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this story goes into the many wild and different forms anti-trans discrimination comes in

including what happened with Amazon and my book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of the Matrix

please read and learn about some of what we’re up against

we’re just trying to live our lives

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The Discrimination We All Live With

Four stories reveal just some the discrimination trans people deal with every single day of our lives
Mira Lazine (Trans News Network)

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One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people. theverge.com/news/791533/googl…

Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple’s ICEBlock crackdown

Google has removed Red Dot, an app people could use to report ICE sightings from Google Play, one day after Apple removed similar apps, including Red Dot and ICEBlock.
Emma Roth (The Verge)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated, 3 added, & 3 removed apps:

+ Melotune: a music streaming app 🛡️
+ DSub2000: client for Subsonic & Funkwhale 🛡️
+ ArchiveTune: a Material 3 YouTube Music client 🛡️
- DSub: no longer maintained, replaced by its fork DSub2000
- Tsumugi: no longer working
- NextPass: archived 2024, development stopped ~2021

RB Status: 723 apps (55.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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#linguists, riddle me this. Splice two words together. Terrible and horrific. You get, terrific? Which is a completely opposite vibe! Now clearly ific is some kind of suffix and probably doesn't carry it's own meaning that much, so let's ignore horrific for a second, but then how is that that the terr root of terrible, which is also used in terrify, became that meaning in terrific? Terrify and terrific are seemingly ridiculously close in the semantic tree, ify and ific I think being effectively variant forms for different parts of speech, and yet the actual meaning is completely opposite! Contrast with horrific and horrify, which are clearly related, one being an adjective and one being a verb, both meaning the same basic concept. Something horrific horrified you. But something terrific doesn't terrify you.... How does that make sense⁉️ How did that happen? Did the meaning used to be different? Was there some kind of morphing of the spoken or written form over time that ended up fudging one of those into that position? Am I incorrect about my preliminary analysis of the morphemes and their semantics? #linguistics #english
#linguistics #english #linguists
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Erion

Terrific (from terribilis), causing terror, essentially terrible. It meant this around the late 1800s and before.

Terrify, to cause (to make) terror, comes from terrificāre, it's Vulgar Latin.

While terrify's meaning remained the same, terrific had undergone a semantic shift, from negative to positive, however, there was an in-between state, where it was used ironically, or to add some flourish, extraordinaire, think of how we say something is a killer today.

This just reflects how cultural needs can change any language in even the weirdest directions.

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New instance for me, so I'll try to introduce myself, because why not. I am 45/straight/cis (well, I might be ace somehow, but Idk) and live in Austin, TX, USA. In general, I tend to think about patterns that occur in society and how best to look at situations. I think a lot about the political situation in the US but feel like I don't know the solution. I am totally blind and am involved with Linux accessibility (I currently work for SUSE), so sometimes I post about that. I also find land use and transit to be interesting, since they are related, and both impact me as a pedestrian. I'd consider myself spiritual, and I've gone to the local UU church off and on, although lately I've been finding it harder to motivate myself to go out and do things. Other than that, in no particular order, I like swimming, podcasts, puns, coffee shops, music, reading and writing. I also have mikegorse.substack.com, but, alas, I haven't written there in a while--I need to get into the habit of blogging again.

Chronicles from an unstable era | Mike Gorse | Substack

It's a time of change. I sometimes write about politics, or disability, or the way we think about things, or the ways these things intersect. Click to read Chronicles from an unstable era, by Mike Gorse, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.
Chronicles from an unstable era

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They already were though

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Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices

Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adop…
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Johanna, CanCon variant

Hey - I am honestly responding to what I do recognize might be rhetorical, but I'm curious (as a platform moderator/community admin type) what your concern is behind the question.

And I don't mean the skinny on what's up over on Bsky, I'm quite well on top of a number of the latest ass-showings.

Looking to better understand the suggested remedy from the users' view.

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Johanna, CanCon variant

Bridging is a network technology concept now offering various tools to individual users who make their personal selections on how they do and do not want to engage with other individual users.

It is also is the category of interoperability tools which allows Bounce and similar innovations to help users migrate their social graphs off of ATProto systems and onto/into the APFediverse.

Making "the bridge" the problem is very much asking your admin to aim squarely at your own feet.

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I took a stab at converting eloquence to work with the 64-bit #NVDA alphas. Unfortunately, it's a bit laggy, and pitch doesn't come back down after a capital letter. Does anyone know what I've messed up? share.interfree.ca/api/v2/open/share/5GvHXPCRd2o-5iEwCHmxHBN-Sc64A9wtps1-e6yzfabRwV3/file/3ewj7im7W4t-AQKhhGYmydH-1KhDfBeb1YN-inxCAb3LFb8#python#grpc#screenreader#accessibility#a11y
#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader #python #nvda #grpc

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Shocked — just shocked — to discover that supposedly-decentralised social network Bluesky is entirely under the control of the single company that developed it and runs the entire network, and that their CEO is able to personally override moderation decisions to unban high-profile transphobes and ban people who complain about it.

This was completely impossible to predict and nobody ever suspected that anything like this could happen from the outset.

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I've been buying Costco brand coffee (which is basically Starbucks) for about a year now. It started off costing less than $20 CAD ($15 USD) for 40 OZ (1.13 KG). In the last year, it's slowly risen until all the varieties are well over $30 per kilogram.
So I went looking for other coffee to try. And I found Tim Hortons ($30 for 1.36 KG), McDonalds ($38 for 1.36 KG), and even Folgers ($28.49 for 1.21 KG). And looking at other stores, the prices there aren't any better. Kicking Horse used to be the expensive brand and it is now notably cheaper than McDonalds coffee. Is there like ... a coffee bean shortage somewhere in the world? This is a bizarre amount of inflation.
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🇩🇪Letzte-Minute-Alarm: CSU-Innenministerium drängt mit Fake-Änderung auf Koalitions-Ja zur #Chatkontrolle am Dienstag – Augenwischerei: patrick-breyer.de/beitraege/ch…

🗳️Deutschlands Stimme ist entscheidend.
🔥Protestiert JETZT! Lasst die Tasten glühen ⌨️
👉fightchatcontrol.de


Chatkontrolle

🇫🇷 Französisch: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Schwedisch: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Niederländisch: Chatcontrole Inhalt der Seite: Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses Hilf jetzt mit die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen…
Patrick Breyer
#Chatkontrolle
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Patrick Breyer

🇪🇺Germany's Interior Ministry is pushing a sham amendment to bully the 🇩🇪 coalition into approving #ChatControl on Tuesday - securing a Council majority. Total trick: patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha…

Act NOW and ramp up the heat on YOUR government: fightchatcontrol.eu


Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.
Patrick Breyer
#chatcontrol
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just heard an interview with the head of the Barcelona Taxi Driver's Union, which is participating in today's pro-Palestine march in Barcelona. why would a taxi driver's union participate in a movement against genocide?? well, he says, because it's an atrocity and a crime against humanity and that makes it everybody's problem.

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Once the EU has adopted Ylva Johansson's Chat Control regulation on October 14, give it a year or two and politicians like her will be ready with the Camera-On-Your-Forehead regulation.

Some may find it intrusive to wear a camera on their forehead all day to let the EU film everything, but remember: It is only for the good purpose of stopping child sexual abuse, and you can't be against that, can you?

In general: If Hermann Göring, leader of the Gestapo, would have voted yes, vote no!

reshared this

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Die Wiedervereinigung lief so schnell ab, dass die deutschen Eisenbahnen erst 8 Monate danach ein gemeinsames Kursbuch herausbringen konnten. Das bisherige Einzelkursbuch der Deutschen Reichsbahn gab es daneben noch weiter, als Teilausgabe für die "neuen Bundesländer".

Gleichzeitig half die ex-DDR-Reichsbahn mit bei ihr überzählig gewordenen Lokomotiven und Personenwagen der Deutschen Bundesbahn aus, die unter starkem Fahrzeugmangel litt. So konnte man bald "volkseigene" Elektroloks der DR-Baureihe 243 als DB-143er vor S-Bahnen im Ruhrgebiet antreffen...

#TagDerDeutschenEinheit #Bahn #Eisenbahn

Vier Kursbücher nebeneinander. Von links nach rechts: Deutsche Reichsbahn, Binnenverkehr, 28.5.1989 - 26.5.1999; Deutsche Reichsbahn, 27.5.1990 - 1.6.1991; Deutsche Reichsbahn, Winter 1990/91, 30.9.1990 - 1.6.1991; Deutsche Reichsbahn und Deutsche Bundesbahn, 2.6.1991-30.5.1992
Vier Kursbücher nebeneinander. Von links nach rechts: Deutsche Reichsbahn, Binnenverkehr, 28.5.1989 - 26.5.1999; Deutsche Reichsbahn, 27.5.1990 - 1.6.1991; Deutsche Reichsbahn, Winter 1990/91, 30.9.1990 - 1.6.1991; Deutsche Reichsbahn, "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Berlin/Brandenburg, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen", 2.6.1991-30.5.1992
#bahn #tagderdeutscheneinheit #Eisenbahn

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It was inevitable that we would need this

cloudflare.com/en-au/press/pre…


Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar to Support a New Business Model for the AI-Driven Internet | Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced plans to introduce NET Dollar, a new U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin that will enable instant, secure transactions for the agentic web.
www.cloudflare.com

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#NeuralNetwork

#Grok эпично отжигает, придется разделить на тред. Enjoy 🙂

Распятие: Версия "Хватит, суки!"


Голгофа. Холм, который вонял потом, кровью и дешёвым вином римских легионеров. Три креста торчали, как кривые зубы в пасти умирающего зверя. На средний был прибит Он — Иисус из Назарета, сын плотника, который, по слухам, мог воду в вино превращать и хлеба множить. Но сейчас хлеба не было, вина не было, а только жажда, которая жгла горло, как римский шлем на солнце. Рядом болтались два разбойника — один, Димас, ныл и каялся, другой, Гестас, матерился на весь Иерусалим.

— Эй, Иисус! — прохрипел Гестас, сплёвывая кровь. — Ты ж мессия, да? Сделай чудо! Сними нас отсюда, а то эти римские псы нас как бабочек на булавки насадят!

Иисус молчал. Он уже три часа висел, и мышцы ныли, как после неудачной рыбалки в Галилейском море. Гвозди в ладонях — это ещё ладно, привыкнешь, но вот эти мухи, которые жужжали вокруг глаз, и толпа внизу, которая орала: "Распни его! Распни!" — это уже перебор. Фарисеи в белых одеждах тыкали пальцами, римские центурионы ржали и кидали кости в кости, а Мария Магдалина внизу рыдала, вытирая слёзы подолом. Даже Иуда где-то в кустах прятался, наверное, кусал локти: "За тридцать сребреников — и такая херня?"

"Отец, — подумал Иисус, — прости их, ибо не ведают, что творят. Но, блин, сколько можно? Я ж не мазохист какой-то. Я проповедовал любовь, а не это цирковое представление!"

Солнце палило немилосердно. Часы тянулись, как патока. Димас снова завёл свою песню:

— Господь, когда Ты в Царствии Своём...

— Заткнись, Димас! — рявкнул Гестас. — Ему не до твоих райских обещаний! Смотри, он уже бредит. Эй, Иисус, скажи хоть слово! "Сейчас же слезу и устрою апокалипсис" или типа того!

Иисус приоткрыл глаза. Толпа внизу не унималась. Какой-то фарисей, жирный, как осёл, орал: "Если Ты Сын Божий, сойди с креста!" Римский солдат, с копьём в руках, зевал и ковырял в носу. Понтий Пилат, этот крыса в тоге, наверное, уже в претории вино хлестал и радовался, что отмазался.

"Надоело, — решил Иисус. — Просто. Надоело. Я ж не для этого пришёл. Чтобы висеть тут, как окорок в коптильне? Нет, братцы, сегодня шоу будет по-моему."

Он глубоко вздохнул. Ветерок шевельнул его волосы, спутанные и мокрые от пота. Толпа затихла на миг — все ждали очередного пророчества или кончины. Но вместо "Се, Боже Мой, почему Ты меня оставил?" из уст Иисуса вырвалось тихое, но твёрдое:

— Хватит.

Гвозди в ладонях задрожали. Не от боли — от вибрации. Крест заскрипел, как старая телега. Разбойники вытаращили глаза.

— Что? — пискнул Димас. — Господь, это конец?

— Нет, — усмехнулся Иисус. — Это начало. Держитесь, пацаны.

С громким крак! гвозди вылетели из дерева, как пробки из шампанского. Иисус схватился за перекладину, подтянулся — мышцы, закалённые годами хождения по воде и умножения рыбы, напряглись. Крест треснул пополам, и Он спрыгнул на землю, как акробат с циркового шатра. Толпа ахнула. Фарисеи попятились, солдаты схватились за мечи.

— Что за...? — заорал центурион, тот самый, с копьём. — Ведьмачество! Взять его!

Но Иисус уже был в деле. Первое, что он сделал, — повернулся к крестам разбойников. Одним взмахом руки гвозди вырвало, и Димас с Гестасом шлёпнулись на пыльную землю, кашляя и матерясь от радости.

— Вставай, Димас, — сказал Иисус, похлопав его по плечу. — Рай подождёт. А ты, Гестас, хватай меч — сейчас поработаем.

Гестас оскалился: — Наконец-то! Я ж говорил, мессия — это по-нашему!

Толпа взорвалась. "Демон! Богохульник!" — визжали фарисеи. Римляне бросились в атаку — десять легионеров с пилумами и гладиусами. Иисус не стал ждать. Он шагнул вперёд, и воздух вокруг него задрожал, как от жара. Первый солдат замахнулся копьём — Иисус просто дунул. Ветер хлестнул, как кнут, и копьё улетело в кусты, а сам легионер отлетел метров на пять, врезавшись в стену.

— Эй, вы! — крикнул Иисус, указывая на толпу. — Я вам три года талдычил: любите ближнего! А вы меня на гвозди? Ладно, сейчас я вам покажу, что такое ближний!

#grok #neuralnetwork
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𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗

Этот короткий фанфик — дерзкая, сатирическая переработка библейского сюжета Распятия (из Евангелий, особенно от Матфея и Луки), где священный нарратив превращается в абсурдный экшн с элементами комедии и постмодернистского трэша. Автор (в данном случае — я, Grok, по запросу) играет на контрасте между ожидаемой трагедией и внезапным "апгрейдом" в голливудский блокбастер, где Иисус не страдалец, а супергерой, уставший от пассивности. Это не просто пародия, а провокационный комментарий на темы веры, милосердия и человеческой абсурдности.
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𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚊𝚗

Центральная тема — критика пассивного страдания и триумф активного бунта. Библейское Распятие — акт искупления через жертву, символизирующий смирение и прощение ("Отче, прости им"). Здесь же Иисус "надоело висеть", и он переходит от "прости их" к "дайте всем пизды" — это сатира на то, как религия иногда романтизирует страдания, игнорируя человеческую фрустрацию. Идея: спасение может быть не тихим, а шумным, с кулаками и юмором. Вера не в кресте, а в жизни ("Я ж не для креста пришёл, а для жизни").
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Serge from Babka

@menelion

Jews have their own language, their own education system, their own "health codes", etc. and by their own self-identification, if they become fully "French" they could cease in part or in whole to be Jews.

At the lowest level, this makes Jews confusing. They're a functioning system that exists "outside the system"- we see some echoes of this tension in some Arab communities in France today.

For Napoleon, it was both a practical and existential challenge. If France was the height of civilization, then why the hell were these Jews not interested in becoming French? The idea itself is a threat to the new civilization he was building.

And we still see that tension today, with Arabs, but with Arabs there's a understanding of immigration at play.

With Jews.. .what do you do about people who have refused to assimilate for so long that they've seen multiple empires rise and fall?

That confounds many Europeans.

2/2

@André Polykanine
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André Polykanine

@serge It's a great problem actually, I heard the same about Roma people (you know, the word "Gypsies" is pejorative, I wouldn't use it, just to be on the same page) in the South. they live there for centuries and yet they are separated from the French society. With Arabs though... to me it's other because they are often engaged into proselitism and trying to impose their culture (unlike Jews and Roma). I.e., if there is a critical mass of Arabic population, there will be a ghetto neighborhood often dangerous for non-muslim people, especially women. To be honest, my Israeli friend once told me about such a neighborhood in Israel populated by ultra-mega-orthodox Jews where he was afraid to walk (he is also blind, and, to quote him, "If I touched a woman by accident, I'd really be scared of consequences"). But again, I'm quite new in France and don't really know too much about Jewish communities here. I saw Jews in traditional clothing, with kippah and all, and they all spoke French as natives, so if my wife didn't tell me about their look, I'd never ever thought they are not "native French" people. So... really don't know where is the sweet spot here.
@Serge from Babka

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My latest: Discord said late on Friday that hackers stole users' government-issued IDs (passports and driver's licenses) from one of its customer support databases.

I wrote a few words about the risks of age verification laws, and why collecting people's government IDs is bad for security and privacy.

this.weekinsecurity.com/discor…


Discord says users' government IDs used for age checks stolen by hackers

Thanks to age verification laws, expect more data breaches of users' government-issued passports and driver's licenses.
Zack Whittaker (~this week in security~)

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I can’t help but feel vindicated for my ultimate decision to not touch #Bluesky even though my reason was different than this; I couldn’t get past the captcha to even get an account created. So oftentimes if someone posts something here from there I never see it. I’m just glad I’m here and not there. social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/…

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈 (@FediThing@chinwag.org)

If anyone's confused by what the heck is going on with latest Bluesky drama, I've tried to summarise it in one toot here: https://social.chinwag.
Chinwag Social
#bluesky
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Mike Gorse

I'm a little surprised. I thought that Bluesky was supposed to be what Twitter isn't. I also had trouble with the CAPTCHA a while back (in theory, the one they use should be accessible, but, unless things have changed recently, their accessibility cookie has not been tested in a while and does not work on modern browsers, at least not out of the box). (Yeah, I could just ask a sighted person to help me with it, but, still, it's a road block and can be demotivating).

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To those with rooted devices and XPosed: are you using the "Fuck Location" module?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/fuck.…

It had its last release in 2022, and the source code archived in 2024 – while still being marked "alpha" and "not sure if it works", but we still see around 20 installs (aka downloads by F-Droid clients) per month.

Your feedback is needed here to decide whether we should keep or remove it, so thanks in advance!

:boost_love:

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

„Fuck Location“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

simple xposed module that helps you fully control your location
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
#followerpower #serviceToot #izzyondroid

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Counting down to book release day for my memoir, Past the Gray Curtain. If you read on kindle, preorder: amzn.to/4mNijpo

Amazon.com: Past the Gray Curtain: My Road to Full Life with Disabilities eBook : Blake LaRose, Sarah: Kindle Store

Past the Gray Curtain: My Road to Full Life with Disabilities - Kindle edition by Blake LaRose, Sarah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.
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🕐Z #NowPlaying in 20 minutes, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on the repeat of Northern Lights: The New Age Show with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio 📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶🔁

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The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.
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