Joe Pyne: America's first angry talk show host
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Drivers and kernel-level software can't be translated automatically by Windows.
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Epic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps
Drivers and kernel-level software can’t be translated automatically by Windows.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
Can the Trump administration legally deport Palestinian rights advocate Mahmoud Khalil? 3 things to know about green card holders’ rights
Lawful permanent residents hold many of the same rights that US citizens have, but the government can deport them on certain, often vague, security grounds.The Conversation
"TerraPower has announced a strategic collaboration with South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai to expand the global manufacturing supply chain for Natrium small modular reactors, supporting the rapid commercialisation of the advanced nuclear technology.
The signing ceremony was attended by Chung Kisun, Executive Vice Chairman of HD Hyundai; Won Kwang-shik, Head of Marine Energy Business Division at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries; Bill Gates, founder and chairman of TerraPower; Chris Levesque, president and CEO of TerraPower; and other officials.
The agreement combines HD Hyundai's manufacturing expertise with TerraPower's cutting-edge reactor technology, and will build new supply chain capacity to enable large-scale production and global deployment of Natrium plants.
The agreement with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries - an affiliate of HD Hyundai specialising in shipbuilding - creates the manufacturing foundation necessary for full-scale commercialisation beyond the initial demonstration project that is currently under development. In particular, HD Hyundai will develop optimised manufacturing processes to supply key Natrium reactor components.
This partnership builds upon the relationship established in 2024 when HD Hyundai Heavy Industries was competitively selected by TerraPower to develop the cylindrical reactor vessel to be installed in the first Natrium reactor.
"TerraPower is committed to delivering our first Natrium plant in the United States, as well as rapidly deploying additional units at competitive prices during the next decade in the US and around the world," said TerraPower's Levesque. "The Natrium technology provides crucial baseload power plus gigawatt-scale energy storage; these plants will provide reliable and flexible power to address growing energy demand. HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' manufacturing capabilities are world-renowned, and I look forward to working with them to establish the commercial-scale production capacity that will be essential for successful deployment of multiple Natrium units globally."
Won added: "We expect that HD Hyundai's extensive experience and advanced technological capabilities in manufacturing will help build the foundation for commercialisation of Natrium reactors. Based on this cooperation, we will accelerate the commercialisation of next-generation nuclear energy solutions and create new growth opportunities in the global SMR market."
Natrium technology features a 345 MWe sodium-cooled fast reactor using high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, with a molten salt-based energy storage system that can boost the system's output to 500 MWe for more than five and a half hours when needed.
TerraPower is the first and only advanced nuclear developer with a permit application for a commercial advanced reactor submitted to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That application was submitted in March 2024 and is on track for approval in December 2026.
TerraPower is constructing the Natrium demonstration plant near a retiring coal facility at Kemmerer in Wyoming. A ground-breaking ceremony held in June last year marked the start of non-nuclear construction at the site. Nuclear construction will begin after the application is approved: the company is eyeing the start of work on the nuclear island in 2026."
HD Hyundai to help commercialise TerraPower SMR
TerraPower has announced a strategic collaboration with South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai to expand the global manufacturing supply chain for Natrium small modular reactors, supporting the rapid commercialisation of the advanced nuclear technology…World Nuclear News
"Sé que a todos nos encanta criticar a las generaciones anteriores, pero en el siglo XX, si alguien hacía el saludo nazi, casi se podía garantizar que un veterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial le daría un puñetazo en la cabeza, y creo que eso tenía un gran beneficio social."
My dad laughed that he didn't serve in Korea because he was 4f from a badminton accident.
He's probably pissed off in hell that he didn't get to live to raise his arm with pride. I found Nazi shit when he died in 2015.
PTSD is very bad these days.
my gramps would have given them his standard line that I heard him deliver to skinheads wearing nazi sh*t in the 80’s…”I thought I killed all of you during the war.”
People usually don’t argue with someone when they know that the person insulting them killed men irl.
A dire warning for everyone in the “LGB” part who thought they could keep themselves safe from the fash by throwing “TQIA+” under the bus:
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
And if you’re none of the above, if you thought that is an LGB-specific warning and not addressed to •you•, I promise you, whatever •your• letter is, they’re coming for yours sooner than you think. Stop them now or pay later.
Republican state lawmakers galvanize to attack same-sex marriage
The recent wave of GOP-led bills comes as Trump becomes emboldened in orders against LGBTQ+ communitiesMaya Yang (The Guardian)
this is one reason the term should always have been “queer” — the alphabet soup of LGB…+ aspires to be inclusive and comforting but mostly only divides
yes, some people are discomfited by “queer” but its history as a slur actually helps make the point that it’s not any one specific difference that marks you as a target for bullying: bullies will fix on **any** difference as a target for their disgust and fear and hate
@possibledog
I'm sympathetic to that argument in many ways — I'm a programmer and a mathematician, and I like to handle things in the general case! — but in the past 10 years or so, I've really come around to the importance of •individually naming• each marginalized subgroup.
BLM activists in particular taught me about this. The danger of using an umbrella term is the “All Lives Matter” pitfall: a term that •theoretically• should include everyone ends up •in practice• only including people culturally regarded as the neutral default. And such terms don't challenge anyone whose thinking dwells in that default: someone who doesn’t really think of Black people at all when they hear “all lives,” or doesn’t think of transgender people when they hear “queer.”
@possibledog
So, yes, I personally like the term “queer” in the broadly inclusive bell hooks sense of capturing a wide spectrum of gender-related experiences that may not even have a good name yet — but I •also• appreciate the specific enumeration of identities in “LGBTQIA+,” even if that enumeration is sort of laborious.
My brother, a math teacher, often talks with his students about the importance of examples, counterexamples, and non-examples. It's not enough just to have a theorem, even if you have a proof! Mathematicians think about specific cases, and ground their thinking in them even when they've found suitable generalizations (or •think• they have; cf Fourier’s heat equation blowing up calculus and forcing the development of Real Analysis). A similar principle applies here.
I agree that the alphabet-soup enumeration is useful, but my point is that as a popular term its disadvantages outweigh its advantages. It just sounds elite and effete and academic and pompous and silly, and it's way too hard to deploy in political arguments.
"We're here, we're ell gee bee tee queue eye eh plus, get used to it!" just doesn't have that same ring, now, does it? 😉
Not that it matters, it's too late now; this is just an academic argument about academic terms. Nice chatting with you.
@possibledog
Yeah, “LGBTQIA+” clearly is not good chant material. The detailed enumeration has its place; so do the catchy single words. Many important tools in the kit!
Nice chatting with you too.
Something that makes fascism a particularly pernicious form of authoritarianism is that it doesn’t just need the population crushed and subservient; it needs to •keep actively destroying• whole subsets of the population in order to stay alive.
Fascism is a fire. Its fuel is the othering of minority groups; its oxygen is fear. It will keep finding — creating, if necessary — more and more “others,” without limit. Unless you cut off that oxygen or that fuel, it will keep on burning until there’s nobody left.
HEREs THE THING, centuries old alarm bells came to a head in 2024:
1. the attacks on the 1st Black woman president of Harvard
2. the attacks on students protesting genocide
3. the state-sponsored murder of WHITE WOMEN in need of abortions
but what distinguishes these attacks on trans folks is that #techbros & #MAGA are saying TRANS WHITE CHILDREN DESERVE TO DIE, not to transition into healthy, out and proud lives.
Musk wants his trans daugter dead.
scream that from the rooftops
13 March 1913 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Henriette Roode, was born in Onstwedde.
In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
I read that Meta/Facebook was took legal action to halt the promotion of "Careless People", the recently released tell-all memoire from whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams.
So I did the logical thing and purchased a copy from Bookshop.org. I sure Zuck would hate it if others did the same thing.
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Eigentlich war ich schon raus, doch nun muss der alte Bundestag noch einmal ran: Heute und am Dienstag entscheiden wir über Grundgesetzänderungen – zur Schuldenbremse und zum Sondervermögen Infrastruktur.
Wir Grünen gehen mit einem eigenen Antrag in die Verhandlungen. Was CDU/CSU und SPD jetzt fordern, sagen wir seit Langem – auch im Wahlkampf. Doch erst, wenn die Realität sie einholt, kommt die Einsicht. Das ist nicht glaubwürdig.
31 separate actions roll back restrictions on air and water pollution.
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.The New Republic
😂🤦🏻♀️
“Here’s hoping Elon #Musk won’t have to personally fix Trump’s new EV anytime soon.
Donald #Trump Bought a $90,000 #Tesla With 37 Recall Notices Against It” | WIRED wired.com/story/donald-trump-b…
Trump before the election: “On day one, I will lower grocery prices”
Trump now (attached): “… the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS …”
Let him do it — the US voters will soon realize, living in a Trump economy where everything is tariffed to death, will only crash the US economy.
31 separate actions roll back restrictions on air and water pollution.
arstechnica.com/uncategorized/…
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If your job is to make the world uninhabitable, your job should not exist.
Sorry, not sorry, never going to be sorry.
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Can’t wait for the Cuyahoga river to be set on fire again
Etiquette Question:
Should I have Molson's and Nanaimo bars ready in case we become Southern Canada?
This is a trick question, you should go ahead and make these:
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Nanaimo Bars
These Nanaimo bars have three layers of coconut-graham crust, thick custard, and silky chocolate. A delicious no-bake bar worth the effort to make!Allrecipes
@nusher That's a pretty good description.
For some reason nanaimo bars seem to have flown under the radar here in the UK, but they're absolutely delicious and easy to make. You can experiment with all sorts of flavours and colours, too.
Previously: sensory input was set on "off.”
Recently: sensory input switched to “max +.”
Exception: sensory input reverts to "off” around other people.
Goal: sensory input in the "not overwhelming but also not muted" range.
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After the public statements of the executive chairman and CTO of Oracle after the election (mass surveillance etc.) I can't laugh about this. TikTok has been accused to do surveillance and change the public opinion in the US for mainland China – assuming this is true and it worked, Oracle will given the power to do the same.
> "We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."
businessinsider.com/larry-elli…
Larry Ellison: AI-fueled surveillance system could police citizens
Billionaire Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison said he expects AI surveillance systems to reach a point where all citizens are under constant watch.Kenneth Niemeyer (Business Insider)
#CatsOfMastadon #DogsOfMastadon #Retirement
~ Tom Waits
I like the first half of that quote too.
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All The Bad Days - Tom Waits Speech (Official Audio)
An amazing little poem as featured in Tom Waits' Big Time (1988) in new edit.Text:This is about all the bad days in the world...I used to have some little ba...YouTube
Auntie PJ said while she was crocheting that it was just 3D printing by hand. I’m pretty sure that’s the most hardcore thing she’s ever said…
I have lost count of the number of people at Embedded World who have asked me ’what is memory safety?'
If anyone is wondering how embedded security is going...
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EPA administrator Zeldin says it is necessary "to protect consumer choice."
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The EPA is scrapping fuel economy regs, claiming it will bring back US jobs
EPA administrator Zeldin says it is necessary “to protect consumer choice.”…Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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I talked to her and it was normal. Perfectly normal.
Why won't anything happen.
Finland and Ukraine have signed a bilateral defense cooperation agreement. Finland's defense ministry said it would give a new military aid package to Ukraine, worth around 200 million euros ($217.48 million), including artillery ammunition to help in the war with Russia.
Finnish Minister of the Interior Mari Rantanen visited Kyiv.
The visit continued the dialogue on cooperation and exchange of experience within the framework of the signed agreement on security cooperation
#AureFreePress
Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat
If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.Claire Press (bellingcat)
QQ for my visual art friends out there.
I'd like to commission some work, the first of which is a logo for my neighborhood association newsletter (not an HOA).
Goal - Pay fairly for the work being done
Goal - Work interactively - meaning a couple of check-ins on design.
Goal - Let artist do art - its their thing
Goal - Be open to recommend artist if everything works out well.
Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
In the time since I linked the petition* above, Ireland has gone from under 50% to above the threshold! Spain is also now getting very close.
siorc.eu/notes/a4885f3ath9b00p…
The petition is up overall 26,000 votes in the last ten days. I don't know whether it can hit a million by May, but turning more countries green definitely sounds viable.
* The petition asks the EU to ban pseudo-psychological practices purporting to "convert" gay and trans people to straights. Yes, that's a thing, and it's cruel.
I think other countries should follow what Ireland has done, we were spamming the petition on the #MastoDaoine hashtag and on BSky the #SpéirGhorm hashtag and that saw us shoot up from like 45% to 100+%Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.
It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:
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Britain proclaimed the legal non-existence of trans people in the last month with a court decision; in the US, Texas did so last night, with a bill passed in its House of Representatives. There is a global effort to unexist trans people. If nothing else, if the EU wants to show that it's different— that it's not a part of this— it seems like a pretty direct way to say so would be this citizen's initiative against attempting to unexist individual trans people via torture.
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EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
I've tried before to sign European petitions, never got it to work yet
Apropos of nothing, I read some real science about this stuff and there are over 40 biological sexes.
Reality doesn't get a voice.
I would but my Nationality is British and that excludes me even though I have left the sinking island and have lived in Europe for many years.
Stupid petitions.
I was reading the petition demands that are rightly detailed.
I started wondering whether "Provide a clear, precise and comprehensive definition of conversion practices, which shall cover all practices that seek to change [...] a person's [...] gender identity [...]" could be misinterpreted (wilfully, perhaps) by some as including voluntarily-chosen HRT for trans people that has a positive rather than negative psychological effect, unlike what this is combatting.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—
BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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By the way, since I know there's a lot of Germans on Mastodon:
The need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352… ) is raw votes from anywhere. BUT as it happens Germany's currently the closest %-wise to being the 8th country to endorse the petition!
15.5k DE votes would turn Germany green on this map, and send a pro-LGBTQ message to German lawmakers¹:
¹ DE already has a local law banning gay/trans conversion therapy against minors.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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not-so-funny sidenote: there's a FI citizen petition for the same subject now in the parliament, but as we are saddled with at least one religious party in power, they're just stalling the handling. Why? Because they can.
And also because they are thoroughly foul people as well, but I guess that was obvious already.
You don't need to sign up for an account or anything.
It literally takes only a minute to enter your information so they can check if you're actually a real person.
I find this important to mention with these things.
Thank you. We quite like it. 💚
And we stand corrected. We were under the impression this is something which was only going on for a few weeks. Our pessimism got the better of us.
It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.
The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know
Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website
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it's also important** to mention that this is an official EU website, they already have the data you have to give them to sign - it's not like it's some mid shadiness proxy petition site
**maybe lowering activation energy for signature
steadily increasing at a rate of 500 votes/minute, IF this keeps up, it'll be done in around 5h :o
Of course keeping it up requires everyone's support in shouting it from the rooftops
The process of signing it is a bit offensive, the EU wants to read your ID card…
I was also confused by the text, because it is so broad that the “or others” include the hormonal therapies for trans people, which are not pseudo-medicine, but they do alter the gender expression of these people (as desired).
Yeah it's maddening that the exact closing time is not posted on the website. In normal business, I would assume that "deadline 17 May" means: submit by 16 May 23:59. But I have seen some people post with apparent confidence that it's 17 May 23:59.
(CEST? CET? Le sigh.)
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@thisismissem@hachyderm.io 821K, so close with one day leftFree Radical
OKAY WOW. WOW. THE WHOLE THING WHILE I WAS SLEEPING. WOW.
The EU citizen initiative petitioning the European Parliament to outlaw "conversion therapy" ("curing" LGBTs via torture) has met its threshold (1M votes and 8 countries supporting).
One week ago I sincerely thought y'all wouldn't make it. Amazing work Europe (and hi5 Germany, now country 8).
This is an incredible statement at a time the US/UK govt are forcing conversion (medical detransition) for trans minors.
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UPDATE: Nine. 9 countries. Sweden passed the threshold *while I was writing that last post*.
The "end of the collection period" is May 17 (so seven hours from now… plus 24 if the person who told me it's *EOD* May 17 is correct) so if you're an EU national you can still vote to run up the numbers and convince EU Parliament you're serious. Also:
- If 4,343 Italians sign, it's ten countries endorsing
- 5,308 Austrians makes it eleven
- 6,794 from Portugal makes it twelve
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very few needed to get Denmark across the line too.
and France is only 400 signatures away from 1000%
ANOTHER UPDATE: About three minutes ago on the website, France literally hit 1000% support for the anti-"Conversion Therapy" initiative. France really showed up here, with ten times the threshold support FR is literally half the supporters on this initiative. Apparently the people of France really, REALLY don't want their trans friends medically tortured
(if this is a boost, see upthread for explanation)
let's hope It doesn't end in a petition or a "for 2050 we aim to have 20% less convertion therapy"
Still happy to see people wants us to be safe, makes me quite a bit less worried about losing my friends
slight amendment. The petition calls on the Commission to propose legislation, not the parliament.
And it is excellent news to see it reach the target.
I’m having a problem understanding your convoluted grammer.
Is it go for therapy or no go.
@ipd I'm sorry, there is a 500 character limit and it makes my text awkward…
The proposed law bans therapists from trying to turn LGBTQs into straights.
I like that law. Personal choice and autonomy. Is it passing or not, so far?
Spectrum plus you tube interruption with psyop ads == brain injury and diminished mental capacity today. Or you got any spare spoons?
... aaaaaand Italy made it.
Italy!
What's next? Poland?
Come on, Denmark, just 1800 votes to go!
(I can't remember /when/ I voted, just that back then, I saw no chance in hell of this ever getting the necessary support. Wow.)
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@maccuinneagain Isn't this just how the EU works?
"The Commission is the only EU institution empowered to initiate EU legal acts. It submits proposals for EU legal acts on its own initiative, at the request of other EU institutions or following a citizens' initiative."
I just wanted to say that I woke up today and saw this post (8am CEST). I thought: "well that's a cool initiative. I guess I'll sign this. Also gonna tell my (50% queer) friend group and family about this, but let's face it: 200.000 Signatures in less than a day? Not gonna happen."
And now, we're not that far from hitting TWICE AS MUCH signatures. This kind of made my day.
There are ~7 hours left in the EU citizens initiative ( eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/… ) asking the EU parliament to ban "conversion therapy" (pseudo-medical efforts to "cure" queers). It's at 1.2 million votes over 1 million; surplus votes are good because some votes may be disqualified, so EU nationals, it's still worth voting!
One thing I notice, it looks like DENMARK and CROATIA are *so* close to passing— under 1000 votes each. Does anyone here know how to inject a message in the Danish internet?
I gave it a shot: mastodon.online/@atjn/11452402…
Seems like the Danish channels are already flooded with posts about it, maybe there arent enough danes on Mastodon yet?
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Hvis du synes at det skal være ulovligt at torturere transkønnede i EU, så skynd dig ind og stem her: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home Vi mangler kun 1.Mastodon
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