In Germany, individuals and groups calling out genocide or advocating for Palestinian rights can expect funding cuts, surveillance, criminalization, and police brutality.
Not posting much on politics anymore. I am running out of words to explain that fascism is bad and if something is bad we should not do it and not doing something means that consequences of bad things will be less likely.
A police report and an interview with a former Zionist operative form the basis of Avi Shlaim's claim that he has uncovered "undeniable proof" of Israeli involvement in bombings which drove Jews out of Iraq in the early 1950s, the British-Israeli his…
I am able to follow them from my Friendica server, but I wanted to let yall know in case you would be interested in adding the bridge to your account. I know how some people feel about it, but this message isn't for you.
I have enabled the Bluesky addon on Friendica.world
I have tested (connected this account to @friendicaworld.bsky.social) which seems to work. My posts arrive on Bluesky.
So far, I have 2 findings: - I couldn't yet get it to work when using a self-hosted PDS (I host bskysocial.world) - I also couldn't get the friendica.world domain to work yet. I see that it tries to go to ruud.friendica.world/.well-kno… so I enabled wildcard subdomains. That worked, but now there's no content in .well-known/atproto-did so I need to figure out how to get that there.
This map shows street lamps and their settings in the data of OpenStreetMap. It shows e.g. operators, reference numbers and details about the used lights.
Thinking more about my GURPS campaigns, they could use a couple more suitcase nukes to liven things up. Especially my Dungeon Fantasy campaign.
It would be easy - stat up a world/dimension-hopping chronoterrorist with a penchant for nuking random places in random eras. Make the terrorist completely batshit so I don't have to come up with a plausible motive for doing so.
Rejoignant le Guardian et la vanguardia, le média, attaché aux valeurs démocratiques, au débat apaisé et à la lutte contre la désinformation et le harcèlement, proteste ainsi contre le manque de régulation et de modération de la plateforme.
Georgie's Anecdotes Normally, I cook for myself. But when my parents have something interesting, they offer it to me. Me. "I think I'll finish those egg noodles. They should still be good, right? When did you give them to me?" Mom. "Two days ago. You don't remember." "No. I don't remember the days of food, just that it was good." (starts singing, parodying The Twelve Days of Christmas) "On the first day of November, my mother fed to me... I don't remember, but I know it was very good." Both of us laugh. Me. "I've been watching too much theatre." Mom praised me, but I forget her exact words.
There really must be a way to filter posts and ignore conversations here and/or via Tweesecake. I honestly don't care who uses what platform. If Mastodon, Blue Sky, Twitter, Facebook, Friendica, or some yet unknown service works for you, use it. Why should it even matter, other than to help new users who are transitioning to these sorts of sites? I certainly received wonderful help when I first came to Friendica last month from Facebook. But I wouldn't put anyone down for using some other site. It's just great that those of us in the Fediverse can all communicate with each other. AT least, those on Friendica can do so across many platforms. I'm not sure how it works with the others. In my case, I moved from Facebook due to their eliminating their Basic Mobile site (not app), and I found some lovely people here.
Note: Despite this negative post, the people at Newsmast do take accessibility seriously and have said they would fix the issues that I mentioned earlier. So please don't let this reflect on them. I only told them about these a few days ago. Today, I found the new ones. Maybe, their site is simply not working properly for anyone at the moment. I found yet more inaccessibility with newsmast. I went there using Supermium, and hit all the "button" links until I found the one that was for communities. I tried to follow one by entering my Friendica.world information, and told it to authorise the interaction, which is all normal and is how I joined the others when I found myself tagged in them. Then, I was sent to a page that asked me about my birthday, location, etc. I had never seen this when joining a Newsmast page, but I began doing it. There was an edit box for country, but regardless of what I typed, it kept telling me that I needed to select a country. But there was no combobox to do so, just an edit box for typing. I closed the window and tried to return to the communities page, but it kept returning me to the form where I had to enter my location, even when I specifically removed that part of the url. I'm going to try it with Firefox, which is a bit more accessible with the site (it shows some links not all unlabelled buttons), but this shouldn't be happening. I also need to figure out how to delete the cookie from Supermium so that I can visit the site without the prompt.
Update. I just went there with Firefox. I was able to find and follow a community. Again, it sent me to the location page, even when I closed the initial one that opened. Now, whenever I go there, it does the same. I guess I have to use a different browser or virtual machine every time I want to join a community, or just type a large number of tags into one post, hoping that some are communities, so that they will boost my meaningless post, just so that I might be lucky enough to land on their follow page and not the location one again. Yes, that was sarcasm. In reality, I'll just go back to my other pages that list various tags and communities to join because they work. #accessibility #blind #blindness #Newsmast #firefox #NVDA #Supermium #Windows @newsmast.org @newsmast
Hi Georgiana, thanks again for your helpful feedback.
It sounds like you're trying to follow Communities using the Newsmast app which will ask for you to create an account.
As we spoke about the other day, we know there's issues here that we need to fix and hopefully will be able to soon!
If you want to follow our Community Feeds on vanilla Mastodon, you can do so by follow them directly from your current friendica[dot]world account. (1/2)
See hand-curated, topical, feeds no matter where you call home on the Fediverse. Just add to a list, exclude from your home feed, then dip in and out whenever you want.
We’re working hard to connect knowledge across the Fediverse.
@The Newsmast Foundation I was using your website, not an app. The same was true the other day. It was from the communities page. Now, whenever I try to go to the main page, I'm greeted with the form.
newsmast.org is a our web app which has a number of accessibility issues and bugs which we'll work on soon. For now, our Newsmast app has been placed to the side until we finish our Channel.org service (which we hope will bring in more funding).
To visit the Community Feeds on a plain Mastodon UI or through whichever application best suits you, you can access and follow them from this thread of posts: newsmast.social/@newsmast/1118… (1/2)
See hand-curated, topical, feeds no matter where you call home on the Fediverse. Just add to a list, exclude from your home feed, then dip in and out whenever you want.
We’re working hard to connect knowledge across the Fediverse.
A social media charity The Newsmast Foundation is an educational charity, supporting the use of social media for good. We’re at the forefront of new, open social media.
When I say drag is interesting, I'm not talking about drag racing down a residential street at almost midnight!
Yours in annoyance, Georgiana
Just for context, some people do this all of the time around here, and it's ridiculous! I don't even live in a big city, and yet, they race down the street as if their lives depended on it, sometimes much later than this, at three or four in the morning! It sounds as if they're on motorbikes, not in cars.
Cripes. Got put in Facebook jail for posting "My GURPS campaign could use a few suitcase nukes", which apparently goes against their acceptable use policy for "inciting violence".
Meanwhile, my wife and her activist friends routinely face threats of violence and FB does nothing about it.
Suppose the algorithm only takes action against make-believe violence.
Occasionally, on Facebook, I would write funny things under the title Georgie's Anecdotes. So why not continue the tradition here?
Georgie's Anecdotes My parents have been together for thirty-five years. They had a civil union in 2007 and were finally able to marry in 2013. Both times, my own excitement was contagious, to the point that they wondered if they or I were more excited! Today, both made me laugh. I wished Mom a happy wedding anniversary. She said she had forgotten and asked "how did you remember that?" I said "I always remember important things. Later, she spoke with Joanie, and she didn't even know today's date! Usually, she's the one to say it to Mom first. This year, I beat both of them!
As the title implies, I've migrated from foggyminds.com over to friendica.world. This change was brought about as foggyminds' admin, Shiri Bailem, is in potential danger of shutting down the instance given the current political climate as a trans woman in Texas. Wishing her the best, but for peace of mind, I've migrated in advance.
Welcome to Friendica.World, fellow Tron nerd! I am sorry to hear about your last server. As a gay man currently residing in Texas, I understand Shiri's concern.
Have you seen the new Tron: Ares still? I wish Leto wasn't involved...
I have not seen it, but I look forward to the movie. While Jared Leto wouldn't have been my first pick for the movie on the basis of his acting skills, I'm still optimistic that maybe he'll do a good job. As an aside, I'm a little bummed they couldn't get Bruce Boxleitner to take part in the film, but I can understand why. He's pretty old and might not have the energy to do an action role anymore.
Anyways, yeah, looking forward to being on this instance. Hope you're able to stay safe over there in Texas. Much love from South Carolina, where things unfortunately aren't much better.
@TronNerd82 I’m super stoked that Gillian Anderson is involved. I’ve loved her since the X Files. I’ll probably be happy as long as we see something of Sam or Kevin Flynn, even if they aren’t the protagonists.
Thank you for the well wishes. We are heavily contemplating a move after seeing how this whole thing shakes out. Best of luck to you over there as well!
Someone just told me that she didn't wished to be tagged in a discussion. I edited my replies in which I had (automatically) tagged her. I hope that solves the problem. If not, how do I remove someone from a discussion? And while we're at it, why am I seeing posts from two weeks ago near the top of my feed?
I was just involved in a conversation and tagged several people, instead of just the one to whom I was replying. I apologise. I am not accustomed to this. On the Basic Mobile version of Facebook, people would only be tagged if I did so, and then, I had full control of it, choosing one or more. Here, it's automatic, and I must delete those whom I don't wish to tag.
Grimmway Farms recalled an array of its organic whole and baby carrots over concerns of an E. coli outbreak. Recalled carrots were sold at retailers such as Walmart, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.
I followed all sorts of groups, interests and people. I even went to the main Friendica page, went to each channell, and selected the radio button that would let me see its posts. It said these would be on the "for you" page. I see no such page, nor do they show in the "My friends' conversations", or the "Conversations on this and other servers" pages. On Tweesecake, I am not seeing any of these people/groups, either in "Home" or "Federated Timeline". . A few post constantly, but that's it. All the others are silent. Am I missing something? Do I need to keep going to the individual pages of each contact to view posts? That would be ridiculous!
I am a huge supporter of gay rights, and not just because my parents are lesbians. I was that way even before they told me at sixteen. It's the one thing that would make me put someone else's life before mine, and that would make me get involved in any sort of activism. I say this, both as an introduction to myself, and because I want to make it clear that I post this video out of genuine interest and fascination, not to insult anyone. I have noticed the same things mentioned there, but I wasn't sure if it was a modern phenomenon or not. When I listen to people such as Ivor novello, Noel Coward, Clifton Webb, Fred Astair, etc. I don't hear any traces of "gayness" in their voices. There may be some visually, but being blind, I can't say one way or the other. Obviously, they lived in times in which they had to hide their sexual preferences, but just hearing them speak, I would never suspect anything by their voices, tones, or pronunciation. Yet I can almost always tell with modern men. Coward might possibly give something away, if I listened hard enough. It's true that they were men of the theatre, not common men on the street, but one good thing about their time is that elocution, grammar, etc. were still taught in school, so even streight men sounded wonderful then! Today, almost everyone's speech, except that of gay men and seniors, annoys me, but that's another topic for another time.
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in reply to end0fline • •There are 2 Star Trek actors on my Mastodon server but I doubt they are still active...
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