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It recently struck me that 27 years ago there was a movie with Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo playing drag queens,and if it came out today, someone would firebomb the theaters it was in. I'm not putting a sensitive warning on this picture because it's not fucking sensitive. its a movie that came out in 1995. things have moved backwards in a terrifying way.

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Steve Silberman

In 1941, Nazis asked the city of Amsterdam to make this map of Jews in the city. Each dot equalled 10 Jews.

In 2022, TX AG @KenPaxtonTX sought data from driver's licenses on #transgender Texans.

But don't worry. History never repeats itself. #LGBTQ+
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022

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Noah

I saw this post from @BlackAzizAnansi that Mastodon remains an overwhelmingly white space and I can't refute that, but I'm angry that it is this way. My experience in tech is that there's no shortage of black talent or black voices, there's a shortage of black opportunity and space due to racism. I see that reflected here. I feel like if we want a #blackmastodon then we can't be passive about this, we have to be intentionally inclusive, intentionally anti-racist. It's not enough to just support.

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Pleroma TERFs & Nazis 

This is why I have a general distrust of Pleroma users. I don't care that it is "more lightweight" than Mastodon. I don't care that it has extra features and multiple frontends.

Its Nazis all the way down. Even the official Pleroma website recommends Nazi-friendly instances, and their devs are openly friendly with out-and-proud Nazis.

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Pleroma TERFs & Nazis 

Pleroma Dev and "Gleasonator" Admin, Alex Gleason on his blog.

Vs.

on Pleroma...

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Mᴀʏᴀ :verified:

Just in case you ever taught "feee speach is a good mission, maybe #musk is not that bad"

( #twitter #mastodon #elon #elonmusk #twittermigration )

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Twitter folks: Unless you are actually a displaced person, please stop referring to yourselves as "refugees".

You didn't live on Twitter. You were not forced from your home.

You've just switched your preferred microblogging platform. Realistically, you shouldn't have any plans to go back to Twitter, so it doesn't even work as a metaphor.

Call yourself a "migrant". That gets the point across without being insensitive.

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MOVED vantablack@cyberpunk.lol

friendly reminder that the halo announcer says "trans rights"

this makes me soooooooo happy omg

youtu.be/R-plZUgmA64

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Alex Vranas

Unprofessional Protip:

Keep a 1GB file full of random numbers on your server's disk so that when you neglect it and let the drive get full, you have 1GB you can delete right away to get things less broken.

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Having deep conversations with .

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Dee (festive) :heart_nb:
intermeshing two 2D printers to make a 4D printer
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Forbes is really bad at this.

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Lemmy

First release of LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board written in Rust

join-lemmy.org/news/2022-11-02

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I love Bob's Burgers, but I will never understand the writers' decision to turn a gang of self-proclaimed "white power movement" bikers into minor recurring characters that the main cast is consistently friendly with. I can't watch those episodes without feeling gross.

A deep stain in a show with an otherwise excellent reputation.

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christopher :rebel:

Changing your #Mastodon "joined" date with PostgreSQL

yawnbox.com/blog/changing-mast

thanks to @micahflee for the tip :D

#mastoadmin #mastodonadmin

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Carl T. Bergstrom

Twitter; abuse 

Shout out to the pro-science folks here and on twitter who admonished me for leaving and told me (1) I was letting down the cause and (2) by leaving I was playing politics instead of doing science.

No. A bully runs that house, and I'm walking out the door. You have no right to tell anyone to stay with an abuser and put up with threats to their own safety.

Unless you've weathered three years of death threats for your public health advocacy, keep it to yourself.

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Alex Vranas

POV: I follow you, and you're blasting Retweets through the crossposter like a big dummy.

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A great way to find instances to suspend is to browse your cache of custom emojis from other instances.

The worst actors can't help but to add swastikas and hateful caricatures to their servers. Easy low-hanging-fruit to get rid of before their users show up and bring you problems.

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Me checking in on TSLA stock, of which I hold zero shares:

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One of the big differences in moderation here is that mass-reporting doesn't escalate things like it does on Twitter.

If someone is abusive, and you report them, it will be reviewed by a human being, and they will decide if it breaks the rules.

Getting 20 other people to report the same post isn't going to change that. You're just giving the mods more work to do, especially if a dogpile emboldens the abuser to lash out at more people.

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