes I've sat next to that in real life.

You know that feeling when you see a kid try to do something in a way which catastrophically does not work?

Like, good intentions, but the poor thing will only achieve confusion?

It's like that, but they're grown-ups.

Lorraine Lee
Lorraine Lee  
Are we talking about the two cis guys I think we are?

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what was it like to be a girl, “socialised male”? well, i was briefly in a so called “gifted and talented” program before the sensitive geniuses there decided it was really cool to punch me and spit on me on the regs. so i got pulled
out into homeschool; and every time i got lonely and tried to go back into school i just got debilitating panic attacks and had to give up. I was mostly isolated from everyone my own age for 10 years during a critical stage in development; which i have come to call being “feral”- no socialisation. and since whenever i am weird it’s impossible to know whether it’s that I am feral, trans, undiagnosed autism or undiagnosed ADHD i can’t exactly pick apart what “male socialisation” means for me

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for a time, after I left school, i decided to grow my hair long. What I told everyone at the time was i wanted to be like my metal head big brother. but remembering back i can’t really be sure whether that was just an excuse I was using. once my hair was long, on the rare occasions i left the house, people solidly assumed I was a girl. from this point forward my brain seems to contain two sets of parallel memories about how I felt: my initial reaction and the performative lies i gave to help me feel safe.

So when people at family reunions were all “who’s that girl”, i deflected. I felt like i was getting away with something. when boys assumed it, i acted angry at them for making such a mistake.

Luci for wry zings
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so my early teenage years sort of was a series of events where i acted like a young teenage girl and my family coerced me away from that bit my bit. They made me put towels around my waiste instead of around my chest. they made me cut my hair. They acted performatively excited about my voice changing, facial hair, etc… and I had a kind of … trust that they must know what they’re talking about when i told them about the deep depression and disassociation I felt and they told me it was just a wobble from puberty hormones and it’d stable out. I suppressed my knowledge about myself
Luci for wry zings
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I got obsessed with reading about trans people, surgeries, hormones- the information about how to obtain these things just seemed really inaccessible. I’d never convince my parents to help. when I was 15 I tried to castrate myself. sometimes I wish I had succeeded.
Luci for wry zings
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is this what “socialised male” is about? just a steady stream of coercive games, gaslighting and self hatred? normal teenage boy stuff?
Luci for wry zings
Luci for wry zings  
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honestly i wish i could tell you more detail about what happened after 15 but i literally do not remember. just a blank spot.
Luci for wry zings
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i remember a lot of really hating to go swimming and being forced to anyway, and getting really bullied about it. I mean, i don’t really want to have to explain why. You understand right?
Luci for wry zings
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like basically, “don’t wanna be a guy but looks like I am stuck with this so I may as well try to learn to like it” - spirit broken. very contrast to early transitioners narratives where it’s so unbearable they make a big noise, run away, self harm, etc unless affirming parents (which i did not have)

gosh

hearing those stories made me feel like I didn’t fight hard enough

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Orc
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no, that’s not the case; everyone’s urgency to transition is not the same, nor is anyone’s circumstances. You fought as hard as you could.
Luci for wry zings
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i know, it’s just what I felt like, cos it’s a thread about what that all feels like
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space slut
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my situation was quite different from yours but “don’t wanna be a guy but looks like I am stuck with this so I may as well try to learn to like it” is a very relatable feeling to me tbh o.o
Luissen
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until the past few years anyway it just seemed like a hellscape of misinformation and gatekeeping to realize that this is in fact a viable path

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Via tumblr:
(https://www.tumblr.com/futurebird/735700044986105856/image-descriptions-mattxiv-posts-a-series-of?source=share)

(Original post on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C0U4FnMJmn0/ )

There were no image descriptions on the tumblr post I took the time to add them.

Mattxiv posts a series of images with text and artwork. "How are so many young people LGBTQ all of the sudden? Where are all of the older queer people?" A white box fan in a clear plastic box with holes. Tassels on the fan indicate motion. "shortly after the death of his lover stephen earabino from AIDS, artist john boskovich learned that stephen’s family had completely cleared out his apartment in an attempt to eradicate . all that remained was an electric box fan, which john encased in plexiglass and titled 'feel it - motherfuckers' (1997). the wind from - the fan represents stephen’s breath, ~ allowing john to create eternal life for his dead lover." Text: "How are so many young people LGBTQ all of the sudden? Where are all of the older queer people?" Photo: A chior. Those dressed in black face away, those in white face the audience. Text: "the san francisco gay men'’s chorus in 1993. the seven men in white were surviving choir members, while the 115 men in black represent members who had died of AIDS. in 1993 — about twelve years into the AIDS epidemic — the san francisco gay men’s chorus took this portrait. the seven men in white were surviving members of the original choir, while the 115 men in black represent members who had perished."
Text: "How are so many young people LGBTQ all of the sudden? Where are all of the older queer people?" Photo: A pile of colorful individually wrapped candies in the corner of a room. Text: untitled (portrait of ross in L.A.) (1991) by felix gonzales-torres begins as a 175 pound pile of candy, representing the healthy weight of the artist's boyfriend, ross laycock. viewers are invited to each take a piece of candy; the diminishing pile represents the wasting away of a : body with AIDS and the public’s : participation in his sickness. laycock died from AIDS in 1991, and gonzales-torres in 1996. they were 32 and 38, respectively. Text: "How are so many young people LGBTQ all of the sudden? Where are all of the older queer people?" Photo: A painting, A blue black and white pattern of bold lines and human forms fills the upper left corner of the canvass, the rest is unfinished. A few drips of paint have run down from the colored portion. Text: "most people know keith haring for his colorful dancing figures. his final piece, “unfinished painting” (1989), was intentionally left incomplete to represent a life cut short by AIDS. haring died one year later at age 31. "

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Pia Herself :v_lesbian:
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also the good old rural area wisdom: 'we have no gay people here'.

then they go beat up someone who failed their gender proving pissing match and oh look at that: no one in their right mind won't come out there. they'll just move the hell away and live in a city instead.

like me.

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Hard to "like" but thank you for adding the alt text.

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Yesterday I actually saw a blog post some dude had written where he as advocating for people to PAY to be INTERNS at good companies, because it's 'as valuable as college and maybe even moreso' - and I'm now ready to lead the revolution.

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@TerryHancock I don't think it's fine, especially not if you're independently wealthy. Why should poor kids have to worry about paying exorbitant college tuition *AND* pay some multinational corporation for the privilege of doing their shittiest jobs?

Holy exploitation, Batman!

@Chilly Cat
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The guy who posted that remark was clearly coming from a VERY privileged position (If it's the same one I remember, he was talking about assisting Steve Jobs, IIRC).

Which says to me that this was not a starving student with rent to pay! So if you're in his position, I guess that's fine, but it does not work for the rest of us.

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I haven't seen anybody mention TERFery from the Guardian in some time.
Is it because they stopped, or did people stop reporting them?

(Asking because I've read several interesting articles from them in the past year and I kinda feel like I should pay something, but I won't if they're still mates with JKR and the rest)

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If you are looking for a news source that is only good stories about good people .

then either you will only read echo chamber bubbles like rawstory or counterpunch, or you won't read any news at all

pgcd
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite Oh no, I'm most certainly not gonna read the Guardian for news for several reasons.
Still, they do run occasional good articles that I would like to support, but not if that leads to more TERFy articles.
@OddOpinions5

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the guy who made all the Simple apps (Simple Calendar, Simple Gallery, etc.) apparently just sold out to a company. this sucks

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‮kaitlin
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i will now complain about how backwards google photos backup is now that they made photos and videos count towards your account's storage limit

there's also no way to just remove media from the cloud without also removing it from devices with backup turned on so uh... get welded

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‮kaitlin
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i really should just get an apple silicon mac mini or something and run a nextcloud instance

(i'd put data on external storage, i'm not a moron)

timthelion
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why would you run nextcloud on apple hardware specificalky?
‮kaitlin
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@timthelion not specifically apple hardware, choosing apple silicon macs because i want an affordable and performant ARM computer to use as a server

who knows, maybe nextcloud on apple silicon could take advantage of the neural engine to provide OCR or something

@timthelion
=8)-DX
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Yeah I went haywire on my google photos and account, deleting everything. Turns out creating an "album" on your phone means they can just take your photos. Also even without backup on they display a "gb of photos" amount for the unbacked-up photos.

I need to use my phone to take medically-sensitive/necessary photos of a family member. I do not want to just hand that off to google/anyone who hacks my account.

‮kaitlin
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@thedxman i don't really mind it because my entire album is just memes

it's just annoying that they keep pestering me to buy google one after backing up all this shit i really didn't need backed up

@=8)-DX

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The 4 horsemen of the Trumpocalypse:

1.). The President can not be prosecuted for any crime while in office.
2.) A President can pardon himself. Giving up power temporarily to be pardoned by the Vice President counts.
3.) The Kissinger Rule - no official of the US government will ever be turned over to international courts for prosecution.
4.) Non US citizens have zero US rights, inside or outside of the US, and their torture can be legally authorized.

!! CHANGE THESE NOW, while you can !!

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Ok that's a lovely sentiment, but "while you can" implies "you can" and there is currently no "you" that "can", by any definition. Can't change the constitution, can't do those things by executive order, can't legislate that under current senate rules, can't change senate rules under current senate and can't pass any of it in the house even if you did.
Urban Hermit
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@thedxman you can work towards changing the US Constitution, that is the whole point of amendments, and we can start now, and we certainly need to clarify some things. Many things that we assumed are true were not explicitly stated, and are being tested. It is appealing, but does not have to be.
@=8)-DX

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Every day the news reminds us the rich and powerful cannot be trusted.

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that's why we have checks and balances in democratic republics

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Leaders of the Republican Party of Texas have voted *against* barring the party from associating with known Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers. https://bit.ly/3RrPmTQ

Texas GOP leaders reject ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers

Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.
Robert Downen (The Texas Tribune)

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one of the magical things about neurodivergent socialization is the sheer amount of knowledge that gets exchanged. some post beautiful code and complex software concepts. users will help each other to create new spaces on shoestring budgets, or troubleshoot obscure issues. new art will be created and taught about to friends. it's a truly superconnected space of knowledge

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High time to univite the fossil fuel industries to future #COP29. Their goals will always be to stay in business with their old profitable schemes. They refuse to change.

It was and is still an outrage to put a powerful manager of the fossil industry at the helm of #COP28

#fossilfuel tried to hijack the conferences and succeeded.
Now it's time for us to act accordingly: Throw them out, together with it's fossil president.

#fossilfuel #COP28 #cop29

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Mary Alicia Ziff
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Biden didn't attend, smart move, but has had no end of criticism from environmentalists over his absence. Smart move on his part, he saw what it truly was, fossil fuels trying to change the narrative of their responsibility.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4329893-biden-un-climate-conference-cop28-snub-symbolic-weight/amp/

Biden’s first-ever UN climate summit snub carries symbolic weight

President Biden is reportedly skipping a global climate change summit for the first time in his presidency. Not attending the conference, which is set to begin later this week, would mark a signifi…
Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
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@MaryAliciaZiff I guess many other still did have some hope to get #fossilfuel on their side.

#COP28 is proof that it doesn't work - cannot work: their interests are directly opponent to the interests of people who care about life on this planet.

Their only drive is profit & greed & keeping it up - they do not even see how inevitable change is. #ClimateCatastrophies will have to trigger change in that industry.

#fossilfuel #COP28 #climatecatastrophies @Mary Alicia Ziff

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I was mentioning this to my offline friend...
Of all the residential clients (meaning their home, not their business), Puzzle Piece homes - meaning places with Autism Speaks shit on display - are always the most over lit, overstimulating, sensory hell homes I encounter.

I dunno, maybe your autistic kid is "so difficult" because they're constantly overstimulated and overwhelmed. 🤷‍♀️

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Ángela Stella Matutina
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I swear, that symbol has become hate speech.

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Me: How the fuck do you block someone on YouTube

*looks it up

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/144jpk9/youtube_isnt_letting_me_block_people/

So I guess YouTube just removed the block capability about six months ago…?

Reddit - Dive into anything

www.reddit.com

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🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
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This whole situation is deplorable. And to be able to block people is an important thing, think stalkers and so on. Bad. You should be able to block anyone and anything you bloody well like.
Raptor :gamedev:
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https://freetubeapp.io/

the only sane way to use youtube these days, I wish people would move to other sites but at least with this you can watch the people who haven't moved yet without driving yourself insane.

FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client

FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.
freetubeapp.io

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my partner shared this with me with some excitement because he grew up in Pittsburg which has a pretty whack bus system, and he didn't have reliable transpo to and from BART for all the years he needed to commute into SF for work and school

but looking at the cost and what the service is supposed to accomplish, this just makes me think they could probably significantly expand the bus system and provide people with local, union jobs to get the same level of service for a much lower price tag

https://abc7news.com/contra-costa-county-micro-transit-system-glydcars-autonomous-vehicles/14125023/


Contra Costa Co. to install 28-mile micro-transit system with autonomous vehicles

The roadway to the future is coming to Contra Costa County with autonomous vehicles, known as Glydcars.
ABC7 San Francisco