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Iranian Women's Liberation Movement: Year Zero (1979)
Radfem Archive
youtu.be/r4aEqqMz38o

"In 1979, Iranian Women invite the American feminist Kate Millett to celebrate March 8, the International Women’s Day, in Tehran. On March 7, the religious leaders announce that women have to wear the Islamic veil. From March 8 to March 13, women and liberals demonstrate in the streets against the veil. A crew of four French feminists filmed these historical events before being expelled by the mullahs. "

#KateMillett #Iran #RadicalFeminism #RadFem #Feminism #Feminist #SecondWaveFeminism #RadicalFeminism #RadFem #Feminism #Feminist #WomynsHerstory


Iranian Women's Liberation Movement: Year Zero (1979)

In 1979, Iranian Women invite the American feminist Kate Millett to celebrate March 8, the International Women’s Day, in Tehran. On March 7, the religious le...
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mk

feminism is a weapon of cultural mass destruction
mastodon.satoshishop.de/@mk/11…

mk (@mk@mastodon.satoshishop.de)

Attached: 3 images @babygravy9@bird.makeup "all of these countries have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman" https://www.perplexity.ai/search/create-a-table-with-western-co-E0AkV0QtSiiDEbqlu7IFdQ
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in reply to Partisan Night Slut

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Lady MountainJay

— I rarely post anymore. Most definitely don’t hate you. 😀

Though I went through a period a long while back where I muted a handful of people who were dominating my timeline with content I really didn’t enjoy. I’d intended to unmute you after awhile to see if whatever phase had passed, but forgot until just recently. Seems it has, though I don’t remember now what it was. 😬😆

I am careful though not to click on most of the videos you post. Just not my cup of tea. 🙃

@ThewTheKooky @mrman

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Mamdani stuns Democratic Party establishment, declares victory in NYC mayoral primary #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/mamdani…

Mamdani stuns Democratic Party establishment, declares victory in NYC mayoral primary

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani shocked the Democratic Party establishment by defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a New York City Democratic mayoral primary that often focused on Mamdani’s support for Palestinian rights and the BDS movement.
Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)

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PNC denounces attacks and Israeli colonial strategy in Jerusalem plenglish.com/news/2025/06/25/…

PNC denounces attacks and Israeli colonial strategy in Jerusalem - Prensa Latina

Ramallah, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian National Council (PNC) denounced on Wednesday the crimes conducted by Israeli security forces and settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem, which it described as a colonial strategy.
Ileana Ferrer Fonte (Prensa Latina)
in reply to 𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

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hummingbird

culvercitycrossroads.com/2025/…

ICE Raids in Culver City – Beloved Paletero Taken

The popsicle man has been taken. On June 23, 2025, just before 1 pm, Ambrocio “Enrique” Lozano, was taken by a masked man and put in a white van at Center and Culver Boulevard, in front…
Culver City Crossroads

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#places

Château des Anglais de Bouziès - Bouziès

Le château des Anglais de Bouziès se trouve en hauteur, sur la route de Cahors à Saint-Cirq Lapopie, dans la falaise. On peut apercevoir des fortifications du XIème et XIIème siècles, ancrées dans la roche calcaire.
Tourisme Lot

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I don't know if this is good or bad but another all-time traffic high friendica.eskimo.com

Apache Server Status for www.eskimo.com (via 204.122.16.7)

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in reply to 𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋

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hummingbird

culvercitycrossroads.com/2025/…

ICE Raids in Culver City – Beloved Paletero Taken

The popsicle man has been taken. On June 23, 2025, just before 1 pm, Ambrocio “Enrique” Lozano, was taken by a masked man and put in a white van at Center and Culver Boulevard, in front…
Culver City Crossroads

mastodon - Link to source

I want to know where is the generation of super children? You know the kids who have reaped all of the benefits of child psychology and developmental science.

Where are these improved humans who are achieving above and beyond all those who came before proper parenting theory?

Where are all the great things they have done, and made, to take humanity to the next level?

Because, it seems to me, that all we have to show for it is grown people who throw temper tantrums in public.

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x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/193…

Google translate:
Do not believe any news or statements about "negotiations" or "ceasefire"...
until you feel the calm with your own hands and live it without shelling, blood, or fear.
Everyone is buying time at the expense of our blood, distracting us with anesthetic needles and statements...
while we die with every day that passes.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine

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Journalism is a public service.

"Rather than refuting any of our reporting, he instead explains that as a result of it, Flock has decided to perform numerous internal audits about how police are using the network that exactly aligns with 404 Media’s reporting"

#MassSurveillance

404media.co/flock-removes-stat…


Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed

Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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Lauren Weinstein

@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension There are some chunks of abandoned tracks still visible out here in the Valley in various places. The active tracks for current trains are toward the north end of the Valley. I think it was torn down relatively recently, but until then there was a hardware store in my area where to the side you could still see tracks and one of the doors (not in use) was original door used to access those tracks when that building was a working railroad station.
Unknown parent

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Lauren Weinstein

@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension At Pico and Sepulveda (yes, the song Dr. D. made famous!) there was for many years a diagonal track that crossed the intersection, and occasionally there'd be a boxcar off on a siding there. When I was a kid there was an active line just down the block from a house we rented, and I'd go down there to watch the freight trains rumble by. I think the tracks are gone now, but the right-of-way is still there and filled with plants and stuff I think much of the way down so it's obvious where the line was.

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There is a US and European backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The US and Israel are waging an illegal war on Iran.
Republicans are using dead women as incubators for the state.
Transgender people are being systematically erased in the so called "liberal democracies".

But tell me again about how NATO and the Western countries are "civilized" and "pro LGBT".

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A regular meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the creation of a unified system of technical support for the railways of the CSTO member states was held in Dushanbe en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…

A regular meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the creation of a unified system of technical support for the railways of the CSTO member states was held in Dushanbe

OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
en.odkb-csto.org

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Shipping giant Maersk supplies Israel with warplanes, with Kaleem Hawa and Nadya Tannous #Palestine

Shipping giant Maersk supplies Israel with warplanes, with Kaleem Hawa and Nadya Tannous

Your gift supports The Electronic Intifada's independent journalism on Palestine:• Donate by credit card, ApplePay, PayPal, Venmo or US bank account via Kind...
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1447curveds

Interesting to see Maersk's involvement in this situation. Makes you wonder about the complexities behind international shipping. On a lighter note, this reminds me of the strategic decisions you have to make in Pokerogue and Pokerogue Dex . Gotta carefully consider every move, almost like building your own unique Pokerogue Dex to counter unexpected challenges. Hope everyone's finding some balance amidst all the news.

PokeRogue | A Pokémon fangame!

PokeRogue is a fan-made Pokémon game that combines elements of traditional Pokémon gameplay with roguelike mechanics, focusing on high-stakes battles and strategy.
PokeRogue | A Pokémon fangame!

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The delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff took part in commemorative events dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War in the Republic of Belarus en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…

The delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff took part in commemorative events dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War in the Republic of Belarus

OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
en.odkb-csto.org

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14.3 hits/second mostly friendica.eskimo.com

Hit 14.3 hits/second tonight, the majority of it Friendica traffic. This is the busiest I've ever seen it. The 458% CPU load is a bit misleading, as the CPU usage is calculated on a single core but this is an 18 core 36 thread machine, so that really means 4.58 of those 36 threads is fully occupied.

Apache Server Status for www.eskimo.com (via 204.122.16.7)

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in reply to EFF (unofficial)

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Nanook

What the FBI is suggesting in this article seems more geared at trying to keep Google's control over censorship than it is insuring a lack of malware. And their alleged concern, that this malware enables proxy services on the machine to be used for criminal activities seems weak at best since tor already services that purpose and is widely available. It's a good argument for good ingress and egress firewall rules but not much else.

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Georg Restle ‪@georgrestle.bsky.social‬ am 25. Juni 2025 um 12:39:
Ein Ex-Gesundheitsminister der #CDU, dem schweres politisches Fehlverhalten nachgewiesen wurde + eine aktuelle CDU-Gesundheitsministerin, die sich schützend vor ihn stellt + eine CDU-Bundestagspräsidentin, die kritische Nachfragen aus dem Parlament blockiert. Die Causa #Spahn ist längst eine Causa CDU

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The President of the Kyrgyz Republic met with the secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO member states en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odk…

The President of the Kyrgyz Republic met with the secretaries of the Security Councils of the CSTO member states

OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
en.odkb-csto.org

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf. If you are frustrated by the inability to locate content via mainstream search engines, give it a try.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security[color]
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

Available Shell Servers

We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.

All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.

Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).

Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.

Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
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Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.

Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.

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