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The Wikipedia page of the disambiguation page for the letter ร˜ (O with a slash), which lists: - Slashed zero, a representation of the number zero to distinguish it from the letter O - (A different) slashed letter 'O', a representation of the letter O distinguish it from the number zero

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Slept way better last night, thankfully. Still got a hellish sore throat and general lurgi this morning. A blend of paracetamol, ibuprofen, and lemon, ginger, and honey drink seems appropriate!

#MedicalScienceAndNaturalRemediesAreNotEnemies!

A Pyrex jug with slices of ginger and bits of lemon in water. I'm having this with plenty of honey for my sore throat this morning.
#medicalscienceandnaturalremediesarenotenemies

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Nothing happening yet at the house, but will be here soon, probably just as we need to leave. Says sleet/freezing rain/snow so take your pick.

#asheville #ncwx

A brightly colored screen cap of a weatherbug radar image, zoomed in on the Asheville area,up to and over to TN and down to SC. Pink (ice) is the predominant color for our valley, but green and blue are included too. The temp currently is 37 so Iโ€™ll hope for rain.
#asheville #ncwx

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Me: โ€œActually, advertising doesnโ€™t work on me! Iโ€™m immune to that nonsense!โ€

(Sees a gif of E.T. lifting his glowing finger)

Me: (Somehow already driving to the grocery store to buy Reeseโ€™s Pieces.)

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"The Gainesville Intermediate School was aware Carranza was being bullied and mocked by students who told the young girl she would be left alone when her parents got deported. It had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified."

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11-Year-Old Texas Girl Bullied Over Family's Immigration Status Takes Her Own Life

A sixth grade girl took her life after classmates bullied her over her family's immigration status and threatened to contact ICE to deport her parents.
Taylor Odisho (Latin Times)

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Yes I agree that those are the primary places where adults teach youth that bigotry and oppressive behavior is acceptable.
Other school workers and administrators almost certainly knew this was happening and are probably the ones who set her up with counselor services in the first place, so it wasn't "on" the counselor to "tell" them. (This is, in part, an illustration of how abuse is "erased" by reframing it as a "mental health issue" of the victim.)
Yes every adult in the school failed her. I simply don't see "telling the victim's parents without the victim's consent" as something that could have fixed this.
(What could the parents have done? Anything the parents could have done about the bullies, other adults *also* could have done about the bullies. Other adults in the school could also have a conversation with her about why it might be a good idea to tell her parents - while ultimately trusting her to make that call as the person who knew her family/living situation best.)
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@sal at one point it was part of my job to intervene in cases of harassment: peer to peer or up or down gradients of hierarchy. There was no wiggle room. It was intervene or assume legal liability and moral responsibility.
It was a complex job, but nothing got to me like cases of harassment: usually sexual harassment, but a few were rooted in gender, race, and ethnicity
I can still see the eyes of every single victim who came ito my office thinking they were alone and powerless.
@sal

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Either I picked the wrong year to reread Parable of the Sower, or Octavia Butler is reminding me to hoard seeds and map the back roads to Canada. #Bookstadon
#BookStadon

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Last year I found myself needing to have some 10000 pictures automatically tagged.

I found that all existing software either cost a silly amount of money, required a subscription, and/or was cloud based.

So I decided to write an #opensource App running on the local machine, free for everyone to use. Here it is.

github.com/DIVISIO-AI/stag

:boost_requested:

It works like a charm with #darktable ๐Ÿ˜Š

(divis.io is the company I work for and has kindly supported me in this endeavour)

#photography

Screenshot of STAG analyzing my local pictures library.

GitHub - DIVISIO-AI/stag: An AI based automatic image tagger

An AI based automatic image tagger. Contribute to DIVISIO-AI/stag development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#photography #OpenSource #darktable
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the phrase "earn a living" is just everything that's dehumanizing about capitalism in a nutshell. living should be a right, not a privilege. by aspiring wife~girl @boring_cactus

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MathJax is installed

Mathjax: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$

Produces: $$x = {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac} \over 2a}.$$

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Leonard Peltier Left Prison on Tuesday Morning

Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
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#readersupportednews #leonardpeltier #brendanorrell #censorednews #belcourtnorthdakota #leonardpeltierisfree #aim #nativeamericannews #nativeamericanactivist

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"Since getting re-elected in Nov., Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to join the US as the 51st state but has said he wants to use economic, not military force, to make that happen"

โ€œAfter we destroy their economy their will to resist will erode. We will then march in unopposed & deliver Canada to its rightful place as a territory of the U.S. with no political representation.โ€
-- US right-wing influencer Tim Pool, on X, in a post that got 2.2 mill. views.

The Tyee:
thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/12/Onlโ€ฆ


The Online Warriors Calling for a Violent Invasion of Canada | The Tyee

As Canadian sovereignty is undermined and an election approaches, politicians are calling for an investigation of X.
Jen St. Denis (The Tyee)
in reply to Deborah Preuss, pcc ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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Goodness this man and his ilk make me embarrassed to live in this country and be from here! I understand why Canadians are angry and the only thing I can do is apologize and tell you that this was not my choice and I will continue to protest as much as I can. This is such shit.

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Job Opportunity: Grants Specialist (Part-Time, 1099 Contract)

We are seeking a dynamic and seasoned Grants Specialist to spearhead our grant acquisition efforts. This part-time, 1099 contract role averages 10 hours per week, with the potential for additional hours during peak grant application periods. This position is perfect for a retired professional seeking meaningful part-time work or a freelancer with a proven track record in grant procurement.

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Job Opportunity: Grants Specialist (Part-Time, 1099 Contract)

As a rapidly growing organization, securing grant funding is pivotal to our missionโ€™s success. We invite you to join us in making a tangible difference.
Chris Peterson (Penny Forward)

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What would your page be about?
Each Pope gets to add one new page to the Bible.

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My page would set the record straight on whether homosexuality is a sin. Itโ€™s not. In fact, ONLY LGBTQ+ people go to Heaven when they die. Cis straight allies work their way up from Purgatory. Everyone else goes right to Hell.

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New year, new big art thread! The place for my almost-daily posts featuring art I love, usually modern and contemporary since that's my thing! First up:

Paintings by American artist Lynne Drexler, 1960s, who studied under Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell and was associated with second-gen Abstract Expressionism, but her work was overshadowed by her (then) more successful husband, artist John Hultberg.

#art #painting #BigArtThread #ModernArt

Abstract painting featuring several groupings of small rectangles in bright blue, yellow, red, and black.
Abstract painting featuring several groupings of small rectangles in bright yellow, red, blue, and gold.
Abstract painting featuring several groupings of small rectangles in green, pink, purple, and red.
Abstract painting featuring various arrangements of rectangles, angled lines, and circles, in sections of blue, red, and green.
#art #painting #bigartthread #modernart
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Screen prints by Afro-Brazilian artist Rubem Valentim, 1960s-80s, whose distinctive abstractions combined motifs from African, Brazilian, Polynesian, and Western cultures and religions, exploring themes of diaspora and mysticism.

#art #printmaking #BigArtThread

Geometric abstract composition with a nearly symmetrical design: groupings of colorful shapes including half-circles, triangles, and arrows floating above a large blue half-circle, between two horizontal red lines on top and bottom with a yellow background.
Geometric abstract composition with a symmetrical design: a vertical red and yellow line in the center with horizontal red lines coming off either side, against a blue and green background.
Geometric abstract composition with a symmetrical design: a combination of blue and yellow stacked shapes including circles and rectangles against a red background.
Geometric abstract composition with a symmetrical design: a combination of coral, blue, and yellow stacked shapes including circles and arrows, against a background of horizontal green, blue, and coral lines and rectangles.
#art #printmaking #bigartthread
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@alexxkittle, for anyone travelling to Sฤo Paulo in these weeks and interested in this work, recently I found that there is an exhibition presenting pieces of his art at Museu Afro-Brasileiro.
@alex kittle
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Works by American artist Marian Spore Bush, 1930s, who was a pioneering dentist but gave up her practice after her mother died, taking up painting and becoming involved in the Spiritualist movement. She was also a philanthropist and society hostess in NYC.

#art #BigArtThread

Painting depicting a woman with dark skin wearing a long-sleeved red dress, her hand outstretched to touch a long yellow and red snake curling around her, against a green background.
Painting depicting two black birds descending over a pale man with a chain around his neck partly submerged in black water, against a swirly white sky.
Painting depicting a slender black and blue peacock-like bird with huge blue plumage curving above and below its body, leaning over to observe a red and black snake on the ground, beside a grey tree trunk.
Painting in black and white depicting a large bird creature with big white sings and a slim neck and curling white beak, flying over a grayscale city against a black background.
#art #bigartthread
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Paintings by Dubai-based Egyptian American artist Aidha Badr, 2020s, whose work explores themes of desire, femininity, and childhood memories.

#art #painting #ContemporaryArt #BigArtThread

Painting of a woman with wavy blonde hair wearing a blue dress with billowing sleeves, holding a doll that matches her. The floor is red and green checkers, and behind her are three arched windows showing a cloudy sky.
Painting in a red and pink palette depicting a woman with long brown hair wearing a frilly long-sleeved dress, lying on her side on the floor. Two floating hands hold up a pearl necklace near her throat. A pair of rabbits stands near her torso, and a pair of swans stands behind her.
Painting of a young woman with light brown hair wearing a pink dress, sitting on a red and green checkered floor with her arms outstretched. She is surrounded by various objects including toys, clothes, and cherries. Behind her are wooden green shutters open to reveal a cloudy sky with hanging red streamers.
Painting in a red and pink palette depicting a woman with long brown hair wearing a long-sleeved dress, holding a pair of floating eyes. A large red hand floats outstretched in front of her, below a trio of pink oyster shells with pearls inside. Two green diaries sit on a black and white checkered floor behind her.
#art #painting #contemporaryArt #bigartthread
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Paintings by American artist Dorothy Morang, some dates unknown but I'm guessing 1940s-50s. She was a professional pianist before marrying an artist and becoming a visual artist herself, associating with the Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico and also working as a museum curator.

#art #painting #BigArtThread #ModernArt

Abstract painting in a palette of grey, red, and blue, with floating rectangles, rounded shapes with pointed tails, and curling lines.
Abstract painting in a palette of deep green, blue, and red, with watery curving shapes amidst several horizontal angled planes.
Abstract painting with long pointed triangles in pink, orange, and yellow, floating over a squiggly green field with grey borders.
Abstract landscape of a maroon and yellow mountain before a large purple sun emitting yellow rays.
#art #painting #bigartthread #modernart
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Designs by American fashion designer Howard Greer, 1930s-50s. After working for some European houses, he ran his own couture studio that primarily dressed celebrity and society women, and was also costume designer at Paramount on films like Bringing Up Baby, My Favorite Wife, and Spellbound.

#art #fashion #BigArtThread

Black and white photo of a slender white woman posing in blank space, wearing a light, long gown in a gauzy fabric, with a long swath draped from the waist down to her ankle and pulled back up to her chest, pinned with flowers. She wears dark gloves and holds some of the gauzy fabric out at her side so it sways back and forth.
Black and white photo of a Sylvia Sidney posing in a room with dark floor and white wall, wearing a wool suit with two contrasting fabrics, one dark and one light with a subtle check pattern. The skirt has a slight flare and ends mid-calf. The jacked has large white buttons pinning back large lapels. She wears short gloves and a hat with a curving brim, and holds a small matching handbag.
Color photo of a white mannequin wearing a dress with cap sleeves and a long skirt to the ankles. It is split vertically into beige and coral colors, with a starburst design in the center where the colors meet.
Black and white photo of a slender white woman posing in an empty room, wearing a dark hat shaped like a half-oval, a light lace sleeveless blouse, a dark pencil skirt, dark heels, and dark gloves.
#art #fashion #bigartthread
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Mixed media works by American artist Chris Lael Larson, 2020s, whose practice "blends photography, painting, and assemblage to create colorful, confounding viewing experiences."

#art #ContemporaryArt #bigArtThread

Mixed media tableau in soft colors with upright twigs placed within painted rocks and paper cut outs.
Mixed media tableau with moss, twigs, and painted rocks set within a painted background with paper cutouts in pink, yellow, green, and blue.
Mixed media tableau in soft colors with dry brown leaves placed within painted rocks and paper cut outs.
Mixed media tableau with painted twigs and rocks set within a painted mountain background with paper cutouts in bright colors.
#art #contemporaryArt #bigartthread
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Photo installations by Ngฤti Tลซwharetoa / New Zealander artist Shannon Te Ao, 2020s, whose practice explores the intersections of indigenous experience, language, and loss.

#art #photography #ContemporaryArt #BigArtThread

A gallery wall with three framed photos in a blue-black palette. Two nearly identical images are grouped together depicting a blurry silhouette of a human head with chin-length hair against a light blue background. The other stands alone off to the side, depicting a figure in silhouette against a light blue background, bending over along the bottom of the frame.
A gallery wall with four black and white photos in a horizontal line, each depicting different views of a shirtless figure moving their body (arms up, bending over, running) with a washed-out white sky and water behind them.
A gallery wall with three photos in a horizontal line, each depicting a similar composition of two young figures hugging with the ocean behind them, with overlaid elements slightly blurring the image and elements of red/purple/blue light.
A gallery wall with two black and white photos, each depicting different views of a shirtless figure, one standing up and one bending over, against an abstracted background landscape or ocean.
#photography #art #contemporaryArt #bigartthread

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When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
ยซ โ€˜Open Source And Ethicalโ€™ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ยป.

The article mostly focused on #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon ยซ Mastadon ยป over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.

B for the effort, but please editors do better!

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/โ€ฆ


โ€˜Open Source And Ethicalโ€™ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media

As major platforms face mounting scrutiny over content moderation and user privacy, a developer's vision for ethical social media draws support
Esat Dedezade (Forbes)
#mastodon #pixelfed #activitypub

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Bookshelves in front of your bookshelves, suspended on barn door hardware with castors at the bottom. The individual shelves can be moved to access those at the back.

Not that I'm trying to give you all ideas, or anything.

#books #reading #writing @bookstodon #authodons

Bookshelves in front of other bookshelves, suspended on barn door hardware with castors at the bottom.
#writing #books #reading #Authodons @bookstodon group
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@SeaFury @madjo @dunedinmouse
Nooo - Time is a thief like Baggins, and will steal your precious!
Start reading them now, otherwise you may never know important parrot facts like:

"Parrots were used in Moving Pictures to add sound to movies. This failed miserably, in part because the handlemen (cameramen) taught them to say things like "show us your knickers"... and the Discworld wasn't *quite* ready for films like that (yet)."

@SeaFury ๐Ÿฆœ๐Ÿ‰ @Invisible Marcel ๐ŸŒ€ @John Valentine

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free and open-source federated social networking service

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#freedom #linux #foss #Japanese #bigtech #FLOSS #digitalsovereignty #empowerment #foreignLanguages #languages #mySoCalledSudoLife #Spanish
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A cartoon of a line of birds standing on the grass in a neat row. Next to them is a sign saying: "CAUTION: Buried telephone wire"

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#USA #ClassWar #billionaires
The presence of charities gives the illusion that we are a caring society. But a truly caring society would institutionally take care of its citizens, not rely on charities.
#usa #classwar #billionaires

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My friendica <-> Bluesky config yesterday had something wrong but today it appears to be functional. I think I've learned something for the reference on configuring this integration.

My hope is that this posts to Bluesky this time.

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Cool! I can see the post in Bluesky. I also see posts from folks I follow on Bluesky here in my friendica feed. I liked a Bluesky post in my friendica feed and that like was mirrored on Bluesky... I think this thing basically works!

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#Politics #editorialcartoon #MAGA
Three panel black and white political cartoon. First box the left figure: โ€œLetโ€™s not talk politics anymore, I canโ€™t bear it.โ€ Second figure โ€œSameโ€ Second box both figures just sitting thinking. Third box first figure โ€œThe thing is though..โ€ second figure โ€œThose f**king idiotsโ€ #ALT
#politics #maga #editorialcartoon

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United we stand, divided we fall.
Political cartoon showing a line of dominos. The first one is labeled Trans Rights and has a blue-pink-white trans flag painted on it and is tilting. Three people (representing a trans man, trans woman, and person wearing rainbow colors) are pushing back to keep it from falling. Behind it the second domino is labeled "Gay Rights" and "Freedom of Expression" and has a couple, one member of who is pulling the other from behind the domino and walking towards the first domino. The 3rd one "Women's Rights" and "Free Love", a woman is pointing and shouting to rally others behind the domino to come forwards, the 4th one " Free Speech" and "Democracy" and has people peering out from behind it as well as two people running forwards with a piece of lumber, the 5th one "Freedom of Religion" and "Modernity", and has a few people nervously peeking out from behind it, the 6th one is "Literacy". Dominos 7-10 are unlabeled and faded out in the background. Text on bottom: "United we stand, Divided we fall"

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anticipating the orange toddlerโ€™s growing tyranny โ€ฆ

engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

#politics #law #tyranny

#politics #law #tyranny

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Sweary self compassion reminders...

For me today, self compassion looks like Futurama, rest, letting myself cry, and trying to be OK with being exhausted, "useless", and emotional.

It's hard. Fucking hard. But slowly getting easier.

#SwearingHeals #SelfCompassionIsNOTSelfIndulgence

A starry night sky over the silhouette of tree covered hills at the bottom. In the sky in white writing it reads... "Self compassion can be fucking hard to develop, but like most skills it gets easier with practice"
A starry night sky over the silhouette of tree covered hills at the bottom. In the sky in white writing it reads... "May I finally fucking speak kindly to and about myself"
A starry night sky over the silhouette of tree covered hills at the bottom. In the sky in white writing it reads... "I will try to be patient with myself as I develop this new skill, cos it's fucking hard!"
A starry night sky over the silhouette of tree covered hills at the bottom. In the sky in white writing it reads... "Self compassion is NOT self indulgence, it is simply learning to turn love and understanding inward, something everyone deserves to be able to do for fuck's sake"
#swearingheals #selfcompassionisnotselfindulgence

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#SilentSunday
#Photography
#NoFilter
Square photograph showing a row of moss patches on the side wall of a stone bridge in the foreground and blurry lake, lakeshore and trees in the background
Square photograph of a moss patches on the side wall of a stone bridge. The moss has a few tiny stems with few drops on them. The biggest of those drops catches the eye.
Square photograph of a lake with opposite lakeshore, tree line and gray sky in the background. The slim trunks and branches of the trees are reflected on the water surface.
Square photograph of Abyss Cannonballโ€™s head. She has long light brown and gray hair, is wearing a thick gray scarf and is smiling at the camera.
#photography #silentsunday #nofilter

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Little Hearts
youtu.be/HyxDmBdrDXI?si=ckTPkOโ€ฆ

Little Hearts - Jadyn Rylee

In 2019, Jadyn released her first album at the age of 13. Recorded out of Clarksville TN with Curt Ryle (George Jones/Taylor Swift). Since that time Jadyn h...
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To Be A Man
youtu.be/TuyisGsNr4g?si=GhrHcFโ€ฆ

Dax - "To Be A Man" Remix (Feat. Darius Rucker) [Official Video]

[LYRICS BELOW] "To Be a Man" is making an IMPACT. I truly believe there are millions more to touch with this song. I travelled to Nashville to complete this ...
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Time for coffee. I made the mistake of reading so many Fediverse posts I actually read โ€œthe newsโ€. Which, if you are in the US, is unremitting in horrible things. So I will be retreating with my coffee cup to caffeinate before coming back to look for the friendly and calm folks. ๐Ÿณ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘‹
Closeup of coffee cup to show the quail hiding in weeds and fog, a mug with a bird photo by Debra Martz here on Fediverse. Cup is on red mat and a bit of the kitchen screen beyond.

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I'd been thinking about going to a protest Monday in Nashville but I'm REALLY turned off by the group's messaging. We are in a Constitutional crisis and supposed to be fighting for American democracy, but the poster doesn't even have an American flag, only Mexican and Palestinian flags. I care a lot about helping people in other countries, but first we need to save America. Democrats are so bad at messaging and outreach. I think events right now that don't focus materials entirely on Trump, Musk, DOGE, and our Constitution will just make protests seem like liberal whining. I will probably go but I wrote to the organizers and begged them to focus on our flag. #50501movement #50501protests
Poster with yellow background. 50501-TN 50 states 50 capitols one protest. King's day crossed out. National day of protest not my president's day February 17, TN state capitol building 600 Martin Luther king blvd. 12 pm. Below are hands with LGBTQ+ Mexican and Palestinian flags.
#50501movement #50501protests
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I completely agree and I think this is something that the Democrats need to take into account when they consider their messaging which has been shit for the lastโ€ฆ 10 years basically since Obama left

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We can save it! โค๏ธ๐ŸŒŽ (by u/SeMaKKa6)
(AI Alt-Text)
A beach is shown in two images stacked vertically. In the top image, a man sits cross-legged on the sand amidst a lot of scattered garbage and debris, with the ocean in the background. Large white text above reads, "IT'S NOT MY GARBAGE." In the bottom image, the same man sits similarly with black trash bags piled up behind him, indicating a cleanup effort. The text above says, "BUT IT'S MY PLANET." In both images, the Instagram handle "@DZIRRY" is visible.

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Do we have any BBC Micro programmers here? I have a stack of BBC Micro programming books that I want to give away! Collect from north Bristol (UK)

UPDATE: the books have now gone to a new home! Thanks to all who boosted and replied

Stack of 18 BBC Micro programming books, one hardback "The Century Computer Programming Course for the BBC Micro", the rest softback. One by Babani, BP139
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Limestone rock in a cave covered with shiny white crystals. In the middle of the image are longer kinda comb or hair shaped crystaline structure, forming a heart shape.

Cardiovascular health risks continue to grow within Black communities, action needed

DALLAS, Feb. 7, 2025 โ€” The American Heart Association's 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistical Update reports that while progress has been made in reducing cardiovascular and cerebral health disparities, Black communities in the United States ...
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#love #community #heart #rock #valentine #geology #cpr #firstaid #care #cave #caves #caving #gypsum #crystal
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The U.S. Is Not Ready for Bird Flu in Humans

Bird flu is infecting more people than we think. We need to stop it now before a new pandemic begins

Right after President Donald Trump took office, amid the flurry of executive orders and agency upheavals, the administration told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to release any reports or communications until one of Trumpโ€™s people could take a look at them. Among the many reports not released that week was a study on how many veterinarians had gotten bird flu.

#birdflu #mutations #epidemic

scientificamerican.com/articleโ€ฆ


The U.S. Is Not Ready for Bird Flu in Humans

Scientific American
#birdflu #mutations #epidemic
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And it's getting LESS ready by the day. Over 1,200 CDC epidemic-focused staff, researchers and post-docs, have been laid off now. Because, reasons...

statnews.com/2025/02/14/federaโ€ฆ

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Federal employee layoffs reach into HHS health agencies | STAT

Day after RFK Jr. becomes health secretary, layoffs roil HHS agencies, including the CDC, global leader in disease control, and NIH, top research funder.
Matthew Herper (STAT)
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@PeterLG Trump is just tired of other countries getting credit for the really big pandmics. "Spanish flu"? "Chinese virus'? What ever happened to good old American know-how?!

We should name the imminent bird flu pandemic after him. Well, maybe not directly. We could call it the Orange Shitgibbon Flu or something.

@Peter

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JD Vance delivered a disturbing speech here in Munich today. So, here's a reminder: Harassment is not "free speech". And racism is not an "opinion". theguardian.com/us-news/2025/fโ€ฆ

JD Vance stuns Munich conference with blistering attack on Europeโ€™s leaders

US vice-president questions whether European values are worth defending as he rails against โ€˜threat from withinโ€™
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Ken Gahagan
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And unless you're a straight, married, working white man you're an expendable extra. It is just infuriating to see where we're headed after so many decades of progress.

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You canโ€™t tell me these people are doing this for free. Bullshit, they are getting paid. By who?

Elonโ€™s trollsโ€ฆ The full list as of nowโ€ฆ

projects.propublica.org/elon-mโ€ฆ


Elon Muskโ€™s Demolition Crew

Elon Musk, the worldโ€™s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/โ€ฆ

Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon

Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.
Mastodon Blog
#mastodon
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william.maggos
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I'd rather we have something like the ability to share a post but with a pointer to a reply. So it looks like a QP but only to your followers. To everyone else, it is a reply. And this means it stays attached but subservient to the OP.

I'd also like to see all replies rankable ala reddit. This would give us something like Community Notes, where the top responses are show up right under the OP. And the worst stuff for popular posts would be easily ignored.

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@BeAware
I assume you'd still be able to link to a post, it just wouldn't show up like a QP. You'd still be able to do what you do now when QPs don't exist on mastodon.

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I made this my dating site profile.

โ€œThis could be us.โ€

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Me: *puts up curtains so the dogs don't loiter by the all-glass balcony door, barking at everything that moves*

The dogs:

#pupdate

Thick grey double-winged curtains bulge at two places with a dog butt/tail hanging out slightly
#pupdate

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edbrowse is my favroite web browser
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ฯ†
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i wouldve said that curl is the โ€œstandard unix web clientโ€ but wgat do i know
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rar
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@fiore no ed is the emacs of unix you can use ed for everything
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ฯ†
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oh wow is it just like vim
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rar
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@fiore no. if you want to change that line, you either have to rewrite it or use sed like syntax. sed is actually derived from ed
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Unus Nemo
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@ฯ† @win vim is a successor of ed. It uses ex internally. Though ed is a line editor and vim is a screen editor. I use vim daily though I would not wish ed on someone I don't like. Though sed is a stream editor and I use that regularly as well. All three are related. And both sed, vi and vim were based on ed.
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ฯ†
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@unusnemo unrelated but why do friendica tags look like that on akkoma
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Unus Nemo
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@ฯ† @win I have no idea as I have only used friendica and mastadon. I am using a modified scheme on frio called bookface though that would not effect anything unless you were on my server. I believe.
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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they look normal on key that's so weird
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Unus Nemo
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@ฯ† @rar @๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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those are for your frontend, though, they have nothing to do with federation
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Unus Nemo
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@๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž @ฯ† @win Thank you, I am well aware of that. I am a developer. What I was trying to explain to you is that as @ฯ† @win mentioned they could see the changes that the schemes caused to the tags, and you could not. So they are obviously using a client that uses a webview. So the css propagates. You are likely not using a client that uses a webview, or the webview in your client supplies its own css.

This is not uncommon at all.

Now, as I mentioned, of course the transport does not use css. That is not were the view is established or maintained.

Now anything that I view from other sources on my view will only be rendered against my theme. Though this obviously was not the case for the akkoma client being used by the person that asked me why the tags looked like that. The only thing that makes the tags look like that is the css files in the scheme I added.

@ฯ† @rar @๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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i'm also a developer and you seem to have woefully misunderstood how fedi clients work. i'm pretty sure we're all using the web frontend of our respective server software (if we weren't, why would a client use a webview, and if it did, where would this css be propagating from, what??). fedi posts have a text content in a specific formatโ€”on friendica, probably html, and on akkoma and misskey, markdown. usually, the markdown parsers parse @-mentions and turn them into links that link to the user's profile, however, since friendica uses html and not markdown, the anchor tags stay as they are. for some reason, on misskey, they don't. this is why i'm confused, because last time i checked, they did show like that.
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Amber
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There is limited markdown support in fediverse implementations but if i remember correctly it's expected that a Note's content is actually in HTML unless it's declared as something else. I have yet to see that in the wild though, I know misskey converts everything to html and then has their own misskeysummary (and other related fields) that are the RAW version without any formatting (so mentions just look like @x@whatever instead of being converted into href.)

Activity Vocabulary

www.w3.org
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Amber
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misskey is also a bit weird because it sets the media type as mfm but like you still get html
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Amber
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yeah. just used one of my testing notes.
curl -X GET -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' https://kitsunes.club/notes/a1fcn3gzv6 | jq
returns me
{
  "content": "<p>dododo</p>",
  "_misskey_content": "dododo",
  "source": {
    "content": "dododo",
    "mediaType": "text/x.misskeymarkdown"
  }
}
(note, a lot of that was truncated because I didn't find the other fields relevant, you can just run the command to see the full output)
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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1. ah, yeah, that's what i remember, the text/x.misskeymarkdown thing
2. how can you run that? don't you need authorised fetch?
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Amber
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2) kitsunes.club for some reason does not have authorized fetch enabled for requesting objects. it only signs requests to fetch stuff from other instances. i should probably fix that
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Unus Nemo
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@ฯ† @rar @๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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do they not all look the same in all css files?
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Unus Nemo
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๐ŸŒธ lily ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ ฮธฮ” โ‹ & โˆž
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i think we're just misunderstanding each other. i thought we were talking about css files on your server that style the posts.

On the other hand you could use a gtkview, or the Qt equivalent, that would parse the html and css


you wouldn't need to. there's no point loading the entire frontend just to parse a post when you can use the api

The other thing that gets me is that if it was a friendica the gtkview idea could make sense though why would a akkoma client be using the friendica api?


it's not, it's using its own api. it could be that akkoma's html sanitiser just left the html that your server federated pretty much as is, whereas misskey's did something more drastic to it (i haven't seen you use post formatting, i'm not sure what it would do in that case)

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Every time I log into Fedi, I see another post with a guide called something like "Activist's Guide to Smartphones" or "Phone Security Guide for Protesters," and every single one of these assumes that the threat model is the kind of police force that exists under liberal democracy where the law will afford significant protections to protesters. The world is changing, and these guides not only fail to address the threat of an actively hostile fascistic anti-democratic occupying force (I refer here to the police), but such guides generally are limited to "what" and "how" but miss the more critical "why."

If you believe that you are facing fascism (or even something close to it), can I please please please convince you to read something written by anarchists who have faced serious repression and are trying to convey just how much phones can lead to the imprisonment of you and your friends for even things that are allegedly "legal."

opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloaโ€ฆ

Zine cover. Mobile Phone Security for Activists and Agitators. Image. Person in a mask holding a phone to their head in front of a cell tower emanating concentric circles of signal.
Text excerpt from the conclusion containing guidelines. Chiefly this one in bold. Do not send messages or make voice calls about highly sensitive matters. Do not photograph or film incriminating things. Do not create evidence that can be used against you or others.

Downloads | RM: OpSec

opsec.riotmedicine.net
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i like how this is so much simpler and easier to follow than the legalistic stuff anyway
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potentially hazardous object
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(like that one screenshotted page, i can read all the way down, compare it to my own knowledge of how stuff works, and know it's not bullshit or obsolete or overruled by some later court case and boost)
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