Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

Agreed that Meta's changes are troubling and concerning. So I would strongly urge you and any instance admin exposing their users to the harassment there to reconsider their alignment with Threads and defederate now .

That's expecially for you and mastodon.social. Think about the message that you're sending: "Instead of proactively protecting people on this instance, we'll wait for you to be harassed and then take action on individual harassers. And, we'll make that the default for new Mastodon users!"

There's a huge opportunity for Mastodon here if you take a courageous position. So please do!

@Gargron

#NHS

Posted anonymously by an A&E doctor:

Im writing this because I’m angry. Actually more than that, I’m 🤬 livid.

I’m an A&E reg with 9+ years experience in A&E both here and overseas. This morning was the first time EVER that I cried 😢 in my car after a shift.

I was on nights over this New Years period, but New Year was not the issue, every shift is like this now. (1/11)

After close consideration we have come to the decision to block Threads.net instance wide on all related instances

(mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, pixey.org, gram.social)

The new Meta policy goes against much we stand for and we will not allow to let it spill over to the Fediverse

I just checked the numbers and it seems Threads is the biggest 'loser' here

On all instances combined we lose just under 100 followers spread across all instances

Threads will lose over 13K total

In certain circles people tend to cite the cognitive impact of repeated COVID infections as an explanation for the rise in popularity of right wing and nationalist extremism

But, neurological issues with progressive cognitive decline are—terrifyingly—not too uncommon in my family tree and I can tell you this:

Unkindness is not a symptom unless the person was fundamentally unkind in the first place

You can’t blame people’s cruelty on a virus

for what it’s worth, some of the nerds here do shower, at least I do

RE: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113791685609785607

@FediPact

Folks, there are multiple reports about Fediverse data being used by AI companies like OpenAI. This puts vulnerable people at risk apart from everyone else. They build profiles about you, which can be used to deny you certain services because governments or influential people are now in charge. Server admins must block all AI bots and data center ranges to protect users. I’m not sure making your account private is safe or not. Please be safe, these are dangers times for privacy and safety.

“We're also not currently at the stage where resistance fighters are most necessary.”

presumably the person who wrote this are white.

we Black and Indigenous people have been at this point forever, but especially, since the Patriot Act. we just don't have the numbers.

lynchings by police sky rocketed after the Patriot Act was passed and what did white folks do?

ask for more cops.

white people's REFUSAL to see themselves in the faces of BIPOC lynched by police is gonna get us all killed.

"from the 1996 edition of TransFagRag, a newsletter for gay and bisexual trans men, via The Digital Transgender Archive" https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/downloads/sx61dm448

"As corporations have scuttled the weird and the wonderful, the taboo voices and forbidden artwork, we wonder only ... what hate will we see today?"

https://www.engadget.com/2019-01-31-sex-censorship-killed-internet-fosta-sesta.html

When I say "corpo" I mean it as a slur against corporations

Fucking hell people.

If Zuckerberg saying that Facebook will stop fact checking because "fact checkers are politically biased" and that they want to "become more like X" isn't enough for you to dump all Meta services like Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Whatsapp, then just admit that you don't care about disinformation or facts.

I mean, seriously. Leave. There are other better options.

Sometimes lesbians and gay men fuck each other, and I think that's fine.

The issue of federation with Threads just became a shit ton more problematic.

Ukraine is not the only place in the world where people are waging an armed struggle against the imperialist encroachments of authoritarian regimes. For many decades, the Kurds — the world's largest stateless ethnic group — have been fighting anyone who tries to destroy them. Under constant pressure from the regimes of Assad, Erdogan or Islamists from ISIS, they are nevertheless trying to build their egalitarian project — Rojava.

The relationship between Rojava and Ukraine is much stronger than it seems. Many fighters and internationalist fighters, who fought as part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (a military formation of the Autonomous Administration of Northeastern Syria, including other ethnic groups in the region), arrived in Ukraine at the beginning of the full-scale invasion to help fight Russia. Some are still here, but we cannot tell you more about them for security reasons. But we can honour the memory of the Irishman Finbar "Chia" Cafferkey — who was killed in Ukraine in the battle for Bakhmut, and Marcy from Great Britain, who perished fighting for Avdiivka — both former SDF fighters.

At the same time, with the fall of Assad and the beginning of a new Turkish offensive on the Kurdish-controlled territory of Syria, anti-authoritarians are again fighting for Rojava.

And even despite the difficult situation, they managed to send us their greetings! On our end, we stand in solidarity with the anti-authoritarians of Rojava and plan to cover their struggle more thoroughly!

"Solidarity with the anarchists and anti-authoritarians of Ukraine from the anarchists fighting in Rojava against the Islamists and the Turkish state for a free Kurdistan!"