People who say something, and then asked for sources or something just go "educate yourself"
#Competitive Off-Topic
glad cradle
Bitch, I am trying, help me
And I saw this both for bullshit, and for legit stuff
Where people just yap and then refuse to help other people get educated on an issue
lethal plover
Bitch, I am trying, help me
Just Google it!
Googling now
glad cradle
But hey, first sign of that is people on Reddit generally not reading articles, it's so funny if an article is not what the title implies
And the comment section goes off completely on the title
glad cradle
And even then, sometimes people don't read the title properly
Case in point: the reuters article I posted yesterday
It was a neatly designed article about cozy video games and their effects
Titled: "Reuters : New research backs up video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety"
Seems pretty straight forward, no?
btw for it being obvious and this gamers getting so chilled out, they are not sounding very chilled out
lethal plover
got buried in #other-games
but here related to your article
ah it cuts off, anyway played true ending Obra Dinn = good at doing US taxes
glad cradle
I don't see how this satire article relates
lethal plover
why did you think it's satire?
lethal plover
I am thinking about this too much, sure ate onion. In one big gulp.
Though I saw Obra Dinn gameplay so satire still be on point, just ignore IRS stuff.
glad cradle
The harddrive is rather funny most of the time
ngl most of these satire sites are hit and miss for me
But I can see it here, that article is not as obvious, although that would be a weird ass article in a normal publication, just the way it's written
lethal plover
Just scrolled explore on Mastodon out of boredom, so only know about onion really.
lethal plover
no quotes should've been trigger for me though.
glad cradle
Just scrolled explore on Mastodon out of boredom, so only know about onion reall...
This is why that kind of social media is dangerous
lethal plover
compared to algorithms on X/Facebook?
glad cradle
Twitter, Bluesky, Mastadon, they way people consume news there, very dangerous
glad cradle
compared to algorithms on X/Facebook?
No, that's a different layer
clever forge
Metroid Prime 4 being cancelled pretty realistic though at this point
glad cradle
I mean, you fell for satire, regardless of lack of algorithm
Imagine how this works for millions of people just seeing whatever
lethal plover
Won't deny that, but method of distribution is different.
I was lurking on what popular by retweets and so on, mine home page is filled with only who I follow.
glad cradle
Won't deny that, but method of distribution is different.
I was lurking on what ...
That doesn't change the manner of consumption though
glad cradle
Metroid Prime 4 being cancelled pretty realistic though at this point
I think hard drive had a satire article about Halo Infinite going to be bad, so maybe they aren't satire after all
Like, not like I never fell for bullshit, god knows I did and I do, but I feel like I am bit more cynical then other people, especially when it comes to things that confirm my beliefs
I've seen people in my own corner be very quick to just jump on something that confirms their belief, even if it is nonsense
lethal plover
it does depending on where you have registration though.
I am siting at mastodon.social
The biggest mastodon server that is some even blocked .
general feed is less curated than more personalised instances.
glad cradle
e.g. when you see all the random news about North Korean atrocities that people just kinda accept no matter how ridicillous the accusation is
lethal plover
you have no control over such on BLuesky and others.
So if you can't close pandora box, having option to choose where to isolate yourself is better than none.
glad cradle
you have no control over such on BLuesky and others.
So if you can't close pando...
What do you mean, "you have no control"? I can look at the feed of the people I follow and see nothing else
lethal plover
but you just accused me of doing same but going out of my feed due boredom.
glad cradle
but you just accused me of doing same but going out of my feed due boredom.
And suddenly the goalpost has shifted
you have no control over such on BLuesky and others.
Is what you said
I responded to that and nothing else
Also, did you note, that I listed bluesky in the bad list?
You are so invested in Mastodon, that you take even a critique at the kind of social media Mastodon is as an attack
lethal plover
yeap you have no control.
I am not taking my words.
What I am making point of is how different https://mastodon.social/explore
vs https://misskey.io/explore
is it same for you?
or you only see biggest instance and think they all work in same way?
do I need to provide more explore from other instances?
whats mega popular on one side of fedi isn't same on other side of fedi.
Whats popular on Bluesky, everyone knows.
if you want to share from one instance to other, you have to have friends in other instances.
So yeah I think you don't envision what exactly problem with centralised and decentralised.
glad cradle
You can follow who you want and have feeds with just the people you want. I am talking about instance, thougb I suppose you could make pseudo bubbles
lethal plover
So sure being duped is nothing any social media can prevent unless you have strong moderation.
Which is only few for marginalised groups have, but it's better option than say
facebook won't proof check anymore and use bots to ban problematic keywords.
fediverse give options while keeping you into same ecosystem.
glad cradle
Kot, I am critising social media consumption as a whole. And Mastodon in the end is also just social media
Doesn't matrer about the instances and federations, it's social media at the end of the dau
lethal plover
just shows that humans are animals that love talk, same with pubs, chats, news,gossips of elderly and social media.
Your options is to control it the less control you have and more lazy feed me button (tiktok says hi with 10 sec videos), the worse it goes (twitter says hi with Elon musk praise).
first time I heard of Elon was from memes about catgirls.
doesn't even talk about genetic engineering.
glad cradle
I still don't very much like the twitter kind of social media. I am not browsing bluesky that much, certainly not for news
I come from a time of forums and I prefer discussions where regularly write more than a 140 character screenshottable takedown
That's why I quite liked Reddit, and why I still read there, even if I don't post. Not as good as a forum, but still kore worthwhile to me than the twitter clones
lethal plover
I am not looking at news, news what pops a lot on mastodon.social but if you browse there is a lot of interesting things showing up.
So me getting duped once on onion piece is like one out of 1000 good things I saw on mastodon.
lethal plover
That's why I quite liked Reddit, and why I still read there, even if I don't pos...
I miss my lurking on reddit, but Lemmy didn't grab while kbin is dead.
Mastodon is just for looking if something pops on #arknights ... which is rarely, not enough people on hashtag talking.
glad cradle
I feel like Cuora calls you out on something every other week, but then again, don't feel personally attacked. I was talking about social media consumption in general
As I said numerous times
anf posted a screenshot of
lethal plover
misskey is my arknights art repository which also not much compared to others.
glad cradle
I wrote three things. but just mentioning Msdtodon made you act like I attacked only Mastodon
lethal plover
I pointed out owning your own space is best option, while other social media is your rent which always go up
also calling me out on 1 link each other week?
gotta call out many times more to matter
anyway need to leave so won't reply until I got home.
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glad cradle
https://mountains.social/@Coho/113915910113125241
For everybody seeing this: Halfway Post is a satire website
Also, satire aside, this is something I see often on social media. You got a whole chain in there
Something announces something, but social media tends not to link to the announcement (even if it's not real here), they link to a picture of a social media post of an outlet or even a random person telling about the announcement
I am currently on Discord looking at an embedded Mastodon Post that has a screenshot from Twitter of a website having a line about an announcement
Again: this is not a specific Mastodon Problem, it's a general social media problem
lethal plover
lethal plover
ah that who he is
#1240688320200179774 message
lethal plover
lethal plover
https://mastodon.social/@tillybridges/113926940768841838 @digital glade
digital glade
https://mastodon.social/@tillybridges/113926940768841838 <@153357701034803200>
HOORAY
lethal plover
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lethal plover
https://mastodon.social/@MonchLutzi/113935091922519360
I'm facing 5 years in prison for pushing a policeman into the mud and footkicking another who was charging. The video of the scene went viral.
Feel free to check out my profile for other infos! My 9-page statement in bio in german / french and english.
Thanks for your attention 🙏🧙♂️
Please share my statement and spread it ! I explain some self-organise radical non-violent tactics we can try to use in protest !Mud Wizard
glad cradle
mu portfolio looks a bit bruised, but not as syrong as expected
wonder what I missed, the German market dpesn't seem too concerned
maybe when the american matket opens
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glad cradle
I am just going to say that this man worked longer at CERN that most of us are alive
When we belittle right wing populists on Twitter that ignore opinions of experts in their field, we should also touch our own nose
glad cradle
Counter point
AI is being injected into every aspect of the LHC operation, from deciding which data to collect to how it should be interpreted. “When the LHC is colliding protons, it’s making around 40m collisions a second and we have to make a decision within a microsecond … which events are something interesting that we want to keep and which to throw away,” said Dr Katharine Leney, who works on the LHC’s Atlas experiment. “We’re already now doing better with the data that we’ve collected than we thought we’d be able to do with 20 times more data ten years ago. So we’ve advanced by 20 years at least. A huge part of this has been down to AI.”
lethal plover
Him being expert in one field not same as being expert in AI
glad cradle
AI is already used in CERN
lethal plover
So you argue that everything complex can be only solved by complex thing, right?
There is no simple solutions to complex things.
“It’s complex data, just like protein folding – that’s an incredibly complex problem – so if you use an incredibly complex technique, like AI, you’re going to win.”
When you simplify message, you lose the important parts in transformation.
Is it nitpicking? Sure, same as you nitpicking that he must be smart because he got high position (looks at US riiiight now).
it's a complext thing, like this thing - you know that is complex - so if you use complex tehnique , like thing, you are going to win.
glad cradle
You are hyperfocusing on that single sentence that a scientist made to a public, non-scientific outlet
And you just act like he says that "everything complex can be only solved by complex thing"
AI is being injected into every aspect of the LHC operation, from deciding which data to collect to how it should be interpreted. “When the LHC is colliding protons, it’s making around 40m collisions a second and we have to make a decision within a microsecond … which events are something interesting that we want to keep and which to throw away,”
Oh, and that
Sure, same as you nitpicking that he must be smart because he got high position
I have already given you the information that he was working at CERN for 30 years
He's a distinguished particle physicist
And you compare him to Trump, because you don't like his opinion
He was selected on merit, not voted in on an election campaign
lethal plover
And you compare him to Trump, because you don't like his opinion
When did I ever said I didn't like his opinion?
I have 0 info on person,blank list.
What I do have is statement that irks me.
So yeah if you phrased something wrong, you will be judged regardless of expertise.
You are hyperfocusing on that single sentence that a scientist made to a public, non-scientific outlet
So who is wrong about quote then?
Me, Person who posted on Mastodon, the outlet that quoted him, or his choice of words?
Why you even make elephant out of this in first place?
When we belittle right wing populists on Twitter that ignore opinions of experts in their field, we should also touch our own nose
So we never should pay attention to what people say because we lack expertise.
Wanna bring that to Trump who have expertise in presidency over USA?
glad cradle
Look, you share a social media post that said that Mark Thomson sounds like and idiot with a reply that likens him to Trump without comment of yourself. Although you also keep liken him to Trump. Twice.
Me
I don't know what it is lately that you keep feeling personally attacked when I say anything critical about what someone posts on Mastodon
So we never should pay attention to what people say because we lack expertise.
And stop twisting my words
Certainly I said "We should never pay attention to what people say because lack expertise"
The following is happening from my view: Mark Thomson is a distinguished particle physicist that heads CERN now, and has a history of serving CERN and Fermilabs. CERN is already using AI with success. Mark Thomson is talking about how AI is and will help their specific research. Someone on social media ripped out a single sentence and said he sounds dumb.
glad cradle
btw. I wonder why Musk hasn't got rid of the community notes yet
Every time I see something, they are so funny
Have seen that on Reddit and checked that this is real on Twitter and indeed it is
tawdry oxide
Bluesky
ah yes another far right led harrasment campaign in video game
(i can't say much about the profile tho)
direct link to article
glad cradle
On January 27, user Mark Kern
Oh, of course grummz is in this
I tried to find it on his twitter
but I had to stop
Dude is posting so much
Like, he really liked to pretend to have a job, but he doesn't do much work and just a lot of tweeting I think
Certainly found it in kotakuinaction
along with the freshest kotakuinaction takes about women
A lot of people who don't like women that aren't fictional submissive dolls very much
clever forge
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/it-looks-like-someone-at-activision-is-le...
Why is Twitter just 4chan but more hateful and less ironic now
glad cradle
Why is Twitter just 4chan but more hateful and less ironic now
Because a lot of the people not aligning with Musk's ideology left to other social media
lethal plover
tawdry oxide
yeh oh didnt i share this yesterday ? might have ogrog etc
lethal plover
https://mastodon.social/@Thelonious08/113941627645382126
Yeah , lots of people calling out a fake
so here for comparison
clever forge
That seems fake as hell
tawdry oxide
oh i meant, the names + the article from wired
but i didnt see that screenshot iirc
and ofc can't tell if fake or not
lethal plover
Molly White is a person I saw messages few times and one of them about Facebook claiming her name being... a substance that is forbidden...
So she has good history, second one was just a random I saw while scrolling,
tawdry oxide
this is the thing i seen with the article
so it's not coming from nowhere yeh
also, one of the person is affiliated to palantir not directly but
lethal plover
https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/113943974099328082
https://ruby.social/@gnoll110/113788163176479094
glad cradle
Alice Weidel, head of the AFD, works a lot againt "illegal immigrants" and such
But turns out she had an illegal Syrian worker herself
She paid her money on hand
lethal plover
glad cradle
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113947054451350035
“Texas will not allow the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate our state's critical infrastructure through data-harvesting AI and social media apps,” said Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Frantically pointing to the South African currently stealing and manipulating data
This overblown reaction is pretty funny given what else they just let past
But invoke China, suddenly privacy is important
“As stated in their own privacy policy, DeepSeek is a shared cloud service run in China with data being stored in China – potentially introducing unknown risks to data privacy, compliance mandates and security controls.”
This is btw the reason for a lot of stuff in the GDPR regarding American servers
e.g. using the Google hosted google fonts is sketchy, because it sends data to American servers
Can't do that without consent
lethal plover
Read Cory Doctorow about how DRM work and how company can sue you for making app that will affect their business (there was more precise wording but don't want to butcher).
So one of examples are free font from Goldman Sans which has this term of use wording " by using this font you cannot talk in negative way about Goldman Sans enterprise or person" ...
So yeah free font at least!
lethal plover
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tawdry oxide
yummy
at 85 air quality score (with 1 hour of exposure to Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and 85 is like, not that high on the scale
it's already enough to cloud your cognitive 
"In conclusion, this study showed a reduction in higher-order cognitive processing 4 h after exposure to high concentrations of PM2.5 in healthy individuals, while spatial working memory function is robust against short-term exposure episodes."
glad cradle
btw what is the state of JK Rowling?
Oh yeah
Rowling arrived on the path she was leading up to for the past years
Hating trans people so much that she supports right wingers
tawdry oxide
she's been doing this for a long time honestly
but yeh gone more and more open with time
glad cradle
It's fairly interesting with her, because she is such a public person
You can see her whole path from left to center to right over the years
tawdry oxide
it's a common path
through various pipelines
but yes she has a huge money and image she leverages to fuck us and our rights
solar harbor
sturdy berry
https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/kanye-west-says-i-love-hitler-accu...
nazi infighting moment
sturdy berry
where does asking questions about political althist or future scenarios that contain arknights characters go, or is it not allowed in this server?
lost geode
where does asking questions about political althist or future scenarios that con...
I think it goes in #lore
sturdy berry
I think it goes in <#1121000387172905091>
it's an future scenario with an arknights character as us president, does that go there?
lost geode
it's an future scenario with an arknights character as us president, does that g...
Probably goes in #lounge 
lethal plover
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lethal plover
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113981967470617221 https://bsky.app/profile/bnonews.com/post/3lhu2ue5f2k2x
glad cradle
@tawdry oxide
A discretionary £1 fare before 09:30 GMT for those with the disabled persons NoWcard will end in April.
From July, free bus travel for young people who are not in education, employment or training will also end.
The cabinet member for highways and transport, Rupert Swarbrick, said: "The withdrawal is regrettable but it does allow us to contribute to the overall balancing of the corporate budget."
There are around 10,000 NoWcards in circulation and the consultation over the cut to the service saw 510 people take part, with 81% of them disagreeing with the move to scrap the subsidised fare.
The free young person's travel scheme is used by an average of 139 apprentices a month, alongside 35 people eligible for other reasons.
When questioned at a meeting of the Cabinet over the rigour of the consultation, Mr Swarbrick said the council had "engaged in a very thorough manner".
The scrapping of both these schemes will save the council about £394,000.
The leader of the Labour group on the council, Matthew Tomlinson, said: "This quite cruel decision actually costs the county council such a tiny amount of money, we think it's the wrong decision."
tawdry oxide
wait im unsure to get it
free travel for some
and they scrapped it for "smol money"?
glad cradle
Yes, they had basically free travel, it was 1 Pound, but I mean, that's basically free for disabled people and completely free for young people looking for a job
glad cradle
And, yeah it will save, at most, 400,000 Pound, which isn't that much for a council
tawdry oxide
in most places alas it's not the case
where i'm now : no discount for me
for transportation
no free entry to whatever museum exists here
doesnt help with going outside iether
iirc we know that making free transportation is good
less car usage
less pollution
etc
glad cradle
Well, in Germany it's easy right now, we have the Deutschland Ticket for 60 Euro a month where you can use all of public transport except fast-trains all month long in all of Germany
There are discounts for people who have little money
tawdry oxide
oh yeh i think i heard about that 60 ticket
glad cradle
So that thing is a great mobilizer and you never have to think much about what ticket to buy in another city
I can just jump in the regional train, go to another city and go there on busses and trams and don't have to buy a ticket
tawdry oxide
it's a real pain with the uh
local systems
like, car x has its prices, a car in the same city going elsewhere has other prices etc
what is this soup
and yeh diff tickets too ofc
glad cradle
Yeah, I know, the Deutschland Ticket is recent
I do remember how it was with all the different systems
btw just looked up what the Hamburg art gallery offers for disabled people
Generally cheaper entry, also eliible to get in every first Thursday of a month for free after 18:00 and they have specifically guided tours for various disablities
tawdry oxide
yeh "usually" when they do a lil something (and it's not a tiny tiny museum) you get free basic wheelchair borrowing (the 15kg ones), cheaper or free entry
and sometimes they have staff that can help for a thing or some uh... material like, the infos on the art pieces in another way (like, instead of only having written, you could have braille board for it sometimes)
soooometimes you'll have an "easy to read and understand" version
some museum have a special area with art that you can touch or stuff, bt it's usually only for groups (usually tied to an institution)
glad cradle
bte why would you need to borrow one in the first place? if you need one, wouldn't you get around by wheelchair anyways?
tawdry oxide
well
it can be cause a wheelchair helps when you spend long time in a place for example
but you dont have the money for a chair and you can somewhat walk
when i used "only" a walking stick, i'd borrow a wheelchair when i could
even tho they were the shitty 15kg ones, it did help
after visiting, legs wouldnt hurt too much
i remember going to the louvre, borrowing a wheelchair there
there was a HUGE angry slope
wheelchair uses the arms tho and given i dont have awheelchair well, arms would hurt a bit, given the louvres is huge 
can't find a pic of the slope, but it was a hardcore one
glad cradle
I see, that makes sense
tawdry oxide
also could be that you have a wheelchair but can't go to the place with it so you use a stick or a rollator/walker (tho a walker is harder to gib to people keeping an eye on visitor's belongings)
glad cradle
I mean, the art gallery Hamburg is fully accessible. so that's not it in that case
tawdry oxide
oh yeh but like
even the travel to get there
the other transportations/ the streets having too many pebbles etc
depending how are the diff ways to get there ofc
pine yacht
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable
Was reading on roman concrete, it's kinda unbelievable
I guess this goes here even ||yall posting negative stuff all the time||
lethal plover
ancient people were smarter than we...
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tawdry oxide
that and also replaced
a black person? nah let's put a white one
for example
and yeh they changed pictures, removed names, replaced some
removed the t...etc
glad cradle
Yeah, I am sure Rowling her cronies celebtrate that. This is what the "LGB" people want
Oh, another sad one
An old woman was caring for her disabled son, who is now 50, and after she got disagnosed with terminal cancer she killed him and then herself, because she knew nobody would care for him when she's gone
It's also insane to me how long she cared for her son, alone and with years of cancer and in old age. It's really hard to blame her.
glad cradle
@tawdry oxide
I mean, to be fair, it is named "Labour"
And I also think that people should work if they can, but we know that this sentiment will hit people who can't
tawdry oxide
yeh it's now new
in the past (10 ish years) uk killed people with their fit to work assessment done by private comp getting much money to do such shit
and they kept talking about making it even stricter, even more conditions to get etc
again it's partially tied to long covid/em-cfs / covid infections which triggered dormant stuff in some people
more disabled people, all that...
it's a thing happening in many places "look ! much more disabled people, they want the benefit"
yeeeh right, the under the poverty line benefits? yummy
so much dehumanizing happens to even try to get these
also in some places, you can be self employed while having the disability beneift, but the papers are complex and or stressful etc
and what's the point of having a business to sell 2 things in the year that will amount to 200 euros total or something
trust me, people who can actually work to support themselves usually do
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lost geode
https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/114009195976239460
put duo in front of them
lethal plover
tawdry oxide
surprisingly you won't hear the sexist pos men who sealion "what about abused men" (these people use them as a talking point to spew shit when women talk about abuse andall usually)
and yeh it's terribly sad
helplines need to exist
orgs
everybody can be victim of abuse
glad cradle
was almost asleep
then I felt a disturbance in the force
On Monday, Andrew Tate posted on X: “It was [President] Biden who locked us up in the first place. USAid-sponsored attack.
And that was apprently enough for the USA to jump in
lethal plover
@glad cradle
I found what I meant https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/112768380381866153
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/
As when we discussed prior here
#1240688320200179774 message
The trunk’s outer layers of woven carbon fiber billowed and unraveled as it fell, likely insulating and slowing the plummeting pieces so abruptly that friction from the atmosphere failed to destroy them as SpaceX engineers had planned.
Yes I do understand that it is not Starlink as I assumed. But is it different company that mentioned in this article?
Also the whole who will you report to when there is only treaties between governments and no precedent between private company and private company/person finding space junk. So we don't have international laws to cover SpaceX as no one done space launches except government.
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https://climatejustice.social/@muellertadzio/114023357071028206
https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Anklage-gegen-Todesfahrer-vor-Berliner-Einkaufsmeile-article25568811.html
Not drunk old fart going up to 90 and sweering on bus lane to mitigate traffic.
2 tourists (mother and son) died.
Also he is German so no need attention that it's immigrant doing terrorism.
Hope I understood MTL right and not mess something up
https://mastodon.social/@tom_andraszek/114023511939518148
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/sunshine-coast-primary-school-escooter-parking-ban/104949594
neuter your D.O.G.E. is good one
glad cradle
Yes I do understand that it is not Starlink as I assumed. But is it different co...
I mean, when we are talking about any space junk. that's very much not limited to SpaceX. The article also mentions that there were improvents made on the dragon. Also, we actually talked about Starlink satellites specifically.
lethal plover
I mean, when we are talking about any space junk. that's very much not limited t...
Again first of all why are you insistent on the wording? I already told you that I was wrong, do you see when post was made?
Second SpaceX dragon also Has to burn up in atmosphere or is it not? So why would you want me believe that all starlinks burn up 100% while shuttle didn't do that and was bigger. What if we break ozone layer so much that it won't break smaller Starlinks as well?
Or I should trust SpaceX without doubt?
Like even article mentiones how 2 shady guys gone didn't talk, took 5 parts from different farms and ride off as if was smuggling instead of Official business?
Why you must insist on Starlink burn out no problem instead of Starlink burn out for now but whole company is a shit and mess that can't be trusted?
there is also few mentions of flight cancelations due Starlink burning up and messing with plane trajectory.
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glad cradle
Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her life after experiencing months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Gainesville Intermediate School was aware Carranza was being bullied and mocked by students who told the young girl she would be left alone when her parents got deported. It had gotten so aggressive, Carranza was meeting with a school counselor multiple times a week. Her family, however, was never notified.
glad cradle
@Gli
@tawdry oxide
Three million claim benefits with no obligation to seek work
Ministers want to remove incentives to being signed off sick and say new figures demonstrate the need to reform a system that wastes potential
Kendall said: “Many sick and disabled people tell us they want to work with the right support. But for too long they’ve been denied a fair chance to get jobs. Potential is being wasted, businesses are missing out on untapped talent and our economy is suffering. I’m determined to change this.”
The Times reported last month that Kendall is planning to require the long-term sick to look for work in reforms intended to control the welfare bill and fill 800,000 vacancies in the economy. She may abolish the highest category of universal credit health claims, known as limited capacity for work or work-related activity, which gives claimants an extra £5,000 a year and frees them from any obligation to look for work.
Surely the support disabled people that can get work need is cutting their support
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Liz Kendall
She got other ideas
Like sending job coaches to mental hospital wards
Job coaches could visit mental health patients when they are in hospital to help them get back to work, the government has said.
Trials of employment advisers giving CV and interview advice in hospitals produced "dramatic results", Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall told the BBC.
Kendall also told the BBC job centres would be transformed by merging them with the national careers service and using AI.
She suggested the face-to-face work would remain for the people “who really need it”, but “more personalised support using AI” for others, expanding on an idea introduced by her predecessor Stride.
Some non-disabled people struggle in the job market, how do they expect disabled people will fare if they're already deemed not able to look for work?
Depending on the disability a lot of jobs are just nonsense to apply for, because the person struggles or is simply unable to do the job
tawdry oxide
oh yeh but it's not only her, the whole labour etc
is
uuuugh
between that and the us
and the rest of the world ofc
"job coaches" yeees surely they own't go "move on, you shouldnt stay like that, a job will make you better ! work work work work ! (or we cut your benefit and you die =D)"
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https://mastodon.world/@dottir/114030908503911874
https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/we-are-playing-with-fire-it-highlights-the-urgency-for-action/425034
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thoughts on an althist (or future) timeline where Mountain becomes potus (not sure where else to post this)?
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steady spade
no way 😭
glad cradle
I should've invested in Rheinmetall
Ukraine war kicked it up
And Trump gave it another hefty boost
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@tawdry oxide
This is maybe interesting for you
that's the first speech of the first deaf politician in the Bundestag
tawdry oxide
glad (it should be standard but) to see a politician able to do that. i'm unsure most other countries are "able" to do this (as in they dont give enough shit to have people who work to translate)
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thoughts on an althist (or future) timeline where Mountain becomes potus (not su...
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glad cradle
That is a bit much
I do understand that the student genuinely felt threathened since it wasn't their first language
But the action should've been for the teacher to apologize and have them explain to them that it was a joke and students don't actually get whacked anymore
No need to fire a long lived teacher like that
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Girl ‘filmed on phone as boy battered dog walker, 80, to death’
Smartphone video played to a court showed the grandfather slumped on his knees in a park as he was ‘slapped’ across the face with a shoe
A grandfather was punched and kicked to death by a boy wearing a balaclava while a girl filmed parts of the attack and laughed, a court has been told.
Immediately after the attack, the two defendants concocted a lie that Kohli had pulled a knife on the girl and hit her, the court was told. They allegedly “bragged” about the assault to friends in person and the boy claimed on social media that he had acted to defend the girl.
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https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/114079929426721629 https://www.mediaite.com/tv/kevin-mccarthy-claims-america-didnt-build-rockets-until-elon-musk-arrived-he-should-be-given-a-medal/
If you ever wondered why Wikipedia get targeted by US rich, facts and fact checking is their Achilles heel.
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https://mas.to/@thecontinent/114086199542043055 https://continent.substack.com/p/we-prepared-for-a-natural-disaster
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Two disabled friends were refused a table at an Indian restaurant when the owner decided they looked 'too ill to eat'.
Rhys Bowler and Skye Jordan were turned away after allegedly being told they were making other diners feel uncomfortable.
The owner of the Rahil Tandoori in Barry, South Wales, has admitted refusing to serve the pair because 'their condition was so bad' but has since apologised.
'I do not discriminate against disabled diners, and we welcome them to our restaurant.
'However, in my opinion when I saw the two disabled persons I felt that they were too ill to eat and I was concerned that if something had happened I would not have been able to cope.
@tawdry oxide
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unsurprising
that or when you struggle to talk/express and rely on your phone or other things to type and show or to voice for you etc
usually people in shops will go "can't help you." or something
glad cradle
they btw had a carer and a friend with them, so not like the owner would've been alone.
Also communication would be good. Like telling them that the food is spicy and if they can handle possible complications and such.
But yeah, he probably just though that two disabled people looked bad in his restaurant.
tawdry oxide
yeh when possible in some cases you go with a friend or person who can help
tho uuuh not always possible/want to etc
and yeh, asking if food allergies etc makes sense ofc
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Yeah. but anyways the shop owner just decided he didn't even want to ask and just not let them eat at the restaurant and is now crying over being trashed on social media for that
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yeh that what i tget from this
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Another one, @tawdry oxide
A blind grandmother was refused entry to a Morrisons supermarket with her guide dog because of the shop manager’s “severe pet allergies”.
Caroline Kennelly, 54, was left on the verge of tears following the incident in Wincheap, Kent, last Thursday.
Under equality law, Ms Kennelly has the right to enter all shops with Dougie, her assistance dog.
However, three signs in the store window warn that dogs are not allowed, with one referring to the manager’s “severe pet allergies”.
And while Morrisons bosses have claimed the incident “should not have happened”, the local manager reportedly doubled down, insisting the store would continue to ban guide dogs.
And as we talked about previously and the article states, UK law is quite clear on that
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You are allowed to enter a store, just don't rub the dog into the managers face
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and iforgor what's for the perosn with sever allergies
Well, there need to be reasonable precautions. Like, e.g. letting allergic workers not engage with the dog
tawdry oxide
yeh that makes sense
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So, in this case the manager would have not need to approach the dog and I don't know, maybe ask her to not get that dog close to him, that would be fine
tawdry oxide
maybe wearing a mask and or going in the employee only part temprarily
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Yeah, would be for example a solution
the courts already said that banning guide dogs is in no way a reasonable solution
tawdry oxide
yeh and that makes sense, but well, you basically have to "fight" for mostly every accessibility thing/thing you do
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I looked on Google reviews and it seems like the owner already shifted tone
Probably Morrison's headquarters knocked
Because this really reflects really shitty on the whole brand
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I mean, it's fair enough as a temporary solution, but the intitional statement was that was to be the permanent solution
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No, fits
Just looked up again what the case in Germany was, but it's the same
Assistence dogs are generally allowed to go into shops, even if there is food
That's under the assumption that they are well trained, as all real assistance dogs are
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hecking wholesome doggos
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https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114100250725632751 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/03/what-doge-is-happening-irs/
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Oh wow, Disney doesn't miss a beat
cancelled two Series in production with black protagonists and replaced a transgender character with a Christian one
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@tawdry oxide https://www.itv.com/news/2025-03-03/disabled-man-left-to-eat-from-bin-itv-news-exposes-appalling-neglect
An ITV News investigation has uncovered allegations of multiple failings at residential and supported-living homes run by Lifeways, the UK’s largest provider of community care for adults with complex conditions.
In one home in Coventry, camera footage obtained by ITV News shows a young man with learning disabilities, autism and bipolar disorder, who needs 24-hour, one-on-one care, eating out of a rubbish bin in the middle of the night.
In another Lifeways home in North London, I was told how the foot of a man with Down’s Syndrome turned black, after an infection was left undetected and untreated for weeks, causing him to require hospital treatment.
Lifeways CEO Andrea Kinkade told ITV News she was “appalled” by our findings and that staff had been suspended and removed from the company.
Connor is 23 and has a rare genetic condition called Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, which causes developmental delay and autism. He also has bipolar disorder.
In 2018, Connor was placed under the care of a Lifeways-run residential home in Coventry. The city council contracted Lifeways to provide Connor with 24-hour, one-to-one care at a cost of £4,700 a week.
However, two years ago, Lindsay started to worry about her son's physical and mental health after he gained seven stone in weight.
He was barely leaving the facility, despite the council paying for extensive activities in the community. His mood was also deteriorating.
One afternoon, Lindsay got a phone call from a friend saying she had found Connor walking the streets, several miles from his home, on his own.
When Lindsay called Lifeways, she says staff did not even know he had gone missing, despite being paid to provide round-the-clock care.
Increasingly concerned for Connor’s health and safety, Lindsay installed a camera in Connor’s flat.
“Within three days, we saw five members of staff neglecting and abusing him,” said Lindsay.
“They would mock him, they would vape next to him, shout in his face, he didn’t have a drink for 14 hours, and he’s meant to drink regularly because of the effect the drugs he needs have on his kidneys.”
She watched as her son was left alone on multiple occasions for hours at a time.
On the night of January 10th 2024, footage showed Connor alone, eating from a bin he had placed on his lap. He was eating out of it for almost an hour.
“It hurts to watch it,” Lindsay told me. "We had to take him to the GP to get a full check up because he couldn’t tell us what he had eaten.
“It was heartbreaking and it consumed my life, because once I’d seen that, I couldn’t stop watching (the camera).”
On several occasions, footage showed Connor’s carers fast asleep on Connor’s sofa in the middle of the day while he walks around the flat unattended.
Connor is seen speaking to his carer, clearly asking them something, but the carer ignores him completely. One carer is shown vaping next to Connor in his flat.
“When Lifeways first opened, I thought I could die happy, knowing he would be ok, but now I just think if anything happened to me, what would happen to him?" she explained.
So yeah, nodding back to the story a few weeks ago where a mother killed her disabled son because she was terminal and couldn't care for him
That makes sense, if this is how the care would've looked like
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unsurprising, this is how these institutions work
(and even institutions like schools, the more they're secluded and opaque, the higher the risks... and ofc, the kids who "get it worse" are usually the one with dead parents etc (doesnt mean the other kids arent enduring abuse) )
and yeh which is why many of us are fithting for independant non segregated living
with all the care needed for everyone
with easy access
with public buildings and stores and shit made accessible
(in all way, not only putting a ramp and all)
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I mean, these specific cases couldn't be independant
That's why they needed 24 hour care
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independant living as in
not in structures
and like you being able to pick where you want to live a bit and all
not "ah, this is the only place in the whole region i can live"
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or "ha...given my disability benefit, i can only live in small villages despite me needing easy access to hosp, docs, etc"
OH
i misunderstood that part my bad
because
in some countries, various orgs do create housing
but it's tied to institutions and all
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Yeah, no, it's not Arkham Asylum, the homes are all run by lifeways
But you know, not like some sterible Eastern Europe block
It's quite good on paper
The issue is the carers in this case
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yeh it's public housing it says
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but yeh the % of abuse in the structures are..... huge
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The article said, the carers are overworked, underpaid and undertrained
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that's often the case, yes
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And it's a devlish circle
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tho
you'll still have shit partially because of how dehumanized disabled people are
and similar things
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As they are overworked, they fall out or go sick and then lifeways has to hire basically whoever who are mostly even more undertrained
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but yes a better pay / not overworked is a must
and ye, i know disabled people who live at home and do hire themselves people to care/help and like, they usually do have to train them themselves (to the specifics they can't do/ how to help them when x happens etc + often the people dont do that for long)
one reason being the pay, another being the fact it can be physically taxing
but disabled people (unless they have big money) rely on getting the ok from public org to get money to fund the carer's pay
but ofc it's not high
(i hope it makes sense ish)
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The baseline of the issue is that somebody has to pay for it, and a lot of disabled people can't, Especially those that require a lot of care like 24 hour care
Not to go all
But, it is reality that it costs a lot of money, doesn't make much money in return and with an aging society it becomes bigger (as old people naturally tend to get issues they need help with)
The crux of all of this is money, and of course a public org needs to look at how to spend the money
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The old german S looks so much like a f to me
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The old german S looks so much like a f to me
You can read it as an f to simulate a funny speech impediment
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yeah i keep doing that accidently
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aslo
might have missed this but
the post says "Milei's government has decreed that people with disabilities be classified as "idiots", "imbeciles" and "mentally weak".
It has been published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Argentina and violates international agreements against discrimination.
It is an outrage."
this is how u push eugenics btw
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err, @lavish dawn can you read that?
Does it say that?
I am afraid I can't read spanish
Here's at least a news article, also I have no idea how reliable the Bueans Aires Times is
A February 7 ACIJ communiqué affirmed "that there no disabled people who cannot work but they all can in the measure they are given the required support.”
Oh yeah, this smells like bad news
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https://batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/idiot-imbecile-or-mentally-deficient-milei...
yeah it's this.
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yeah it's this.
Thanks, Phoebus!
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Well, better to look more, you know I am quite sceptical of images on social media
Especially if I can't understand them
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here is the spanish version in case https://www.reddit.com/r/Republica_Argentina/comments/1in7kdr/la_agencia_nacional_de_discapacidad_de_milei_usa/
not sure where this pic is from tho
wired made an aticle too but in spaniush
like
this looks like they used this pic
and then blasted them on a pic of the agencia
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https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/114108943085025450 @glad cradle @tawdry oxide
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I mean, it IS pornography
On that note, you just linked a pornography site here
Might I suggest to remove the direct link and make a screenshot of the text or something, lest a moderator enforces the rules
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Can't check as I am in public space myself so no context
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i did see a thing you sent earlier but was soup
but i remember it mentioned something about audio content
oh wait i'm 5 hours late
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its still in kots mastodon link
I just adviced him to pull the direct link because it's quite literally a porn website
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imagine writing this and then striking for better pay <:SwireKek:771857476344741...
You know this would really be amazing
if it was a YouTube parody of Powerpuff Girls
But someone tried to make this with all seriousness
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Yeah, my thoughts are. Wow great comedy skit .... Into .... They expect me to believe how these iconic characters grew up? Really?
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Context
There was an attack in Germany a week ago with car
The driver this time was a neo nazi
and we have no the guy who stopped him a Pakistani immigrant named Muhammed
On Monday afternoon, he was waiting for customers at the taxi stand when he saw a Ford with a dented front racing down the pedestrian zone. He got into his car, stepped on the gas and gave chase. "I honked the whole time, with the window down," says Muhammad. "Go, go," he shouted at the passers-by and called the police on the taxi's hands-free system. Images of other terrible rampages flashed through his mind, Magdeburg, Munich, all the victims.
He didn't want to let the man get away, says Muhammad in a quiet voice, serious in tone. He is talking more to himself than to the journalists. His back is bent, he finds it difficult to tell what he experienced. Only afterwards did he understand how close it was, what could have happened in those minutes of the chase.
When the fugitive tried to turn around in a dead end, Muhammad blocked his way with his car. The suspected perpetrator apparently realized that he was trapped and pulled out a gun, Muhammad says. It suddenly became loud, "there was fire," he says, stretching out his arm to show how the rampaging driver aimed and shot at him. Only later did he find out that it was a blank gun, but even that can cause serious injuries.
A. Muhammad knows how lucky he is. He does not want to be praised as particularly brave. "I am not a hero, I am a Muslim," he says, adding that he is a member of the Ahmadiyya community. His religion teaches him to help others, to stand up for the weak. And that is exactly what he did on Monday. Without thinking too much, without considering what it could have cost him. A spontaneous reaction, in the spirit of the Koran, where it is written: "Whoever saves one life saves all of humanity."
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That's really brave of him.
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https://chaos.social/@jonty/114115735724827105 @glad cradle Sometimes you need second opinion
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https://chaos.social/@jonty/114115735724827105 <@120566366821416962> Sometimes ...
I actually had to look in thr comments to understand
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same btw
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now I can unsee it urgh
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goddamn, 45 years trapped in a mental institution for being autistic
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Even if we ignore that she went there in the first place - 45 years back was a different time - even after it was clear that autism is not a mental illness it took a dedicated doctor 9 years to get her out of there
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and if the picture is of the person, non white
not from the Person, her identiy is protected. But she is from Sierra Leone, so likely black
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good that they protected id if she asked for (some journalists do put people in danger by not anonymizing)
if you go to an institution it's hard to evr come out of it (or you usually go to another institution)
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good that they protected id if she asked for (some journalists do put people in ...
she didn't ask for it, but we're talking about an autistic women that got locked up in a mental onstitution when she was 7 years old and spend 45 years there. Hard to get more vulnerable than that
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also, institutions tend to.... make people lose skills or not acquire them
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Dr Patsie Staite learned of Kasibba's incarceration in 2013 when she was a rookie clinical psychologist carrying out a routine review of her care. But it would take nine years to free her.
"I hadn't ever seen anyone living in the situation that she was living in. And I think what was really shocking was it was all legitimised," Dr Staite told the BBC. She said the apparently legitimate hospital setting masked the reality that Kasibba "was locked up for sometimes more than 23 hours a day".
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have seen various peole who been in institutions or who had a friend/lover/etc there and like, people knowing how to cook not remembering anytyhing about it, or how to do grocery shopping etc
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she was saved by a rookie doctor that saw her and wondered why the fuck she was in there and then she spend 9 years working through decades of files tobget her free
at that point many people didn't actually knew why she was there, she was there longer than thr staff was
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yeh but unless some people witness very dehumanizing stuf and all
you... uh ...
they rarely question stuff
in institutions
also, it'snot the case here (except for people reading the article maybe)
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yeah, article also days there are still hundreds of people like her in hospitals, they just didn't have the luck of a dedicated doctor to work for their release
sorry, not hospitals
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but there are aut people (for example) going "we're not crazy, we're normal dont put us in institutions" but then they'll go "that person is crazy, lock her up" stuff like that which is shit
and yeh it's a miracle that doctor did that
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mental institutions
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yeah, but she's doing well
Now Kasibba lives in the community with the help of support workers, who engage with her and communicate with gentle touches, gestures and clear language. Her care manager said she loved fashion, was proud of her home and enjoyed social interaction.
works a job too
but government doesn't want to change the law
The Mental Health Bill going through parliament will mean autistic people and those with learning disabilities in England and Wales, who do not have a mental health condition, will no longer be able to be detained for treatment.
But the government has said it will not bring in any changes until it is satisfied there is sufficient alternative support in the community. And it will still allow people to be detained in hospital legally for up to 28 days for assessment.
i mean they change it, but it's not legal to detain them right now either, it's just that people don't want to work through decades of bureaucracy
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They aren't trying to rob him of everything he has, not accurate enough
I think this is my first time hearing Dutch, it really does sound a lot like German
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Yeah, basically, I can understand Dutch if I listen to it slowly, because most words are familiar
it's basically on the same level as a heavy German dialect
Which would be equally hard to understand for most Germans not speaking the dialect, but from context and the words you can understand you get a pretty good idea
I don't know maybe, how Slavic languages can kinda understand Russian roughly, even if they don't speak Russian?
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French E-Sports group disbanded because they field non-binary and transgender players
Connected to this news, sources have indicated that Riot Games will prevent non-binary players from competing in the upcoming League of Legends Game Changers circuit, a policy already in place in Webedia's Coupe des Étoiles, despite them having been included in the Equal Esports Cup for the past few years. Furthermore, past whistleblowers have pointed to high-profile organizations and titleholders rejecting transgender women during tryouts. Without continued support for transgender women, there’s a real risk of the scene regressing, further marginalizing these players. What starts with the exclusion of non-binary individuals today could set a precedent that leaves transgender women vulnerable to similar treatment in the future.
Per sources and as confirmed by GameWard, the project's major shortcoming was its reliance on securing a new sponsorship to fund it, which ultimately fell through. The sponsor's decision to pull out was largely influenced by the backlash surrounding Solary Academy’s roster announcement, which faced unwarranted criticism simply for including and supporting transgender women.
The situation was further exacerbated by political exploitation from far-right French politicians, notably Marion Maréchal, who attempted to use the story to push an "anti-woke" agenda
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BREAKING: HUNDREDS of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer in Manhattan. Six have been arrested after occupying the showroom. Protests are erupting across America to reject Musk's billionaire regime. This is how we beat fascism.
Mass direct action. come on everyone lets beat Elon Musk
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> BREAKING: HUNDREDS of New Yorkers have swarmed and shut down the Tesla dealer ...
https://infosec.exchange/@nazgul/114128164442280069 https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html
https://hear-me.social/@Jerry/114129707475450121 https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2025/02/20/tesla-cybertruck-banned-in-the-uk-due-to-safety-issues/
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Interesting sighting system, I've never even considered something like this as an option
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https://mastodon.social/@alexlunaview/114132819379730314
My American friends say they don’t see it on their news. We didn’t have this kind of censorship even when Russia started the war.
Stay strong and don’t lose your freedom, guys.
This is Chicago, anti Trump protest.
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https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/german-tourists-detained-otay-mesa-detention-center/3770608/ @glad cradle is this big update or more the same information as we first saw?
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I mean, I didn't know a lot lf detaild there, but no idea if it's new or not
anyways, big update would probably cite the German embassy not them
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first report I send to you was in German so was comparing notes.
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Reading up on Eric Clapton and he's pretty much what I see with many people "not into politics"
Clapton said that he did not "know much about politics"
no matter how much people insist not being interested in politics, they have political opinions nonethelesd
perfecr in combination with early Bowie
In the same interview, Bowie described himself as "apolitical", stating "the more I travel and the less sure I am about exactly which political philosophies are commendable. The more government systems I see, the less enticed I am to give my allegiance to any set of people, so it would be disastrous for me to adopt a definitive point of view, or to adopt a party of people and say 'these are my people'."
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Mastodon
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@tawdry oxide
Keir is doing well in foreign policy, but at home he is in trouble because not all Labour members are happy with him wanting to cut disability benefits
Now, I can see the logic of benefits were and are steeply rising, but the answer is probably not to force all disabled people on the job market
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again it's happenign partly because of long covif
and covid infections massively disabling
also
and i forgor
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https://m.ai6yr.org/@exador23/114163831420814983 @glad cradle @tawdry oxide 
AI6YR's Mastodon
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"surprise surprise"....
(tho most hosp around the world mask way less or not at all anymore even in cancer wings and shit........
these fking clowns
"why do you wear a mask"
itll prob happen again alas..
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@tawdry oxide
After rebellion in the backbechnes, Starmer seems to consider to not cut disabiltiy benefits
Turns out, despite everything throwing the disabled people on the bus is still not popular in Britain
A government programme that supported 286,000 disabled people over the past seven years who wanted to find work was only able to secure jobs for one in five.
This is also a good argument
as said, there aren't even enough job all non-disabled people, how are people that are so disabled that they live on benfits are going to compete in the job market?
Starting from being restricted in the work they can do, e.g. wheelchair bound person not exactly the top letter delieverer and then of course, being a harder sell to employers
tawdry oxide
yy a bit
and yeh there arent enough jobs for evey people in capacity and age to work
we know this been true for long
but protaying people as benefit wanters who do nothing blablabla
has popularity and xyz
and yeh, sometimes u disalbed, can work, want to work, but companies odnt want you
ye h wheelchair users well unless u can use bike/motorcycle/small truck thing and then walk to the people's house
but yeh if u have to use the wheelchairofc
tawdry oxide
ther also was a person deported to laos
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Fosstodon
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Mastodon
proper grove
https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/114180823405674745
those poor tren de aragua members they should be free to sell drugs, murder and sex traffic people without that facist drumpf making fun of them
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those poor tren de aragua members they should be free to [sell drugs, murder and...
Mastodon
proper grove
https://nypost.com/2025/03/16/us-news/trump-hits-highest-approval-hes-ever-had/ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25569109-nbc-march-2025-poll-3-16-2025-release/
proper grove
nyp just talking about nbc polling data which i linked to, so try again 
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Well , I can't do anything so ignore me.
Reminder that's only 2 months.
Let's see what happens in next month shall we?
proper grove
!remindme 1 month 
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tawdry oxide
yeh and
shit i forgor
but i remember seeing a shitty thing about that again
but just forogr..
yeh right hope of work
fking tax wealthy people
glad cradle
We have a progressive tax system. The top 1% pay about a third of tax.
I don’t think you can, in the end, tax and borrow your way out of the need to reform the state.
tawdry oxide
send the money to help people instead of a huge chunk of tax cuts for big businesses
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@tawdry oxide
Yup, there we ahve it
5 billion cut from disabled people
Incidentally I remind you that Thames Water got run into the ground by privatization and spend all the money not maintaining, but paying out shareholders
They got 3 billion in cash
tawdry oxide
i do rememberrthames water very well yeh..
private companies doing shit compared to public services and
public services shall not be "you need to save money" esp on health and all
glad cradle
Still not sure what Starmer thinks how many jobs there are for people that are so disabled that they are on Pip
Holy fuck, of course The current White House invits Conor fucking McGregor
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Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest. This letter was dictated over the phone from the ICE detention facility in Louisiana:
https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/114186042203119179 https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/Letter_from_a_Palestinian_Political_Prisoner_in_Louisiana_March_18,_2025.pdf
The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.
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Infosec Exchange
I won't post link incase of nsfw but
Trans-inclusive Vagina Museum smashes crowdfunding target following negative JK Rowling tweet
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114186478619323488
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114186622418154199
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114186631059536503
Cyberplace
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https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/114186509612990488
A lot money gets lost all the time in the stock market, you would have constant hit because companies losing massive amounts of money.
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SFBA.social
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A luxury hotel in Scotland has issued a “humble apology” to a family after denying them access to plug in a breathing device for their terminally ill child.
Three-month-old Charlie, who breathes through a tracheostomy, is currently receiving end-of-life care at Robin House Children’s Hospice in Balloch and was taken to the nearby Duck Bay Hotel by his family on Sunday (16 March).
His family claims that a staff member at the hotel on Loch Lomond denied them access to a plug socket to use a nebuliser – a device that converts liquid medication into a breathable mist.
Charlie’s uncle Bradley Raynham shared the incident in a Facebook post so that it "doesn't happen to anyone else" after his sister and her fiancé spent the day “trying to do nice things” at Duck Bay Hotel.
He said: “It got to the time Charlie needed his nebuliser so as the restaurant was so busy, they asked at the reception of the hotel if they could use one of the plug sockets so he could get this. While they’re holding him in their arms they were told ‘no we don’t do this here’.
“Even after explaining the situation they weren’t interested one bit. They had to leave and get back to the hospice immediately so they could give him this, when going back they’ve spoken to the nurse there as were obviously upset.”
Mr Raynham added that a hospice nurse attempted to call the hotel to speak to a manager but was denied as “other people will be waiting to call”.
Imagine seeing a terminally ill baby that need some power for it's nebuliser and going "nah"
tawdry oxide
usual shit "yeh but med devices scary to people and disabled people with material/machine etc look bad / scary / unfitting" something something shit
bonk these people very hard
as in : curhs their face on a marble counter.
fuck them
glad cradle
Well, the Hotel was buried under bad reviews and backlash, and they have since apologized and said that it was the fault of an individual junior staff member, but well, likely not
tawdry oxide
yeh when u have enough uh
when u manage to make it widespread
like, so that many people hear and talk about it
usually they'll go "we're soorry we didnt mean to..."
but the problem is ofc having enough uh...internet presence/finding enough things that'll mention
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tawdry oxide
yeh i heard of it....
when u do what u can to protect earth u get huge fines
prison etc
glad cradle
Yup, like in Britain where some climate protestors get sentences as hard as sexual assaulters
tawdry oxide
that, natives doing protests notably in the US against pipelines and other
people throwing soup at non original paintings protected by glass
etc
sturdy berry
https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/114193877467895916
average red state shenanigans
not surprising that republicans would try to surpress dissent
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mastodon.energy
To sum up
Several germans, englishman, welshman and frenchman were either got apprehended in their visit to USA or send back home.
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@tawdry oxide
We previously talked about how the UK wants to cut disability and push disabled people to get to work, right?
We talked about some problems, but there is more
Right now, the UK has the Access to Work scheme
Pretty good idea, it's to support disabled people in getting and performing in a job
However, in reality it's not enough and processing is slow
and also Labour said it's unsustainable and will also be cut down
And as we said before: disabled people with extra needs are not very attractive to employers in the first place
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(i did forgor u pinged me here after noticing)
unsurprising
but again
they'll then keep saying "disabled people dont work, cost money"
also...in France, govt wants to suspend RSA (solidarity income basically, 565 is the best you get for one person with 0 kid) from 30 to 100% for "people not fulfilling the requirement" (it's super vague, nobody knows what these are, months ago govt made it way worse by adding "15 mandatory activity hours per week" (no details, super vague, very very arbitrary to be able to do less hours or not)
this is an attack on the poorest people ofc, including many disabled people whom can't get the disability allocation (or are still trying to get it / yet to try to)
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toad.social
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masto.nu
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lipn.info
tawdry oxide
this is indeed terrible for a lot of reasons
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https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/114206441933694027 @steady spade
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tawdry oxide
sadly too real
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unsurprising but shit ofc, will mislead tons
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Mastodon
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https://climatejustice.social/@muellertadzio/114215841667351206
bit of discussion of far right protest in German
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Mastodon
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EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble
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@tawdry oxide
Another aspect of that debacle
If Evans stops being eligible for Pip, he would lose £593 a month. But, in a domino effect, his father would also lose his entitlement to carer’s allowance and with it, £307 a month – money that goes on food, fuel and car fees.
When the work capability assessment is scrapped by 2028 and the only way to get the health component of UC is through Pip – Will could lose another £400 a month.
The result would be devastating: the family’s total income would drop by more than two-thirds. “That’s an amount which is absolutely not possible to sustain us,” he says. “We’re barely making ends meet now. We already had to move in with my brother because we can’t make rent on our benefits.”
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O'Leary said that in July 2023, Ryanair submitted a proposal to the airports in the western city of Lviv and Boryspil near Kyiv that would see the company "deliver 5 million passengers to Ukraine within the first year of the skies reopening over Ukraine and grow that from 5 to 10 million passengers within five years."
"But disappointingly, we haven't heard back from them for over two years," the CEO said.
"I am somewhat at a loss to understand why the airports are not getting ready for the resumption of flights and why the airports are not doing the agreement with Ryanair."
How clueless can you be?
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O'Leary in a burger joint that is currently getting robbed and complaining where his ordered burger is, he's been waiting for ages.
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> If Evans stops being eligible for Pip, he would lose £593 a month. But, in a d...
0 surprise yeh u basiclaly struggle all the time on stugf unlesd xyz
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They seem to have stuffed it with everything they could. Unlike kamikaze drones, it appears this one is meant to be deployed and then brought back. It will probably be used to support groups of kamikaze drones
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Mastodon.green
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Hachyderm.io
https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/114230970795911568 @tawdry oxide
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yeh i didnt see this exact one but i totally did see stuff about mrna for cancer (not a thing we were able to do yet on a big scale but the research was very promising apparently) and a vaccine (non mrna iirc) for covid + flu that wasnt super temperature sensitive + more efficient (and longer than the current 3 months at peak efficiency for the covid boosters)
musk also went after the seed banks, all of this will have huge consequences
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Just to point out obvious It's recent because person who wrote story is the one posted and gave gift link
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Just to point out obvious It's recent because person who wrote story is the one ...
yes yes it's very recent, the news about the vaccines thingies are a bit less, but not older than 2 weeks iirc)
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