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So, hold on a minute...the actual president, Biden, says he will not enforce the TikTok ban, yet TikTok goes dark for a day anyway.

TikTok's error message says don't worry, the guy who is NOT president yet, Trump, will restore it soon.

TikTok comes back up after a day, while the actual president, Biden, is still in office.

TikTok's greeting message says hooray, thanks for bringing us back, guy who is NOT president yet, Trump!

...How does this even work, again? And why are Americans so ignorant that they'll buy it? 😒 #uspol #politics

#politics #uspol
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the problem is that they are buying it. Lock, stock, and barrel. I guess they were buying it by voting Trump back in in the first place.

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I've been watching the ways in which search engines have integrated large language models into their results, and the results are just as bad as you would expect. #misinformation #disinformation #homophobia #transphobia
jessk.org/blog/ai-and-disinfor…

Disinformation in the era of generative AI

In the past two years, large language models have replaced traditional information search and delivery systems in increasingly jarring ways.
Jessica Kant
#disinformation #misinformation #transphobia #homophobia

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Monday.
Another cold start to the week. Even if it is going up to 5 today, it doesn't flippin' feel like it.

Medically I am just not there, either. My head's not been in the game. I Normally suffer with 3 day migraines, and although I've been medicating to get through the weekend it's been a struggle. I'm on the tail-end, now, but I'd still far rather be in bed!

Nothing outstanding this week to shout about. A couple of online things post-work tonight and Wednesday, The Djokovic Alcaraz quarterfinal on Wednesday morning, actually playing tennis after work on Thursday.
The shape of a typical but slightly slow-starting week.

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Lulu Hartgen
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Hi Sean. Sorry that Migraine's still hanging around, really hope it leaves soon. Have a great day.
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Sean Randall
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@lulu_bear :) Thanks, Lulu. Sorry the game didn't go as well today, hopefully better next time!
@Lulu Hartgen

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"Kleine" Nebenwirkung?

Wenn der Staat die Patientenakte lesen will
heise.de/hintergrund/Wenn-der-…

#EPA


Wenn der Staat die Patientenakte lesen will

Die E-Patientenakte ist im Gegensatz zur Gesundheitskarte nicht bei den Beschlagnahmeverboten im Gesetz aufgeführt. Kann der Staat auf die ePA zugreifen?
heise online
#epa

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Merry Christmas, goats!

Every year, an acquaintance texts us sometime in January and asks if we want their Christmas tree for the goats. The goats love the little change in diet so much that they even came out (briefly) in the -40 windchill to sample, before going back to snuggle in the straw in the barn.

Several black, white, and brown goats all nibbling on an old Christmas tree that's laying down in the snow. There's also a big yellowish dog looking right at the camera, perhaps looking slightly disappointed that he can't eat Christmas trees.
Several black, white, and brown goats all nibbling on an old Christmas tree that's laying down in the snow. The black goat in particular is really seriously nomming on it. There's also a big yellowish dog looking slightly confused about why he doesn't also get a treat.

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Is there a #Matrix Room for discussions about #Linux #Audio specially #pipewire, #jack, #Ardour, #plugins (e.g. Calf), #ubuntu (24) #RaySession etc.
#linux #matrix #audio #ubuntu #ardour #pipewire #plugins #jack #raysession

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"We'll send you job listings based on your resume and/or your saved searches."
This line in the email of one of my job platforms should probably replace and/or with just or. I uploaded my resume, and not only did it not recognize I had a recurring search going but... it wildly misread my resume. No, I am not an account executive. Nothing on my resume says account executive. Knock that off.
So now, let's see what happens when I nuke the resume from orbit. Do what I pay you for, damn you.
Have I mentioned the only thing worse than job searching is being unemployed? Because this.
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James H
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@tardis And if I lived in Europe I'd probably use them too, along with everything else.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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It's pretty accessible, too, and you can make your resume there, and then export it in dock or pdf I think pdf, but yeah it was really interesting to do. Particularly because I used to do resumes manually.
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James H
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@tardis I've only ever done resumes manually, but I mean if I needed one in a hurry, that's what LinkedIn and Indeed are for.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I think I wanted to try out indeed, but I never understood how it worked. I haven't used linkedin though, but I wonder if you could import stuff into it. I think not.
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James H
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@tardis You can't import stuff into either LinkedIn or Indeed, but most of the time it's pretty much a copy/paste. Both LinkedIn and Indeed are basically a copy of the manual resume I have. And I do that for a couple reasons. First, because on LinkedIn you can then discover and network with people you work with (I still talk to a few people from my old job that way), and second, because both platforms let you apply for jobs directly from there.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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James H
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@tardis I stand corrected, actually. You can import stuff into Indeed if your resume is formatted correctly. I don't think you can for LinkedIn though. At least I didn't.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Interesting, and based on the fact they all have different standards, I won't be able to import mine, but hey, you might. Haha.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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I should invite you to Europe! Visit my country in the middle of nowhere and get fattened with food. ;) Hahahaha.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Oh but I do! I am evil. There are some cool places in EU even I haven't visited, and I do need travel buddies. Nothing else, just the friendship of a good person, with whom we can just walk around, talk, have good coffee with, and enjoy places. I want too much, I know. LOL. In this day and age, people get together for one thing and that one thing, to me, meh, no thanks. So yeah, I wanna have a travel friend for the travels and good moments. Haha.
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James H
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@tardis Hey, I'd be your partner in travel. I'd probably never be home except that 1: I can't afford that and 2: I'd be the only one leaving. But, like, I spent a week in Munich back when people were paying me. In fact I was being paid to be there and it was with a bunch of my coworkers. So I mean, just say when and where and let's see what happens. This... is also why I've taken to also looking for remote jobs. The more remote the job, the less the employer cares whether I work from my living room in Ottawa or a hotel room in Italy.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

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Ok, I'm still being stubborn. Got around to reinstalling some of the tooling and I'll see whether I can build Qt this time.
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@modulux Looking at your patience while exploring a way to make accessible multiplatform apps, perhaps @TauriApps might be worth looking at. I haven't yet tried it but according to the description it is looking like a much lighter platform comparable to #electron. It is reported to use platform native webviews where possible.
#electron @modulux @TauriApps
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modulux
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I could give it a look but I really really really dislike web for things that would be better native. Something like a listview has so much better affordances in a native application than on the web. Still, I suppose I could try it. thanks for the suggestion.

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ak mám byť úprimný tak na to ako som "mimo" tak tú čašníčku zo včera mám v hlave stále tiež
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SuspiciousDuck
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potrebujem ďalšiu úlohu aby sa môžem ísť opäť tváriť že silno premýšľam

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At this year's #FOSDEM my team at #wolfSSL got no booth space so my large volume #curl sticker distribution (LVCSD) has to be done using other means.

The LVCSD will most likely happen in the cafeteria area, but feel free to ping me if you can't get your fix as planned.

I will bring thousands of curl stickers and hundreds of coasters. There will be a few mugs and maybe some tshirts.

Buying myself friends, like a boss.

lots of curl stickers of different kinds and flavors
#fosdem #curl #wolfssl
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První dny
První vlog z cesty, nastříhal jsem tam vše co jsem natočil ale nezveřejnil.
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Gran error, me he traído gominolas al trabajo.

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takú chuť mám na tatarák ale že už dva týždne 🤤

edit: a najradšej by som sledoval Trumpovu inauguráciu ibaže... zase práce?
edit: jo dnes je pondelok, tak teda úspešný týždeň

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On this day four years ago, I handed over svn.haxx.se to the #Subversion project and my two decades of hosting a mailing list archive for the project was over:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/20…


bye bye svn.haxx.se

It isn't actually going away. It's just been thrown over the fence to the Apache project and Subversion itself to host and maintain going forward. Mail archive When the Subversion project started in the early year 2000, I was there.
daniel.haxx.se
#subversion

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My thesis on P4P is finally online!

doi.org/10.17613/naj7d-6g984

P4P: Steps Toward more Adaptive Internets: charting Open-Source, P2P and Local-First Networks

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#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

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Vale, me ha llegado un aviso de un curso del INAP muy útil para URAs (unidades rsponsables de accesibilidad) pero me lo mandan el mismo día que se cierra la inscripción.

Otra vez será.

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Iván Novegil
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a mí el curso ese me llegó por email el viernes pasado. No sé a qué andan, la verdad, si lleva un mes abierto. si no fuera porque no me puedo apuntar, lo haría solo por curiosear.
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modulux
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Supongo que llegaría el día y no tenían cubierto el cupo, pero podían haber avisado con tiempo. La verdad es que no le llevo control a los cursos del INAP, y debería.

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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Lunes, pero esta semana es corta y luego tengo vacaciones hasta fin de mes. Cojo el viernes.

Así que con bastantes ganas, dentro de lo que cabe y de que determinadas cosas me gustan menos que otras.

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LibreOffice is the privacy-oriented office suite and doesn't include AI out-of-the-box. No way. But some people find AI tools useful, so a community member has made a (fully optional!) extension to add these features if you want them: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Screenshot of localwriter, showing a dialog box offering to make a selection of text more friendly

localwriter: An optional LibreOffice Writer extension for local generative AI - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice is a privacy-oriented office suite that runs on your own computer and doesn’t include AI features out-of-the-box.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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very cool! I’m guessing it is only available in English language?

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Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride your bike now, ride your bike now! Ride your bike to Gondor!

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Lidem už fakt hrabe.
Kočí myl koně v myčce. Poláka nyní vyšetřuje policie pro týrání zvířat
denik.cz/staty-eu/koci-my-kone…

Kočí myl koně v myčce. Poláka nyní vyšetřuje policie pro týrání zvířat

Polsko pobouřil případ z okresního městečka Maków Mazowiecki, kde dva lidé zavedli koně do automobilové myčky. Vyděšené zvíře se odtud pokoušelo utéci, ale přesto muselo podstoupit očistu vroucí vodou, stříkající pod vysokým tlakem.
ČTK (Deník.cz)
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Ivan Stloukal
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Cetl jsem ten titulek jeste se zalepenym okem na mobilu a prvni co me napadlo bylo "jak proboha narval kone do mycky".
Po nejake chvili mi doslo, ze to asi bude automycka.
No jo, nedostatek kofeinu je hrozne svinstvo
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Archos
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@cynik_obecny To jo , pro správné fungování, třeba kofein po probuzení doplnit 😊👍
@Ivan Stloukal

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Hello #blind #MacOS users. Question from my partner @LaurenCeleste again. How do you create a shortcut to a website on the desktop? Every guide I can find says simply select the text in the address bar and drag it to the desktop. But how do you do this with VO? I know it has drag and drop and the gestures for that, but doesn't cmd+tab ruin any positioning, which you need to do to get the VO cursor from safari to the finder in order to drag something to the desktop? Is there some way to move the VO cursor between windows while setting up a multi-window D&D that I missed? Or an easier way to create a web shortcut (.webloc) accessibly? @FreakyFwoof @pitermach @masonasons @TheQuinbox
#blind #MACOS @Pitermach @Quin @Andre Louis @Lauren❄️ @Mew✨🥰
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If you have file extension visibility enabled:

1. create a txt file that looks like the following:


[InternetShortcut]URL=example.com

2. Change the extension to .url.

There might be a better way, but this way works for me.

Example Domain

example.com
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Andre Louis
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@miki Always wondered how to make those on mac directly, those stupid .webloc things Mac uses are annoying and pointless, so I always just make the shortcut on windows and send it over the network. If this method works which I will be testing later on, wonderful. Easy enough to do it from terminal using echo and then >website.url
@Mikołaj Hołysz

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I've just remixed the promo trifold flyer from @libreoffice promo material from 2016. Included the new icons updated and translated it into portuguese. Where to send the .pdf and the .odg so it can be featured on the page? And so that we can spread the word among portuguese speaking friends.
pt-PT_Consumer_LibreOffice_promo_outside.jpg
pt-PT_Consumer_LibreOffice_promo_inside.jpg
@LibreOffice

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A main technical and economic difference to #matrix servers/clients:
The family of #deltachat apps uses #chatmail servers as ephemeral message transports that know nothing and forget everything: Servers don't store group metadata or cryptographic identities and delete messages after download by default. In effect, a 30EUR/month #chatmail server with 10K's of active users hums along with 2% IO and CPU pressure, 1GB RAM and negligible disk usage. No Pro-version or Kubernetes needed to scale ;)
#matrix #deltachat #chatmail
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If I were sighted, I would likely have collected lots of comib books. Has anyone experimented with using AI such as Ally to read and describe comic books? This is something I'd very much like to try.
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Yes I've run them through ChatGPT or Be My AI with good results. Sometimes it will miss the point but if you ask for descriptions panel by panel you can generally get 90 percent of the way there.
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Laurel Jean Walden
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I've always wanted to be able to access the funnies in the newspaper, too.

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Wow, RIP edd potter of playback magazine fame, passed away on Jan 14.
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I know that the files would be huge but I do wish that Playback and Playback Underground could be made available as zip files. Perhaps they could be divided up where each .zip file might contain several years of files?

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Thinking of upgrading to Windows 3

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I'm really enjoying the original "Upstairs, Downstairs" from the 1970s which is available for free on Tubi. Sadly, it's not audio described but it's a nice, (so far) calm series with very interesting and colorful characters.
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Laurel Jean Walden
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I used to watch that when it aired on our local PBS station in Illinois. Glad to hear that it is streaming.

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Just finished the latest book by Richard Powers called "The Playground". Wow, if you are into #ai #philosophy and good fiction, you may want to read this as well... Those of you who read his earlier "The Overstory" may guess what you would be signing up for. His writing and snorytelling is absolutely amazing! #literature audible.com/pd/B0D3WKKT9B?sour…

Playground

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
Audible
#AI #philosophy #literature

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This is probably already known by most fans of Star Trek and Doctor Who but I just learned that David McIntee passed away last month. I remember him at one of the Gallifrey conventions and he was quite enjoyable. I so far haven't read any of his books but I definitely plan to do so.

David A. McIntee has passed away.
trekbbs.com/threads/david-a-mc…

#DoctorWho

David A. McIntee has passed away.

Some sad news to pass on; my colleague and fellow tie-in writer David A. McIntee passed away this weekend. It's my understanding he went into hospital for end-of-life care last week, but I don't...
The Trek BBS
#doctorwho

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If you think xiaohongshu is state sponsored propaganda but you don’t think, “Omg guys president trump saved TikTok” is state sponsored propaganda… 🤨

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Why are we anywhere near ok with this.
Screenshot of a post by theageedit: Y'all do realize that TikTok's pop up message in the app is quite literally a Trump ad, right?

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Don’t forget--humans are complex. You can feel joy while you are furious or heartbroken, and all are valid.

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Anti-poverty group says billionaires' wealth soared in 2024 as the elites prepare for another Davos
https://apnews.com/article/davos-2025-trump-wef-elon-musk-billionaires-ee121c56f6828021cb864de927383c7b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress


Billionaires' wealth soared in 2024, anti-poverty group says as the elites prepare for another Davos

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least five trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990.
JAMEY KEATEN (AP News)
@International News

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As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives they’ve seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, it’s always their gen that has gotten fucked.

This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.

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Getting ready for my last night in this United States. Because, whatever we get after tomorrow's event, it won't be the USA that any of us, I suspect, are used to. I won't call it America, because that just casually disregards Canada, Mexico, and all of South and Central America and I get really mad when people just call this country America. I sispecpt Canadians, Mexicans, and all of Latin America probably aren't huge fans of it, either. Either way, the next little while and beyond is going to be rough. Buckle up, hold on, and resist what you can where you can!! Here we go. :(

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This is a quick test.
I figured out how to braille while using my Magic Keyboard.
This is pretty neat.

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Tomorrow will be a dark day for many.

For disabled, marginalized, LGBTQ+ folks & women. For anyone who still cares about others

The disability community saw this coming. It’s important we listen & understand that labelling people as expendable for 5 years leads nowhere good

Since November we’ve watched hate win over and over again.

We’ve witnessed the emboldening of those who think they’re superior to others.

We’ve seen an increase in misogyny, bigotry, ableism, racism & discrimination.

Disabled people begged the Left to pay attention. We begged you to keep masking, to push for clean air, to demand accountability from government.

We implored you to realize that our lives are not less important than your ability to go out for brunch.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people on both sides of the aisle decided that mitigating COVID was “too hard.”

They accepted repeat infections as inevitable so they wouldn’t have to adapt their lives in any way.

They threw away people like me.

We let hate win. And now we’re going to see the consequences of that decision.

Disabled people weren’t surprised in November, we’ve been living in what feels like an alternate reality for years.

But I suspect others are about to feel our pain.

If you’re feeling scared or angry right now, know that you’re not alone. There’s a community standing with you.

I don’t know exactly what comes next, but I do know we have to keep up the fight.

disabledginger.com/p/how-did-w…

#disability #COVIDisAirborne #covidisnotover #uspol #ableism #eugenics #trump #pandemic #longcovid


How Did We Get Here and What Comes Next?

Disabled people have been warning others for nearly 5 years that eugenicist Covid policies would lead to a rise of fascist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic hatred. It's here now. So what’s next?
Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
#Trump #uspol #Disability #LongCovid #pandemic #CovidIsNotOver #ableism #COVIDisAirborne #eugenics
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Zach Bennoui
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It's not over, not by a long shot. We will win this thing, I promice. I'm not scared of Trump.

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Trump wanted to censor TikTok long before Biden -- and a huge majority of Congress -- stupidly made it law.

Now he's taking the credit for its (likely) restoration.

Follow the politics, yes, but also the money.

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Need to give an update to this before I forget again - all of thisisarecording.com 's sounds are safe!
A WARC of the former website's content can be found here:
archive.org/download/archivete…

If you aren't interested in playing with WARC extractors, I've prepared a link that contains just the content from the website, and crucially, the ~1200 phone recordings:
mega.nz/file/TOQRmTCR#i8kdyiQO…

archiveteam_archivebot_go_20231030013105_10bca957 directory listing

archive.org

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