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hey guys, one of my friends is an ukrainian queer refugee that is currenty residing in Germany with his mother that has chronic health problems. they're near Munich, in Ergolding.

they have been experiencing troubles with housing and healthcare.

does anybody know any services or groups that help find a place to stay and medical assistance for ukrainian refugees in this area? please provide contacts and links.

this question is time sensitive, we have a week or so. please share.

Are journalists thinking about this? Are major news organizations internalizing this into their threat models? Are politicians and civil society actors? What are people thinking?

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At this point the most important elite social media network in the western world has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (and possibly user) information for partisan / ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections.

I am not sure if this has fully sunk in.

Capitalism and mental health 

Annoys me when people claim the answer to every mental health issue is just "capitalism".

Because it's not true: we know damn well that depression pre-dates capitalism, and will post-date it as well.

And because what that says is "my ideal world doesn't include caring for people with mental health problems. you'll all be Fixed By Ending Capitalism" and it's not a long step from that to "and now we've ended capitalism, if you're not Fixed it's your fault."

#FediBlock is not a meta tag

FediBlock tag is not a place to muse about if you should block someone or even saying you did not block them

FediBlock tag is not for posts that are not about blocking someone or a server

make your own tag to “defend” instances, or just dont block them. not satisfied with the “proof?” dont block them.

not everything requires your input.

do not include the actual tag if there is no one to block, you are flooding the tag with useless posts

re: long, advice for keeping bed cool 

@jaycie IME, that works until you cuddle up to someone and end up on their pillow, instantly negating the cooling benefits 😅

re: Tools and abuse vectors 

@lawremipsum@mspsocial.net While the situation with archive.org specifically is a complex one (there's also a long history of robots.txt being used *by* abusers to evade accountability via the Wayback Machine, and it's not just hypothetical), what surprises me more here is that the Wayback Machine apparently doesn't follow robots.txt?

The last time I checked, they refused to serve up anything behind a robots.txt, even when the robots.txt was added *after* the crawl, and their crawler always clearly identified itself, precisely for abuse/consent reasons. Did this change?

long, advice for keeping bed cool 

@jaycie Some things I've found to help for me, depending on situation and ambient temperature:
- Drape just the *edge* of the blanket over me, so that there's an open gap on the side (but my feet are still covered) - still weighted, but not enclosed
- Point a fan directly at me, it really does seem to help even though I don't *feel* the airflow through the blanket
- During colder months, keep my window slightly open to deliberately cool down the room, but not too much (or my body starts overcompensating and sweating)
- Switch to a buckwheat pillow; they take some getting used to, but they ventilate *exceptionally* well, and (at least for me) it actually affects the temperature control of my whole body!

Ultimately the single biggest factor for me turned out to be my choice of mattress; specifically, switching to one that ventilates well. But that's comparatively expensive (though particularly Lidl often has good well-ventilated options that are cheap by mattress standards; avoid foam options unless they specifically have ventilation holes)

The problem with #RaspberryPi proudly hiring an ex-spy cop and seeing nothing wrong with it isn’t that they were unprofessional in their replies to criticism on the fediverse. It was the fact that they proudly hired an ex-spy cop and see nothing wrong with it.

If what you want is corporations* to be better at whitewashing what they do, be careful what you ask for because that’s all they want too.

* They’re an offshoot of Broadcom and their “foundation” has multiple for-profit companies.

#RaspberryPi own the two main organisations teaching coding to children today (Code Club and CoderDojo). And they see absolutely nothing wrong with proudly hiring an ex-spy cop who brags about having built surveillance equipment using their boards.

I resigned from the board of directors of Code Club many years ago because they didn’t see anything wrong with legitimising Google (a surveillance capitalist) to children.

These people are creating curricula for your kids. You should be worried.

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@colinfry666 @nick @geton @aurynn I don't know about that. They've gotten raked over the coals over on Twitter as well...

it's genuinely difficult to think of something funnier than "we hired a cop with a background in electronic surveillance" to post here. it's like if you asked me to come up with a magic phrase that would cause everyone to lineup and kick you in the nuts, i wouldn't suggest that because it's TOO on the nose.

who called it programming for engagement on social media and not 

clout computing

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(semi-lewd shitpost) who called it defederation from police instances and not 

cop blocking

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No, for real. Your life is not and endless pit of despair, it's capitalism. Capitalism is the reason why you feel isolated and lonely and meaningless. Capitalism is why you feel guilty every time you're having a good time or just taking your time to do stuff. Capitalism is the reason why you see your peers as rivals, not mates. Capitalism is why you feel you're unworthy of love.

If you're gonna be all 'You shouldn't *tell* people not to federate with nazi instances, you should only inform them that those are nazi instances', you can fuck off, too.

No nazis in the bar, outside the bar, on top of the bar, heading towards the bar, putting on their nazi boots ready to head towards the bar - no space for nazis, no space for people who make space for nazis.

I do love the blahaj, but people remember as with any other giant corp IKEA suck fuckin ass

@sweetmercury@jorts.horse @scattapilla@jorts.horse I could've done without the 4 new ones tbh

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