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Election-based systems of government wear the clothes of democracy but do none of its work

I'm getting pretty close to 'smoke detector out-of-battery beep', I think

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It's kind of funny how I've been essentially doing voice training, not for gender reasons but because it lets me mimick all sorts of animals, powertools, electronic noises, and whatever else, for shitposting purposes

"Learning from history" is great and all, but you do actually need to do the work of figuring out the specific cause-and-effect chain, and not just assume that because doing A once resulted in B, this will now forever be true whenever something like A is tried again, regardless of context or time

re: ableism, eugenics, white supremacy 

@flesh @JustGrist 'Kyriarchy' may fit the bill here?

ableism, eugenics, white supremacy 

Ableism and eugenics *are* white supremacy. If you are a white disabled person who experiences ableism, you are caught in the crossfire from weapons fashioned to advance white supremacy. If you think disabled people can make more progress by focusing only on disability and not addressing racism, transphobia, homophobia, patriarchy, or any of the other types of oppression entwined with white supremacy, you are self-destructively buying into an utter load of shit.

:NoAt: Don't reply to tell me what you found by searching that error code, I also have access to Google, I'm looking for people who have actually done it themselves 

Has anyone recently (in the last ~ 2 years) fixed a Blackberry Q10 with a bb10-0015 error?

I have the phone but it's bricked and if someone knows how to get it functioning again, I might try to install a server on it rather than buying a new computer-on-a-chip

So even if you've got it to boot into another OS, that counts as "fixing"

Like, I am a tech nerd *and* a supply chain nerd and I still couldn't tell you what the actual manufacturing cost of a lot of tech stuff is, I don't know how anyone else is expected to figure this out

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A year ago today, I came out publicly.

techhub.social/@CiscoJunkie/11

At the time, I knew I wanted to start taking steps towards aligning my gender presentation with my felt sense of gender. That intent has resulted in a lot of changes, both big and small, and all of them have been worth the effort. This year has been a whirlwind so far, and I'm looking forward to exploring more steps now that things are settling down a bit.

I'd really only settled on the "agender" label a year ago, but I'm wearing so many more gender labels these days: queer, trans, enby, and probably others I haven't discovered yet. I'm wearing a lot of other non-gender labels more openly, too. I love that I finally feel empowered to develop a sense of identity and to think really hard about what *I* want my story to look like.

As we push into Pride Month, I'd invite you all to remember that the Stonewall riots were about liberation and making space for people to exist as themselves. If you're able, I hope you can make some space for the queer folks in your life: genderqueer, neuroqueer, or however else someone might show up against social conventions. Some of us may not look or feel "queer enough" by some reckonings, and those are *exactly* the sorts of folks we should be making more space for.

I love how all these news articles about scams and security problems are always all "if something is too cheap to be true, that usually means there's something sketchy going on"

As if a normal person could possibly have any kind of reasonable idea of what stuff is 'supposed' to cost in this exploitative capitalist hellscape where every company lies all the time including the supposedly legitimate ones

uspol 

🐉you can see why with this operation.

If the goal was to catch “dangerous criminals” then why the lucky location? Why the masks? Why the military vehicles for a taco shop? Why were they ready for a riot? Shouldn’t they do this quietly?

All of it wasted on a show of force. If they cared to catch people they’d use their limited resources more effectively.

Resisting deepens the mistake by further wasting their time, energy, prestige, money, political capital. All of that is an expense, and if Trump I’d good at one thing, it’s throwing money in a hole.

Good job 🩵

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uspol 

🐉this is clearly intended to provoke a response. That’s why they picked a location near where #georgefloyd was murdered.

Resist with intelligence. As seen here. Good job. Do not let the extra twist of the knife make you lose your cool.

If they were succeeding they wouldn’t try to provoke you.

Powerful people do not need to twist knives. They simply use them. Bothering to make it hurt is wasteful if you do not react.

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Just got back from the POSIX rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting “Better things aren't possible”

I went back and now I’ve got evidence that I, personally, saw the Safeway trolley in Glasgow on the 4th June 2025

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I’ve seen a lot of weird abandoned objects in my time but this might be one of the strangest: An immaculately preserved trolley from Safeway, the UK supermarket chain that stopped being a thing in 2005

And I’m pretty sure this logo is a few years older than that!

fosstodon 

wow that shithole continues to be a nazi bar somehow

who would've though that replacing two shithead that defended nazi with another shithead who defended the previous two and shifted the blame on us for "reacting too aggressively" would result in the same outcome

no politics my ass

context:
one of newer mods wrote this fashy shit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250601200137/https...

gina saw it and then accepted him into the mod team, as per her own confession:
https://fosstodon.org/@Gina/114612485062169791

holy shit this smells to high heavens. yikes.

CW-boost: fosstodon, fascism, you probably know where this is going by now 

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