@trans_caracal be careful to read the fine print though. sex work is "legal" in Germany, but "legal" means you need to apply for a special licence which would imply, among other things, extra State surveillance and a free pass for the police to harass you in your own house. and some fun surprises like, I have the whore passport, my gf has the whore passport, my gf moves in with me > now our house qualifies as a "brothel". (I know of a Brazilian woman in the UK who was arrested as a "pimp" on those grounds, thereby being taken away from her children, who she was working to support to begin with).
this increased policing is a favourite pretext to humiliate immigrants in places like Berlin and send sex workers straight back to where they escaped from. for someone like me who already is at increased police risk for political reasons, it would be shooting my own leg.
this is why sex worker movements fight for "decriminalisation" and not "legalisation", the law is never on the side of marginals.
"wow this group of people who think they're smarter than everyone else and the rules shouldn't apply to them, turns out they aren't against hierarchy, just any hierarchy that doesn't put them at the apex"
tbh if you want to be surrounded by nerds interested in breaking things without being interested in breaking people, you get into speedrunning and not infosec
Boost CW: Parental Control, Youth Liberation
It’s a long article on these insanely bright car headlights, but it contains this paragraph ⬇️ https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents?lid=dpe6tiyd81ev
Today we want to announce that the workers at Gameloft Barcelona have unionized.
Because we want to decide on our own fair working conditions.
#WorkersAndLegendsUnite #Gameloft #GameDev #Unionize
Sometimes Linux users on Mastodon can be intimidating or frustrating, so if you ever find yourself getting annoyed by one, here's my advice. Immediately reply with:
"Down, puppy! Down! We don't jump up like that, it's not polite. Siit. Siiiit. Siiiiit."
GOOD DOG! Who's a good puppy!? Is it you!? Are you a good puppy? You want to play?
Go on, write a blogpost about Wayland! Go get it! Get the Wayland!! Link me to your blog post about Wayland!"
How white supremacy prevented America from having single-payer healthcare
#PrudentialInsurance #EugenicsHistory #RacialJusticeInHealthcare #ScientificRacism #HealthEquity
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/single-payer-healthcare/
Politics
@hadley I feel like the biggest threat to kids safety and well being is their parents, so I really hate that virtually all of these online child safety bills are just making kids more vulnerable to that. If we want to protect kids, we should educate them about grooming, make sure online spaces have decent moderation, and make sure there are good support systems in place that are easy to access.
Biologist
Baby steps of learning r and p̶y̶t̶h̶o̶n̶ now rust oop kinda annoyed me.
Eds and post covid
Just a puppy