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This is fascism. There is nothing "semi" about it. This is not "normal" political discourse, DeSantis is not a "normal" governor, and the Republican Party is not a "normal" political organization. It is fascism.
"Hide your books to avoid felony charges, Florida schools tell teachers. Unsure what titles violate new state rules, two school districts tell educators to conceal every book for now":
washingtonpost.com/education/2

By the way, I don't say this lightly. I'd also urge people to not expect fascism in the 2020s to look exactly like fascism in the 1920s. There are still shouty marches and uniforms and torches, but that's not all. Think about narratives of decline from former glory, contempt for deliberation/diversity/compromise, ethnic nationalism, authoritarianism, the idea that violence is a cleansing force, misogyny and chauvinism, homophobia and transphobia, and the "strong male leader" shtick. All there.

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@bodhipaksa the Brooklyn Public Library is actively fighting book-banning by letting any teen or young adult in the US get a library card there to check out books online.

Books that are banned elsewhere have special treatment so they are "always available".

Any US teen can request a personalized reading list from the library, as recommended by a fellow teen volunteering their time.

Please pass this on to any teens in your life.

#BannedBooks #censorship #HumanRights

bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanne

walking up to the replicator on a new ship and ordering "the usual" to see what happens

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"Since version 0.105, released in April 2012, the name of the project was changed from PolicyKit to polkit to emphasize that the system component was rewritten and that the API had changed, breaking backward compatibility."

[butterfly meme] is this semver extremism?

API compat break? Bump the project name!

covid-19, reinfection window 

for folks who have caught covid multiple times, what was the shortest time for reinfection you experienced?
(shortest reported so far: < 4 weeks)

Bij de tandarts. Als ik over een paar dagen corona blijk te hebben, was het gegarandeerd van hier. Ik zie nergens ventilatieroosters of luchtreinigers. Maar m'n ffp3 ophouden kan natuurlijk niet.

Lastige afweging die me veel stress bezorgt. Uiteindelijk doe ik het toch maar want dit is ook belangrijk, maar ik haat iedereen die deze situatie heeft veroorzaakt door de noodzaak van schone lucht niet duidelijk te benoemen en handenwassen wel.

@six_seven

It's almost like they don't realize that most Endocrinologists have very little background in trans care. And the research is sparse. Unless they've specialized, they probably don't know enough.

Very interesting article I read on how doctors essentially use the appeal to authority to get trans people to trust them.

Meanwhile, Tech Comms is doing good research on online sources of technical knowledge in the DIY HRT communities.

"Volgens het college lijkt het er bovendien op dat er met twee maten gemeten wordt."

Dat was al een tijdje duidelijk, volgens mij, maar het is mooi dat het College voor de Rechten van de Mens dat ook ziet. Vraag is of ze daar in Den Haag van onder de indruk zijn. De herhaalde gang naar de rechter naar aanleiding van de zaak-Urgenda doet het ergste vermoeden.

https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6249259/demonstratierecht-ernstig-onder-druk-door-vooraf-oppakken-klimaatactivisten.html

PSA for all Fedi instance admins and their users, "FediBlock" for a somewhat technical reason 

So, you all know gup.pe, right?

Most instances out there still have data for it. However, try opening it in your browser and you will see it no longer exists. This is because it was replaced by a.gup.pe, which you will find is accessible.

This causes lots of posts sent to gup.pe groups to be entirely unfetchable for a lot of Mastodon instances due to a Mastodon bug: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

If you're an instance admin for a Mastodon (or derivative) instance, please take the following steps:

Go to your settings
Navigate to Moderation → Federation
Select the "All" tab (not the "Limited" tab)
Search for "gup.pe"
Select "gup.pe" (NOT a.gup.pe!)
If only a.gup.pe shows up, you're good to go.
Click the "Purge" button (Don't suspend! On Mastodon, and apparently also Akkoma (not Pleroma), suspending an apex domain will also suspend subdomains!)
If there is no "Purge" button, you might have to click "Stop delivery" first.

If you don't use Mastodon or a derivative, but other server software, please find other instructions. (Feel free to reply with instructions for other server software!)

Generally speaking, if you know an instance to be down or you know that it's just tagging a Twitter repost "instance" (I'm seeing a lot of twitter.activitypub.actor tagging posts get caught up in this, too):

If you're an instance admin, purge its data. This will work around the above bug as local users will now be unable to tag users on dead instances.
If you're a user, don't tag any users from such instances. Don't tag mutualaid @ gup.pe, tag mutualaid @ a.gup.pe

#FediBlock

Queer as in disabled queers who still can’t get married if they need government assistance to live bc the pittance they’re given is slashed further if they have a spouse

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queer as in abolish the states “right” to decide who should be allowed to commit to each other and how

queer as in abolish the state, period

so many uncaptioned images on the timeline 😮‍💨

"The enemy doesn't arrive by boat, he arrives by limousine"

Sticker spotted in Dublin, Ireland

Fair Trails built an algorithmic risk assessment quiz to demonstrate what predictive policing is like and how you would be assessed. My score is 'high risk'.

Unfair? Yes, and discriminatory as well. These type of systems should be banned by the EU AI Act.

fairtrials.org/predictive-poli

“To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going try and arrest all of you together anyway.”

#pride #KinkAtPride #kink #lgbtq #trans

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