Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"As long as there is Mass Surveillance, There can be no Free And Secure Internet for anyone anywhere."

#AmsterdamPublicComment #AmsterdamGraffiti #AmsterdamStickerArt #surveillance

Here's an excellent thread from @timberwraith on the toxic dynamics on Daily Kos. It's not just there of course, I see a lot of screenshots of centrists and so-called progressives echoing MAGA anti-trans talking points, or pointing to polls as "evidence" that supporting trans rights is an unpopular position.

Just about every trans and non-binary person I talk to was very aware of how willing so many centriset and "progressive" Democrats are to throw trans rights under the bus even before Newsom's bletcherous platforming of an anti-trans bigot and embrace of anti-trans talking points yesterday ... but I'm not sure how aware cis people are about this. So it's really worth highlighting!

https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/114122448717557060

And many of these same "progressives" are also echoing anti-Black and anti-Palestinian talking points. Nothing new here, of course, but also worth highlighting!

#uspol

Piepklein beetje #bloomscrolling

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Work in very nice (if I may say so) progress…

Ik vind het mooi hoor, dat een man een column schrijft voor internationale vrouwendag, en daarbij verschillende “sterke vrouwen” noemt. Maar als de enige persoon die letterlijk geciteerd wordt een andere man is… maak je diezelfde vrouwen dan niet stemloos? Ik wil niet zeiken maar het geeft me een raar gevoel.

https://kerkinstad.nl/column/sterke-vrouwen/

Someone's taking pictures in San Francisco at an angle to make the streets look level. I feel simultaneously amused and triggered. (Seeing the cars level is what really fuels the illusion)

Ik kreeg van @nitrokey een envelop met bestelde producten en was positief verrast: de envelop was aan twee kanten gevoerd, maar niet met bubbeltjesplastic. Hierdoor kan het gehele ding bij oud #papier en kost het ook minder moeite om de boel uit elkaar te halen.

Als het aan mij zou liggen, zou dit de norm moeten zijn om gebruik van #plastic en kunststoffen te verkleinen.

#recycling

tiny blinky city

PSA for my friends …

And those of you who have been encountering “Nicole, but you can call me Fediverse Chick …”

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/what-are-pig-butchering-scams.html

“Pig Butchering” is an exponentially growing scam model, being carried out by trafficked people. It rolls a whole psych warfare + romance + free crypto money scam together with some sort of grandpa-scam entree, and they’re in for a long game.

Mastodon Admins are trying to get rid of “Nicole”, but its a hydra.

DO NOT ENGAGE.

the way the right-wing media quickly stopped covering the tragedy in german mannheim when it became clear that the culprit of the deliberate attack on the crowd at the carnival was not a migrant from asia or africa, but "alexander" - a white german citizen with extreme right-wing views, and it was a muslim who tried to stop him, is simply astonishing

"remote friendly" "anywhere in the U.S." ok

i ran out of room, but i could keep going.

but i wsnt to add one particular nasty belief system that acts as cop and body guard defending all other shitty beliefs

“I am a good person”

it’s also the scariest to discard because, gosh don’t you feel safe with that one around? but not only is it not true, it’s got you on this false model of reality where people just *are* good, amd therefore other people just *are* bad. as a quality of their eternal soul.

“i am a good person” stops you from recognising the pain, and humanity in other people, and instead has you seeing it as a threat to your self image of goodness

it’s a sad fact that so many people who believe they are anti-fascist, and that they would have fought the nazis, nevertheless believe in fascist and bioessentialist ideas about (about)
- intelligence (that it can be measured, and can determine the value of a person),
- evolution (that it progresses in a straight line from ‘bad’ to ‘good’)
- gender (men are dangerous because of their biological makeup, women are weak and vulnerable and need protection )
- immigration (where to start?)
- law (“they” shouldn’t be allowed to vote/the law aligns with morality )
- money ( that you ‘earn’ it through hard work?)
- technology ( unquestioned good for every problem )
- mental health ( people who do evil things are crazy, mentally ill, etc )