Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025
Event becomes biggest of its kind as more than 100,000 turn out to support its ‘existence and resistance’ theme
This is great piece by Ian Dunt on trans rights being taken away without even a pretence of parliamentary debate.
Around the world, LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly used as a litmus test for democracy. Our rights are everyone's rights, and when they come for us, they're coming for your freedom.
iandunt.substack.com/p/the-tra…
The trans rights stitch-up
How government plans to silence debate on the new rulesIan Dunt (Striking 13)
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It's not just about porn. It's about the freedom to safely engage in content if one so chooses. It's about the livelihoods affected by payment blocking. It's about LGBTQ+, whom are often wrongly and purposely equated to porn. This is keystone issue in the war on freedom that affects us all.
Learn what you can do about it at anti-censorship-campaign.carrd… .
#Censorship #CollectiveShout #Freedom #itchio #LGBTQ #Mastercard #PayPal #Steam #Stripe #Visa
Anti Censorship Campaign
Collective action against payment processors unjustly restricting our purchases.Anti Censorship Campaign
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and #coffee ☕ or tea🍵
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Reminder that Ghislaine Maxwell didn't just traffic girls to Epstein and associates. Per multiple victim statements, she participated in the rape personally as well.
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Oh I see the absurdly, negligently insecure Tea app is now getting the "hackers hacked" treatment, so that it can comfortably deflect blame to some unspecified scary hackers?
Cool, cool.
*takes out a bullhorn*
📢 Tea kept drivers license photos of thousands of women in an unprotected Google Firebase storage bucket.
📢 Centering "hackers" means helping let those responsible for the horrendous negligence at Tea off the hook.
👏 There is no "hack", only other people's negligence.
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@the_turtle @arichtman No need, if the bucket is writeable, you'll find tons of malware in it already.
Example of communication with AWS:
- Hey AWS, there is a bucket with hundreds of malware files. Here is a link to one example X1.
- AWS here, we deleted X1.
- Hey AWS, but you left all other malware there. Example X2, X3, X4, ...
- AWS here, please open a new ticket.
And while the answers from AWS are a shame for every service provider, at least they answer. Microsoft is all hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing in such cases.
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"This guy planted a bunch of catnip in his ally and this happened 😵💫"
DON'T FORGET TO PICKUP YOUR PETS
Happy #Caturday
via The Smokin Grasshopper 🦗🍃
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Parallel Bus vs Serial Bus
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the longer bus has more doors, so while I do think it's funny, it may be that the buses are practically the opposite of what you see in them at first
‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
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Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin understand hunger? Do they know we’re in a famine?”
“Yes,” she said immediately. “Even Ezz, who’s only known war and ruins, understands. He’s never seen real food in his life. He doesn’t know what ‘options’ are. The only thing he ever asks for is bread.”
She imitated his baby voice: “Obz! Obza! Obza!” – his way of saying “khobza” (a piece of bread).
She had to tell him, “There’s no flour, darling. Your dad went out to look for some.”’
aljazeera.com/features/2025/7/…
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #famine #starvation #StopIsrael #StopFundingGenocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #FreePalestine
‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi (Al Jazeera)
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Emergency Preparedness Tip:
Put your local fire department and police department dispatch numbers (non-911) into your phone.
Lots of 911 outages recently; if you have phone service still and need to call for help, it's useful to have them in your phone. (won't help you if your cell towers/etc. go down of course)
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Texas Observer: The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn
There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.
"...There was little to no public memory. People did not die solely because of forgetfulness but because this amnesia allowed succeeding generations to erase the past and their responsibilities to the future. When they could have enacted post-flood, life-saving interventions, they chose not to act on their progeny’s behalf...."
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Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Commercially Distributed Raw Milk — California and Four Other States, September 2023–March 2024
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#RawMilk #UnpasteurizedMilk #SalmonellaOutbreak #PublicHealth
“A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream
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“A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream
A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.Assigned
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#Fread 1.4.5 has been released.
1. Support multiple accounts to log in to a single platform
2. Solved some known issues
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
#Mastodon #fediverse #Opensource #RSS #FOSS #Freesoftware #fdroid
Fread - Mastodon Bluesky RSS - Apps on Google Play
Built for Mastodon, Bluesky and RSS—simple, powerful, and beautifully crafted.play.google.com
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if you believe that trans people doing their gender in a way you disagree with makes them accomplices of the patriarchy, you are not a safe person for trans people to be around.
this goes double for people who are themselves trans. work on your internalized transphobia and misogyny.
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dudes standing in front of a mirror flexing their biceps while making growling noises is not where patriarchy stems from.
Obs, I don't know the full context here. But I feel how any of us do gender is highly influenced by the patriarchy. This doesn't mean we shouldn't do these things though. Personally, I do things to help manage my body issues which are highly influenced or set by western patriarchal norms of femininity, but I do so with that acknowledgement. We swim in patriarchy, so we can't avoid it. Anyone who critiques another's expression of their gender should also bear this fact in mind.
Feminism has long argued that the Personal is Political. How we fall into or express our gender is highly personalized, and thus political. Yet, any discussions around this should invoke a desire for understanding long before criticism should be laid. If anything else, feminism teaches us to listen to one another. To suggest that any one of us (individually) is responsible for our own oppression or the patriarchy is ridiculous. However, we should all be ready to cast a critical eye to our own actions and understandings to help ensure we are not prescribing or furthering oppressive norms as much as possible.
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I love butterflies so much 🥺 🦋
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Spotted towhee making sure I could hear
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The National welcomes Donut tRump to Scotland in true Scottish style.
Oddly enough, The National seems to be selling in unusually large numbers today, this was almost the last copy left at my corner shop... and I only bought it to take a photo of the headline 😂
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Ugh, I hate how that headline leaves out such important context.
He was found civilly liable for the sexual assault and (repeated) defamation of E. Jean Carroll. Ordered to pay around $500 million, I believe.
He was convicted of 34 criminal felonies for business fraud related to his 2016 coverup of an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels.
I believe a couple of law dictionaries are updating their definition of "Moral Turpitude" to just be a picture of Donald Trump.
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Best community note contender.
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Hello#RFKjr also a Jeffrey Epstein client
newrepublic.com/post/198416/rf…
RFK Jr. Captured in Old Photos Partying With Jeffrey Epstein
It’s not just Donald Trump. Those in his inner circle were in the same orbit as Epstein too.The New Republic
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🕹️ Title: OpenHV
🦊️ What's: A libre 90s-inspired Sci-Fi RTS game
🏡️ openhv.net/
🐣️ github.com/OpenHV
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🔖 #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #Strategy #RTS
📦️ #Libre #Arch #Flatpak #AppIm #Snap
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⚗️ Minor vers. 🐁️🐞️🐞️📑️💎
📌️ Changes: github.com/OpenHV/OpenHV/relea…
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Oh, you thought it was going to stop with trans people?
#bigotry #terfs #fascism #TakeAFuckingBowJKRowling disabled.social/@MikeImBack/11…
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“My parents very clearly do not love me”: Children of Bayswater Speak Out
"In July last year, we exposed Bayswater Support Group’s private Discord for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, revealing evidence of child abuse and political lobbying. Bayswater describes itself as offering “parents whose children have a transgender identity somewhere to talk, share and be understood”. But posts from their private Discord forum revealed that parents exchanged conversion therapy tips, and fostered relationships with MPs to push anti-trans policies."
transsafety.network/posts/my-p…
#Transgender #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy #TransYouth #TransKids #Transphobia #Transphobes #TransChildren #GenderCritical #Terfs
"To say the very least, Trump folks online are not happy. Many of them love South Park because of its ruthless mockery of 'woke' culture, and suddenly, here’s their Daddy being called a fascist little bitch by the creators of the show."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p…
South Park Thinks Trump is a Little Fascist Bitch
The best satire in years.Charlotte Clymer (Charlotte's Web Thoughts)
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This new piece by @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has everything. A conspiracy to pervert science, a prominent spokes-doctor with a perennially lapsing medical license, and a curiously close relationship between the ADF and the New York Times.
How Anti-Trans Disinformation ...
“A Shameful Chapter”: How Anti-Trans Disinformation Drowned Out Science and Gripped the Mainstream
A pipeline of pseudoscience funded by powerful right-wing hate groups has undermined medical truths with the help of big media.Assigned
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let the horror of this sink in www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens
Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit byAnnie Kelly (The Guardian)
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boost to cleanse your mutuals' timeline with the specimen
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#landscape #nature #photography #forest #germany #deutschland #nürnberg #schwarzachklamm #bayern #hiking #darktable #agx
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Belgian court rules transgender cyclist’s exclusion was discriminatory
belganewsagency.eu/belgian-cou…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Belgian court rules transgender cyclist’s exclusion was discriminatory
A court in Brussels has ruled that the exclusion of a transgender female cyclist from women’s competitions was discriminatory and lacked...belganewsagency.eu
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Go on without me... 
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Quack.
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Mastodon.social Staff
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Stefan
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in reply to Stefan • • •@stefan Oh thats a nice one!
Or maaaybe some sort of REGEX filter on signup? Since they seem to use a pattern maybe
Matt Noyes
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Mastodon.social Staff
in reply to Matt Noyes • • •@Matt_Noyes This is unfortunately not true. In most cases, closing our signups has merely moved attacks to other servers. In this case, it's mostly moved it to compromised accounts. And even in approval mode, spammers get through!
Combating spam is a constantly moving target, each change you make causes the approach to shift. We have some new tools in the latest builds, and hopefully we'll have even more options in the future with FASPs.
MEUREFUGIONERD
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Gabriel H. Nunes
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Your account isn't yet verified in any way, though.
#Mastodon #MastodonSocial #MastodonOnline
Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲
in reply to Gabriel H. Nunes • • •Good catch.
Mastodon.social Staff
in reply to Cainmark Does Not Comply 🚲 • • •Gabriel H. Nunes
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •@cainmark
Thank you for that information! I'm on mastodon.social, but I'm usually on a third-party app, #Fedilab, which doesn't show badges, so domain verification is still important.
On that, why not verify through mastodon.social and mastodon.online instead of joinmastodon.org?
#Mastodon #MastodonSocial #MastodonOnline
Fedilab Apps
in reply to Gabriel H. Nunes • • •At least, when opening the profil remotely, you should see the badge with Fedilab. So there is an issue on our end. Bookmarked for a fix.
@staff @cainmark
S.R. Weaver
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Dinisha Meera
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •AKT
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Your profile neither have a "badge" nor a verified domain.
Ladies and gentlemen we got him.
Su_G
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in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Eduardo
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Dawn Ahukanna
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Also indicates a gap in providing admin level messages, similar to old school forum discussion boards or SMS from mobile phone provider.
♂香味刺鼻🌈
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Tofm2 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Edit: done.
always tired
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •slinjkje
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •this :)
jjlinux | X unverified 😅
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Cassandrich
in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Tacking on this sentence was irresponsible and unnecessary:
"Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the joinmastodon.org domain."
The potential victims of this scam don't understand how to verify those conditions and it just gives the scammers a way to trick them ("see here for the role badge we told you to look for when warning you about scams").
The responsible thing to say is "Real staff accounts will NEVER DM you asking you to click a link, disclose private information, or verify your account. Any such request is a scam."
Robert Harron
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in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Well i'll stick with Misskey forks* and occasionally Akkoma thanks.
*At this rate you might as well fork Misskey, there'll come a point you can't add the features we have without breaking it completely.
Not so "frivolous" now.
And Mastodon AntiSocial stays muted.
I saw yours in a boost by a mutual.
#mastodon #misskey #SignUpApprovalByDefault
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in reply to Mastodon.social Staff • • •Mastodon needs a way to "verify" that doesn't require having some other website
If I could follow "Real people only" I absolutely would.
piper977
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