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fatphobia 

jesus christ fatphobia is way too socially acceptable, like, it really is one of the final levels of just being normal about a person, apparently

but also, the VITRIOL people will have when you confront them about it is like, genuinely confusing

not to sound all naive or w/e it's just like
so many people get REALLY defensive and emotional about hating fat people

On a more serious note - fuck raspberry for hiring ex-cop with proficiency in surveillance then doubling down when they got backlash. We didn’t forget, we will not forget.
Find better board if you need one, don’t default to raspberry, there are plenty competitors
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Anyway they're organizing a... thing for residents to show up to and discuss how local inclusivity can be improved, which I'll be going to this evening, so I guess we'll learn more about how serious they are about this 🙂

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(Well technically I learned this a few days ago and forgot to post it)

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Today I learned that we have an alderman of Inclusivity in my municipality

University Staff United, just won recognition for 1800 student and instructional services staff at #UMich, their first bargaining unit and about 10% of the university's staff. Their goal is to unionize all staff not covered by other campus unions. #Solidarity aftmichigan.org/university-of-

675,480 requests within 48 hours, +100GB of traffic coming from 843+ IP addresses.

That's the result of a single AI crawler finding my forgejo instance for personal projects.

This specific crawler is now "banned". I'm not angry or anything, rather just disappointed that AI makers make shoddy crawlers. It made me however find the issue in my filter list that made me earlier disable certain blocking rule because it targeted legitimate traffic.

I've been trying to dig deeper into ZFS internals lately. Found some questions asked a couple years ago that looked promising, only to find out that those questions were answered back then. By me. This has happened five times now.

“I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.”

― Jana Stanfield

#quote #motivational #HopePunk

Vacuuming the space behind my desk, inhaling a single speck of dust and dying instantly

(I re-discovered it while going through my local music folder, which has survived through all these years, somehow)

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I originally discovered this in the early 2010s while trawling Jamendo for neat stuff. I still have a FLAC copy here, grabbed from the undocumented FLAC download endpoint. Possibly the only FLAC copy in existence now?

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@joepie91 That is one of the most badass pieces of album art I've ever seen.

Music recommendation: jamendo.com/album/56612/dirty-

Unfortunately they don't seem to have done anything else since that album, which is a shame!

Signal-boosting:

"If you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com.

We have a plan and may be able to help you."

Optie B: de zaak weer nationaliseren, en retroactief alle winsten van investeerders sinds de privatisering terugvorderen. Ook een prima optie, wat mij betreft.

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Ah ja, en is weer aan het huilen dat de postbezorging niet rendabel is, en klopt aan bij de staat voor financiele steun.

Tja, jullie wilden het toch zo graag privatiseren? Dan moet je ook het bijbehorende risico dragen, en niet alleen maar zelfstandig willen zijn wanneer de zaken goed lopen...

NL politiek 

Om het maar even heel bot te stellen: "wij moeten het grotere en sterkere leger hebben" is geen linkse politiek.

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NL politiek 

Nou, de golf met oorlogstaal van 'progressieve' en 'linkse' partijen in Nederland is begonnen, hoor. Natuurlijk op basis van "anno 2025 moeten we...".

Fairweather friends, indeed.

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