Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.
Da müssen wir einfach technologieoffen rangehen....
A CRT on top of a 90s PC (with floppy disk) showing the Trans Pride Flag
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!
We're everywhere and we're cool.
Here's the trans pride flag 🏳️⚧️ on a mid-90s Pentium running DOS.
"A screenshot of a New York Times article published on March 16, 2026. The headline reads, 'In Tense Meeting, Dr. Oz Pressed Medical Societies on Trans Care for Teens,' with a subheadline stating, 'Most groups defended their support for medical intervention. But the Society for Plastic Surgeons broke with the consensus.' Below the text is a photograph of Dr. Mehmet Oz speaking at a podium bearing the Presidential seal, with blurred figures and flags in the background. The article is credited to Jeremy W. Peters."
The NYT reported how Dr. Oz held a meeting with Medical orgs and a anti-trans hate group to coerce those groups into backing off their support of trans youth.
Jeremy Peters and the NYT framed this shakedown as a reasonable meeting about medical evidence standards. The NYT's bias is clear again.
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:
"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
Dieser ganze Diskurs ist mittlerweile so dermaßen entgleist. Wie wäre es, wenn wir darüber reden, was die Zukunft und Gegenwart von Kindern und Jugendlichen real bedroht:
Klimakatastrophe, Armut, fehlende Ressourcen im Bildungssystem, Superreiche und die fehlende Regulierung von Techkonzernen.
Die SPD will Personalausweis-Pflicht für soziale Medien. Für Alle, auch Erwachsene. Soziale Medien definiert sie nicht, vielleicht meint sie damit auch YouTube, Mastodon und WhatsApp. Anbieter, die sich nicht daran halten, sollen per Netz-Sperren zensiert werden. www.spdfraktion.de/system/files...
Wo unser Kanzler im Rentenalter Sympathien für ein Social Media Verbot für Kinder und Jugendliche zeigt - warum nicht einfach Big Tech für alle endlich konsequent regulieren anstatt nur für Jugendliche verbieten?
digitalrechte.de/news/social-...
"Diese Furcht vor 'Shitstorms', losgetreten etwa durch Plattformen wie 'Nius', sei mittlerweile derart präsent, dass sie zu vorauseilendem Gehorsam in der Programmgestaltung führe. Ein langjähriger NDR-Mitarbeiter sagt: 'Das hat Züge von Selbstzensur angenommen, die uns das Arbeiten erschwert.'“
That is an incredible pull quote from Meta, jesus. Masks fully coming off.
Hab die nur gelegentlich gelesen, wenn das hilft gerne melden. Die Bravo Marke hat mich damals irgendwie abgeschreckt, als würden die Spiele nicht ernst nehmen (als ob andere Magazine das konsequent gemacht hätten).
Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, has been caught using fake AI-generated citations in their textbooks
If you see this, post a comics cover you love.
I think „demand“ is an interesting concept here. As much as the people consuming this content, social media platforms demand it and feature it for their own gain. When your newsfeed is flooded with these accounts, it’s much easier to believe what they say is normal and widely agreed upon.
Very funny to compare this to the Valve hardware announcement video, and think back to the Amazon guy on LinkedIn who was like, “why can’t we compete with Valve??? It is a mystery!!!”
Das politische Programm der CDU:
Syrien ist so sicher, dass dort niemand um sein Leben fürchten muss. Der Dortmunder Hauptbahnhof allerdings ist so gefährlich, dass dort jeder um sein Leben fürchten muss.
Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped
Ich kann mich nur wiederholen:
Wer sexualisierte und geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt in Zusammenhang mit Migration stellt, will nicht geschlechtsbezogene Gewalt verhindern, sondern Rassismus schüren.
Don't know what it says about me, that it's my main game right now. There is some skill in the movement, but really this is a rogue-like deck builder in disguise. It looks ridicuous, it is very random and numbers do go up, yes. Sometimes I just don't need much more.
It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!
Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!
And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.
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I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.
Der Fall Kirk zeigt wieder, dass es im politischen Journalismus nicht allzu gut ausschaut. Viele haben die Prinzipien ihres Berufs nicht verstanden, können sich nicht verorten, sind von Begrifflichkeiten überfordert und treiben hilflos umher. Sehr selbstbewusst sind sie zum Glück dennoch.
War für mich ganz klar eine der Hauptsachen die mich davon abgehalten haben meine Promotion fertig zu bekommen (bis jetzt, hab noch nicht ganz aufgegeben). Mit Kids konnte ich nicht mehr das leisten was vorher drin war, dann noch die Pandemie und das letzte Bisschen Energie war weg.
Would be very cool if there was some digital thing to purchase or just send some money as a token of appreciation. Expensive merch is fine for me, if it supports the work. But when a huge part of the money goes to a shipping company, it just doesn't feel quite right.
A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me! alifewellwasted.com
7. At all of the shelters visited in the middle of the night, ProBAR staff witnessed children who had been pulled out of their beds. They were confused and scared. At Hands of Healing Los Fresnos, one young girl was extremely distraught, crying and repeatedly saying that she could not go back to Guatemala. At New Hope McAllen, one young girl was so scared that she vomited and asked to speak with a clinician. At Urban Strategies Alamo, one young teenager was scared that he might end up murdered like one of his family members. At Compass Connection in Harlingen, an attorney was able to meet with only one child. None of these children’s parents in their home country had requested their return. ProBAR’s client and named Plaintiff ARMD was at Compass Connection, but he was transported to a plane without notifying me as his attorney of record.
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
