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I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

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Only in the US of BS-A..

At this point the world kinda thinks laws in the US are made against the people instead of for

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It’s a very American mindset. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be charged for every breath they take”



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When I was in my twenties, I was repeatedly denied a medically necessary hysterectomy because I might “meet a man who wants kids”.

I was left completely disabled, forced to undergo six surgeries, multiple blood & iron transfusions to preserve a diseased uterus for a HYPOTHETICAL child.

This happened in Canada, where we tend to be more Liberal than our neighbours to the South.

I was cishet and white, so faced less barriers to care than marginalized people do.

I still wasn’t permitted to make a decision about my own body.

Wasn’t trusted to know my own mind

I had zero quality of life. There was no way I could have been a mother even if I HAD wanted to (which I didn’t).

Yet a hypothetical future husband’s needs and desires were repeatedly put before my own.

I was told I would feel differently once I was “in love”. That my dream man would leave me

Basically imagine every misogynistic and patriarchal nonsense you’ve ever been told… I heard it all.

I watched my twenties slip away from a hospital bed, confused and disheartened by the fact that I couldn’t convince any doctors to let me make the choice that was best for my life & body

I eventually did get the hysterectomy, but only because I was literally bleeding to death.

What could have been a planned & controlled operation was done as an emergency and left me with tons of complications.

Autonomy doesn’t exist for uterus owners. And we’re losing more each day

I tell this story because I feel sick over what’s happening to Adriana Smith in Georgia.

She was a black nurse who tried to seek medical care. She was dismissed and it cost her life.

Now because of an abortion ban her body is being kept alive for a 9 week old fetus.

Her family had no say in the matter. She’s been turned into an incubator by the State. Had “care” forced upon her despite the fact that she couldn’t access proper care when she was alive.

The same day I found out about Adriana, I discovered that police in the UK are being given guidance on how to search a woman’s home & devices for any reference to abortion after a pregnancy loss.

Choice is an illusion. So is autonomy. And it shouldn’t be.

I don’t know where we go from here, but I do know that if I faced a battle to obtain a hysterectomy, more marginalized people living in less Liberal areas have it far far worse.

We need to tell our stories. I’ve told this story before, and I’m going to keep telling it until none of us suffer this way.

For the Adriana’s who can’t tell their story. For those we’ve lost and will lose. For the next generation.

We need to keep fighting for true autonomy. We need to support each other.

We need to make it clear that we do not agree with patriarchal fascist means of controlling our reproductive organs and by extension, our lives.

When we share stories, we help others know they aren’t alone. We educate people on how far we are from equality. We change hearts and minds

#patriarchy #misogyny #fuckthepatriarchy #fascism #roevwade #abortion #womenshealth #disability #ableism #misogynoir #womenshealth

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In 1992 at a hospital in 'progressive' California, my mother went through a similar arc. Despite having at that point had two healthy kids with my father, she was denied care despite extremely heavy bleeding. 100lbs and a year later, the dam broke badly enough that it was life threatening; and even as she's getting prepped for emergency surgery the Catholic Nuns from the adjacent church at the hospital tried to talk her out of a hysterectomy. Woman was anemic, remains absurd.

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There’s an awful article in The Washington Post today about how young men see the Tate Brothers as role models who have ‘easy answers’.

I’m not linking to it because I don’t want to give it any traffic.

The tone of the piece is about how hard men have it right now. How they get mixed messages and don’t know whether they should be ‘alpha’ or not.

Let me be perfectly clear, they don’t have it hard. This is accountability. That’s all. Men are finally being told they have to be responsible for their actions. That they can’t get away with misogyny, assault, rape and abuse. That we are fighting back.

If that’s ‘confusing’ for them, that’s their problem.

The Tate brothers don’t have the answers. They’re just propagating the same misogynistic and fascism adjacent narrative that many men have heard for years.

That Trump and Musk are only too happy to support.

That women are less than. That men can and should dominate us. That ‘being a man’ involves subjugating women.

It doesn’t. It shouldn’t. Call it out. Support women. Believe victims.

Say Gisele Pelicot’s name today. Let’s change the narrative.

#misogyny #mercigisele #patriarchy #fuckthepatriarchy #uspoli #fascism

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They target trans folk because they think cishet folk will look away. They're counting on you not defending those who aren't like you.

They target Black and Brown folk because they think white folk will look away. They're counting on us not defending those who aren't like us.

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I'm considering migrating from Fosstodon and I'd appreciate recommendations of alternate Mastodon instances with these features:

- medium/large
- main theme among my tech interests but allow general discussions
- ElasticSearch (full-text search)
- at least 2 admins/mods
- regularly updated stock Mastodon, no forks

#mastodon

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What's happening re fosstodon will be the death of Mastodon. It makes me fear for open source in general.
Do we need to do this to ourselves?

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In theory Bluesky is decentralized but in practice it isn’t. The AT Protocol supports decentralization but in practice, the network that most users participate in is run by a single company.

So unlike Mastodon, if that one company’s servers go down, the entire BlueSky service is down for all users.

techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait…

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What if we try to turn down Bluesky for one day and push them to show us their « decentralized » viJen.
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That's not what happened. The storage nodes (the PDS, that are actually decentralized) run by BlueSky PBC were down because of a DDOS. People that are running their own PDS were not impacted. The front-end (called the "AppView" in ATProto lingua) was also not impacted.

The exact same thing could happen if a Mastodon host is down because of a DDOS.


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Ooof 😟 this morning i got the server bills and currently im still a massive €470+ short..

Upcoming week I'm gonna dedicate go clean up servers, merge some to cut costs

Unofrt active users has gone down but the cost do keep return and even increase every month

Please, if you can and want, help me out with these bills

paypal.me/stuxOS
patreon.com/mstdn
ko-fi.com/mstdn
bunq.me/stuxhost
stux.me/donate
liberapay.com/mstdn

Boosts would also be a help❤️



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What these last few years have shown me is that even some of the people who you think are the kindest and most well grouded are susceptible to fascism, and it really makes it hard to look at certain people the same way.

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Sure, people focus on Pete Hegseth's incompetence, but they forget that he's also a genuinely awful human being.

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When you're declaring that God should only appoint a white guy to represent Him, it isn't God you believe in, it's white supremacy.

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Let's reach today's goal of $25,000. We only need $476.
Your donation means hope to us in these difficult times.
Please don't ignore us.🙏
gofund.me/b485f196

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Gawd.. Do I wish I was wrong about #Trump

I remember people telling me not to call him a fascist or dictator

Where are they now?


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Technically correct. #StarTrek #meme

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Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you?

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Black Maga Discovers Racism

youtube.com/watch?v=qcJv5d9iwZ…

FAFO season continues in the familiar streets of Black Maga. It was all fun and games waving the Maga hat and complaining about the plight of Black Conservatives before Trump was elected. It was all good just a week ago. But now..chickens have come home to roost and Leopards are eating faces. Racism you say? Not Maga!

This Black Conservative TikToker now has put away her Black Maga hat to solicit help for her son who, as she calls it is dealing with 'racial injustice.' The kind they call us victims and snowflakes for pointing out.

#TrumpSupporters #maga #blackMaga #reeseWaters #fafo #LeopardsAteMyFace #racism



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It is appearing very likely that #RationalWiki will be dissolved this year due to lack of legal representation (no pro bono lawyers came forward and we do not have funds to hire a lawyer). Meritless #defamation lawsuits were filed against us by "human biodiversity"/"scientific racism"/pro-eugenics plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are consequently likely to win their cases by default.

#law #racism #eugenics #slapp #nonprofit
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Racialis…

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We have new batch of GOOD transgender news for you!

tapatalk.com/groups/crossdream…

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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I totally missed #PortfolioDay, but I make a post anyway 😅.
Hi, I’m Daniela, I’m an autistic comic artist from Berlin/Germany and I make comics about autism/neurodivergence, cozy fantasy art and cute/happy art!



wonderl.ink/@fuchskind



#MastoArt #CozyArt #FantasyArt #Autism #DigitalArt

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Under Trump It's not theory. They are already trying: x.com/BridgetCambria8/status/1…

And if we consider domestic torture camps, it's not distant future, it's a signed decree right now called "wellness farms" open for anyone doing drugs, needs medicine or struggles with mental health. What this means? Bet "Trump Derangement Syndrome" will be in the next ICD: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_de…

Scientific America has more about Wellness Farms: scientificamerican.com/article…

If we phrase it "(US) citizen put into (domestic _or_ foreign) camps by US government" - do I really need to go on? Guess everyone interested in the topic already has some bells ringing about current and past things going on. I'd even argue the war on minorities and activists isn't specifically a Trump thing, just the pace at which it happens and that the gov is so vocal about it.

Also there is a fun story from germany: Hungary asked for extradition of someone, court rules in first instance to extradite a german citizen. But as prison conditions are expected to be free of human rights it went to a higher court. Cops were informed that courts first instance decision isn't final but cops went up early that day to deport the woman - while in parallel the court was deciding that she can't be extradited. When she was there the word was "yea, sorry, too late, can't get her back no more". Meanwhile court ruled the extradition was illegal in first place. But has no consequences: tagesschau.de/inland/ausliefer… (german)

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An Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own ‘Severe’ Symptoms.

unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transm…

#ivermectin #pseudoscience



Cubans the Latest Latinos For Trump to Find Out

youtube.com/watch?v=gbivs51Y0b…

#TrumpSupporters #LatinosForTrump #maga #fafo #CubanImmigrants #VenezuelanImmigrants #DonaldTrump






Man votes Trump, wife gets arrested & imprisoned

youtube.com/watch?v=c6iq71Itcs…

#donaldTrump #trumpvoters #trumpsupporters #ice



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So, Cloudflare analyzed passwords people are using to log in to sites they protect and discovered lots of re-use.

Let me put the important words in uppercase.

So, CLOUDFLARE ANALYZED PASSWORDS PEOPLE ARE USING to LOG IN to sites THEY PROTECT and DISCOVERED lots of re-use.

[Edit with H/T: benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/cR4d…]

blog.cloudflare.com/password-r…

#cloudflare #password #cybersecurity


It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing aggregated stats on it (without explicit consent of the user it appears?)
Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.


Don't get me wrong the results are actually pretty interesting, but I just cannot think of a ethical way of doing this, and it feels kind of jarring that they just "did that"

blog.cloudflare.com/password-r…


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blog.cloudflare.com/password-r…

Im dort verlinkten DEV post steht:

"Note

Cloudflare does not store, log, or retain plaintext end-user passwords when performing leaked credential checks. Passwords are hashed, converted into a cryptographic representation, and then compared against a database of leaked credentials."

developers.cloudflare.com/waf/…

Nicht schön, aber formal korrekt.


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Apparently DOD went through the web pages for Medal of Honor recipients and marked those of non-white dudes as "DEI", which also broke links.

The shameless racism is nakedly on display.

bsky.app/profile/derekdel.bsky…

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Whoa, they don't even hide their racism against the "heroes" who went abroad killing people for the empire!

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Justice Barrett is still delivering solidly right-wing rulings, but in MAGA world, if you don’t swear a blood oath to Donold, you’re basically Karl Marx.

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"Joining me today on the pod is someone I'm hoping to reach across the aisle to. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Joseph Goebbels!"

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cd3uw…

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