The proper way to correct antivaxxers :flan_XD:

If you lived in a world where smoking was returning in full force—through unethical, manipulative, and probably illegal tactics tobacco use was returning to 1960s levels—would you work within the tobacco industry to make it less bad? "Nicotine is an excellent ADHD drug so it can help accessibility!"

Because this is exactly what people in the tech industry are starting to sound like.

I am a big fan of the Facebook group “🇬🇧 Non halal restaurants in the uk 🇬🇧” (sic) because you will get gems like this post I saw, where someone is complaining that their local dessert place is halal

But also erm… It’s a dessert place. It doesn’t have meat dishes? It just means that there’s no gelatin or something.

Well, as everyone knows, Muslims ritually slaughter the cookies and cream before they are ceremonially placed on top of the waffles in the direction of Mecca

Found out in the fediverse some time ago.

"Please don't think that you can stop a Nazi by pointing out hypocrisy or by pointing out that they are lying.

They know. It is a feature, not a bug.

When a fascist lies to you, they are displaying power. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. What the fuck are you going to do about it."

When a fascist lies to other fascists, they are displaying loyalty. "I know I am lying. You know I am lying. We do this because it is how we show allegiance to the cause."

In this way, fascism is inherently an empty ideology. It stands for nothing. It believes in nothing. It can therefore lie about everything.

Except one thing: power.

Fascism MUST lie. It MUST deceive. It MUST play to baser beliefs like racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia, because it has literally nothing of value to offer.

They know this. We know this. That is why they lie."

#Antifa

Blimey, nearly jumped out of my skin when my phone started blaring with this latest alert.

And what of the courses that are now having to be brought into UK schools to undo the damage caused by the likes of Andrew Tate?
Who Farage said was "an important voice for young men".

Is this the government admitting that all teenage boys are rapists?
Or is it about trying to stop them from engaging in behaviours that have been glamourised by online chuds, explaining that those actions are criminal offences, and ruining both their own lives and those of the women they might target?

A few things worth pointing out. As some people rightly mentioned in response to my post yesterday, a simple Google search shows that it's not just migrants who have had material drafted to explain that sexual assault is a criminal offence.

Here's a few excerpts from material that was distributed to the British Army.

Would Nick Ferrari and Nigel Farage view this as admission by the Home Office that the British Army is full of rapists?

#GunControl #SandyHook #GunViolence #GOPHypocrisy

As a voluntarily child free woman, I personally would like to thank the Tories for completely trashing the economy and gutting every support system society has. "There's no way we could ever afford kids" is way more accepted as an excuse than "I despise children"

My old mucker Mark Boas (who once tried to poison me with grappa) has made a PWA that will transcribe audio for you, called Hyperaudio https://hyperaudio.github.io/hyperaudio-lite-editor/index.html

FOSS/FLOSS/GNU can barely be described as safe for white cis women, the absolutely lowest effort level of diversity. We have a long way to go to make the fediverse an alternative for everyone.

Unrepentant serial abusers are still welcome in many open source tech spaces. It is not physically safe to attend events with these assholes.

Why does anyone expect more underrepresented and constantly harassed people to get into this cesspit?

If you feel personally attacked by this post, either scroll on by OR DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE CONDITIONS THAT LED TO THIS POST.

I want to do more with less computer, not less with more computer.

"I’m disappointed I’ll never get to experience sex with a pregnant woman."

NEW guest blog: he's had a #vasectomy and is happily #childfree, but there's one hot thing he still fantasises about...

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/vasectomy-but-pregnancy-hot/

He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss

One of the key negative impacts of mandatory bike helmet laws is that they are essentially a death sentence for bike share programs.
Those programs win because they are convenient and encourage spontaneous cycling. That just doesn’t work if a person has to carry a helmet everywhere just in case they decide to cycle. Tourists are not going to pack a bulky helmet. Shared helmets are a hygiene nightmare.
Protect cyclists with bike infrastructure. That’s what works.
#helmets

I wish someone would tell me conclusively if I'm neurodivergent or not. So far I've only had half a decade of wide-ranging and gruelling assessments by scores of professionals who have dedicated their lives to their relevant specialist field. But some other guys now reckon they're probably wrong. What a conundrum.

the collective hand-wringing over one Black dude plagiarizing his way into academia rings especially hollow given that it's coming from the same people pushing "AI" on everyone.

like, I guarantee you that for every Arday out there, there's a hundred white-dude academics using the plagiarism machine to write papers, but nobody's calling them "DEI hires."

i don't know who needs to hear this, but 1) the best bike is the one you actually ride; 2) you can wear whatever you want while you ride it; 3) you can ride it however you want; 4) you can ride it for as long/far as you want; 5) you can maintain it however you want.

I noticed that every single writer who joined the self-righteous destruction of Jason Arday was also anti-trans, and I think I'm going to write about that for my newsletter this week.

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