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It’s time for these leaders to actually lead, clearing a path that leads beyond X and towards social media environments like Bluesky and Mastodon — platforms that at least gesture in the direction of user safety and protection of the vulnerable.


Hell. YES.

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It’s time to say goodbye to Elon Musk’s X. Changes to blocking online harassment will endanger users.

As announced to users Wednesday, X is planning to deprive its users of another vital tool for combating ever-escalating online stalking and harassment on the platform, writes Gwen Snyder.
Gwen Snyder (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

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GrapheneOS and android 15 beta upgrade. Pixel8 on the big screen, unbeatable. I probably won't think about a linux phone, at least not for a while, because now I have a notebook in my pocket, without google and most FOSS apps. Tidal from the phone looks good on the big screen, all other apps work too. #GrapheneOS #pixel8 #bigscreen #nextlevel #degoogle
#grapheneos #degoogle #pixel8 #bigscreen #nextlevel
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Создатель онлайн-библиотеки Flibusta Stiver: серверы оплачены, сайт поддерживается и работает в стабильном режиме habr.com/p/851838/
#flibusta #stiver

Создатель онлайн-библиотеки Flibusta Stiver: серверы оплачены, сайт поддерживается и работает в стабильном режиме

19 октября 2024 года создатель онлайн-библиотеки Flibusta Stiver сообщил, что серверы проекта оплачены, сайт поддерживается и работает в стабильном режиме.23 сен...
Денис (Habr)
#Flibusta #stiver

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Comparison of Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 accessibleandroid.com/comparis…

Comparison of Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro and Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 - Accessible Android

I’ve had the opportunity to use both of the latest earbud offerings from Google and Samsung: the Pixel Buds Pro 2 and the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro. I've used each of
John Dyer (Accessible Android)

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This morning we went to see an exhibition by the wonderful Margot from watercolorpatterns (watercolourpatterns.com/), and it's just insane the precision, dedication and just sheer amount of care and detail she puts into every single one of her watercolors.

And it's all just this wonderfully enthusiastic lady doing everything herself!

Give her a hand if you have the chance, she's wonderful

Picture of some wonderful watercolors

Watercolour Patterns

watercolourpatterns.com

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VOTE EARLY THIS WEEKEND

Good morning. If you live in a state where you can vote early or vote by mail, why not vote this weekend?

Check your state: cbsnews.com/news/map-early-vot…

Voting early is the best thing you can do to help Harris. It establishes a winning narrative which undermines polling manipulation by biased GOP pollsters. It also motivates our team and demoralizes them. Right now, with more than 10 million votes already banked, Dems are up by >1.5 million votes.

VOTE!

@KamalaHarrisWin

Map shows which states offer early voting and mail-in ballots for the 2024 election

Weeks before the 2024 election, early voting by mail or in person will be available in most states — here's a map with more information about early voting options.
CBS News
@Kamala Harris News Group 2.0

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Tim Walz is not "redefining masculinity." Tim Walz is redefining *white masculinity*.

Trump does not have a big lead with men voters. Trump has an *absolutely massive lead* with *white men voters*.

70% of the NFL is Black. 90% of those Black men vote Dem. More Black men than white women think the environment is important. Black men support masking to prevent the spread of Covid. Black men are more likely to support women's reproductive rights. Etc, etc.

usatoday.com/story/news/politi…

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Football coach and cheerleader: How Tim Walz is defining masculinity in 2024

With gender central to the campaign, Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz is taking a different approach to masculinity compared to bro-ness and aggression.
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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Sablebadger

@davidnjoku it took me a while but entirely I finally clued into how media portrays black men. Once you start seeing it, it's perversive.

How they show a mug shot if one is available by default. White guy criminals get yearbook photos. words like thug get used a lot. White guys get discussions of their lost future, black guys get only discussions of the crime.

Someone benefits if we're all afraid of black men. It's bullshit. And a lot so called liberals buy into it too.

@David Njoku

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Are you still using social media platforms? What's your reason?

For Google and Facebook users here's how you can better protect yourself!

Step 1: Stop Facebook collecting SO much data 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-does-facebo…

Step 2: Reduce how much Google knows about you 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-does-google…

Main reasons for using social media

All The Data Facebook Collects - And How To Stop This | Tuta

Want to know what data Facebook collects about you? In this guide we outline what data Facebook collects about its users and how they use it.
Tuta
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Zach Bennoui

I used to post tracks on an online jamming platform called Wikiloops. You upload a track, you playing piano for example, then someone downloads that and adds their parts, ETC. Was really fun and looking to get back on there again. wikiloops.com

wikiloops.com | Free Backing Tracks | Online Jamsession

The open wiki for Backing Track Collaboration since 2011. Easily find Jamtracks missing your Instrument and Play-Along. Join the international Musical Collaboration by sharing your own home-recorded Remixes.
wikiloops.com
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KUnifiedPush: KDE's efficient way of delivering notifications to your apps

KUnifiedPush, KDE's client library for the UnifiedPush protocol, has reached version 1.0.0. KUnifiedPush provides a way to deliver notifications instantly to multiple apps on your devices even if the apps are not running.

Ideal for social media, weather and instant messaging apps, it will also contribute to improving the battery life on your mobile devices.

blogs.kde.org/2024/10/19/kunif…

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

A screenshot of Plasma's Settings showing the page where you can configure the notification server.

KUnifiedPush 1.0.0 is out!

KUnifiedPush provides push notifications for KDE applications. Push notifications are a mechanism to support applications that occasionally need to receive some kind of information from their server-side part, and where receiving in a timely manner m…
KUnifiedPush 1.0.0 is out!
@KDE
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Oyes, ¿recordáis cuando medio internet daba la matraca sobre como "estar sentado es el nuevo fumar" y como nos vendían los "standing decks" como la gran revolución en el mundo de la salud laboral y casi una obligación si no querías morir de un infarto en tu silla de trabajo?

Pues acaba de salir un estudio al respecto y adivinad qué: no solo no reducen la mortalidad sino que aumentan el riesgo de varices y trombosis venosa profunda.

👉 academic.oup.com/ije/article/5…


Device-measured stationary behaviour and cardiovascular and orthostatic circulatory disease incidence

AbstractBackground. Previous studies have indicated that standing may be beneficially associated with surrogate metabolic markers, whereas more time spent
Ahmadi, Matthew N (Oxford University Press)
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Speaking of #MyAdoredDaughter this morning... I don't know if I ever posted this photo.

This is ... my daughter? This is how she looks like, exactly - a beautiful, young person with long legs, and wonderful hair. And she keeps telling me "OMG, we look so alike, we could be twins..."

#Trans #Enby #NonBinary #TransJoy #EnbyJoy #NonBinaryJoy #Selfie

...

... but no, this is not a photo of her, this is a selfie of me reflected in a window. When I saw myself reflected in that window, I had to take a selfie and send it to her and she was absolutely amazed at how similar we look now, really, like twins, everything, the form, hair, posture, arms, legs, ... only her face is slightly different (and way younger, obviously 🥰

Window-Selfie of me, a non-binary person, on a sunny day. You can't really identify me clearly, but I am a slim, tall person with slim arms (they were always very "feminine"). I wear a spaghetti-string-strap black top and what looks like some black pair of pants. Since you can't make out the face very clearly, this could in fact 100% be my daughter.
#trans #nonbinary #transjoy #enby #selfie #myadoreddaughter #enbyjoy #nonbinaryjoy
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i. celeste aurora [witchzard]

@Marco TBH, she resembles my wife more than her mother (my wife isn't her mom), but she looks more or less exactly like me. So the photo above could really be me or her, if I didn't tell you who that person is on the photo and you'd see us next to each other, you couldn't tell who that was.

But, and that's the fun part, whenever she is visiting us and we three, her, my wife and me, go out for a walk, people are 100% sure she is our daughter, because she has nearly nothing from her biological mom, but some really interesting similarities with my wife.

In my own case, I have half-half, i.e. about half of me resembles my father, and half my biological mother (as far as I can remember, and I have one single photo of her).

@Marco Zehe

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Lets try that again. If you haven't tried it yet, the Google Notebook LLM is quite interesting. It can take any notes, documents, manuals, etc., and create an AI-generated podcast-style output. For example, I ran last month's AppleVis Newsletter for September through this service. It's pretty long to listen to, but I was amazed by what it produced. :)

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The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Please spread the word widely!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts Scholarship Application

The National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year. Up to four scholarships will be awarded: one in the amount of $3,000.00, 2 in the amount of $1,500.
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