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Teresa Uzel named Instructor of the Year by the Space Coast Fire Chiefs AssociationEastern Florida State College announced that Teresa Uzel has been named the
Iraq to begin proceedings against ISIS prisoners transferred from Syria...
" The US military said on Tuesday its forces had transferred 150 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq and that the operation could eventually see up to 7,000 detainees moved out of Syria.
It cited concerns over security at the prisons, which also hold thousands more women and children with ties to the terror group, after military setbacks suffered by the SDF. "
More than 10,000 members of the ultra-hardline terror group have been held for years in about a dozen prisons and detention camps guarded by the SDF in Syria's northeast.
Candace Crashes Out After Receiving a Cease and Desist from TPUSA...
" Turning Point USA has finally sent a cease and desist letter to Candace Owens, which seems like a last ditch attempt to warn her off her present course before filing a lawsuit. Owens is responding exactly as you would expect, by a) turning the letter into more content for her show and b) by lashing out at TPUSA..."
La chambre d’Ames est une illusion d’optique construite par l’ophtalmologiste américain Adelbert Ames Jr. en 1946 tags : la fenêtre de l’âme, #science #truth
A group of Dutch scientists has concluded that the universe could completely disappear in about 10⁷⁸ years, significantly shortening its predicted lifespan
Over the years, I've read a lot of webcomics. Some have finished, some have vanished, some are archived. I have an OldSkool links page for them.
The third entry is PvP - toonhoundstudios.com/pvp/ - which started in 1998. (As an aside, these are showing up in roughly chronological order, since as I added them (by hand) the list, I tend to add them at the end. This means newer and/or newer to me comics are at the bottom.)
A winter chill descended on the Great Lakes region of North America in January 2026. Some of the effects were apparent in this satellite image as newly formed
In news from the Upside Down, Apple accuses the EU of "delay tactics". macrumors.com/2026/01/22/apple… What next? Putin and Netanyahu on a "board for peace"??
Apple claims the European Commission is refusing to let to implement App Store changes, instead using "political delay tactics" to levy unfair investigations and fines.
Y qué más da que sea una cuestión de contexto/lenguaje o que no se pueda hacer algo? El lenguaje no importa porque esta gentuza está por encima de eso, hace lo que le da la gana y las leyes que se aplican a la ciudadanía común no se aplica para este miserable grupo. A ver si nos damos cuenta. Hay de dejar de llorar, quejarnos por matices y salir a la calle. Esta gentuza no entiende el lenguaje común. Hay que hacerles entender con el suyo. @broadwaybabytozeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/1159…
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You can’t detain a 5 year old child.
If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping.
If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking.
Language matters here.
Enforcing the law is one thing.Terrorizing a population, using children as pawns, is another.My heart aches for Liam Ramos and his family.t.co/Y1pkUvBilT pic.twitter.com/TsppVxrX2e— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 22, 2026
👋 This winter, ❄️ if you find an opossum in your garage please leave the door open a crack, don't call animal control. They are trying to warm up and will leave on their own. 👉 They are nature's Lyme Disease Control-eating 5,000 ticks per year
As scavengers, opossums help keep the environment clean by consuming carrion, thereby preventing the spread of diseases. Additionally, they are natural pest controllers, feeding on populations of rodents, ticks, snails, and slugs.
What are opossums. Are they dangerous. Where & how long do they live. What do they eat. Learn their size, skeleton, predators, sounds, & their differences with possum.
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The Bank of England must plan for a financial crisis being triggered by an official announcement confirming the existence of alien life, one of its former
With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth beneath their feet.
It's suddenly bugging me that sic semper tyrannis is translated as "thus always to tyrants". What the fuck does "thus always" mean?
After finding nothing talking about this, I just looked up what sic means. It's something like thus, or such, or in this way. So it seems to me a better translation would be "it's always like this for tyrants". It does need the context of being spoken after defeating one, but it sounds like more standard speech, and at least hints at what kind of context is needed.
thus isn't particularly archaic. i use it form time to time, thusly:
thus i must argue with you.
of course the sic semper tyranis is a trope/meme, it has a lot of context pre-loaded.
i am no expert in ancient languages, but it feels like this is just a tense thing.
It seems like the sort of thing one would say while impaling their beloved king with a dagger, because they had become corrupted and evil. A cool one-liner.
They had previously had a policy of "all AI assisted contributions need to be human reviewed before submitting them", but got too many people breaking that rule and submitting fully vibe coded contributions, and even trying to use their chatbots to answer questions about the PRs, so are now actively using the AGENTS.md file to instruct the chatbots to not write code for them and warn them about the policy.
ST. ALBANS – On Wednesday, Jan. 21, the BFA-St. Albans Comets defeated the Rice Green Knights 6-2 to improve to 6-1-2 on the season. The Comets put 37 shots
« L’avenir de l’Iran doit être décidé par les Iraniennes et les Iraniens eux-mêmes » Fondé en 1981, le Conseil national de la résistance iranienne se présente comme un « parlement en exil » et une alternative politique de transition. Afchine Alavi revient sur son histoire, sa stratégie de front uni et les perspectives d’un avenir iranien débarrassé à la fois des mollahs et de la monarchie.
William Jean • 21 janvier 2026 abonné·es From Humans
Malgré le cessez-le-feu, la justice reconnaît que les Palestiniens de Gaza sont toujours persécutés par Israël Le 19 décembre, la Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) a reconnu dans une décision importante que, malgré le « cessez-le-feu », les Palestiniens de Gaza étaient toujours en danger en raison de leur nationalité. Il y a un mois, Mariam, jeune femme palestinienne, a obtenu le statut de réfugié. Elle témoigne. politis.fr/articles/2026/01/ju… Pauline Migevant • 19 janvier 2026
Le 19 décembre, la Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) a reconnu dans une décision importante que, malgré le « cessez-le-feu », les Palestiniens de Gaza étaient toujours en danger en raison de leur nationalité.
The rapid build-out of #AI infrastructure by U.S. tech firms such as #OpenAI, #Alphabet-owned #Google and #MSFT has absorbed much of the world's memory #chip supply, pushing up prices as manufacturers prioritise components for higher-margin #DataCenters over consumer devices.
imagine, if you will, a world where this means we no longer have to deal with electron, or 200MB ts bundles from a website just to load a message consisting of "Ok"
Imagine that this makes someone who can afford top-tier stuff so mad they start doing PRs optimizing everything.
won't happen. i've also read stack overflow, xAI/OAI
This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.
A curated selection of well-moderated Open Social providers that are are open for registration and serving specific countries, regions or cities.
[[https://jaz.co.uk/projects/mastodon-near-me/|Project Home/Message me]]
[[https://jaz.co.
Let's see what's trending on the EU-focused social media platform.
Delroy Lindo - British actor, so thanks for having us back, good to be European again. Davos Forum - no comment Trump's Board of Peace - even less comment Mets Trade - Ah yes, the Malmo Mets. Love 'em. Swerve Strickland - almost Swedish. AEW Dynamite - EU sure is - ahem - "wrestling" with digital sovereignty
definitely hurried, they also don't have a security issue reporting flow yet. Which I incidentally discovered yesterday (bsky.app/profile/tomkahe.com/p…). Had to reach out to one of their engineers who forwarded it onto their ops team.
I do hope they succeed, but this feels like the wrong way to go about it.
I am torn, in the midst of a metaphysical dichotomy. Mastodon is the way it is now because a few do not know or do not want to know about it, but promote it more and we'll have X Mk II or Truth Social god forbid, yes I am a fan of homeostasis.
genuine question, X reportedly has 94.8M monthly active users (which I take with a large grain of salt). Assuming half are bots, even 10% of the remainder would be 4.74M users, i.e. 2.5x Mastadon's reported MAU. Now, I love Mastadon and what it stands for, but can it really be considered a viable offramp for mass numbers of X users?
Since Cloud Mercato started to globaly evaluate the whole Cloud Market, one vendor always stands out from the crowd when we talk about European IaaS: Hetzner. Small Cloud provider but well established dedicated servers and collocation sellers.
thanks, would you be kind to share the "w" link to that map highlighting the gap in Europe? It seems so stupid to me to not have the fediverse that i would want to see the raw source and couldn't find so far
Greenland Is Not a Prize: The Fourth Newsletter (2026)
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Every few years, the centre of the imperialist Global North – the United States – forgets its manners.
It is one thing to be rude to Iran or Venezuela, but it is another thing entirely to be rude to Denmark. The North Atlantic has not experienced internecine acrimony since – perhaps – Adolf Hitler turned on Poland in 1939. But to be fair to the United States, it has not coveted Denmark itself. Washington has licked its sticky fingers and placed them upon Greenland.
Denmark began its colonisation of Greenland 305 years ago, in 1721. Constitutional scholars will say that the formal colonial status ended in 1953 when Greenland was incorporated into the Kingdom of Denmark and that Greenland gained a further measure of autonomy in 2009 when the Act on Greenland Self-Government was passed – but let’s be frank, it remains a colony.
For context, Greenland (over 2 million square kilometres) is fifty times larger than Denmark. For comparison, if placed over the United States, it would almost stretch from Florida to California. If it were an independent country, it would be the twelfth largest in the world by area. Of course, the Arctic country has a very small population of around 57,700 (roughly equivalent to the population of Hoboken, New Jersey).
In Washington’s imagination, Greenland appears not as a homeland, but as a location – a place on a map or a signature on a radar screen. The words used to talk about it belong to the grammar of possession: purchase, control, seize. This is the language of domination – one imperialist power (United States) wanting to seize the land of a colonial power (Denmark).
But Greenland is not a prize.
The Inuit of Greenland call their country Kalaallit Nunaat: ‘Land of the Kalaallit’ (Greenlanders). When Trump and his allies speak of Greenland, they never speak of the people: the Kalaallit. Instead, Trump speaks of the strategic importance of the island and about what the US government sees as the perils of its Chinese and Russian capture (never mind that neither China nor Russia have made any claims over the territory). Greenland is always a place that someone else must hold, but not the Kalaallit. For people like Trump, or indeed for generations of Danish prime ministers (despite soft statements about the path to self-determination), the Kalaallit have no role as political subjects.
Greenland grew in strategic and economic importance to Denmark after the 1794 discovery of cryolite, a key mineral used in the production of aluminium. This extractive focus continued after the 1956 discovery of uranium and rare earth elements in Kuannersuit (Kvanefjeld) in southern Greenland. In 1941, Denmark’s envoy in Washington, Henrik Kauffmann, signed an agreement that allowed the US to establish bases and stations in Greenland. In 1943, the US placed a weather station at Thule (Dundas) known as Bluie West 6, and in 1946 it added a small airstrip. After the Second World War, Denmark was an early entrant to the US effort to build a military bloc against the Soviet Union. In fact, it was a founder of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (1949) and then signed the Defence of Greenland Agreement (1951) that allowed the US to build the Thule Air Base under the codename Operation Blue Jay (now Pituffik Space Base). The base became useful not only as a place to watch the USSR, but also for missile warning, missile defence, and space surveillance – a strategic foothold that has grown more consequential as Greenland’s uranium and rare earth deposits have become central to the global contest for critical minerals.
As Greenland’s ice sheets have melted in recent decades due to the climate catastrophe, the country’s deep geology has become easier to survey and to mine. Feasibility studies and drilling in the early to mid-2010s (especially 2011–2015) showed that the land was teeming with graphite, lithium, rare earth elements, and uranium. As the United States imposed its New Cold War on China, it had to seek new sources for rare earths given China’s dominance of rare-earth refining and downstream magnet production. The island became not only a source of minerals or a geographical location for power projection, but also a critical node in the US-led supply-chain security architecture. continue reading thetricontinental.org/newslett…
Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Every few years, the centre of the imperialist Global North – the United States – forgets its manners.
UNITED NATIONS, January 23 (IPS) - At least 21 United Nations personnel — 12 peacekeeping personnel and nine civilians — were killed in deliberate attacks in 2025, according to the United Nations Staff Union Standing Committee on the Security and In…
For some reason, "spend more time in the bathroom than necessary" has been standard practice for me at every company--the "necessary" time being zero for me, of course, but my porter is only human, and prefers to poop on company time.
it's just a case of convergent evolution, like carcinization of ant eating evolving several times among mammals. The careerist incompetent's version of accountability sinks.
🪷 Remembering our dear British Egyptologist friend #JohnJJohnston, a cultural historian who was one of the world's leading authorities on #Antinous, born 23 January 1965, who died suddenly on 28 August 2025. He is in the embrace of #Antinoos. Full tribute: antinousstars.blogspot.com/202… 🪷
In this scene from the ‘House of Jason’ in Pompeii. We see Eros in a doorway apparently having engineered the meeting of Paris and Helen in Sparta. What happens next will shock you!
Not sure if it’s just the vagaries of time, but neither Paris nor Helen look pumped for this rendezvous…
By the gods are they all fucking like this? It's retarded, WAAAA PEOPLE FOUND MY ART ON AN ARCHIVE SITE THAT GIVES ME CREDIT AND USED IT FOR AI, THIS IS CLEARLY DANBOORU'S FAULT AND NOT THE PERSON WHO THREW IT IN THE FUCKING AI EVEN THOUGH DANBOORU BANS AI ART!
JP artists man, if I were an artist I’d want my work to be shared, heck I feel happy just seeing things I posted to boorus or nightcore edits I did being shared but NOOOOOOO.
JP artists man, if I were an artist I’d want my work to be shared, heck I feel happy just seeing things I posted to boorus or nightcore edits I did being shared but NOOOOOOO.
Live at 293 Lygon St, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia - February 10 2007.Recorded by KingBean.I have been documenting, archiving and preserving live music fro...
Well what's the reason for this post? What inspired me now of all times to write about this subject?
I needed to write this post. In my professional and personal landscape of my communities I keep seeing the same dynamics. Recent events brought it to mind again.
I lay awake for hours last night as I realised just why some admin and other harassment campaigns brought out a protective instinct in me.
TLDR : An increasing escalation of abuse by a man because a woman enforced boundaries.
Introduction
When I was 17 years old, I managed to acquire a 22 year old stalker. On and off he stalked me for about 2 years, from the age of 17 to 19.
How had I managed that? It's not like you go and pick up a stalker from the shops.
Well. It happened because I was a girl in a very geeky male majority environment. The world of tabletop RPGs. I'd got into it by accident a few years before with a group of boys I knew in Secondary School (High School). But for various reasons that group had to stop.
I missed it, so I got into another group of folk, who were outside school who also liked RPGs. Some liked live action, some like me liked tabletop.
This group was very different from my classmates at school. There had been a few odd incidents and behaviours, that being 17, geeky and odd, had not registered for me. Including some very close to the line stuff, that I didn't want and didn't know how to stop it.
Suffice to say, it was the 1990s, problematic behaviours were the norm. We grew up watching problematic 80s films of Romance and shenanigans. So if you are a guy and feeling uncomfortable or guilty about what came next. I don't blame you. There's a reason there's a CW on this.
I'm not aiming to make this post an attack on men. I am aiming for you to recognise when constant abusive behaviour happens to people online. I want you to understand the trauma that happens from it. I want you to recognise it, see it, and try to get the abusers to stop. If they don't stop, well that's what we have moderation tools for.
We all good now? Cool, cool.
Youth is wasted on the young. For one thing I'd have spotted my abusers faster.
I'd already been subject to a really odd pissing contest about me between 2 guys.
One of them had already been not just creepy, but physically creepy as well. I was disquieted by it and I spoke to the other guy about it because it had made me uncomfortable. I thought the person I was speaking to at this point was a friend.
We started our RPG group with an already screwed up dynamic, of this guy and a younger male friend of mine from school. I'd known that friend from Chess Club and he introduced me to this group. The game was Shadowrun.
Looking back, I should have got a clue, from the pissing contest. I should have got a clue from the fact this new “friend”, used to joke that he'd become a dragon in 2020 and he wanted me to be his enchantress. I did my best to poo poo that.
Make it a joke, and maintain the friendship. The constant story that many of us have. Desperately trying to fend off the inevitable. Before we even knew what was going to happen.
Anyway, I wasn't interested and after the recent incident with one of the other boys in the group. I wanted to be very clear on this.
I wished to set this boundary.
So we did our campaign. It was fine.
Then it wasn't fine.
Dragonheart sucks.
The triggering incident was the film Dragonheart coming to the cinema. I didn't want to see it. The dragon in the trailer looked crap, despite being voiced by Sean Connery. I wasn't going. My friend, (who I'm now going to refer to as my stalker) wanted to see it. He was going with my school friend and his girlfriend. He wanted me to go too.
For a few weeks the conversation was:
“We should all go to see Dragonheart!”
“No thanks, I'm not interested.”
A few days later:
“Oh come on, please come!!”
“No I'm not interested in Fantasy. Besides, younger guy and his girl are going. No”
You get the idea. I was getting sick of this conversation. Especially as my younger school friend was also pushing for this.
I had my reasons for not going. I also knew that it was not a good idea, going to sit in a darkened room, with a couple and a guy. I knew he liked me in a way I couldn't reciprocate. I needed to maintain that boundary.
Again. I was 17 years old, and he was 22 years old.
Finally, it came to a head.
Another person in the TTRPG community was also a casual friend. He'd come by and we were chatting. He was also 17 years old. He was also trying to put the moves on me and I was about to maintain that boundary as well.
My school friend visited, to try to get me to go to Dragonheart one more time, he had tickets. He didn't look happy to see the other boy on my couch. He left.
Then I got a really nasty phone call from my stalker.
He demanded to know if Couch boy was still there.
He then demanded that I go to the cinema with him to see Dragonheart.
Oh and I should get rid of Couch boy and never see Couch boy again.
I was getting rather fed up of this. His tone was very angry. I was disquieted by his tone of voice. I did not appreciate his efforts to control me. To tell me what to do.
I was 17, he was 22.
I told him to never call me again.
I came off the phone shaking. Couch boy saw this and immediately backed off from coming on to me and spent the rest of the afternoon cheering me up. On the rare occasions I see Couch Boy years later, we still catch up and consider each other friends. He never tried it on with me again.
Note the difference there. He respected my boundaries.
The next day, the younger school friend came by again. Yet again to ask me to go to see Dragonheart. He also demanded on behalf of the stalker to know how long Couch boy had been there. What happened with him.
Why wouldn't I just go to the cinema?
At this point I was becoming rather angry. I did not understand what was going on. But I was getting rather annoyed about it. So I responded.
I didn't want to go to the cinema. Especially as this would be a de-facto double date. Which I didn't want to do. Also what happened with Couch boy was NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!
Cue this breathtaking piece of misogyny “You were unconsciously leading Stalker on.”
I have a temper. But it tends to be a very cold anger. Ice coated my voice as I said “Close the door behind you when you leave.”
The calm before the Storm
So at this point we have the start of the counter example.
It's no longer about the film. It's about control.
My stalker is possessive of my attention and at this point in time, my stalker is starting on the path of over 2 years of stalking me.
I had the temerity to say no. To keep saying no.
I also have male friends that aren't him. I've been objectified. It's no longer about me. It's about him. Why won't I go out with him? I'm his.
I didn't realise at this point in time that my younger friend was going to be “bros before hos” about this. I didn't realise just how much he'd become an enabler of this.
I didn't realise just how he'd betray 4 years of friendship to be an accomplice to my stalking.
Possession
Very soon after that incident, I came home from school one day to find my stalker outside my house. Fortunately I spotted him in time and went up a side street before he saw me. I then went straight to my best friends house.
Scared out of my mind.
The location of my friends house was fortunate, it was straight across from the bus stop where my stalker would get on the bus to go home.
My stalker did not know this. So for an hour and a half we hid behind the net curtains watching the bus stop and we waited until he got on that bus so that I could go home.
At home I found out just how bad the situation had been. He'd turned up outside the house at 13:45. My Father had been about to go out and do errands. My Father didn't dare to leave, in case something happened to me. He'd watched as he saw me spot my stalker and half inch it up the side road. He then watched as my stalker stayed outside the house, then when my stalker decided to leave, he walked back down the road, looking up every side street to see if I was hiding there. He took his time to check.
Again, and I feel this cannot be stated enough. I was 17 years old, my stalker was 22 years old. He was unemployed and had income from being a carer. He had free time. Which he used to hang outside the school gates to try to talk to me alone.
For several weeks I would walk past arm in arm with my best friend. Terrified, heart rate up. Last year I read my diaries from that time, wondering if I was just being over dramatic. Yeah. If anything I've toned it down. I'd detailed it, right down to hand drawn maps explaining where he was and where I was. I'd logged it in more detail than I'd realised.
I logged my anger, my fear and my pain. I logged my analysis of the situation. Trying to work out if I had led him on. Had I? How? I read my previous entries from months before.
I could find nothing. I logged how angry I was about this. I wanted him to stop.
In addition to this campaign of a few weeks, I also had my betrayer's girlfriend come to my house. I didn't let her in. I remember standing on the steps of my front garden. Her standing on the street as she repeated my stalker's and her boyfriend's (the betrayer) words to me.
“He just want's to talk to you.”
“If he doesn't stop I'm going to report him to the police. Please tell him to stop.”
So it stopped for a short while, until the summer holidays.
I was on the phone to a relative when I heard someone come to the door. I recognised his shape. I carefully hid while whispering to the relative to stay on the phone, but I needed to be quiet. Meantime he knocked, and then looked though our mailbox flap to see if I was there.
Again my heart rate increased. I sat quietly on the stairs out of the direct view of the front door. I was terrified he'd get in.
I got silent phone calls. Not everyday, but often enough that my Father had to answer the phone for me. 25 years later and I still don't answer the phone from an unknown number.
I'd stated my boundaries. I'd stated quite strongly to my stalker, my former friend and that friends girlfriend to leave me alone.
This wasn't a case of girls being shy, or not wanting to hurt a guy. I enforced my boundaries and he escalated.
I went to university in my city. He managed to figure out where my campus was. My stalker and my betrayer, hung around outside the entrance. I started to never leave the campus alone. Every time I saw them, my stalker and his enabler, my betrayer; I felt a mixture of terror and anger.
Anger at my stalker, for not respecting my boundaries. Anger at my betrayer, for helping that stalker to stalk me. Anger at myself, for ending up in this situation and being terrified.
I'd mentioned to my Father about seeing them. In the Winter, My Father started meeting me to go to the library, “I was going to put these books back, wanna come?”
It gets dark up North very quickly in the Winter. There were a lot of poorly lit alleyways between Campus and home. I felt safer, plus I like books and they weren't there. Plus my Father's awesome company.
It wasn't until a decade later my Father admitted to me, he walked to my campus (2 miles away) to see if my stalker turned up. Every time my Father came to my campus, my stalker was there. He'd stay there outside my campus door until he and my betrayer spotted my Father. My Father desperately wanted my confidence to be good. To not be affected. He wanted me to get the maximum I could out of university and the friends I made.
I went on night's out and lived my life and took risks, in sheer defiance of my stalker. I was so angry, at him and angry with my own fear.
I fenced. I got a Full blue for fencing. I'd walk down the street. But I was fortunate, my stalker had to be home before 6. We'd still get the odd silent phone call. But he had affected me. My Father remembered when I bought a slightly larger pair of docs.
“I'll wear thicker socks, it'll be better for kicking a guys shins and then running.”
The end of the story.
It finally stopped when I was away on industrial placement for a year. I was still working in the city, but 9 to 5 meant he didn't see me. In the years after that I'd still occasionally get a silent phone call, so it reinforced my fear of answering calls on the landline.
He was one of the few people who had it. It was ALWAYS him. But at least I no longer saw him outside my house, or outside my uni campus.
I got off lightly. I was also protected by friends and family.
Many women don't, many men who are stalked don't. Many marginalised folk on here are doxxed and harassed.
There was escalation. All because I didn't want to go and see Dragonheart. All I did, was think I was friends with a guy, and enforced a boundary.
If you are a guy, and you are feeling guilty because perhaps you recognise some of the initial behaviour. I want you to continue on this journey. Try to grow that empathy a bit more. Yes, it's hard and painful. The guilt sucks.
For one thing you may well have been Couch guy. He realised and backed off. There's a difference between that and a campaign of stalking for 2 years.
I don't want your penance. If you also started on that journey, the person you harassed doesn't want it either.
No really.
Leave them alone.
You aren't entitled to my forgiveness or theirs.
What should you do?
I want you to teach the other folks around you that this escalation of behaviour and harassment happened because we enforced our boundaries.
I want you to see online harassment beyond “main character drama”, “mini Elons” and “Fedi fiefdoms!”
I want you to understand that this harassment keeps happening, because some Fedi admins spoke to their communities. They enforced a boundary. They enforced moderation.
The harassment continues on from “Drama to drama” escalated by some well meaning people. Who naturally trust their mods, because sometimes those mods have kept them safe.
Because they only know one side of the story. The harassment keeps happening because those admins enforced their moderation rules.
They have rigorous codes of conducts and enforce them. They do this to protect their communities. To keep those folks safe. Sometimes they will make mistakes. But those communities are filled with folk who made the choice to be on those instances. Because they weren't protected elsewhere.
They needed the boundaries to shelter behind. They needed those boundaries, because sometimes they have stalkers who don't respect boundaries either.
I want you to understand that the harassment will keep happening because those admins care about their communities and enforce a boundary for the good of those communities.
I want you to recognise the escalation.
I want you to see the harassment and the recruitment of others to be their accomplices.
I certainly don't want you to trust those accomplices with your mental health when you're being harassed.
I want you to see it when the “Dramas” online and in our physical FOSS communities escalate in harassment because someone said no.
I want you to help enforce those boundaries. Not join in the harassment. Not excuse their lies or buy into “it was just a shitpost bro!”
Recognise it.
When I enforce my own boundaries. Please respect them.
The “who would you prefer to be trapped in the forest with? Man v Bear” is one of those usual shit-posts that becomes a discussion[1]. [...]
The “who would you prefer to be trapped in the forest with? Man v Bear” is one of those usual shit-posts that becomes a discussion[1].
The default response for women is “bear”. Partly because we recognize the value of a shit-post. But also because it's a truth.
The accurate answer is “Both can be very dangerous in different ways” or “It depends.”
We grow up learning to fear boys and then men.
The first time I learned to fear the opposite sex was when I was twelve, in a classroom when the teacher wasn't there. That fear was continuous for 6 months.
We get reduced to our bodies, and we become an object in a guy's obsession. We grow up learning to navigate power dynamics. We learn diplomacy, to be nice. To not laugh at men. Men fear our anger. If we express it we're called bitches and all bets are off.
If we go outside the expected norm of soft, sweet women, then we suffer. We aren't meant to go into the forest like Red Riding Hood. There are wolves and bears. The forest is dark.
I used to like walking home at night in my quiet city in my early twenties. I'd worked to reclaim my autonomy after being stalked at school and for the first two years of uni. Plus I couldn't afford a taxi.
Sometimes I just needed to get out and just walk. In the deserted granite streets, to find space and peace when my mind was crowded after socializing. I liked walking home at night, navigating the empty streets avoiding people.
The city is our forest. Dark and peaceful.
Our forest has its own predators, and its own dangers.
On the rare times, I went up a busy street, a few times I felt the fear of someone coming up behind me. Getting my keys ready in my fist, to run. Then the bastard just ruffled my hair as he went past. I kept walking, trying to get my heart rate down. Feeling that fear and anger. Feeling very stupid for taking that risk.
Another time, I walked home from a friend's place. Opposite the street, I heard a man yelling at his girlfriend as he left her flat. I kept walking, and he crossed the road to me. The fear rose up, it engulfed me. I said little, I listened as he talked to me, and then he went up a side street. I'd been polite. Diplomatic, while wondering what would happen. Cursing my poor choice. Knowing that if anything happened, my choice to walk home in the summertime would be judged.
Like I'm a bicycle that wasn't locked. A lone woman out at night is apparently asking for it, even if she's in jeans, Doc Martens and a baggy shirt.
My father told me, “Be sure you want sex if you go to a guy's flat.” Which I tried to follow. I did follow it. I was always sure and in my dating life, I followed that advice.
Sometimes there's no map for the forest.
Sometimes you're an intern on a work night out and sharing a work taxi gets you propositioned by a man in his forties. Or it's a rainy night, the taxi queue is long and another colleague who's in his forties offers the telephone at his. You're foolish enough at twenty to trust a work colleague. Both times I was fortunate.
Sometimes the predators give you a pass. Sometimes you are stalked in broad daylight for 2 years. Sometimes we're seen as a goal, sometimes we're just there. We're always objectified. We all have experiences like mine and worse.
[2]I'm so tired. I'm so angry that nothing has changed for folks.
Because privileged men's feelings seem to matter more than our bodily autonomy or our safety. You get defensive and hurt because of a meme. You belittle our knowledge because you are feeling judged. “Does every woman look at me this way? That's not fair.”
Yes, we do look at you, if we don't know you. Sometimes even if we do know you, you assault us or objectify us. It's not you specifically we are judging dude. It's the society that dictates your attitude and the rules we chafe under. We see it in our replies. The need to go ”But I'm not like that.“
Just stop. Take a moment. You really don't need to reply. You don't need to correct our thinking. We know the bear would eat us.
Men don't seem to want to respect our boundaries[2]. Our survival happens at a whim.
Of course we're going to choose the bear.
Being mauled to death is quicker than being stalked or worse.
When I see the vitriol directed at women and other marginalised folks online I'm often reminded of the scold's bridle. This particular reminder was WeDistribute's article on Fedionfire and how the Fediverse backlash caused it to shutter. [2] [...]
When I see the vitriol directed at women and other marginalised folks online I'm often reminded of the scold's bridle. This particular reminder was WeDistribute's article on Fedionfire and how the Fediverse backlash caused it to shutter.
[2]It was an article that was particularly disappointing from WeDistribute after they published the Nexus of Privacy's 8 Tips for Developers article. I felt WeDistribute was rather punching down on the community there.
[13]We saw similar opinion pieces around the Fediverse on BridgyFed and on Threads when folks decided to band together for the Fedipact.
There's a push and pull between those who want smaller communities and those who want to “Facilitate Network Discovery”. You've a lot of marginalised folks on the Fediverse, LGBTQ+ folks, Women, BIPOC, disabled folks. There's complexity in our communities and reasons why some folks want to organise in the open, but don't necessarily want to be searched for.
But as usual, backlash happens, and hurt white feelings abound. Somehow the community who never asked to be collated get called out as the hysterical folks who just need to shut up.
It's the need to shame the shamers because you felt scolded. We harshed your buzz and goodness, don't you just want to make us pay for it so we never do it again.
What is the Scolds Bridle?
It was a form of punishment mainly of outspoken women or gossips or Scolds. It was an iron cage with a spiked bit that would pierce your tongue if you tried to speak. The scold would wear the bridle for an amount of time, often being led around the area. It was a painful, humiliating punishment.
[3]Scolds weren't the only folks punished, it was used against Quakers preaching as well. So let's be clear on this. The Branks as they were also known were used to subjugate women. To shame them and be an example to others to not speak up. A violent state punishment to protect the status quo.
We never asked for you to collate our posts
Some of us found out that Fedionfire took posts from the public firehose. [1] We weren't very happy about it, some folk snarked. There were threats as well.
Folks don't send threats to the developer. Pointing and laughing are fine though. For one thing, I've found some devs tend to have very thin skins when it comes to mockery.
In all seriousness though, We shouldn't have to keep pushing back. I've literally written a couple of essays about Consent and the Fediverse. [5],
[6]We care about consent on here. It is possible to ask folks if the thing you are doing might upset people because you are collating their posts without their permission. Heck, there's a list of previous developers who haven't cared and had serious pushback on it. Don't just listen to other CIS white developers who don't see anything wrong with it. Especially if they feel Facebook being in our space is so cool. As I wrote in Consent and the Fediverse, there's a reason some of us left.
But let's address just why there's a backlash against the backlash. White Supremacy is fearful of rage when it doesn't come from a cis white man.
Feminine Rage
Why did such a thing as the branks exist? Why do men feel the need to reply guy back to women explaining the world and the experience they live in? Why do we have Christofacism hand in hand with Trump in the Whitehouse? Why is there such a need to undo progress?
Why do some folks in the Fediverse feel this need to punch down on Folks like WelshPixie and the admins on the Fedipact?
The thing that I note is that it is very often white cis male developers who do these things. When people push back, there are a lot of hurt feelings. There are accusations of harassment.
Men are scared of feminine rage. They fear the scolding. Not just because their feelings of doing something bad may make them feel bad. There's some misogyny to work on there. There's some racism to work on. There's homophobia to work on. This is our socialisation to uphold White Supremacy.
As a cis woman, I've been socialised to keep my rage in. To be nice. To provide feedback nicely. To ask nicely and to advise nicely. I hold in my rage. It's a rather tenuous thread at this point. I'm not sure what would happen if it snapped.
I find it very hard nowadays to keep that rage in, every time I see another scraper, or pulling from the firehose tool. Sometimes it's physically painful to keep the scream of anger and tears in. But I do. My iron branks are mental, my socialisation. I know to scream out will hurt my career. There's the spike in my tongue and the spike pierces in so much further for others. The consequences for speaking out would be so much worse for some folks in our spaces.
I find it hard to keep my rage in every time we point out that we'd like to opt in for people reusing our posts. Or to have my phone not try to send back my metadata to a centralised point.
When I express mild annoyance, I get the odd patronising reply guy message. “Well that's the way the world works, Honey, Don't you worry your purty little head about it. Now just shut up and take it.”
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. We aren't Maenads who don't understand how the Fediverse works. Nor are you developers Orpheus.
I find your song of code lacking, out of tune because of your privilege.
As you ask for us to be forgiving like Mummy and your friends pat you on the back because we were so mean. As your fellow developers and fanboys talk as if we had torn you apart.
Dude. There's a reason lots of us push back.
We claw our way out of the pit of our backgrounds, into the light to live, to exist, to organise. Then you lot decide to take a bunch of our public posts without our permission, you don't seem to understand we'd like some control over where our public posts go. Who we want to work with.
[1]The flippant answer of “duh just don't post,” is shallow. It's exclusionary. It shows how little danger you've had to face. How little abuse. How much you've bought into rape culture rather than consent culture. Silicon Valley is very much the result of White supremacy. The meritocracy is a myth. We're reaping the political consequences of believing that lie right now. Meanwhile, you witter on about your hurt feelings and how harsh that criticism was.
Girls. It's utterly feminine to feel that rage, that incandescence. It's feminine to want to lift that baseball bat and smash. It's also feminine to find the words to tell those developers, why it's wrong. Or like, just link to the Nexus Of Privacy's 8 tips for Fediverse Developers. Because I can guarantee most of them won't have read it. If they had, they would ask before launch if their project should be opt-in.
[12]And so we continue ad-nauseum.
The pushback against the opt-in, that need to reply-guy back comes from the same desire that the branks came from.
To shut up the marginalised. To humiliate them, to scold them back into compliance.
It's why I think WeDistribute punched down. That article was written from the desire to support the developer and push back against folks. It's why they may not see it as punching down. They will probably see this as me punching down.
It's the desire by others to perpetuate the harassment that Folks face on the Fediverse for stating their boundaries loudly and clearly. To hide and re-frame the issues of harassment marginalised folks face. We're interfering with the Fediverse Utopia by stating our boundaries.
But I should be fair because the Devs aren't the only tech folks scolding the marginalised for requesting that their human rights be respected. You only have to look at the debate around alt text and see some high-profile accounts call folks “Scolds” when all they asked for was some alt text for a screenshot.
We all have work to do on this, on our biases to learn to listen and not react. I've spent a month not reacting. I'm still incredibly disappointed and angry.
I honestly expected better of my community. It was disappointing to read that article. It was disappointing to see someone I respected in tech go on about Scolds. Well done on dropping your mask on the ableism there. If you really can't be arsed doing the alt text for a screenshot or even asking for someone else to do the alt text for you, why bother with the picture? Well done on the punch down.
Sometimes I suspect that if the branks were around today, some of you would be the first folks to put it over my head. To slide the bit in, to tug on the bridle and break teeth. You'd take pleasure from me not being able to speak. To express my rage.
So yes, this is a scold.
The Internet form of the Scolds Bridle is politeness, it is tone policing. It is the threat of doxing and violence. For the same reasons, we disrupt the idea of the status quo. No one likes to be told they are harming others.
[11]We don't like the idea that we perpetuate harm, particularly in FOSS.
I'm tired that we have to protect our safety and justify our existence in public. I'm so tired of the fact that LGBTQ+ and BIPOC folk have to hold in that rage. Even if on occasion we do feel so angry there's almost a visceral need to tear “something apart” to burn it all down.
Oh hey, looks like the tech bros are doing it for us. What do you mean? Not that way?
I'm so tired and angry that our human rights are fucked and the SWF is happy to let Facebook into our spaces to determine how Activity Pub 2.0 should benefit Zuckerberg's creepy surveillance data hoarding to feed LLama.
I'm so tired of the rapey vibes I get from developers who would prefer us to opt out rather than consider building the opt-in. It's not that hard. It's what just my toots do. You look at my mastodon profile you see a link to just my toots. Which I opted into.
Why is it so hard for the Fedibros to get consent? Why do we keep having to do this? Holding in my rage is tiring. So I try to direct it, to use my rage at the world and to speak up for others if they haven't the energy at the moment to do so themselves. This post isn't my first scolding and nor will it be my last. [5 to 8]
If you're a guy and you're wondering what to do? Take a look at the culture around us. When you see your friends doing the reply guy thing? Call it out.
Is your friend doing some kind of Fediverse project that's a bridge? Ask questions, and ask them if they are going to make the service opt-in.
Keep calling out predatory behaviour, whether it's apps or real life. I know they are your friends, but if you're scared of losing their regard. They aren't your friends. You're their fanboy.
If you don't see what's wrong with their behaviour but you're feeling a bit attacked right now? Be brave, step back. Take a breath and listen to what folks are saying rather than reacting.
We are at a stage in history where we need to band together and I want to work with people who don't want to bridle me but to work with me.
Be braver. It's braver to take the hit to your idea of yourself, rather than punching down on the vulnerable.
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Whenever there's fall out in a community or a community space is less diverse, we end up with a postmortem on our community areas. Sometimes we have a discussion on what the community is like overall. Then nothing is done, because no one comes forward. No
Whenever there's fall out in a community or a community space is less diverse, we end up with a postmortem on our community areas. Sometimes we have a discussion on what the community is like overall. Then nothing is done, because no one comes forward. No one really wants to change things. The folks you designated as troublemakers just don't want to help. They engaged and your community utterly failed to welcome them. Instead those folks were ignored, or worse attacked.
Sometimes someone vital to the project quits. People step up, but some of the original folks who added so much to your community are gone. They aren't coming back.
It's very rare for anyone to let the public part of the community know why.
There's a reason for that. The repercussions for whistle blowers can be life threatening or merely career ending, particularly if they are from a diverse background. Although in our capitalist world, career ending can affect quality of life. So still life threatening.
Being a public facing woman in tech is like walking over a tightrope while someone starts thrumming the rope. Plus the tightrope is strung over over lava. You get to hear the fading sounds of folks who fell off ahead and behind you. You wonder what will knock you off.
So when you're in an abusive space, who do you trust?
How do you work out who to trust? To tell you if this is normal or not? How can you know if you're in a safe space?
For many of us, there is no such thing as a safe space. Especially in FOSS.
So women tend to do what we've always done. We talk, and it's not gossip about drama.
Men often want to reduce our whispers to mere gossip. The image of the gossiping old biddy to be feared and yet mocked. We grow up with internalised misogyny beaten into us by society. We're called scolds.
[1]Don't be like those mean old ladies. Be a cool girl.
We gather intelligence and share stories about our experience. We share carefully coded messages about who to be careful about.
It's so much more than just gossip.
The Whisper Network
We have some very public examples in our community when toxic community leaders are called out with receipts. Harassment happens. Our sanity is questioned, our career options are limited as we get to be labelled troublemakers.
So we hunker down until we are in a smaller quieter space. We're careful about what we say. In the silence between those words we detect what isn't said. We respond and the folks in our smaller spaces realise what we haven't said in turn.
Our whispers become stories and those stories become passwords.
About a week in, I showed a few of my new friends some emails I’d been getting from an older male writer many of us knew. The messages weren’t explicit or threatening, but something about their tone had made me distinctly uncomfortable. It was hard to put my finger on. I passed my phone around, trying to explain why I’d felt so creeped out, repeating every few minutes that I knew there was nothing tangible, that I was probably just making it up. “Am I crazy?” I asked, over and over again. Everyone kept shaking their heads.
A story like this is a password. Once you say it out loud, doors start to open.
Stories Like Passwords – Emma Healey [2]
Misogyny
As a white woman, I can't really comment on the undercurrent for other folks and their experiences. But scratch a racist that pushes against any consideration for black folks and you'll find all the other things they are against as well. The same for a Fascist. The same for a TERF.
While we are all human, people who actively deny the human rights for other people harm others. Ultimately they will harm your human rights to be on top. So pushing for safe spaces for Trans folks, for disabled folks, for black and brown folks is important.
But it takes more than empty words of policy to enable me to trust you. Which is the same for everyone. If you are prepared to engage with TERFS and racists “because they do good work”, I know that ultimately you aren't safe to engage with. [3],
[4]But this has always been the culture within FOSS. The women are missing, but that's also across Tech. We have systematic issues within our Tech communities and society at large. Powerful influential men who through the tech they build, the communities they create can ruin Women's careers. Their networks of influence reinforce their power.
The men in stories like this always have just enough power, in their little worlds and in ours, that to confront them would be to court an ordeal, to invite others to question our own memories and motives. It’s always more trouble than it’s worth. If you don’t have hard proof, if you don’t have a police report, then what do you have? Only what you remember. Only what you felt.
Stories Like Passwords – Emma Healey [2]
Our disquiet with a situation, with our interactions are dismissed as drama. Our lack of safety is ignored. So of course it isn't worth it.
So we carefully work in the shadows. Giving support to each other and counteract the gas lighting in our communities.
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A woman who I follow on the fediverse just had to delete a post due to sexual harassment.
Men if you want more diversity on the Fediverse you need to speak up and call in your peers. You need to educate them and if they persist ban them. Make it clear they aren't welcome.
Otherwise you're making it clear we aren't welcome.
cellular data, not hotspot? there used to be a way to kludge the time-to-live down by 1 when using a hotspot; if you have "unlimited" cellular data but capped hotspot data.
then pdanet existed, and all was good. then they disappeared off the face of the fuckin planet.
Stabbings at Kurdish demo in #Belgium wound six Six people were wounded, two of them critically, in a knife attack at a Kurdish demonstration in the city of #Antwerp on Thursday. newarab.com/news/stabbings-kur…
The WHO does not feel the need to justify its own existence.
I personally do not trust the DATA coming out of the WHO, because I am convinced that the data is altered. I am convinced the data they PUBLISH is altered, and consequently the tabulated results are tainted.
As long as the WHO holds the position that their data must be trusted because of their 'inherent authority' the opposite is the fact: the data they publish MUST BE QUESTIONED.
probably any data or conclusion reached by any group of more than *two* paid employees (research fellows, student researchers, a private research group, ipcc, WHO, etc) ought be scrutinized.
🔴 Jack Smith, le procureur général des États-Unis, nommé par le département de la Justice pour mener l'enquête #trump interpelle le président et déclare sans ambages : « Notre enquête a permis de réunir des preuves concluantes qui ne laissent aucun doute sur le fait que le président Trump s'est livré à des activités criminelles. Si l'on me demandait aujourd'hui de décider si un ancien président devait être poursuivi sur la base des mêmes faits, je le ferais. Nul n'est au-dessus des lois dans ce pays. »
Which article, video introduction to Mastodon and the #fediverse at large is most appropriate for newcomers?
I know, and also from personal experience, that getting your timeline running is quite a hassle.
While I personally find that slowly building the timeline is worth it, many are coming from a social media world where things have been handed to them requiring little to no effort.
Every now and then I try and introduce people to Mastodon but I would like to also point them to a good guide to get them started to increase the chances they stick around.
We don't need more didactic videos or step-by-step manuals about the Fediverse. Those already exist in abundance. Beyond that, we have something much more powerful: people who are genuinely willing to welcome newcomers, answer questions, and help others find their footing.
What we need is more people creating content that inspires others to stay. Most newcomers aren’t leaving because they don’t understand the concept of the Fediverse. They leave because their timeline seems empty, boring, or irrelevant compared to other platforms that aggressively serve them content.
The real challenge isn't education, but attraction and discovery. If the Fediverse is full of interesting conversations, art, humor, politics, niche expertise, and human warmth, people will accept that building a timeline takes time. But only if there's something worth building toward.
Which article, video introduction to Mastodon and the #fediverse at large is most appropriate for newcomers?
I know, and also from personal experience, that getting your timeline running is quite a hassle.
While I personally find that slowly building the timeline is worth it, many are coming from a social media world where things have been handed to them requiring little to no effort.
Every now and then I try and introduce people to Mastodon but I would like to also point them to a good guide to get them started to increase the chances they stick around.
Je ne sais pas si vous utilisez l'application Waze dans vos . C'est une application israélienne qui vous géolocalise et cartographie les rues de chaque ville en fonction de votre utilisation. Elle peut suivre n'importe qui, n'importe où.
Friedrich Merz, oui, oui… le chancelier allemand, qui, avec son pays, a soutenu la guerre d’extermination israélienne en cours à Gaza, avertit que « le monde se dirige vers une ère dominée par la politique des grandes puissances », ajoutant qu’« un monde régi uniquement par la logique de la force représente un danger pour tous ». Voilà ce que vous avez fait en Palestine ! Voilà précisément ce que vous pouvez en récolter ! Lorsqu'ils comprirent que le feu qu'ils avaient allumé à Gaza commençait à leur consumer les membres, ils furent certains qu'il les brûlerait un à un.
Pour défendre la paix, l’indépendance nationale, les conquêtes sociales et la démocratie, OSONS BRISER LES CHAÎNES DU SYSTÈME DE L’UNION EUROPÉENNE [PARDEM PRCF RPS FIERS DPC]
Alors qu’une grêle de mauvais coups orchestrés par le système de l’Union européenne (UE) arrimée à l’OTAN déchire les acquis sociaux, le produire en France industriel et agricole à la suite de la signature du scélérat traité UE-Mercosur et de tous les autres « accords de libre-échange », les services publics, la démocratie, l’indépendance de la France, et, par-dessus tout, les bases de la paix mondiale gravement menacée après l’agression du Venezuela bolivarien par l’impérialisme états-unien, le rôle des militants progressistes et des syndicalistes n’est pas de ménager l’UE et ses dangereux serviteurs, les Ursula von der Leyen, Macron, Starmer, Merz et autre Meloni, mais de les dénoncer à temps. Sans cela, impossible de résister efficacement et de faire germer en France une Alternative de rupture progressiste et, en Europe, un large mouvement citoyen remettant le progrès social à l’ordre du jour. En effet, l’UE-OTAN, c’est, tout récemment encore :
La mise en scène d’une menace illusoire de la Fédération de Russie contre l’Europe, dans le but de détourner l’attention des peuples européens des vrais problèmes qui se posent sur les plans économique, social et démocratique.
Une série d’attaques terribles contre les travailleurs : réduction drastique des découverts bancaires au-delà de 200 euros qui permettent à tant de citoyens de survivre, mutuelles traitées comme des assurances privées avec un lourd impact sur les cotisations et sur les remboursements médicaux, budget français étroitement contraint par la BCE en charge de l’euro, cette monnaie surévaluée en France car fondée sur le « Franc fort » qui avait « arrimé » le Franc au Mark ; conséquences : la France vend ses produits à l’étranger entre 15 % et 30 % plus cher selon les périodes par rapport aux autres pays.
énormes dépenses militaires accroissant l’asphyxie des services publics ; blocage des salaires et pensions pendant que les dividendes des gros actionnaires explosent, etc.
mise à mort de l’agriculture française à la suite de la signature du ruineux traité de libre-échange UE/Mercosur, dictée par la grande industrie allemande ;
course à la guerre continentale, inévitablement nucléaire et exterminatrice si elle éclate, entre l’UE et la Russie, Macron faisant de la France la cible privilégiée des missiles hypersoniques russes si un conflit éclate puisqu’il veut faire de la force de frappe atomique française le « parapluie » de toute l’Europe, rompant ainsi avec le traité de non-prolifération !
des attaques graves contre la démocratie : les Partis communistes sont interdits de Kiev à Prague et de Vilnius à Varsovie, la secrétaire de la CGT est inculpée, des syndicalistes licenciés pour avoir défendu les droits des salariés, des colloques interdits, des esprits libres sanctionnés par le système de l’Union européenne en toute illégalité, pendant que l’UE fricote avec l’extrême droite pronazie ou néo-mussoliniste de l’Italie à l’Ukraine. Du reste le Rassemblement « national » a toujours refusé de sortir de l’UE et de l’OTAN car derrière son verbiage « patriotique » et, en réalité, xénophobe, il est un parti central du système oligarchique européen !
mise à mort de la nation française puisque la marche à « l’État fédéral européen » dont Macron aimerait devenir le prochain président exclut le principe même d’une République française, indivisible (Macron ne vient-il pas d’annoncer dans ses anti-« vœux » du 31 décembre vouloir faire évoluer le statut de l’outre-mer et de la Corse ?!), souveraine, sociale, laïque et démocratique. Il n’est que de voir comment l’anglo-américain est en train de devenir la seule langue officieuse de toute l’UE avant d’être imposée comme la seule langue officielle.
Face à ces offensives, pour que se déploie un vaste mouvement visant à briser les chaînes de l’UE-OTAN, le PRCF, le PARDEM, le RPS-FIERS et la Dynamique populaire constituante s’engagent à agir ensemble et avec vous. C’est vital pour l’avenir de la France et en premier lieu pour sa jeunesse ! initiative-communiste.fr/artic…
Ein Gedanke, der einem der vorherigen Posts entspringt: Was ist eigentlich "Höflichkeit" - und wem dient sie? Als Frau hab ich da vielleicht eine etwas subversive Perspektive: Man kann sie auch als Instrument der herrschenden Klasse betrachten, um ihre "sozial erwünschten" Regeln des Zusammenlebens durchzusetzten. Höflichkeit dient damit auch (oder vor allem?) dem weiß-europäisch-christlich geprägten Patriarchat und der Ordnung, die seinem Erhalt dient.
Na dann gehen wir wieder zu X. Da ist es subsersiv unhöflich, und das weiß-europäisch-christlich geprägte Patriarchat und dessen Ordnung, die seinem Erhalt dient, hat da nichts zu melden.
@Labonitamascota Man kann aus "Höflichkeit dient auch zur Unterdrückung; die Regeln dienen nicht allen gleich und sie gelten nicht für alle gleich" 2 Arten von Schlüssen ziehen - deine Variante als (a) dann halt keine Regeln, lasset Chaos walten (was zu einer Welt führt, in der sich noch mehr der "stärkere" mächtigere durchsetzt) oder (b) wir sollten uns die Regeln genau anschauen und gemeinsam reformieren, um auszuhandeln, wie wir empathisch und gemeinschaftlich miteinander leben wollen.
so yea, uhh, meow! 
The Bat and Cat Lady
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