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2026-05-22 00:57:02 UTC

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Kewl!

2026-04-23 17:15:47 UTC

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This looks amazing, ken 😊

2026-04-21 17:49:14 UTC

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Yay! I hope you win all of them! 😄

2026-04-19 09:48:15 UTC

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that, even if you are only using the FOTM LLM to automate the 'boring' code, you're still using work stolen from people who did not consent.
The idea that there is somehow a line that you cross when you use 'AI' to make art instead of having it write SQL queries, commit messages, or internal tooling for you is an illusion, something you come up with to fool yourself into thinking that there is a 'moral' use of these tools.
There is not. This is technology built on extraction, exploitation of real people and tangible resources, and your use of it, no matter how 'small' you think it is, makes you complicit.
If you use these tools, at least be honest about the fact that you care more about the convenience it provides for you than the lives it ruins, and stop trying to justify it with weasel words.

2026-04-10 19:05:38 UTC

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Speaking of reasons to not use Proton; there's an interview with Andy Yen, Proton's CEO, in our local NRC newspaper today, and there's a number of things in it that are worth highlighting;
1) Dude only does job interviews on Sundays, because that filters out the people who aren't really 'committed';
2) They want to grow to a billion users by 2030;
3) The unmasking of the Stop Cop City protester is not the first time Proton has assisted law enforcement, there are similar cases involving a French climate activist, and a Catalan independence activist;
4) They have complied with 94% of all requests for information since 2017, and got 9.301 requests last year, of which they rejected less than a thousand;
5) One of their latest products, Proton Meet, is built on top of US cloud services.
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So, yeah, be wary of Proton, and the promises they make. They are Big Tech, they are tech bros, and they want to grow, grow, grow.
That is not compatible with the image they have created for themselves.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/04/10/de-privacy-vriendelijke-tech-van-proton-is-geliefd-bij-activisten-en-idealisten-het-bedrijf-wil-ook-uit-de-nerdniche-komen-a4924552
https://www.sambent.com/proton-helped-the-fbi-unmask-a-protester-then-said-they-didnt/
https://www.sambent.com/proton-meet-isnt-what-they-told-you/

2026-03-23 03:16:41 UTC

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Great work, though!

2026-03-23 03:03:45 UTC

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Ah, bugger, looks like it's UK only?

2026-03-22 20:21:47 UTC

I need more good heist movies, but I think I have seen most of them. Anyone got any recommendations for recent heist movies in the vein of the Ocean's movies, Casa de Papel (which Netflix so boringly renamed 'Money Heist'), Now You See Me, and so forth, with a good ensemble cast?

2026-03-09 19:56:58 UTC

Once again encountered a situation in which the speaking out about a thing is considered more problematic than the thing, because it makes the person who did the thing uncomfortable.
So fucking tired of that, especially in supposedly safe spaces that are merely 'safe' because the uncomfortable conversations are suppressed or shunted to the side with reasons like 'politics' and whatnot.
So, once again, for the white people in the back; impact over intent, always. That means sitting with your damn discomfort instead of demanding that people are 'nice'.
Also, if it happens in public, it needs to be addressed in public. Fuck you and your insistence that it be 'handled' through the proper channels, especially when those channels are controlled by those who are the source of the problem, or who have already taken sides against you 🚮
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2026-03-08 17:50:53 UTC

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I am not aware of any symbolism either, I always do so because it is the most practical, with the sharp edge facing away from the hand that will pick it up? 🤔

2026-03-06 06:59:16 UTC

Another reason to not use Proton, folks;
"Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media."
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
Previously, from just over a year ago;
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
And a reminder that, with more than 100 million users, they are Big Tech;
https://proton.me/blog/proton-100-million-accounts
If you do not like Apple's marketing of its privacy claims, you should be just as wary of Proton's, including their positioning of themselves as champions of online freedom and a better internet.
Yes, including those fundraisers;
https://proton.me/blog/2025-lifetime-fundraiser-results

2026-03-01 20:49:56 UTC

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Great work as always, ken 😊

2026-02-20 05:52:58 UTC

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I used 'house dressing' in quotes because I was not aware of any official term for it, but it makes sense that the most fake of the Western cultures does 🤪
It is only fairly obvious if you know that it is happening, but even then it is akin to deception, and contributes to the overall sense of unattainability in much the same way as magazine pictures (and now Instagram, YouTube et al) do for one's overall looks, life, etc.
It is set dressing for the real world, and it is very much a part of everything that is making us feel inadequate.
Should bother way more people.

2026-02-20 03:54:33 UTC

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Honestly, I think they were a bunch of grifters well before 'AI' allowed them to optimise their shit, including the whole 'house dressing' nonsense. Which they are no doubt itching to do more cheaply via 'AI', too.
For 'inspiration', or whatever their excuse is, when it's basically just part of the continuous gaslighting we're subjected to, all in order to make a fucking sale 😒

2026-02-13 03:31:09 UTC

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Also, it is Friday the 13th, for those who celebrate.

2026-02-13 03:27:40 UTC

In just over two weeks, it will be March already.
March 2020, of course.

2026-02-04 19:55:18 UTC

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I love this whole series 😄

2026-01-30 19:52:51 UTC

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In case no one else has mentioned it yet; have you looked at the warranty for your kit, yet? I am looking at G.Skill as an option for upgrading mine right now, and they are claiming a lifetime warranty?

2026-01-24 09:22:14 UTC

I know people need their diversions and whatnot, and that some people have few other options, but I am kind of disappointed in how difficult it is to get a decent boycot of the various Big Tech companies off the ground, and then keep it going.
Like Amazon, for example. The various streaming services. Getting people to stop using Spotify, for fuck's sake, or Substack.
It requires work, and that is apparently too much to ask. Which they know, and that's why they continue with their extraction, their labour abuses, and so forth.
They know you will choose the easy way, instead of voting with your wallet 😞

2026-01-05 01:49:32 UTC

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You should just start trading newly baked stuff for the empty containers every time you bring them something new, that way you will bring balance to the Force 😄

2026-01-02 00:37:14 UTC

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Some more background on the church fire in international media, including the fact that it was no longer a place of worship, but an event venue.
https://www.dw.com/en/amsterdam-church-destroyed-by-new-years-blaze/a-75362443
Also, with regard this quote about the casualties and wounded from the Dutch firework 'tradition';
"The Dutch Pyrotechnics Association blamed an incoming ban on the sale of fireworks to consumers for a spike in sales, which may have led to the casualties."
Fuck them and their bullshit. The ban happened, with broad popular support, because this shit has been out of control for years, not the other way around 🙄
Perhaps we can stop uncritically quoting those who profit from the record €129 million spent on the explosives that maimed and killed.
#News

2026-01-01 03:10:36 UTC

Vondelkerk in Amsterdam is burning down, neighbourhood is being evacuated 😞
Help from neighbouring cities was called in because the local firefighters were also very busy with people being assholes with fireworks 😒
Gotta wonder if the two are related, heh.
https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/236202/grote-brand-vondelkerk-toren-ingestort-en-veel-woningen-ontruimd
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vondelkerk
#News
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2026-01-01 00:10:27 UTC

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You are a wonderful human being 💜

2025-12-15 17:12:54 UTC

"Canada’s privacy commissioner has begun a probe into billboards that use facial detection technology for targeted advertising.
The billboards, located near Toronto’s Union Station, reportedly analyze only the age and gender of passerbys, according to their owner, Cineplex Digital Media (CDM). They’re part of a growing wave of technology that uses cameras, large databases and in some cases artificial intelligence to survey people in public."
Urgh, fuck this surveillance bullshit 🚮
https://therecord.media/canada-privacy-regulator-to-probe-face-scanning-billboards
#News #Surveillance

2025-12-13 23:56:01 UTC

Another cautionary tale to add to the 'cloud sync is not a backup' list;
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
Also, since this is the likely source of some discourse that has crossed my timeline in the past 24 hours, a few thoughts;
1) While schadenfreude is wholly inappropriate, there is a core of truth in any 'this is what you get' type of responses you might see. Because this is not the first time this has happened to someone, it is not unique to Apple, and the above 'cloud sync is not a backup' is a piece of advice that has been given but gone unheeded many, many times.
2) I am kind of rolling my eyes at the 'I have been nothing but loyal for many, many years' vibes this has. Not only does it not really matter to the current situation this person finds themselves in, it reeks of privilege, and entitlement.
3) Because YES, it could totally HAPPEN TO YOU TOO, independent of your technology choices. The KYC legislation as it exists in many countries these days makes it more likely, not less. The resulting fraud detection and response is automated, and imperfect.
1/ 🧵

2025-12-12 18:42:58 UTC

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(Continued)
Our hero engages Supremacy, and while it initially looks he might win, he eventually fails. Again, and again. The Other appears, and suggests that our hero ask for help. Our hero initially refuses, but, eventually, realises that it's okay.
Suddenly, Masculinity appears, taunting our hero, mocking him for his weakness. Our hero, however, realises that it has no power, that Masculinity is a monster without teeth or claws, just a loud mouth. He bares the Heart of Empathy, and it shrinks into nothing.
Our hero calls upon the Other, who turns out to be not one but a great host, and together they slay Supremacy. Hero returns to the Mentor, and together they review the lessons learned. Hero thanks the Mentor, returns to his village, and teaches other males.
THE END.
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There were some additional ideas, like the Old Friend who opposes him on this quest, and the Strong Woman, who does not look it but easily slays a monster our hero was afraid of and snuck around.
Perhaps someday I will actually make this.
2/ ⏹️

2025-12-12 18:35:35 UTC

This toot reminds me of a thread I did on Twitter, over a decade ago now, about making a self-help comic book for white cis males, aimed at teaching them about privilege, and empathy.
(It would not qualify for the quoted poll, read an actual book)
It would be modeled on the Hero's Journey. The Mentor would be a wise old African woman, who sends our white male on a quest; to defeat that which endangers women most. To do this, our hero would have to defeat Privilege and Supremacy, and free Empathy.
In the process, our hero would learn that the biggest hurdle to fulfilling his quest and returning to the Mentor is himself. To succeed, he would need to defeat his own assumptions first, because they make him powerless against Privilege.
After Privilege has been defeated, he needs to travel across barren lands to find Empathy, and earn the treasure he seeks. Once freed, Empathy grants him two weapons essential to defeating Supremacy; Humility, and the Heart of Empathy.
1/ 🧵
https://discuss.systems/@irene/115707981632189492

2025-11-30 14:15:24 UTC

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What a superb owl! 🦉

2025-11-29 08:14:38 UTC

"A transgender woman from the US has lost her appeal against being refused a refugee permit by the Dutch immigration minister.
Judges in Amsterdam ruled this week that while the position of transgender people in the US has worsened since the election of president Donald Trump, there are not enough grounds to grant Veronica Clifford Carlos refugee status.
Clifford Carlos, who lives in a refugee centre in Heerlen, claimed that in the US she faced both threats and discrimination, issues which the minister and court agreed are serious. However, the court said, she still had access to healthcare, education and was legally entitled to the protection of the US authorities.
She also had a job and income prior to leaving, and was able to take part in society and use social services, the court said."
In case anyone is still thinking that requesting asylum in the Netherlands is a feasible option, as a transgender US citizen.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/transgender-us-woman-loses-appeal-over-refugee-claim-rejection/
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #NLpol #USpol

2025-11-26 10:59:07 UTC

"Hundreds of foreign troll accounts were used during last month's Dutch election campaign to amplify messages by politicians, research by RTL Nieuws has found.
The accounts retweeted posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, by political leaders and prominent commentators, giving them greater reach on the social media platform.
The fake accounts almost exclusively amplified far-right parties such as Forum voor Democratie or Geert Wilders’s PVV, or promoted tweets that expressed hardline views on issues like immigration."
It's almost as if staying on X, granting it continued legitimacy as a communication platform, was a bad idea all along.
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/foreign-troll-army-skewed-election-campaign-towards-far-right/
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #GetOffX #RipItOut #NLpol

2025-11-17 09:44:20 UTC

Hey, mensen in Nederland; heeft iemand een goede aanbeveling voor metalen bekers van een lokale aanbieder? RVS, stapelbaar, zonder deksel of handvat? Bij voorkeur met een gerolde, niet-scherpe rand?
Het enige dat ik tot nu toe kan vinden zijn 'travel mug' versies met plastic deksel, merkloze dingen op Bol punt com, enzovoort.
Moet wel ergens te koop zijn, toch?
#dtv

2025-11-15 02:02:29 UTC

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Those are lovely cards 🙂

2025-11-09 13:30:59 UTC

The weirdest thing about the US government shutdown affecting air travel, to me at least, is that there seems to be no movement that emphasises NOT FLYING.
Like, seriously, what the fuck? I get that there may be some mitigating factors, like having already booked tickets for that national plane travel ritual they call 'Thanksgiving' well in advance, but just not flying doesn't even seem to come up as a consideration.
How about not being an asshole to people in high-stress jobs during what is probably the busiest time of the year, who are now not even getting paid, and showing a little solidarity, while also working on kicking your domestic flying habit?
The fucking entitlement 😒

2025-11-03 00:05:50 UTC

The computer game 'Quake' was released closer to The Beatles' eighth studio album, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', than to today.

2025-11-02 20:20:23 UTC

"Een dag na het volledig verdwijnen van NSC bij de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen wachtte lijsttrekker Eddy van Hijum nog een onplezierige verrassing. Het plan dat hij begin dit jaar als minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid lanceerde met de bedoeling om uitbuiting van arbeidsmigranten tegen te gaan, werd door zijn opvolger, demissionair minister Mariëlle Paul (VVD), afgelopen donderdag van tafel geveegd."
"Uit een reconstructie van de besluitvorming door NRC blijkt dat demissionair minister Paul al op 23 september – achttien dagen na haar aantreden en ruim een maand voor de verkiezingen – ervan overtuigd was dat het wetsvoorstel van Van Hijum beter van tafel kon. Aanvankelijk stelde zij de besluitvorming uit, waarbij ze het advies van haar ambtenaren negeerde om hierover de Tweede Kamer te informeren. Een dag na de verkiezingen werd per Kamerbrief bekendgemaakt dat het demissionaire rompkabinet van VVD en BBB de plannen helemaal terugdraait."
Urgh, de VVD weer hoor 😒
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/02/plots-veegt-de-nieuwe-minister-plan-voor-arbeidsmigranten-van-tafel-van-hijum-insinueert-invloed-lobby-a4911605
#Nieuws #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #NLpol

2025-10-30 15:15:02 UTC

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that susceptibility to authoritarian, fascist and/or populist rhetoric isn't determined by 'intelligence', or education.
There are plenty of university-educated assholes out there who, despite being perfectly capable of reaching the logical conclusion based on the data available, reject that truth because it is inconvenient to them and their underlying convictions.
That is how a hate preacher with a Hungarian wife campaigns on closing the borders and a 'This is YOUR land' slogan, a Turkish refugee who came to this country as a child tries to outcompete him as the leader of the VVD, framing the party she once worked for as 'the radical left', and a gay man with an Argentine partner decided to move to the right for this campaign, and start waving Dutch flags at a time when they are very much a symbol of nationalist fervour, and hate.
People aren't being snookered into this. It is not because people aren't being 'heard'. It is a CHOICE, plain and simple, and one they keep making, over and over.
#NLpol

2025-10-27 05:36:57 UTC

I just learned about the use of big guns, cannons, as a timekeeping device. Obviously not really in wide use any longer, but some still exist, such as the 'Noon Gun' in Capetown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noon_Gun
Boom!

2025-10-05 19:52:38 UTC

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You should really taste more than one corner, just in case this one is an outlier 😋

2025-09-24 03:31:10 UTC

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And speaking of trying to please the Trump regime; Apple just pulled a series about white supremacist domestic terrorism from its release schedule. It was supposed to have started on Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/23/jessica-chastain-the-savant-postponed-apple
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #USpol

2025-09-24 03:24:19 UTC

YouTube is about to get worse, again;
"It's not exactly hard to find politically conservative content on YouTube, but the platform may soon skew even further to the right. YouTube parent Alphabet has confirmed that it will restore channels that were banned in recent years for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and elections. Alphabet says it values free expression and political debate, placing the blame for its previous moderation decisions on the Biden administration."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/youtube-will-restore-channels-banned-for-covid-and-election-misinformation/
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #USpol

2025-09-22 04:59:49 UTC

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This was after a week in which a majority of the Dutch House voted in favour of a motion to label 'antifa' as a terrorist organisation, explicitly mentioning Trump's baseless accusations.
Followed by literal right-wing riots in the very same city, starting at a anti-immigration demo organised by a mid-twenties white woman who calls herself 'Els Rechts' (think 'Liz Right'), and who of course had never intended to cause all of this despite engaging with social media posts encouraging far-right assholes to join.
Apparently she's been a staple in PVV and FvD circles for several years now, and of course her followers are mad that 'the left-wing media' are talking about the riots instead of the demo 🤪
(Seriously, what the FUCK)
Seven journalists wounded, 37 arrests so far.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/21/er-waren-in-den-haag-twee-demonstraties-een-van-els-rechts-en-een-van-extreem-rechtse-clubjes-en-hooligans-maar-er-blijken-ook-dwarsverbanden-a4906919
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/20/in-beeld-politie-botst-met-demonstranten-van-anti-migratieprotest-in-den-haag-a4906875
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/20/elsfest-loopt-uit-op-rellen-waterkanonnen-en-brandende-politieautos-rond-het-malieveld-a4906873
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/21/vier-agenten-en-zeven-journalisten-gewond-na-rellen-den-haag-37-aanhoudingen-a4906921
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/09/21/hooliganisme-leuzen-en-uiterlijk-vertoon-vertellen-iets-anders-a4906922
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #NLpol #EUpol
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2025-09-22 04:22:33 UTC

I know most of y'all are probably preoccupied with the shit that's happening locally, whether it's the sanctification of a white supremacist in the US, large-scale right-wing protests in the UK, the increased popularity of the AfD in Germany, etcetera, etcetera, but this was our weekend;
"Thousands of people joined a protest organised by a rightwing activist demanding stricter immigration policies and a clampdown on asylum seekers, just more than a month before a national election.
Large groups of protesters, many waving Dutch flags and flags associated with far-right groups, clashed violently with the police, throwing rocks and bottles, footage from broadcaster NOS showed."
"Local media reported that protesters also smashed several windows at the headquarters of the centre-left D66 party."
"A smaller group of rioters headed for the Dutch parliament complex, which is fenced off as it undergoes renovation."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/dutch-police-clash-with-anti-immigration-protesters-in-the-hague
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #NLpol #EUpol

2025-09-18 07:46:48 UTC

See this post by [@thomasfuchs](https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs ), from earlier this week;
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115210058368109140
For my own future reference, this is the blog post on world dot hey dot com that is being referred to, in which DHH rolls out all the usual 'Great Replacement' tropes, praises Tommy Robinson, etcetera;
https://archive.ph/3EN2N
Reader beware!
Meanwhile, a reminder that there are still plenty of companies happily giving him money, including Rails World platinum sponsor [@appsignal](https://appsignal.social/@appsignal ), which seems to have abandoned its fedi presence. I guess @npub1c3n…kfcm didn't want to hear the criticism any longer, eh? Simping for DHH paid off with a $22M investment from a US venture capitalist earlier this year, though, so I guess they feel they're doing alright.
But it also includes nerd darling Framework, who I can't tag from here because they're still happily residing on Fosstodon, and a long list of other companies you should perhaps reconsider giving money to;
https://rubyonrails.org/2025/8/25/meet-the-rails-world-2025-sponsors
The fucking rot in this industry 😒
#OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DHH

2025-09-12 21:09:27 UTC

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ⚠️
1) It is already #Caturday east of here, so you can start posting Caturday pictures if you want;
2) Cat pictures are an essential service. Please keep posting, it is much appreciated.

2025-09-11 20:16:24 UTC

A reminder, as the news is awash with the death of Charlie Kirk, a known fascist, xenophobic, antisemitic hate preacher;
1) Everything he did and contributed to was political violence. It is the only reason we even know who this fucker was. It was why he was out in the open, in the path of that bullet;
2) The instant blaming of 'the radical left' (Trump) and 'the progressive-liberal left' (Orbán) while the identity of the shooter and their motives remain a mystery is calculated, premeditated political violence;
3) The lionisation of this fucker by people in power, pretending that he did not sow this himself, that his hateful rhetoric was somehow part of some bullshit 'debate' is political violence, and a slap in the face of anyone ever targeted by this asshole and the movement that survives him;
4) Being forced to pay attention to this because it might have a real-world impact on the continued safety of you and your loved ones is political violence.
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #USpol

2025-09-03 12:28:11 UTC

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Kewl 😄

2025-08-27 12:55:07 UTC

SLOPSHAM, noun; Like 'flugsham' or 'flygskam', but for the shaming of the continued use of generative 'AI' after being made aware of the broad variety of societal and environmental impacts.

2025-08-26 04:52:48 UTC

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Wonder if this is a consequence of the DOGE efficiency bullshit, with the people who used to do it no longer having a job, or the budget being gone 😒

2025-08-07 22:59:49 UTC

"Releasing just 20 lynx in Northumberland would be enough to create a healthy wild population, research has found, and most people in the area would support the practice.
Northumberland Wildlife Trust has been working to see if the wild cats, which became extinct in Britain about 1,300 years ago as a result of hunting and habitat loss, could be returned to the area.
In a paper published in the Journal of Environmental Management, modelling studies found that lynx would be able to thrive in the area."
Lynx lynx lynx! 😻
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/07/lynx-could-thrive-in-northumberland-with-most-in-area-supporting-return-study-finds
#DontPayTheGuardian

2025-08-05 03:41:32 UTC

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Do keep us informed if you ever try it, FOR SCIENCE! 😄

2025-08-03 19:10:35 UTC

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Seriously, where do the people who do not fit go? Who cannot be 'productive', or who do not fit into the local societal fabric? Disability, neurodivergence, LGBTQI+ folks.
Who cares for the old folks?
6) How will you deal with knowledge acquisition, preservation, and sharing? History? Skill transference? Some things that are very necessary to remember and retain are going to be very distributed, in such a society. How would you prevent complacency, people thinking they no longer need to invest in and support things they haven't needed for years?
There's a whole lot that comes with cities that people who dream about a quieter life tend to forget about, but which are very essential for the long term survival of society as a whole.

2025-08-03 18:57:24 UTC

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Other people have already touched upon some of this in the thread, but it's the sort of utopia that tends to be unattainable for a number of reasons;
1) Requires severe population compression, or collapse. The kind of shock to the existing system that creates the conditions for change, but disproportionately affects the areas where you could establish such a distributed society.
2) Organising emergency services, including healthcare, firefighting, policing, and disaster response.
3) Where will your technological base come from? If it's not local, how will you acquire, transport, maintain it? Solar panels, for example, other complex electronic components that require cities right now; who makes them? Who builds and maintains your farming equipment, medical devices? Why would they even sell or trade with you?
4) If you have a local technological base, where are your raw materials coming from? How will you mine them at a scale that satisfies the requirements of your society without oppressing anyone else?
5) Where do the 'deviants' go?

2025-07-27 08:59:30 UTC

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I bet you totally missed the boat on computer money as well, and are still holding on to your fiat currency?
All that progress, wasted.

2025-07-22 18:36:09 UTC

#DeathAndTheGrabClawMachine
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2025-07-20 17:13:17 UTC

In today's non-political what the fuck news, from Northern Germany; a car veered off the road, crashed through a hedge, hit a 7-year old on a trampoline, and got catapulted into the air before crashing into a nearby barn, about 3 meters into the air, on its side.
(Serious injuries, but nobody died)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/20/serious-injuries-as-car-crashes-into-a-barn-roof-in-germany
#News #DontPayTheGuardian
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2025-07-18 12:41:49 UTC

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"Two UK charities have transferred millions of pounds to an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank with the endorsement of the charities regulator, the Guardian can reveal.
Documents show that the Kasner Charitable Trust (KCT), via a conduit charity, UK Toremet, has donated approximately £5.7m to the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva high school in Susya, in the Israeli-occupied territory."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/18/two-uk-charities-donate-millions-israeli-settlement-occupied-west-bank
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #UKpol

2025-07-18 12:36:49 UTC

"Armed police threatened a peaceful protester with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestinian flag and having signs saying 'Free Gaza' and 'Israel is committing genocide', accusing her of supporting a proscribed organisation."
"In the encounter, which she filmed, one officer told her: 'Mentioning freedom of Gaza, Israel, genocide, all of that all come under proscribed groups, which are terror groups that have been dictated by the government'.
He went on to say that the phrase 'Free Gaza' was 'supportive of Palestine Action', adding it was an offence 'to express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, namely Palestine Action is an offence under section 12(1A) of the Terrorism Act'. The officer told her she had committed that offence."
This was always going to happen 😒
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/armed-police-threatened-to-arrest-kent-protester-for-holding-palestinian-flag
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #UKpol

2025-07-15 23:23:19 UTC

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Damn, that looks amazing! 🤩

2025-07-07 21:39:33 UTC

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I do wonder if it has perhaps become a bit too centralised if a warning system can break this quickly. Like, we're not even six months in 😬
Time for distributed, resilient monitoring that does not depend on a single government agency? Bring back phone trees?
Not the last time this will happen, I suspect.

2025-07-06 11:58:40 UTC

It's always rather disappointing to me when older feminists get stuck on second wave feminism, and, even in our current moment, don't consider the entire context of the backlash we are experiencing. Like, yes, the right wing populists are inevitably coming for women's rights, such as the right to bodily autonomy, but to state that it is the first thing they came for is at best incomplete, and at its worst downright dishonest.
Immigrants would like a word, for one, and so would trans people, and other LGBTQI+ folks.
And that's before you get to all the work done by Black women for the third wave, which some white feminists apparently still have not recognised.
Knock that shit off.

2025-07-04 15:02:36 UTC

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Lovely work as always, ken!

2025-07-04 08:14:40 UTC

I would once again like to remind everyone that it isn't just okay to share all your little things on here, but absolutely essential, and necessary. Anything and everything that reminds us of our shared humanity, of kindness, creativity, nature's beauty, and so forth.
Hope springs eternal, and mostly from the small, seemingly mundane. Hope needs very little, and that small sparkle in your life that seems utterly insufficient to you will help someone else get back up, and put one foot in front of the other.
Your cat pictures. Thick tree trunks, bloomscrolling, moss, birds, 'I made this', 'I saw this and I thought it was neat', even the really bad dad jokes.
All of this is resistance. Keep doing it! ✊🏻
https://cloudflare-disconnect-nazis.ngmx.com/system/media_attachments/files/114/793/963/707/480/460/original/e774d06392e6efcf.mp4

2025-07-02 17:03:39 UTC

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white people could we just not, day 199359 🙄

2025-07-01 21:33:24 UTC

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Also, men, step up and collect your white boys.
Seriously, what the FUCK.

2025-07-01 20:42:18 UTC

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white people could we just not, day 199358 😩

2025-06-29 18:22:48 UTC

white people could we just not, day 199356 😒

2025-06-28 01:58:59 UTC

"'Israel commits crimes like it breathes. The only way to protect not only Palestinians, but also Israelis, is to stop it. It is a threat to peace and security', the U.N. rapporteur firmly states. Albanese argues that the problem is not only limited to Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, since, according to statistics published by the newspaper Haaretz, 80% of the Israeli population supports the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians."
Fucking hell, 80% 😒
"Albanese will present a new report next week that will list the names of companies 'that have profited from genocide'."
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-27/francesca-albanese-un-special-rapporteur-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territories-israel-commits-crimes-like-it-breathes-it-must-be-stopped.html
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers

2025-06-27 08:43:28 UTC

Every now and then I have to browse the web on a Chrome or Edge browser that doesn't have a proper ad blocker installed, and I am reminded how fucking garbage the web has become with the default settings 😒

2025-06-10 17:06:17 UTC

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Your nerd notions about how long you should get the latest shiny on your older hardware don't really enter into any of these decisions. Most regular folks on older systems don't upgrade macOS on a yearly basis to begin with, because they have better things to do.
And they make poor decisions about what to buy when they do, even with professional advice. My brother, for example, bought a refurbished iPhone 8 instead of a second-gen SE because it was like €40 cheaper 🤷🏻‍♀️
If you want to rant about 'planned obsolescence' or whatever, be mad at Microsoft, and the arbitrary hardware requirements for Windows 11.

2025-06-10 16:53:13 UTC

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The people who deliberately invested in a brand new Intel Mac Pro in 2023 likely (hopefully) did so because they intended to use what is essentially an appliance; hardware purchased as the computing core of a studio, edit bay, or other similar professional purpose, where it might not even be connected to the internets.
They will probably continue to use it long after Apple has officially dropped support for Intel Macs, and there's a high chance that it still runs the version of macOS it shipped with, and hasn't been updated since.
It will be upgraded when there is a business need, not before, such as when it has been depreciated.

2025-06-10 16:43:44 UTC

"It was inevitable that Apple would eventually stop supporting Intel Macs, but some models have been dropped more aggressively than others. While most Intel Macs were replaced with updated Apple Silicon models in 2020 or 2021, Apple was selling the 2019 Intel Mac Pro and a few versions of the 2018 Intel Mac mini until well into 2023; someone who bought one of those pricey Mac Pros that year will have received just three new macOS updates and a total of five years of security updates."
If you bought either of these models in 2023, you KNEW it was essentially already legacy hardware.
Stop blaming Apple.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-the-end-of-intel-mac-support-and-a-phaseout-for-rosetta-2/

2025-05-30 20:51:44 UTC

"In another blow to one of the largest celebrations of LGTBQ+ people in North America, Pride Toronto has unexpectedly lost two more major corporate sponsors, just weeks before the festival in a setback the festival’s organizer says is direct result of Donald Trump’s campaign to eradicate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the US.
Google and Home Depot both announced their plans to abandon the festival in the form of one-line emails, said Kojo Modeste, the executive director of the Canadian event."
We'll remember this, fuckers 😒
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/toronto-pride-google-home-depot-sponsorship-drop
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #USpol

2025-05-30 20:25:24 UTC

All this technology and 'AI', and we still can't do video streaming that understands that, if all that's left is the dubbing credits, I really do not need to 'resume' that episode, ever.

2025-05-17 08:50:44 UTC

It's a week full of days this week, both literally and figuratively, with today, May 17th, being the International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination, also known as 'IDAHOBIT', this year in its 35th incarnation :progresspride_i_flag:
And it's not going great. This year's Rainbow Map, which tracks the legal status of LGBTQIA+ folks in Europe, shows an overall worsening, led by the UK, which, despite being at #1 only a decade ago, has now dropped to 22nd place 😒
https://may17.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_Against_Homophobia,_Biphobia_and_Transphobia
https://rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
https://coc.nl/blog/2025/05/14/zorgelijke-inperking-van-lhbti-mensenrechten-in-europa/
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #TransRightsAreHumanRights

2025-05-08 09:51:16 UTC

Spotted elsewhere 😄
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2025-05-07 19:34:27 UTC

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That may be understating the level of failure we are talking about here just a wee bit. Not just on his part, but the entire organisation around him 😒

2025-05-07 19:06:29 UTC

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Too bad your Prophet is such a disappointment.

2025-05-06 20:20:52 UTC

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Maybe you only get a few fingers worth whenever you buy a shot, and she simply has not started yet 😄
Perhaps it's something very expensive in larger quantities, so she only gets it on rare occasions, where just the smell alone sets the mood, and she drinks it in one gulp once she's done meditating? 🤔

2025-05-05 00:56:05 UTC

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It also adds to this growing unease I feel whenever people condemn 'the mainstream media', something which has always had right-wing connotations.
Not saying that it doesn't have its issues, mind. It does. But it's kind of difficult to not be informed if you want to be, which means that I am much more worried about the indifference shown by so many folks.
Newspapers here are speaking truth to power, to the point where they are being demonstrated against for taking a stand against, say, Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
It won't be enough for the fringes, but it's there, if you are paying attention.
People just don't want to.

2025-05-05 00:42:37 UTC

I feel like we're in a liminal space of sorts, past the point where we could have prevented the current wave of fascism and authoritarianism, but before the point where the silent majority has to admit that we are no longer living in a democracy.
It's a weird moment to be in, reading about it in the paper while simultaneously watching people argue that it is not happening. Like we are violently gaslighting ourselves about where we are, and where it is headed.

2025-04-29 11:24:10 UTC

What do people use as issue trackers, these days? I am looking for open source options that can be self-hosted, and I already know about RT.
What else is there?
Some requirements;
1) First class support for email, without turning tickets into HTML-based notifications with 'View Request' nonsense, and so forth. Plain text must be an option, preferably the default.
2) No 'AI' nonsense. No ChatGPT integration, no cloud dependencies, nothing. This is for humans supporting humans who know how to use search, or can be taught, not a bullshit chatbot.
3) Linux-hosted, web-based, no Windows dependencies.
Boosts welcome 🙏🏻

2025-04-28 18:56:32 UTC

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Since the alt text doesn't fully describe what is visible in the photo, another attempt;
"View from inside of a tall, long medieval barn, focusing on the roof structure, lit by daylight coming in through the doors, which are behind the camera, and tall, narrow windows in the stone wall at the far end.
The roof is supported by classic post and beam construction, no two posts or beams alike, each playing their part in transferring the weight of the roof onto the posts and onto the stone side walls, and from there onto the ground.
It must have taken many trees, and feels like a wooden cathedral."
Feel free to edit it in!

2025-04-24 16:03:58 UTC

My new cover band will be called 'Bug Fixes & The Minor Improvements'.

2025-04-23 17:10:25 UTC

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Also; anything that fails to address the absolute dominance of Google and Microsoft in the email space, which, as far as I know, isn't even on the EU's radar for DMA enforcement, but which makes it all but impossible for your messages to not end up on their servers, is a broken policy.
Broken to the point where Microsoft can turn its dominance in the corporate email space, itself a result of its dominance in the desktop and office software space, into the only choice for hosting Exchange. The on-prem version will disappear later this year, unsupported.
Both have proprietary APIs, and are phasing out support for standard protocols.

2025-04-23 13:06:53 UTC

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I remain rather displeased with how misinformed a lot of MEPs are on these topics, too, including the ones I voted for.
Want actual impact?
Kill the search deals.
Require that every product sold in the EU be usable without any external dependencies, or tiered access.
It's ridiculous that Microsoft can continue to make it harder to install Windows without a Microsoft account while this is going on, and that we’re still playing a game of whack-a-mole with the shit that gets shovelled onto our devices.
Yes, including ‘AI’.
Demand local recycling.
Demand long-term support.
Demand hardware documentation.
Etcetera, etcetera.

2025-04-23 12:32:40 UTC

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My bet is that, in five to ten years, we’ll look back at this and will consider it just as ineffective as the Microsoft anti-trust actions were in the late nineties and early aughts.
While we will have had to deal with the drawbacks, reaping very little in terms of actual, positive user improvements.
Such garbage 🗑️

2025-04-23 12:22:48 UTC

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The fact that developers are forced to deal with Apple instead of having direct access to the user is a feature, both in terms of security and convenience.
I have absolutely zero desire or need for a bazillion 'alt’ app stores that only the big players will benefit from, using the App Store as a free distribution channel and then demanding that the user provide their data to them directly, instead of making do with a relatively anonymous Apple Account.
And in the meantime, nothing that would actually be useful is happening, and for some reason, Microsoft is getting away scot-free so far, happily making Windows more dependent.

2025-04-23 12:10:12 UTC

Kind of rolling my eyes at people celebrating the latest EU DMA decision as somehow a victory against ‘Big Tech’;
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085
Like, Meta being fined less than Apple, when they're basically just stringing the Commission along? Lawl.
Also, this doesn't serve the user;
“Under the DMA, app developers distributing their apps via Apple's App Store should be able to inform customers, free of charge, of alternative offers outside the App Store, steer them to those offers and allow them to make purchases.”
There's just no way that works in a manner that doesn't result in more harvesting of user data 🙄
It's an empty victory.

2025-04-18 23:04:29 UTC

Reposting with #AltText, because y'all keep posting and boosting without making things accessible.
Trans lives intersect with disability in many ways, and both cis and trans folk with a vision impairment deserve to see this just as much as everybody else.
Resistance without accessibility is bullshit 🚮
Trans women are women, trans men are men, and between and around the two is a rich tapestry of intersex, non-binary and other gender diverse folk. All of us deserve to live whole, wholesome lives without hate or fear ✊🏻:progresspride_i_flag:
#Accessibility #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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2025-04-16 20:27:20 UTC

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Anyone who doesn't pick Windows 2000 as their sole champion is, to put it quite simply, WRONG.

2025-04-16 16:09:11 UTC

This is your scheduled reminder that it is 'trans women’, adjective and noun, not 'transwomen’, which is a made-up word that pretty much always means someone is trying to create a separate-but-not-equal category because they feel trans women are not (quite) women.
Trans women are women, period. Trans and transgender are adjectives, not nouns.
If you got taught that word by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, remember that she's a fucking TERF.
Check your language 😒
https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/109960735144904123

2025-04-15 00:34:56 UTC

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The internet has worked as a force multiplier for many bad things, but it also makes these sorts of things possible by virtue of the audience that is out there, an audience you would be hard-pressed to find locally, even in most bigger cities.
Whether it's bespoke objects like this, or the broad variety of art and craft available online, it has never been easier to witness human ingenuity and imagination at work.
It's easy to forget that, at times, with everything that is going on, but the internet really is amazing.
Not a day goes by here in the fediverse without amazing art, photos, and other work.
Please keep at it, folks 🙏🏻

2025-04-15 00:25:44 UTC

Adam Savage did a show-and-tell about a steampunk GPS device that isn't just an amazing object, but also an actual, working GPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjtTdvJVsI
Made by Hardly Human FX;
https://hardlyhumanfx.com
It's expensive, almost a thousand dollars with the leather case, but damn, the craft that went into it is kind of mind-blowing 😄
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2025-04-11 01:03:54 UTC

Huh, this is a pretty neat idea;
"One Belgium-based company is breathing new life into old smartphone parts though, by ripping the mainboard out of an old phone and adding the ports and other features necessary to use it like a single-board computer. Citronics is kicking things off by offering a development kit made by combining a Fairphone 2 motherboard with a purpose-build carrier board that turns it into a tiny desktop computer.”
https://liliputing.com/this-pocket-sized-pc-is-made-from-an-old-smartphone-motherboard/

2025-04-10 05:40:43 UTC

“Microsoft's April 2025 Patch Tuesday updates are strangely creating an empty ‘inetpub’ folder in the root of the C:\ drive, even on systems that do not have Internet Information Services (IIS) installed.”
Who needs QA when you have ‘AI’? 🤪
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-april-update-unexpectedly-creates-new-inetpub-folder/

2025-04-04 16:25:01 UTC

Lukewarm take: Smartphone bans are aimed at assuaging panicking adults, not helping the actual teens.
We are panicking about smartphones because we do not want to address the root causes, such as toxic masculinity, sexism, misogyny, and violence against women.
We are panicking about smartphones because we do not want to address addictive algorithms and dark patterns, and continue allowing the likes of Google, Meta, and TikTok to poison minds for profit.
We are panicking about smartphones rather than addressing food, poverty, inequality, racism, and so forth.
Smartphone bans are denial, so we can continue doing business as usual.

2025-03-31 07:16:40 UTC

“Six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand were arrested after more than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house on Thursday. The raid was condemned by the Quakers as ‘an aggressive violation’.”
"However, Youth Demand said the publicity surrounding the raid had had the effect of increasing awareness of their activities and as many as 200 people had since expressed interest in joining protests starting this Tuesday to highlight Israel’s actions in Gaza.”
Fuck yeah ✊🏻
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/30/youth-demand-says-more-protesters-have-signed-up-since-quaker-house-raid
#OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian

2025-03-19 14:58:36 UTC

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Add more words to the name! They can be quite long these days 😄

2025-03-10 21:40:45 UTC

Question: is anyone aware of a camera doorbell system available in Europe that is not only secure, but also privacy minded, only activating when a human actually gets close and/or rings the doorbell?
Like, no continuous recording, nothing stored, camera stays off until human gets within sensor range? 🤔
Boosts welcome 🙏🏻

2025-03-10 13:26:17 UTC

Since we're apparently getting a second winter later in the week, I went out to a nearby patch of spring flowers, and got a few shots in good light 🙂
#BloomScrolling
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