Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

This view is useful.

"Tolerance" is not an absolute. Refusing to abide by the terms -

e.g. promoting views that deliberately oppose those of tolerance -

constitutes a breach, and thus those actions are not covered.

Easy.

In the USA before Dobbs, abortion couldn't be outlawed outright, so opponents pioneered ways to make it "impossible but not illegal." Mostly by dreaming up impossible regulations for abortion providers.

This post is not about abortion.

Anti-porn forces are following the same playbook with age verification. AV isn't intended to "protect the children" or whatever. It's impossible to comply; customers won't ID themselves. It's a porn biz killer, and that's its purpose.

#Porn #AgeVerification

In Georgia, the government banned sales of gas masks and protective equipment because protestors were using them to protect themselves from tear gas and water cannons used by the riot police.

Retail store Gorgia, the go to place for gas masks in Georgia, has responded by giving all their stock of protective equipment away for free.

#GeorgiaProtests
#TerrorInGeorgia

During her work at Rutgers University microbiologist Elizabeth Bugie (1920-2001) was involved in the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. While her boss received the Nobel Prize for this discovery, she wasn’t mentioned. Honouring her work on the discovery and evaluation of antibiotics, DSMZ researchers named the strain Streptomyces bugieae (DSM 41528) after her.

#herstory #HonoringWomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #streptomyces #microbiology #antibiotics

Beginning of the end of the lab-leak theory: Wuhan lab coronavirus samples aren't related to the COVID-19 virus.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03982-2

It's always been an unspoken rule that able bodied society doesn't want to see us, doesn't want to be reminded of us, and now we're seeing an effort to eliminate all the 'soft' jobs that we use to survive in this capitalist hell, it's very transparent that the fate of disabled people under an 'ai' economy is to starve

y'know. sometime you can be a boy in a girl way and a girl in a boy way and also neither and also both. fucked up.

KNOCK KNOCK IT'S CHRISTMAS.

Press 1 to get Covid.

Press 2 to ruin what relationships you've somehow managed to maintain with friends, neighbors and family.

Press 3 to repeat your options.

Remember Friends:

Age-verification does not protect
the children online. It just endangers everyone’s data, including the children’s.

Write to your local representatives to
speak out against online age-verification.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #KOSA

I'm not a fan of KN95s for the same reason NIOSH isn't, but the bar is underground. At least it's a filtering facepiece

This applies to more than 99.99% of the population

NYPD looking for a man in a coat, any coat

Northern Saw Whet Owl
Alberta, Canada. Photo by Lisa M. Jones.
#OwlsOfMastodon
#SilentSunday

“Standing at only 7 inches tall, this diminutive owl isn’t easy to find. Ranging over much of North America, this shy owl roosts silently concealed in dense conifers.” - Cornell Lab and The Owl Research Institute.