Yesterday was my daughter's last day at the daycare she went to for 2 years and her teacher sent a medley of pictures of her and... I'm not crying, you're crying!
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Turns out the Capital Gazette shooting wasn't specifically against journalism, but rather against women (again). And Trump, like many others with him, have been vocal against both.
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*squinting eyes*
Not sure if no one from #Mastodon reacts to my posts because #federation with #Friendica is broken or because they are uninteresting/irrelevant.
Not sure if no one from #Mastodon reacts to my posts because #federation with #Friendica is broken or because they are uninteresting/irrelevant.
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I've now received enough #Mastodon reactions that I have to face the facts about my posts 😅
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Sometimes people don't have anything to say. But it doesn't mean they're not following ;)
I'm still following Martin Molin from @wintergatan building his new marble machine through weekly videos, and this is why I enjoy them so much: 
YouTube: Muting System Assembly - Marble Machine X #41 (Wintergatan)
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The mystery and melancholy of this sticker whose corner started to peel and nothing can make it pristine again.
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“CYBER: Cyberspace is normal”
from the System Shock 1 difficulty settings screen. See
from the System Shock 1 difficulty settings screen. See
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Turns out I am sadder to discover a friend is peddling centrist opinions than rightist ones because in the latter case I wouldn’t have been friends with them in the first place.
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@Gargron I'm sorry to bug you again, did you see my earlier message ? https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/display/735a2029595b2e50bca0b4b304993177
Algorithms aren't neutral
Algorithms aren't neutral
Algorithms aren't neutral
Algorithms aren't neutral
Algorithms aren't neutral
ICE Modified Its 'Risk Assessment' Software So It Automatically Recommends Detention
A recent software change to an ICE tool that automatically recommends detention of immigrants with little to no criminal history.motherboard.vice.com
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I just donated 4 coffees (USD$12) and I encourage you to do the same.
My dear, trans man, friend Bay is really hurting for money right now, and with the weather conditions here in NZ being so awful he hasn't been able to work at all
If you could donate to his ko-fi (not a lot of cash websites work here) https://ko-fi.com/Q5Q5F324 I'd appreciate it
He ALSO has a pretty great, hand crafted knife for sale! https://felidaebay.tumblr.com/post/173722514331/selling-my-last-creation-i-made-in-2017-its-an
Please spread this if you can, he's a great friend and I'd love to help him survive this winter and pay rent :heart_trans:Buy Bay a Coffee. ko-fi.com/felidaebay
Support content you love. Buy a Coffee for Bay with Ko-fi.comko-fi.com
I just read in a corporate email that "one of the richest aspects of the creative process is the actively collapsing the wavefunction of possibilities" and it's way to early for this kind of bullshit. How's your morning?
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Never heard of the use of wavefunction outside of physics/p-chem. How dare Corporate BS appropriate a scientific term!
I must admit that what ticked me the most was the use of "collapsing" as it is one of the several unproven explanations about quantum mechanics. The "wave function of possibilities" is cringy but kind of accurate in this case?
By @Gargron for my European residents contacts. 
#internet #privacy #eu
Why we must oppose the new copyright directive
A committee of members of the European Parliament have voted to approve Article 11 and Article 13, which pose a risk to the decentralization of the web and freedom of creative expression.blog.joinmastodon.org
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I used to be annoyed by privileged lukewarm valueless centrists. Now I'm afraid of them knowing they would more readily bring about a dictator than the right: 
Opinion | Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy, Not Extremists
Research shows that it’s not the far right or far left that is the least supportive of democracy and the most supportive of authoritarianism. It’s the center.www.nytimes.com
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(social liberal left, to be precise)
But who's to say there aren't sleeper extremists calling themselves "centrist"?
That's the whole point of this survey. Self-declared centrist are more dangerous than self-declared extremists. You said it yourself, extremism is stigmatized so people are less likely to self-declare extremist, and it turns out people careful enough to avoid self-declaring extremism are the most likely to bring down democratic institutions.
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Then the title is misleading. An extremist calling themself a centrist does not a centrist make. As Tyler Durden put it, "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!"
It would have been more accurate with "Self-declared", indeed. But since it is public politics we're talking about, it's mostly "self-declared" anyway.
Even "extremism" is a very subjective categorization, routinely used (mostly by centrists!) to discard political arguments without having to consider their actual merits.
Even "extremism" is a very subjective categorization, routinely used (mostly by centrists!) to discard political arguments without having to consider their actual merits.
I know I'm going to bed too late in Brooklyn when I start getting replies to my messages from people in Berlin.
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Come on, it's only six hours. Could be worse, you could be on the other coast 
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If I was in San Francisco, people in Germany would start waking up earlier in my evening!
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Word is that ICE has cancelled hearings at the 201 Varick Street, NYC location for Monday the 25th due to the occupation. Keep it up!
#occupyICEnyc
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Robin on social.coop
Activists + anarchists + other caring folks occupying ICE office loading dock in NYC. Come out if you can - 201 Varick Street in Manhattan - any time, any day #occupyICENYCsocial.coop
@Gargron Do servers expose a public list of custom emojis? I'm thinking about creating an addon for Friendica that would add Mastodon's custom emojis replacement, and I definitely need a central place where I can see all of them.
All of them for a single server, at least, I know they are per instance.
Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately I'm not seeing enough custom smilies post from Hubzilla to need an extension for it, but I assume such an extension would be software agnostic.
Michael Vogel 4 hours ago
Here in Germany It's bad as well. All statistics (criminal statistics, economic statistics, ...) clearly are telling that Germany is in a really good shape - but some conservatives politicians are trying to persuade the people that we have got some "refugee crisis". And the media is supporting it.
I can only hope that times will be better some day.
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Michael Vogel 3 hours ago
And I really hate it to even think about something like this, because it shows that I really can imagine that things will go so bad.
Hyp☀️li🌷e Pet🌸van (he/him) 3 hours ago
What does it mean to you?
Michael Vogel 3 hours ago
I'm totally unsure how I will react when these time would come. But I guess I would regret it at the end of my life when I would have to admit that I hadn't done everything to make things good again.