Social - Alice Ice

Social - Alice Ice

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this game that has no nudity, no portrayed sexual acts and no pornography whatsoever, but covers topics of misogyny & sexual abuse—just got banned from steam for "sexual content with depictions of real people," so the developers released it for free. https://dreadxp.com/vile-is-banned/

Ich habe es so satt. Ich protestiere gegen die AfD, fordere eine Prüfung des AfD-Verbots, aber ICH soll „intolerant“ sein, „die Gesellschaft spalten“. Die AfD will MILLIONEN meiner Mitbürger vertreiben. Ich will, dass meine Nachbarin hierbleiben kann. Ich kämpfe für sie und Millionen andere.

Move slowly and ensure your testing includes safety and accessibility features.

White guys: Racism is bad! Racism has no place on social media! We hate racism on our platforms! How awful that Black folk get harassed on such a nice place as the fediverse!

Also white guys: Hey let's have dansup, a widely acknowledged racist prick, give a talk at our fossbro circle jerk. We're ignoring the racism because the guy made some big federated software that we all love using. Money and popularity render us blind to bigotry. We have not a single collective spine.

Oida! Meine Tochter war auf der MaHü und traf dort auf eine obskure Gruppe namens "Tradition Familie Privateigentum". Eine paar in beeindruckend lächerlichen Fantasieuniformen gekleidete Männer, die gegen Abtreibungen wetterten. Dazu Fahnen wie vom Mittelalterfest und das Vater unser mit Hitler-Stimme.

Höhepunkt: Passantinnen formierten sich spontan und skandierten "My body, my choice".

Der Typ am Megaphone entgegnete: "Not your body, not your choice!" Zweiteres ist Ideologie, aber "not your body"??? Echte .

Boost if you're touch-starved and ravenously horny, or if you disapprove of payment processors being used as instruments to silence sexual expression.

They’re building rainbow cycle tunnels in Norway. Nice video by Critical Mass Bergen. 📽️

"But wait, won't somebody think about the poor cars?"

Grafik des Tages.

So this is how Newgrounds is apparently handling age verification RE: UK's Online Safety Act.

Their ultimate solution is... unique.

Regarding age verification, here is our current plan for UK users:

1. If your account is more than ten years old, we will assume you are currently over 18. This is in line with one of the methods of effective age assurance, which involves paying a third party to match your email address against some sort of database of scraped data, which determines if your email has been in use for a long time. We have our own long-term data, so we'll use that instead.

2. If your account ever bought Supporter status with a credit card and we can confirm that with the payment processor, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be 18 in the UK to have a credit card.

3. If your account ever bought Supporter status more than two years ago, we will assume you are over 18 because you need to be at least 16 to have a Paypal or debit card in the UK (assuming we are right about this).

4. If none of the above applies, you will have the opportunity to pay a small one-time fee via credit card as confirmation of your age.

We are not planning to offer things like ID checks or facial recognition because these require us to pay a third party to confirm each person. Because Newgrounds runs at a loss and doesn't monetize users very well, this is not an option for us. As Wired noted, Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act because smaller websites can't afford to keep up with this sort of regulation.

(where our tax consultant followers at?)

We are looking for a German tax consultant (Steuerberater) that is able to provide a one-off consultation related to how to invoice correctly and deal with taxes for some small amount of one-off money (<1000€) related to our legal status (fiscal host for an unincorporated group of individuals or "nicht eingetragener Verein"). We are very happy to pay for this work, but despite repeated attempts, we have not been able to find anybody willing to help us with something this specific as a one-off. If anybody in the fediverse happens to have some contact that might be able to, that would be extremely helpful.

Nach 155 Jahren verlieren die Bismarcks die Herrschaft über den Sachsenwald. Die gräfliche Steueroase wird endlich trockengelegt! Aufgedeckt hatten wir sie mit dem @zdfmagazin. Erst flohen die Unternehmen aus Bismarcks Hütte im Wald, jetzt hat das Innenministerium in Schleswig-Holstein ausgearbeitet, wie das Gebiet 2026 eingemeindet werden soll. Und das heißt: Ein Ende der Steuervorteile und Geld für Schulen statt für den Grafen!

Die ganze Recherche von 2024 gibt’s hier: https://fragdenstaat.de/sachsenwald

As far as anti-racism activism on the fediverse is concerned, listening to Black people when they call out racism, and refusing to participate in any community who condones or harbours racism, is a VERY EASY thing you can do.

As for the accusations of trans harassment, mastodon.art blocks probably as many - if not more - trans-owned instances as Ro's instance, and every single one of them is because the owners are racist. The 'you're anti-trans' is a smoke screen.

In jeder Schulklasse gibt es durchschnittlich fünf echte Arschkrampen. Wenn wir weiter kollektiv unseren fünfundzwanzig überwiegend freundlichen Kindern raten, anders aufzutreten, zu sprechen oder sich zu kleiden, als sie es authentisch tun würden, nur damit die Arschkrampen keine Angriffsfläche finden, meinen wir vielleicht, dass wir sie damit schützen. Aber in Wirklichkeit gewinnen dann die fünf Arschkrampen. Das gilt für Schulklassen genauso wie für die gesamte Gesellschaft.

Geht doch!

Das hätten wir uns sparen können. Die Stadt Schwäbisch Hall hat im Mai in 5 Flüchtlingsunterkünften das WLAN ausgeschaltet und die Router ausgebaut. Nach Kritik in Leserbriefen, einem entsprechenden Antrag der Fraktion DIE FRAKTION und Protestaktionen durch uns, hat die Stadt ein Einsehen und schaltet das WLAN für Geflüchtete und Obdachlose wieder ein. Es ist ein gruseliger Trend, bei den Ärmsten zu sparen, da müssen wir in Hall nicht mitmachen.

https://ogrsha.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/geht-doch/

And this may be a good time to remind folk that Tom Lehrer released all of his music to the public domain. https://tomlehrersongs.com/

Die Geschäftsführerin von haut erstmal an die Wand für seinen Spruch vor kurzem das Deutschland ja nichts an den CO2 Emissionen und den Auswirkungen ändern könne.

@onepict @EC_DIGIT @EC_OSPO

Come to think of it.. doesn't this indicate a missing right in the ? The right to be forgotten does not cover this.

The right to *exist* with ones true gender.

A person owns their gender. Gender rights allow one to embrace it, identify with it, and requires others to honor that. A person transitioning then entails gender is retroactively changed from birth and ideally IT systems would account for it. Pragmatically legacy systems and regulations can be patched.

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