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weather alert: "it fucken wimdy"

me, watching someone's bin careening down the street fast enough to set the speed camera off: "yup, checks out"

Extremely bad Signal bug 

To reproduce

1. Have Signal on iPhone and iPad that you don't use that much
2. Block someone on Signal with phone
3. Wait a good long time to use iPad, long enough that when you open Signal on iPad it gives you the "syncing stuff" screen
4. Your phone will inform you that you unblocked the user in question, even though you absolutely did not
5. Hope that person wasn't abusive and that this doesn't put you in danger
6. Hope the @signalapp devs take this seriously

Paraphrased, in regards to rainbow capitalism:

“I do not miss the cash-grab Pride displays. I miss the kind of society that made cash-grab Pride displays safe to perform.”

“data center” is such a boring uncreative name. we should call them computer dungeons

venting about shitty people 

Well, so much for the 'chaos furs' group. They've gotten enough chances to not be bigoted assholes.

NL pol en rechtspraak 

De staat wordt gewezen op haar verplichtingen: zij moet zich aan haar eigen wetten houden. Dat vindt het huidige kabinet niet zo leuk – jammer, denk ik dan – en daarom klaagt het over de rechter die eigenlijk gewoon een constatering heeft gedaan en daaraan consequenties heeft verbonden.

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/01/23/deze-

I know the world was objectively a worse, less progressive place, and with much less ozone in the ideal layer for it, but I certainly shouted "oh, fuck off!" a lot less at computers back in the '90s

politics, slightly spicy take 

There is no such thing as 'shifting to the center' politically. Because of the ever-shifting Overton window, you are always shifting either 'left' or 'right' (and right now, it means shifting 'right').

re: uspol, trans document changes (passports, driver's licenses) 

Oh and -- if you have a passport with an "X" gender, I strongly recommend making any trips out of the country one-way for now, as there's some talk of denying re-entry or allowing re-entry but confiscating your passport so you can't leave again.

I don't know how credible those are yet. Just advising caution.

I've also seen it recommended that if you're trans and not a US citizen, that you hold off on any trips to the US at least until things settle down.

celeste.lgbt/en/2025/01/notice

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re: uspol, trans passport renewal 

If you're trans / non-binary and your passport renewal application has been delayed or denied due to Trump's executive order, the ACLU would like to speak to you.

action.aclu.org/legal-intake/r

@cato Strange company. Public data shows the company works from a private home. And mostly lost money. It never had more than 140k€ in the books per year. There is a second company at the same address, with the same owners. Making even less money.
The Website list lots of different parts, all with generic datasheets, seemingly rebranded with their Logo. Whatever they do, it is really, really strange.

Internet-armoede is gewoon armoede
Net zoals alle vormen van armoede met een term ervoor gewoon armoede is. Uitkeringen en minimumloon omhoog is eerder een oplossing dan voor elke zogenaamde vorm van armoede een apart potje te zoeken.

#throwbackthursday to my birthday hike in 2022. I stopped and took a short nap beside a lake off the trail (as one does). When I woke up there was something large and wet in my arms. I slowly backed up, and there he was - I had been spooning a snapping turtle! I spent a while at that lake, hanging out with my new friend while he swam in circles near the shore. I’ve always wondered what on earth compelled him to curl up in my arms like that.

#hiking #turtle #nature #wildlife

nazis rhetoric and such 

stop implicitly calling old nazis cool and stylish in contrast to modern nazis

trust me, i get what you're saying, but shit like "i bet hitler never grunted to make a sieg heil" to make fun of musk is basically reinforcing the myth.

image is everything to nazis. they do and have always been losers that cared if you thought they were cool.

to talk about their uniforms or whatever grants them this decorum and respect that you can rest assured you do NOT have to give them

Deze doet me denken aan die keer dat ik met een HR manager een voortgangsgesprek had, ooit, bij een groot bedrijf.
Ik deed werk wat ik leuk vond, afwisselend, genoeg uitdaging. Waar ik mezelf over 5 jaar zag: nou, op dezelfde plek, die past me. Had ik dan geen ambitie?? Jawel, om beter te worden in wat ik deed.
Dat telde niet...
Oh well... 🤷🏻

mastodon.social/@islieb/113878

Mention of big tech company and current events (QC) 

Amazon is doing some union-busting bullshit in Quebec

If you have Prime, you can cancel it

You don't need to pay the Amazon rent

Filing the rise of modern fascism entirely under "Polarization" is some neat bookkeeping trick huh

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