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The Parliament of the Xinka People in May said no to the reopening of a Canadian-owned silver mine in their territory in Guatemala.
As the Xinka wait to hear whether Guatemala’s Ministry of Energy and Mines will respect the decision, two representatives visited B.C. last week to deliver a message.
Warming climate may flip the script on the amount of CO₂ released by trees, study finds…
New research reveals the amount of #carbondioxide released by #trees into the atmosphere under a warming climate could be considerably less than currently predicted... #globalwarming #climatechange
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NASA was forced to vacate a building at Columbia University where it has operated since 1966. The result?
Textbooks, journals, and other materials being thrown into a dumpster. Not donated - literally thrown away. Some materials were later recovered from the dumpster and made available for passersby.
this tradition of males shaving their faces is weird when you think about it. most men shave their faces in the west but the natural state is having a bunch of hair growing out of it. we may have taken a wrong turn somewhere
... not entirely true i actually i do usually clean up a bit when i see my family. i could probably try harder when going out generally in public like going to the store and so forth.
If Starmer was serious in condemning atrocities committed in Gaza, he could stop sending weapons and intelligence to Israel, stop trading with them, kick out the ambassador, recognise Palestine and more. None of that, quite the opposite in fact. The article goes on to expose our current Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely for the far right extremist she is. She is a war criminal and should not be given sanctuary in UK or anywhere.
It is long past time Tzipi Hotovely was expelled from London. Starmer’s inaction proves he has no intention of stopping his support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza
"Let us stand fast in what is right, and prepare our souls for trial. Let us wait upon God's strengthening aid and say to him: 'O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.'"
CRUNCHY==MAGA The "Crunchy Mama" has always been Populist Left. The only welcome space for Crunchy Moms is with the Populist Right. Spiritual, natural, raw, organic, curative, holistic, folksy , remedy-based, naturopathic, etc. youtube.com/watch?v=PoxKD82IJm…
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„Ihr Plan, den sie den ‚Great Reset‘ nennen, wird alles, was noch auf Ihrem Bankkonto ist, leeren und die geplagte Mittelschicht ihres verbleibenden Kapitals berauben.
Während Covid diktierte das WEF die Lockdowns, die 4 Billionen Dollar nach oben an diese neue #Oligarchie von #Milliardären verlagerten. Die #Banker und #Investmenthäuser schnappten sich unsere Häuser und warben damit, dass Ihr nichts besitzen und glücklich damit sein werdet.
„Sie haben einen Plan, aber mein Plan ist, sie zu stoppen.“
So this is a thing that is VERY VERY much nowhere near done yet, but I want to share what I've got so far. It's a list of as many retro games as I can find which had a trans person on the dev team or otherwise involved in some way, along with a quick summary of who and what they did. It's partially an attempt to counter the narrative that trans people are some New Thing that's only just showed up on the gameing scene and also society in general, which sometimes these kinds of lists can accidentally imply, and also it's just kind of a fun bit of HEY LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL SHIT TRANS PEOPLE DID. I've found over 170 games so far, with quite a lot I'm still to properly go off on.
(Edit: That's over 300 (!) games now. Thank you SO much people who've pointed me at stuff I've missed. I'll be working on trying to play all of these and write up stuff about the ones I haven't really said anything about yet.)
Thank you so much everyone sharing and providing feedback on this. I'm aiming to flesh out a bunch of the games I've not said much about yet over the coming days. I've got some really fun ones to add as well from stuff people have shown me since last night and all.
I'm hoping this'll be a good resource for people when it's done 💜
I've added a few more games based on stuff peeps have mentioned to me. There's some Guitar Hero on there now, and Club Penguin, and another Sonic, and some more Pokemon games.
It's a good idea but maybe ask them If they want to be on the list, idk. The list will eventually end up in the hands of these "anti woke" assholes and they tend to doxx and harass devs for being trans. So being on the list might not be something everyone wants.
dang you really gotta play m.u.l.e.! way ahead of its time like much of berry’s work.
there’ve been a couple of attempts at remaking it over the years, i feel like it could actually work if it was a team of trans folks giving it the love it deserves lol
I see Maddie Blaustein is on The List for Pokémon Channel's Meowth. Awesome. Can I also add;
Pokémon Snap, where she voiced Meowth again. (Albeit a wild one this time)
Pokémon Puzzle League (Panel De Pon dressed up as the Pokémon anime) where she reprised several roles from the cartoon including Team Rocket's Meowth once again, Sabrina's Alakazam, and Lieutenant Surge.
And perhaps her greatest role on the N64, Pokémon Stadium - in which she specifically voices Magikarp yelling "KAAAARRP!" in the Magikarp's Splash minigame.
sorry if this has been shared with you before, but you can add all the games mentioned in this interview (virtual lab, lady sword, quiz toukou shashin, chiki chiki tengoku, armored metal police jack) badgamehalloffame.com/intervie…
An interview with the elusive Megu-tan -- the developer of Virtual Lab! We discuss their brief time in the games industry, the circumstances of their game's troubled development, and the endless wonders of virtual reality.
Just based on statistics, and the amount of Trans people working in tech in general, I'm willing to bet every single game made by any team counting more than ten people had at least one Trans person working on it at some point...
Fond player of M.U.L.E. here (on 🏳️🌈 C=64 breadbins) and 💯on 🏳️⚧️ appreciation! There's c64-wiki.com/wiki/M.U.L.E. for an infodump. Loadsa screenshots exist out there, too.
Fun fact: Native 4player support on Atari x00 series, modded versions for C=64 (Userport adapter provided) exist, too. A superb & entertaining group gameplay 🥳🕹️.
holy SHIT, how did i not know that Jumper was made by Maddy Thorson???? I played Jumper ENDLESSLY as a kid. It was a source of major inspiration for me when I was a 12 year old making games on Game Maker
Oh wow, this reminds me that I actually knew one of the people on this list when I was a kid. We both frequented the same online forum. I suspected she was trans because I ran across her deadname, but she made it clear she did not want to talk about that, so I dropped the subject. People didn't talk about such things back then. She had no way to know I'd be accepting about that (and I had no way to know part of that was because I'm nb.)
Heya! I have another one you might want to include on that! I worked on Champions Online, which launched in 2009.
The only wrinkle there is that I wasn't out of the closet back when we first shipped the game, but I did end up working on it more years after starting transition, and my name's even been updated in the credits!
Thanks for making the list!!! This is awesome!
Also, if it were inclusive to games in 2010, I'd have to mention Star Trek Online, too (same deal).
Depends on how vague you want "involved in some way" to get, but given Sophie Wilson was basically responsible for the original ARM chips, I could argue nearly every mobile game, at least, wouldn't exist but for her.. 😁
it's highly ironic that the "AI" evangelists constantly repeat that people who hate it are out of touch. they're implying that people don't like it because they don't understand it, when my experience has been people who hate "AI" seem to have a far firmer grasp on how it actually works than the evangelists
edit: reclaiming my notifications by muting this ✌
Twitter's new encrypted DM system stores your private key material on Twitter-owned services, protected with nothing more than a 4-digit PIN. If hostile, or if legally compelled to, Twitter could easily decrypt all your messages. It's also MITMable and doesn't secure metadata. Use Signal.
Oh, would you look at that? It almost lifts the spirit, but not quite.
You know, looking at fresh water like this reminds me that AI will use over 6 billion cubic meters of water between now and 2027 just to cool down the data centers.
While the average human being only drinks 60 cubic meters of water in his life.
Yes, it's a scarce resource, but a small price to pay for a technology that would show us what Ratatouille would look like if it was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
China's foreign trade increased by 5.6% year-on-year to 3.84 trillion yuan in April 2025, with exports growing 9.3% and imports edging up 0.8%. Despite US tariffs, China's total goods imports and exports reached 14.14 trillion yuan in the first four months, with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations remaining China's biggest trading partner.
Despite the hefty tariffs that Washington slapped against Beijing, China's total goods imports and exports climbed 2.4 percent year-on-year to 14.14 trillion yuan ($1.95 trillion) in the first four months of the year, customs data showed on Friday.
Wrack is on one of three substantial but corroded concrete jetties that form the core of Almerimar's marina. It's the least populated, and a final berth for some of the marina's most neglected, unseaworthy boats.
As the jetty's least salubrious crew, we've nicknamed it 'the waifs and strays wharf'.
on twitter if you don't give your government ID to "au10tx" the israeli ID verification service, your replies are going to be buried under all the verified accounts and you will be de-boosted in every way possible.
especially insidious in light of all the recent swatting victims in the right wing influencer sphere. every one of them was verified on twitter, to my knowledge.
this is a trap for social media to keep people on a pro-israel plantation
Is the Hebrew Wikipedia edited according to the project's stated ethos? My experience contributing suggests it is not. It has been dominated for over a decade by right-wing and far-right activists, including Kohelet operatives, who have transformed it into a cesspool of propaganda that denies Palestinian existence, ostracizes liberal voices and the LGBTQ+ community, and injects poisonous #Islamophobic content into every article touching on these topics. This is an introductory post. I will provide additional information in this thread.
Background information
This is a link to a 2010 initiative to train #Wikipedia editors from the Israeli "settler movement." This post of Fandom includes both the original course announcement and subsequent discussion about a workshop, which organized by the Yesha Council (an umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank) and "My Israel" organization.
The workshop was designed to train "Zionist Wikipedia editors" with the stated goals of:
- Influencing public opinion in Israel and globally
- Adding content on topics important to participants
- Countering terms like "occupation" and "settlements"
The 3-hour training session was held on August 17, 2010 in Jerusalem.
Two experienced Wikipedia editors (Amikhai and Zohar) decided to conduct the training themselves, emphasizing Wikipedia's neutrality policies rather than "Zionist editing." They created materials specifically highlighting:
The workshop generated significant media attention, with participants interviewed on radio and TV.
According to reports, some attendees stated intentions to edit articles about political figures and controversial topics, despite organizers' advice to start with less contentious subjects.
How did the community respond to this initiative?
Just based on this discussion on Fandom alone (so before these right wing operative started their "work",) the reactions were mixed - some welcomed new contributors who understood the rules, while others expressed concern about editors arriving with predetermined agendas. The organizers emphasized they successfully conveyed Wikipedia's neutrality requirements to most participants.
אתר הבית רוצים להשפיע על הציבור בישראל ובעולם? להוסיף ערכים בנושאים שקרובים לליבכם נמאס לקרוא על "כיבוש", "התנחלויות"? תכשירו את עצמכם להיות עורכי וויקפדיה בקורס של שלוש שעות! עריכה בויקיפדיה תורמת להשפעה על הלכי הרוח בישראל ובעולם וקובעת את הידע אות…
[ futurism.com: Anthropic Researchers Warn That Humans Could End Up Being "Meat Robots" Controlled by AI ] futurism.com/anthropic-meat-ro… Has the author never heard of Amazon?
India News: India reports 4,866 active Covid-19 cases as of June 5, 2025, with Kerala, Delhi, and West Bengal leading the count. Fatalities highlight vulnerabilit
This was an interview earlier this week between Channel 4 and Israeli government spokesman. The Spokesman is a former heald of the UK Labour Friends of Israel.
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[ The Daily Beast: DHS Appoints 22-Year-Old to Lead Terrorism Prevention ] thedailybeast.com/22-year-old-… This moron's fucking portrait is a hoot. I wonder if the photographer told him, "you know you don't get immunity for anything you do here, right?"
ils voudraient faire haïr l'écologie qu'ils ne feraient pas autrement. Attends une minute...
La cour des comptes confirme tout ce que nous avions écrit. Dans un rapport publié ce 3 juin, les magistrats étrillent le dispositif qui – cela devient une constante au niveau national comme européen – n’a fait l’objet d’aucune étude d’impact. «D’un simple objet réglementaire technique à vocation informative, le DPE s’est dès lors, dans les faits, transformé en outil stratégique et politique aux conséquences majeures pour les particuliers et pour le régime de la propriété sans que les conséquences de cette transformation et de son calendrier de réalisation n’aient été clairement mesurées, notamment en termes de risque d’éviction, même temporaire, de logements du parc locatif», souligne le rapport, à lire ici.
Regardez maintenant | Le champion du diagnostic de performance énergétique, c'est le gaz. Pourquoi alors qu'est érigée la lutte pour le climat, ce gros émetteur de CO2 est-il avantagé ?
We really need a way to communicate to the wider public that Zionism and Israel are *not the same thing as Judaism.*
That being against these is not anti-Semitic (or in fact even based on the fact that they are connected with Judaism!) and not wanting thousands of people to be murdered is not the same as supporting terrorism.
The media and politicians need to challenge the propaganda and tear down the automatic lies that keep coming out. The fallacious argument that if you are against murdering women and children that you are therefore pro-terrorist?!
The basic logic of this just needs a second to think about - is there no-one left in the media or politics with a voice powerful enough and articulate enough to defend reality?
Zionism and the state of Israel are commercial, colonialist, genocidal operations. They represent money and power and the quest for more of both of those.
Most of the backing and support comes from outside Israel - the UK and USA mainly. Two colonialist powers scrabbling to continue their proxy wars and power struggles in a part of the world that they have destroyed and ravaged and have no right to be involved in.
That is it. They do not give a shit about Jewish people beyond using them for their ends to justify violence and oppression. This is based on the terrible fact that Jewish people suffered the same things as Israel (and their supporters) are committing on other groups now. The uniforms are different - the hatred and lies are just the same.
Ich hatte ja hier: norden.social/@stephie_hamburg… bereits über den Artikel der WaPo über die GHF verlinkt aus dem klar hervorging: Es gibt niemand dem Beweise vorliegen, dass die Hamas im relevanter Menge Hilfsgüter stiehlt. Der israelische Staat und seine Verbündeten haben nie Belege für ihre Behauptung vorgelegt.
Bereits im November letzten Jahres gab es einige Berichte darüber, dass es diverse Gangs gibt, die Hilfsgüter plündern.
Es kam immer wieder zu Auseinandersetzungen die, zum Teil blutig endeten, wenn etwa Sicherheitsleute aus der Regierung in Gaza gegen diese Gangs vorgingen.
Auch damals gab es schon einige die Beobachtung, dass diese Gangs in Gegenden operieren, die von der israelischen Armee kontrolliert werden, und nicht von dieser angegriffen werden.
Sorry to hear you’re having trouble feeding the people visiting your sites to the surveillance capitalism adtech machine. mastodon.africa/@roblaing/1146…
Noting my Google Ad revenue from my various hobby listings websites was drifting even closer to zero, I decided to check what's "good practice" this week.
J’aimerais que tu partages avec moi ce que tu ressens J’aimerais que tu partages avec moi ce que tu aimes J’aimerais que tu partages ce que tu as appris... J‘ aimerais que tu partages avec moi autre choses que ce que tu crois que j’aime, Autre chose que ce que tu crois que je suis. Simplement parce que c’est de ta grandeur que je grandis.
L.V
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I'd like you to share with me what you feel I'd like you to share with me what you love I'd like you to share with me what you've learned I'd like you to share with me other things than what you think I like Other than what you think I am. Simply because it's from your greatness that I grow.
Sans effort, pierre par pierre, je démonterais mes cathédrales inutiles. Emplies de rien, elles deviendront vides de tout… ...Et dans le silence retrouvé, mon unique prière deviendra : MERCI !
L.V
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Effortlessly, stone by stone, I will dismantle my useless cathedrals. Filled with nothing, they will become empty of everything... ...And in the new-found silence, my only prayer will become THANK YOU!
Il ne s'agît pas d'être anti-nucléaires, juste réalistes pour deux raisons :
1 - le nouveau nucléaire est trop lent à être déployé dans des délais compatibles avec l'urgence climatique, écologique et politique.
2 - Le nucléaire maintient la France dans une abondance d'énergie qui nous empêche de nous adapter au nouveau paradigme advenu : l'anthropocène...
Conclusion : je défends la thèse inverse de #JeanMarcJancovici pour qui le nucléaire est un amortisseur ( #NucléaireAmortisseur ). Le nucléaire est une excuse pour l'inaction d'autant plus que nous sommes confrontés à toutes les autres limites planétaires... ( #NucléaireEmpêcheur )
De plus il est bien plus dangereux que ce qu'il affirme et il est de toute façon non durable.
Par contre le fait que le nucléaire soit un amortisseur pour la France et l'Europe, c'est une évidence absolue. Le nucléaire n'est une excuse pour rien du tout, le problème c'est les fossiles carbonés en premier lieu. Les gens sérieux y compris dans le développement des ENR comme Karim Megherbi sont d'ailleurs d'accord.
@julien_delalande@diaspora-fr.org ça n'est pas accessible. Quoi qu'il en soit il faut qu'on se débarrasse de 80% de nos sources d'énergie, il est complètement évident qu'on ne va pas se débarrasser du nucléaire en même temps. À moins que le projet ne soit de retourner au Moyen-Âge en commettant un génocide au passage ?
@julien_delalande@diaspora-fr.org oui j'ai vu. OK Janco n'est pas Dieu, il se trompe, parfois il dit des conneries. Mais il évolue. Il n'est plus le chantre du nucléaire, il ne dit plus du mal de l'éolien comme il le faisait en 2012. Il faut évoluer aussi 😀
Sur "Par contre le fait que le nucléaire soit un amortisseur pour la France et l’Europe, c’est une évidence absolue." :
En plus de ce que j'ai déjà évoqué, il faudrait dissocier un cœur d'activités stratégiques soumis à décisions démocratiques avec débat citoyen comme le militaire ou la production d'acier, du reste de l'activité pour lequel le maître mot serait "sobriété", "justice sociale", etc.
C'est un des sujet que je maîtrise le moins si tant est que j'en maîtrise un; je crois que nous ne faisons pas assez travailler d'ingénieurs qui adorent ça! Nous ça nous rendrait dingues mais eux ils ont des outils, des méthodes, des techniques etc. Il n'y a pas encore de lobbie de l'autosuffisance! Pourquoi? Parce que comme son nom l'indique elle n'a plus besoin de source ou juste pour démarrer... Imaginez que nos appareils en fonctionnant se mettent également à produire de l'énergie comme le mouvement de l'eau ou des vagues connu et exploité, tout mouvement, tout fonctionnement est une énergie... Quand nous parlons nous pourrions stocker l'énergie de notre mâchoire... C'est comme ça pour tout. Nous sommes des producteurs d'énergie sans nous en rendre compte... Il y a eu une réalisation je ne sais plus où d'un asphalte qui récupère l'énergie des bagnoles qui passent... Donc tout est possible. Y a plus qu'à.
Je connais très mal le sujet et je suis nul en maths et en physique; je fais confiance en la science, la technologie, le progrès... Nous optimisons la rapidité d'internet par le laser maintenant (c'est en projet) donc l'énergie est encore optimisable...
Nous rechargeons des appareils par simple rapprochement entre la base et l'appareil; je ne sais pas bien mais il doit y avoir des conducteurs plus performants à mettre en œuvre... Sans déperdition. Je ne sais pas à quelle vitesse va le courant? Mais c'est à étudier pour se déplacer dans l'univers....
J'ai ma réponse sur la vitesse du courant: dans le vide c'est la vitesse de la lumière; il faudrait trouver le moyen de faire avancer un courant sans récepteur connu...
Encore que ça n'est pas assez rapide (la vitesse de la lumière) pour aller d'un point à un autre dans l'univers... Mais pour rejoindre un trou de verre... Et puis il faudrait que le courant soit capable de projeter une capsule à sa vitesse de diffusion... Ça parait compliqué. Enfin il faudrait un anti-g impressionnant! Déjà que les cosmonaute sont scotchés avec leur petite navette pourries...
Pour revenir au sujet il faudrait recycler l'énergie non utilisée, utilisée, stockée, transportée, sur tout mouvement existant et sur l'électricité et tout appareil qui en nécessite... Au boulot!
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There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
if the firefox devs were serious about literally anything the corp says, one killer feature that would absolutely differentiate them materially from other browsers is to take all the differential privacy tech you made for 'private' advertising and use it to remove LLM slop domains from search engine results pages with distributed downranking and automated removal.
That is the one of the main things you can do at a browser level with the kind of statistical privacy tooling they developed for the advancement of the advertising industry -- yet would still by fully in line with their stilted defense of the ad industry as 'need to invite the ad industry to unilaterally disarm' by allowing 'good ads' -- but would never appear in a browser funded primarily by google.
@aral such a self own. like yeah even in twisted silicon valley logic, go ahead and say that, but the entire survival of your brand depends on people not believing that, so if that's what you're saying you're a really shitty silicon valley company whose business model will always be losing out to companies who are a billion times your size in exactly the same niche entirely unhampered by public perception because they ate your lunch 20 years ago.
edit: excuse me did i say 100x your size on the first go?
Well, it’s not what they say publicly. Only in the *wink* *wink* drinks and nibbles bits between sessions among friends. Folks like that don’t like folks like me when they discover I’m not playing their *wink* *wink* games.
@aral It sounds like they are in a mental bubble. Don’t they understand that they really have only product that anyone cares about - Firefox. And the only reason people care about their objectively less performant product is because of their underdog years when they were perceived as being more credibly pro-user than big tech. It’s not a high standard. It’s the *only* standard that is keeping you in the market right now.
@aral @vartak ya ya that's what i'm saying - they pay for the reputation and the legal defense of saying they are not the sole browser, just enough so that it exists in principle though not in fact. it's not big enough to materially affect their advertising revenue, at 2% competitor share, you've won. but the way mozilla has played this has really fucked up even that defense, because by arguing so vehemently that they need google to survive, they have fucked up the reason for funding them as a passive antitrust defense and the alternative they would have had by direct funding by their actual users
@aral @vartak even their own differential privacy "good ad company" ambitions depend on that dynamic. to have any competitive footing, the product you are selling to advertisers that is quite literally -worse data as a service- is access to the most privacy conscious user that you have exclusive access to. so this entire diversification strategy of doubling down on "maybe google funding will survive but if not we'll be the good AI company" is like a recursive funhouse mirror of bad strategy.
"we need to have fuzzy signal that doesn't give any single contributor undue influence or identifiability over the result" hmm sounds a lot like a system that would be capable of determining if "everyone who went to this domain determined that it was AI slop" or not. that a browser would be uniquely positioned to do.
@aral @dubiousblur If there has to be a taxpayer funded browser, I would insist they fork Chromium instead. This will give it instant feature and performance parity and kind of stick it to Google. They would no longer be able to beat their this new browser on performance, and their contributions to Chromium could be pulled into the new browser. This essentially recruits Google for the public good.
@dubiousblur @vartak Much easier to form a separate independent organisation, e.g., funded by a yearly grant of EU taxpayer money, to hard fork a new browser from Firefox and develop it here.
I don’t think I’ll be holding my breath for the political will to bring about such a project at the moment.
@dubiousblur @vartak We can (just do things) but, as I’ve found as someone just doing something, without funding in this fucked up system it’s as damn difficult road to traverse and I can’t really fault more people for not just doing things under the circumstances.
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Russia has launched a massive retaliatory assault on Ukraine after Kyiv's unprecedented drone attack on Russian airbases. Overnight, Moscow unleashed over 100 drones, striking multiple Ukrainian cities.
Escalation is what happens when he's defied. > Trump announces travel ban barring nationals of a dozen countries from entering the United States euronews.com/2025/06/05/trump-…
The ban is set to go into effect on Monday, barring nationals of a dozen countries from entering the United States, in a resurrection of his controversial first term “Muslim ban” policy.
I was having sushi in #Split, #Croatia / #Hrvatska (excellent fish, but Croatia's idea of "spicy" needs work) when I was faced with the following doors during a bathroom break. I guess if you have a Prince Albert you need to find a door with a champagne bottle on it.
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@mat I'm hesitant to get involved, but I think asking for the source supporting a statement or the trigger(s) for a reaction is not the same as asking you to do the research for them.
@mat “The burden of proof is usually on the person who brings a claim in a dispute. It is often associated with the Latin maximsemper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, a translation of which is: "the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges."”
You said it, you back it up. Otherwise you’re like a conspiracy theorist who tells you to “do your own research” - a lazy cop out.
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Lack of responsibility by the moderator and the prevalence of spam & hostile accounts and the practice of bad actors makes the instance, as a whole, a threat to other servers and their users on the #fediverse .
The Punjab State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) has uncovered a suspected espionage network linked to Jasbir Singh, a resident of Mahlan village in Rupnagar district.
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