Storytime: Queers make the world a safer place
A straight white guy friend was complaining about not being able to find any gaming groups for WoW that weren't full of MAGA assholes. He said he keeps joining guilds with older (60+) casual gamers like himself because he can't keep up with the kids, and he'll start to make friends, but then they will reveal themselves to be Trump-lovers. He asked, "What am I doing wrong?"
I said, "First of all, your screen name is Russian. Leftys are gonna be wary of that, and the Alt-right loves it.
Second, you should put some social signals in your bio, like pronouns."
"Okay, but how do I tell people I'm cool, but I'm not gay or trans?"
I explained to him what "cis" and "ally" mean. He had never heard of this before, which showed me what kind of online spaces he was landing in.
Next, I said, "Look for the furries."
"But, I'm not a furry?"
"Yes, but the presence of furries are like lichen. They are a sign of a healthy ecosystem."
This was about 3 months ago. Now, he tells me he joined a guild labeled as LGBTQ-friendly and has made several new cool friends. He says, "I thought they would be talking about sex all the time but it's just a regular group." He mentioned that there are many women and PoC in the group too, and "Everyone's so nice on dungeon runs, telling people they did a good job and being supportive, sharing loot."
I didn't tell him that this is what the whole world would be like without patriarchal toxic masculinity, because I think he figured it out himself.
#Hamburg #Schanze #LustAufEinenKaffee #marlogrosshardt #Niewieder #NIEWIEDERISTJETZT
Ansehen, Verbreiten und bitte #WählenGegenFaschismus!!
Persönliches erleben von Anschlag, Politik und Rassissmus
Hallo liebe Freund:innen,
ich bin jetzt langsam so weit darüber schreiben zu können:
Ich war am Donnerstag auf der Streikdemo von Verdi als der Anschlag passierte. Das Auto kam dort zum stehen, wo mein Kollege und ich gerade noch gelaufen waren. Die Situation war sehr unübersichtlich. Wir wussten nicht, wer von uns verletzt war. Ob jemand sterben würde. Die Situation war und ist schwer zu ertragen. (1/x)
Here’s what the assholes attacking Codeberg to try and make it unsuable don’t understand:
It doesn’t matter.
I can’t push to Codeberg right now? So fucking what?
You think I’m going to go running back to Github because you’ve temporarily inconvenienced me?
You think I give a couple of hundred euros to Codeberg every year to demand perfect service?
I support them by hosting my code there and by donating to them because I believe in what they do and because I want to see them succeed and to support alternatives to the likes of toxic trillion-dollar corporations like Microsoft.
So go ahead, take them off the web for as long as you can. When you’re bored, or out of money, or whatever, I’ll still be there, on Codeberg, happily supporting a local and ethical alternative to your US/Silicon Valley/Big Tech bullshit.
Das ifo hat berechnet, wie sich die Steuerpläne der Parteien auf den Bundeshaushalt auswirken würden. Keine Gegenfinanzierung gibt es bei BSW, CDU/CSU, FDP und AfD. Bei SPD und Grünen bleibt nix übrig!
Übrigens: das ifo ist nicht links-grün, sondern arbeitgebernah
#DeshalbDieLinke
Borders are an evil, stupid, anti-human technology. Nothing in the world gives any government in the world any MORAL right to say 'you aren't allowed in because we don't like you'.
"ZDF wirft Moderator (FÜR HEUTE!) aus "Die Anstalt" – wegen Parteiwerbung"
"In der ZDF-"Anstalt" kommt es am Dienstag kurzfristig zu einer personellen Veränderung: Der langjährige Moderator Max Uthoff, der seit 2014 nur ein einziges Mal bei der Aufzeichnung der Satireshow gefehlt hat, darf nicht auftreten. Das hat das ZDF auf Nachfrage von t-online bestätigt. Zuerst hatte der Journalist Thilo Jung auf X über den Vorgang berichtet."
Anmerkung: Er ist nicht gefeuert!
Introducing Trans Europe Planner: Planning long, cross-country train trips can be super frustrating. Perhaps there is an easier way?
Prototype running live at https://trans-europe-planner.eu/ (works on mobile but best viewed on desktop)
See demo video below:
200.000 in München (320.000 laut Veranstaltern). Das sind sicher wieder alles diese Linksextremisten und von der Regierung finanzierten NGOs, nehme ich an?
Oder haben die Leute womöglich freiwillig und ganz echt keine Lust auf rassistische Symbolpolitik für AfD-Wähler?
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/demos-rechtsextremismus-104.html
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
https://developers.google.com/android/binary_transparency/google1p/overview
-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are availible at the moment.
The fedi needs to have a conversation about its values.
The Pixelfed project raised 100k within a few days despite the numerous incidents of its founder displaying the behavior we, allegedly, condemn because it resembles the leadership of the platforms we are trying to get away from.
Meanwhile, I’ve been struggling to raise the same amount for the last two years to complete projects that have been proven to be effective tools against hate and abuse in an attempt to keep the fedi from hemorrhaging Black and Brown folks to Bluesky.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-social-media
Does the fedi actually want to be an ethical alternative to centralized platforms or is that just something people say to feel good about themselves while it continues to replicate the same issues from predatory services?
We really need to have a long talk about what the fedi really is beyond the fluff.
This is really disgusting.
Again, if decentralized project maintainers are going to have the same values and attitudes of the sociopaths that run centralized platforms, what’s the point? https://mastodon.art/@Curator/113961394402916501
You might think working a phone repair kiosk is a waste of my skills. Yeah nah.
Today, this kid came in with an iPhone that was more than cracked, it was banana-fied.
“What happened?” I asked, turning the wreckage over in my hands. I don’t think there was a single salvageable part. “And have you considered just upgrading?”
“My novel’s on there”, the kid said, wringing his hands anxiously. “It got ran over by a hauler bot.”
“Got a backup?”. The tears in the kid’s eyes were all the answer he needed to give. “Okay, event rebasing is the only way to fix this”, I gestured at the price board, “can you afford that?”
He gulped. “Uh, just.”
“You sure?”
“Yes. Can you really fix it?”. Hope flickered in his eyes.
“Let’s see, no win no fee”.
I held the smashed and bent phone-ana in my hands and turned it over, feeling its shape in space and time. With my /other sight/ I saw its lifeline leading away from where the kid had been, a shimmering trail of history leading back in time. With the fingers of my mind, I felt back along the lifeline until i felt the bump, beyond which the device had been a flat rectangle. Exploring the shape of the damage event I twisted the lifeline into a loop. Now here’s the tricky bit; if you have the knack, and you dig your nails in /just so/ you can pinch out a moment in time and detach it. I rubbed the lifeline with my mental fingers, smoothing out the join where the excised moment had been.
Blinking back to the present, I powered on the phone and handed it back to its owner. “All good?”
The kid’s fingers flew over the screen as he checked on his preciousss, and breathed a huge sigh. “All good. That’s incredible, can you fix *anything* like that?”
“Almost. Like?”
He avoided my gaze, staring down at my hands on the counter with their iridescent nails, matching the highlight colours in my hair. He made eye contract briefly, wide eyes again a bit teary. “Even…..me?”
Oh, that. “Absolutely not. *wink* Such things are not done and definitely not by me. Clear?”
*nod*
“Okay, hold still.” It’s a different technique than rebasing, especially because i like to spread the change over a few years to conceal the edit.
“All done”.
“Oh wow”, she said, reaching up to feel her shoulder length mauve hair (clearly I’d nailed that detail), then taking a twirl. “How, how much do I owe you?”
“On the house and you weren’t here. “
The tears were back. “Thank you thank you, this is the best. “
“My pleasure, have a great life”
“Thanks, you too” she said. “Bye!”
“Wait! Don’t forget your phone!”
a fun thing to do when straight guys are being terrible about commenting on womens' looks is saying "maybe you're not into women"
finde es so krass, dass ich in allen deutschen nachrichtensendungen, die ich verfolge bisher nichts (!) über den informationellen kahlschlag zu queerness (insbesondere trans* und nonbinary identität), reproduktiver gesundheit und anderen wichtigen daten der gesundheitsbehörde #CDC gehört habe.
worüber dagegen ausführlich gesprochen wird: die strafzölle, weil wirtschaft über alles geht 🫠 #USPol
@politicalbeauty.bsky.social Das Versagen der Medien ist auf allen Ebenen zu beobachten und mit schuld an der möglichen Zersetzung der Demokratie.
"Was macht es mit eurem Gewissen, wenn wir mittags hier gemeinsam den Holocaust gedenken und abends die Partei, die Hitler zu einem Fliegenschiss in der deutschen Geschichte erklärt, frenetisch jubelt?
Was macht es mit eurem Gewissen, wenn ein KZ-Überlebender sein Bundesverdienstkreuz abgibt (...)."
@ricarda_lang fasst es perfekt zusammen !
Quelle https://x.com/djpr/status/1885023722584547584?t=0qgplKArJfMX7QoqqYNxsQ&s=19
Heute hat die Union mit den Stimmen der AfD einen Antrag durch den #Bundestag gebracht. Das ist ungeheuerlich und eine Zäsur für unser Land.
Für uns ist klar: Es darf keine Zusammenarbeit mit Rechtsextremen im Deutschen Bundestag geben.
