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Reading this whole post from the Apollo developer, this Reddit fiasco is such a mess. Not only do I question writing apps based on proprietary APIs, I’m angry that I’ve provided so much content to Reddit after so many years.
You think I’m active on the Fediverse? I write a new Reddit post on r/Sizz 12x per day. This is a lot of work, all done for free, and it all goes into Reddit’s pocket.
It’s not even so much that I want to be paid. It’s that it’s I don’t think they have the right to charge so much money to developers for my contributions.
Let me be real. All I’ve ever wanted was to make stuff on the Internet on my terms.
I do pay for the privilege of running my own servers because, like it or not, every post I make on social media is actual work. And I should own my work.
Same deal with development of software. I donate lots of money to ensure that work on the Fediverse carries on.
Why? Because development is work. And more importantly, social media should be based on open protocols – not proprietary APIs.
The development happening right now is the building blocks for the future.
No developer should have their livelihood taken away from them because Big Tech wants to bankrupt them by charging outrageous API fees.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/
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Majid Al Suwaidi, the director general of Cop28 and one of the top aides to Al Jaber (head of UAE’s national oil company), told the Guardian:
"Climate change is one of those things where we’re all interconnected,” he said. “We can’t solve the problem individually. We have to solve as a collective. That’s what makes it difficult. And so there’s no simple bad guy, good guy in this discussion."
Yes there is! You're the fucking bad guy, you!
Global greenhouse gas emissions at all-time high, study finds
Scientists say world is burning through ‘carbon budget’ that can be emitted while staying below 1.5CFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
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This Washington Post headline is false, and it's disgusting.
SCOTUS did NOT require Alabama to show favoritism toward Black residents. What actually happened was, SCOTUS upheld a decision that requires Alabama to change its racist gerrymandering, which discriminates *against* Black residents.
Please don't support journalistic malpractice like this. If you have a WaPo subscription, please consider canceling it.
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See also Elon "Veppers" Musk.
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WILD APPLAUSE
@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.
I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?
I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.
And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.
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Preface: This is absolutely not an "I told you so" for anyone dealing with wildfire smoke for the first time.
I continue to be dismayed at how as a larger society we keep having opportunities to improve everybody's well being through mitigations to improve air quality and we continue to fail to do it systematically.
Prior to the pandemic I would stand by baffled at how local health officials would discourage mask usage. Air filtration wasn't discouraged so much as just not talked about. Except in small circles amongst people already affected by poor air quality (e.g. I have autoimmune issues and a chronic cough.) Such a wasted practice for the pandemic that would later hit us. Where, again, folks were discouraged from masking and where we again failed to making collective efforts to vastly improve indoor air quality for everyone a priority. IMO, everyone who had already been living in wildfire areas should already have been stocked with N95s and indoor air filtration.
And now it's happening all over again. As far as I'm concerned, every household and business should already have air purification/filtration systems capable of handing both respiratory pathogens and pollutants. There's no reason not to mobilize to do this other than we apparently no longer have a social contract with our government b/c fucking billionaires control everything.
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Senior programmer to intern:
“Remember, the Brits don’t say zip, the say postcode!”
Intern:
‘’Yessir!”
Senior programmer:
‘’Change every instance of Zip to postcode”
Intern:
“YES SIR!”
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A bit more subtle, in Microsoft Teams :
- When someone posts an image in a conversation, display "<username> sent an image" as last activity in the summary; of course when that someone is the current user you should display "you" instead of the username
- All right now let's translate that to French. So "sent an image" becomes "a envoyé une image" and "you" becomes "vous"
- What do you mean "vous a envoyé une image" is incorrect because "vous" is second person plural but "a envoyé" is third person singular?
A couple weeks later Microsoft showcased their new "AI-powered" Bing Search with inviting messages on the login screen. Of course these messages were machine-translated to French and the results were hilarious.
Software is hard, languages are hard, localisation is hard. Some people don't know that, and some people don't bother doing it properly. Microsoft seems to be in both categories at once.
Musk is a Russian asset.
#Musk shares video of pro-russian Tucker Carlson blaming Ukraine for #Kakhovka dam blastCarlson has now launched his show on #twitter His first episode accused #Ukraine of destroying the Kakhovka dam. Carlson argued russia, occupying the east Dnipro bank, gained nothing as it would flood that very area.
Musk significantly increased the video's reach by sharing it. Before the retweet, Carlson's video had 57 million views; Musk added another 29 million
Read more here🔗 https://english.nv.ua/nation/musk-shares-video-of-pro-russian-tucker-carlson-blaming-ukraine-for-kakhovka-dam-blast-50330242.html
Musk shares video of pro-Russian Tucker Carlson blaming Ukraine for Kakhovka dam blast
Twitter owner Elon Musk is amplifying the baseless claims of former Fox News television host Tucker Carlson – known for his pro-Kremlin and anti-Ukrainian views.NV
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@EugeneMcParland Musk's interesting in the wtf sense.
Is he a far-right Russian asset because he hates his trans kid and hates that Grimes left him for a trans woman, or was he always a far-right Russian asset who was trying to disguise his far-right Russian asset status by pretending to be just a mediocre batshit multi-billionaire from a racist family?
I don't really care because either way he's a far-right Russian asset but it's interesting to some people. Probably.
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Ok, mealybugs. I didn’t want to resort to “a fuckton of pesticide”, but you have left me with no choice. You brought this on yourselves.
Arseholes.
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starsan* as a regular treatment kills green n blackfly deader than a 70's DJ's career
But you do need to repeat regular like
*Brewery sanitiser. Terrifying stuff
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Exactly what I was thinking!
Have you checked out the show? I’m reluctant to start until it’s over.
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Longtermism is predicated on
a) the reasonable principle that we should care about the future and
b) the absolutely batshit proposition that we can anticipate millions of future years with any meaningfully precision and then grant that thought experiment more moral wait than actually living people, in order to
c) justify the capitalist status quo.
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Reddit is giving every impression that it’s circling the drain right now.
Reddit Laying Off About 90 Employees and Slowing Hiring Amid Restructuring
Reddit Laying Off About 90 Employees and Slowing Hiring Amid Restructuring
Moves aim to help social-media company break even next yearSarah E. Needleman (The Wall Street Journal)
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I find the idea fascinating that there might be some kind of watershed caused by Twitter's decomposition. Like, people are suddently skeptical of social media hype, & that translates into being skeptical about things they maybe shouldn't be that skeptical about. Like how a lot of solid companies cratered in the dot-bomb because the market lost faith in fundamentals. HP e.g. had a rock solid record of improving numbers for decades, but suddenly that wasn't good enough.
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Once again, seeing the whole, "Fediverse is full of Europeans who keep refusing to frame social justice issues strictly from the point of view of USians and this is definitely very problematic everyone!" thing.
And I can't help thinking, "Have you tried taking your cultural imperialism and shoving it up your arse? Maybe that will help?"
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"But why can't you see racial issues through the precise lens of the US civil war and its aftermath and the North American social justice struggles of the 20th century while completely ignoring the impact of your own countries' 19th and 20th century colonial legacies, the status of European ethnic minorities, and the effects of reintegration after the Cold War? The fact that you have your own issues and perspectives is VERY PROBLEMATIC FOR ME, and I DO NOT LIKE IT!"
Diddums?
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Guess fucking what? The societal norms of the US and refusal to consider that other perspectives may exist are pretty much utterly dominant in the moderation culture of every other English language social networking system.
Maybe it's OK to have, you know, just one where we don't all have to pretend to be you?
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@ailbhe @duckwhistle Bloody hell, you’re right. I never noticed that on my very shiny new passport.
The 27th amendment really is a shocking stain on modern Ireland.
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@julieofthespirits @ausir @ailbhe we all are, just the province name changes. and it's not bad! just that we all have something to learn, and means to do it on our own.
(and! the people from europe denying existence of racism in europe or demanding a full explanation of american history every single time there's a conversation going between americans are fucking annoying.)
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@Mz. April Daniels I would say more exasperated than upset.
After all, this is pretty much the one form of social networking where, if someone desperately needs to fuck the fuck off, you’re not necessarily risking a ban for saying so.
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@MzAprilDaniels Maybe is a perspective problem, but Americans tend to take their problem, magnifying it x100 then project it on the rest of the world. When the world doesn't respond in kind (like when America exports democracy and UAVs) people tend to get upset.
This is not a particular issue, but a vast wide range.
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This is a subtoot about Kissane's subtoot about a white guy mansplaining racism to a Black woman pointing out (correctly) how white and off putting the Fediverse currently is?
The criticism about my country's cultural hegemony is valid. But it feels like you're saying the EU's hands are clean on the racism and white supremacy front, which I'm sure isn't what you mean.
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Because I wrote "But ____" when I usually try to avoid that because of how it can negate the prior statement…
Re-emphasizing that "fediverse feels homogenously white" and "USA cultural imperialism go fuck yourself" are both valid.
I said my thing. I'll move along.
@Tim @toolbear@ Taylor See, that’s an example right there, “homogeneously white”, where the word “white” means a very specific thing to Americans in this context which you just go and assume has to have exactly the same cultural connotations to the rest of the world.
And then start using that assumption, or even assertion, to eg tell Roma people that they can’t possibly be victims of racism (and they very much are) because the experience of people ten thousand kilometres away is somehow more pertinent to their situation than their own.
It’s kinda like going to another country and remarking that it’s full of foreigners.
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Hard disagree. White supremacy isn't an exclusive export from my country.
You keep decentering a complaint from a Black woman. That's what I most disliked and why I spoke up originally.
@Tim @toolbear@ Taylor I mean, that was your assumption. I’m complaining about a generalised phenomenon however; specifically, how on earth does someone come onto a forum, note very publicly that it’s predominantly populated by non Americans, and in the same breath decide that the best way to navigate this specific dynamic is through the precise prism of USA race relations?
You’re literally doing it now, and it’s apparently so ingrained that you aren’t even aware that you’re doing it now. You’re seeing a room full of mostly Europeans talking to other Europeans and deciding that the most important thing we need to bear in mind is your specific cultural sensitivities.
You don’t appear to give a shit about ours though.
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There's even a sub for this phenomenon called /r/usdefaultism
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I do totally share being fed up with US monoculture. Cloning distorted US fashion in central-eastern Europe, cloning love for absurd cars (suvs) destroying the planet, and this monoculture norm pouring out of all the media, be it TV or radio (series, films, music industry). I consider it cultural violence. How can we grow our own local values in this context? Hardly...
And no, no one chooses where is born, but can choose where they dedicate their energy.
They like to talk about cultures and respecting differences but they will then translate 1-1 United States based societal expectations of how things should work!!
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Die Tatsache, dass Sie Ihre eigenen Probleme und Perspektiven haben, ist für mich SEHR PROBLEMATISCH, und das gefällt mir nicht!"
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*I limit it like that because I think there are just a lot more North Americans on here now.
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@FeralRobots Because of the American education system and Mass Media Industry, the majority of Americans live in a remarkable cultural bubble. The can not even get Canada right, and we are part of North America. 😂
You speak English, but wrong.
How many hours does it take to drive from Toronto to Vancouver?
Canadian Thanksgiving is in October. Is that the metric system?
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That whole "if we didn't invent it, it must be sus" thing.
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@Iain MacLean I mean, the whole thing about race is that it’s a social construct and the boundaries of what constitutes it are set according to the underlying social structure of each society.
But Americans literally can’t comprehend, despite their last 150 years of history shaping it utterly profoundly, that other places draw lines in different places.
As far as they seem to be concerned, there are “white people” and “PoC”, and that’s it.
The mental gymnastics they then perform to contextualise things like the Northern Ireland situation, racial discrimination against travellers and Roma, the literal Holocaust, and shoehorn them into their specific narrative are something to behold.
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I’m pretty sure most folks here still think Sunni-Shia violence is just because middle easterners Hate Freedom, ignoring centuries of history, Iranian and Pakistan funded militant groups.
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I struggled to understand what you meant by all this. And then I read your further replies on your site where you bring up Roma, and I have this to say.
Please do not use Roma as a way to say "White people suffer racism too!"
Traditionally, Roma were not treated or classified as White People. Some of us can pass as 'White', and many had to in order to flee Fascism. But Roma as a people were not considered 'White People'. See for example how Australia treated Roma immigrants.
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@jay While I agree with her take somewhat, I also think this is extremely easy to miss for us Europeans. Yes, the boundaries of whiteness are not identical in Europe (e.g. the ironic "discrimination" against Italians is funny to Americans but less funny in places like Germany where they are seen as non-white) but that doesn't mean the mode of discrimination doesn't exist here. Our understanding of whiteness is more balkanized but it's still there and at the core of this oppression and anti-Blackness is widespread even if there may be fewer Black people around.
Heck, despite the racism against Eastern Europeans it's trivial to see the difference in how e.g. Germany treats white Ukrainian refugees compared to how it treats brown refugees. There was literally a public discourse around how the existing shelters were undignified and inadequate for Ukrainians when they were apparently perfectly sufficient for Syrians and North Africans.
Yes, whiteness is a social construct but it's also defined by exclusion. It's not literally about skin color, it just often aligns with it. But as the recent cases of Latino/Hispanic white supremacist violence in the US have shown, this complexity is not unique to the US.
As for Europe's history of colonialism: just because we were so racist we didn't want to bring most of the slaves to Europe that doesn't mean we heavily promoted slavery and benefitted from it. Just look at Belgian rubber plantations to see how much pain this caused.
You can't export social justice discourse 1 to 1 from the US to Europe but that doesn't mean it doesn't apply. It's not an exact match but it doesn't require many adjustments. We're just leagues behind when it comes to reflecting on our history of these issues. That's not something to be proud of and it's not the fault of the US.
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@LN :anarchoheart3: @Jay Blanc Ah, but if you don’t export it 1:1 then you’re just saying “you can be racist against white people too”, apparently, because nuance is the enemy when someone has a nice simple binary categorisation system.
Like, growing up a lot of my extended family members were racist as fuck. A lot of it absolutely was about skin colour, but an awful lot wasn’t too, and when someone is desperate to tell you that, “no, your experiences were wrong, because that doesn’t fit how I see the world”, then they can just go away.
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@Jay Blanc You’re very good at reading what you want and ignoring the rest to in order to be another tedious wanker half way round the world telling us that we don’t understand our own social dynamics and modern history, aren’t you?
*plonk* for you. Toodles.
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https://mastodon.nz/@goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org/110498662864819628 US cultural blindness is something else again. My family immigrated there, I grew up bilingual, and I've lived in many different countries. The US is the only one I've come across where so many people can't conceive of other ways of thinking about experiences. Literally can't see it at all. Like pointing out something visible in UV and to them it's not there. Nor can they imagine you don't mean this other thing which they do see in shades of green.
Once again, seeing the whole, "Fediverse is full of Europeans who keep refusing to frame social justice issues strictly from the point of view of USians and this is definitely very problematic everyone!" thing.And I can't help thinking, "Have you tried taking your cultural imperialism and shoving it up your arse? Maybe that will help?"
Reminds me of this person I knew who claimed Switzerland was racist (it is) because it doesn't account for the legacy of enslaved Blacks.
(dafuk? Yes there were complex slavery links, but it's *nothing* like Southern US! Also, it's got specific idiosyncrasies linked to recent and older migration waves, but that's not really racism and they're the anti-racist because they're saving the right words...)
@muse @MzAprilDaniels Mate, if you think she's being vague you should hear someone going full on British Civil Servant one of these days.
Fuckwits like you don't understand what she's talking about, but 'no one'? Fuck all the way off into the sea.
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this is exactly the issue I've had for a long time. The arguments for changing how Mastodon works, how it is moderated, etc, are seemingly mostly from Americans that are trying to frame everything from a US perspective. It's infuriating.
There's more Europeans than Americans, surely we can have one place which suits us more than them?
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@NV Ozmus @Mz. April Daniels It’s an interesting take, John, but let’s check the ratios.
Yeah, I think plenty of people seem to empathise with this, actually. Maybe you’re just a fish not noticing they you’re wet?
It’s the colonial mindset. I truly believe it is almost impossible for an American to conceive of the world as separate from America. There’s America, there are the friendly Disneyland states you visit to be entertained by the curious displays of the Almost-Americans, and then there are the Brown people ghettos you bomb (with a suitably diverse military, of course)…
As I watched an American tell a Brit once: “Accent? I don’t have an accent… you have an accent!”
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Agreed. There is so much racism in the EU, but lots of it moves along different lines & targets different groups than in the US. Social security systems shift the effect of racism (or poverty...), too.
People from the US are often totally unaware of what Roma, Sinti or Muslims face in the EU. What the history, current issues, or important voices are.
More listening between EU + US, and less framing/judging social issues elsewhere by one's cointry's perspective would be good.
@Fluse The usual problem is that when confronted with this, the typical US response is to deflect: “oh, so you’re saying there’s no racism in Europe are you?” (No mate, there’s shitloads), or try to add epicycles within epicycles to explain why it actually fits their US-based “whiteness/non whiteness” model: “but group X isn’t historically regarded as white” (ok, more epicycles until the only actual European white person is Mrs Smith at number 27 and the model should work perfectly!)
But the deflection is the dominant response and, like, there’s no fucking need? Why are they so defensive of their model to the point of utterly losing their shit over the very possibility that the discrimination that happens in places with different historical backgrounds might happen differently? It’s not like anyone is telling them they can’t describe their own domestic experiences using their own language and structure.
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This. Also: The framing of racism as always being white discriminating X is a very... colonial thing to do. It ignores a lot of voices and countries. Or reframes them for convenience.
How do you whiteify the situation of discrimination against other Asian people in Japan? Or the Rwandan ethnic Genocide where Huti murdered Tutsi?
Should be a rhetorical question, but there are people out there who go "Well, that's not racism, then", or go on about how Japanese people are white.
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@pmroman The first time I went to the US, I experienced massive culture shock. Sharing a language, I expected far more cultural compatibility but what I found just felt so very foreign, far more so than any European country I’ve visited even when I don’t speak a word of the local language.
It was quite the wake-up call.
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To some extent I have the same issue with Brits who have never seen other cultures except as holiday destinations!
I have lived and worked in France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg and also spent 3 years living in Thailand.
In each of those countries I have learnt of the massive cultural differences that divide us one from another. Some are highly amusing, others deadly serious.
Some of my more narrow minded "stay at home" British friends accuse me of being a turncoat; of abandoning my 'Britishness' for 'Europeanism' and I guess that is true.
However, I am reminded of a friend of mine who is of Vietnamese origin and who was raised in Vietnam; only leaving to move to western Europe when she was about 20. Talking about the end of the Vietnam war, she referred to the defeat of the USA in Vietnam at the hands of the North Vietnamese Army, as "the liberation". I don't think too many Americans would see it that way. What you perceive depends on the point of view from which you perceive it!
Wieder einmal sehe ich die ganze "Fediverse ist voll von Europäern, die sich weigern, Fragen der sozialen Gerechtigkeit strikt aus der Sicht der US-Amerikaner zu betrachten, und das ist definitiv sehr problematisch für alle!" Sache.
Und ich kann nicht anders, als zu denken: "Habt ihr versucht, euch euren Kulturimperialismus in den Arsch zu schieben? Vielleicht hilft das ja?"
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Anyone whenever the press talks about something they actually know about: Wow, these guys just talk utter crap for clicks!
The same people when the press says the US is hiding aliens from them: This seems very credible and legitimate.
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Lots of articles on how to eradicate mealybugs.
But every single one is wrong. You can’t. They are forever.
I hate them so much.
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So, again I woke up to find 28,766 restored tweets
After deleting all 38,000 tweets in November
After redeleting 34,000 tweets a month ago
This morning 28,766 came back
This IS a breach of the EU rules on data processing
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It’s “absolutely fucking everyone with a brain cell not half eaten by TERF brain worms”, isn’t it?
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•The levels of childishness and privilege on display are astonishing. And yet they sum up the Terf thinking perfectly.
At some point there has to be a global realisation that the Terf dream is a genocidal one and not only that it is one that is impossible to realise.
This report should be in the media now. As it shows, clearly, the disgusting desire for eradication as well as the childish, pathetic inability to exist in society that epitomises the GC.
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