Dus dankzij "feminist" JK Rowling heeft het Britse Hooggerechtshof besloten dat transgender vrouwen niet bestaan, en geen bescherming verdienen tegen discriminatie zoals ieder ander.
Deze afgrijselijke uitspraak zet de tijd 20 jaar terug, en dat TERFS het vieren als overwinning van feminisme is 🤢🤮
Het afnemen van mensenrechten, het creëren van uitzonderingen, het creëren van groepen waarvoor die mensenrechten niet gelden, is niet alleen onmenselijk en antifeministisch, het tast bovendien ieders mensenrecht aan.
God, als JK Voldemort dood is zullen we dansen op haar graf.
Critics of trans rights win UK supreme court case over definition of woman
Judges rule that Equality Act definition excludes transgender women holding gender recognition certificatesSeverin Carrell (The Guardian)
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De framing kan weer beginnen. Ik verwacht snel een overdreven hoog schadebedrag van de #UvA, zoals we eerder hebben gezien. Allemaal herstelbare materiële schade, wat in het niet valt met de #genocide in overdrive in #Gaza.
NOS: *ME ontruimt Maagdenhuis Amsterdam, actievoerders worden aangehouden*
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Een groep studenten en medewerkers bezette het gebouw van de universiteit. De bezetters eisten dat de universiteit alle banden met Israëlische universiteiten verbreekt.NOS Nieuws
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Ik heb wat foto's gezien. Laat dit door een vakmens doen en je bent hooguit een paar duizend eurie kwijt. eerder een paar honderd zelfs.
En die boze kantoormedewerkster ("Dit is een kantoor! Dat heeft er niets mee te maken!") is beetje verward, kan beter niet in de buurt van de popo komen. Die kunnen niet omgaan met verwarde mensen
Vernieling, hoe futiel ook, keert zich tegen je. Dan roep je weerstand op bij het publiek ipv sympathie.
Het lijkt me dat je het publiek achter je wil krijgen.
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Volgens NU.nl & co demonstreren er "duizenden" mensen tegen TrumpMusk, "op meer dan 1.200 locaties".
Als dat waar zou zijn, zouden er dus ongeveer 2 of misschien wel 4 demonstranten per locatie zijn...
In werkelijkheid gaat het allicht niet om duizenden, of tienduizenden, of HONDERDduizenden mensen, maar om "MILLIONS of people" (berichtte CNN al uren eerder)
NUnl lukte het sowieso pas om 1 uur 's nachts om iets te posten over de protesten die toen al een halve dag bezig waren in de VS.
Nieuwsuur was er vroeger bij, maar kwam weer met zo'n verschrikkelijke false balance, met interviews met 'deskundigen' die weer eens gingen uitleggen dat Musk misschien toch wel een punt had, dat ik de TV heb uitgezet.
En nee, die mensen demonstreren niet alleen maar tegen bezuinigingen of ontslagen, stelletje wegkijkers. Er is daar een coup bezig, voor het geval je het nog niet had gemerkt.
Eén ding pakte Nieuwsuur gelukkig wel op. De totale teleurstelling in de Democraten, die blijven doen alsof TrumpMusk een normaal presidentschap is, waar je net zo op moet reageren als op welke president dan ook.
Precies zoals de oppositie in Nederland ook maar blijft doen alsof ons extreemrechtse kabinet uit normale partijen bestaat, waar je normaal op moet reageren, of zelfs met "constructieve oppositie".
"Fuck nee!" zeggen deze miljoenen mensen. "Kappen met die collaboratie!!"
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Laat ze mij eens uitleggen wat diplomatie in casu heeft opgeleverd of wat het zal opleveren.
Gewoon keihard constateren dat de VS geen vriend meer is, maar een vijand. Een gevaarlijke vijand....
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Zou je denken hè? Demonstraties zijn toch meestal van iets meer dan 1 persoon, dacht ik.
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Dus, nog es, verbeter me als ik het niet begrijp:
Een fraudeur die 3 miljoen euro achterover drukte is veroordeeld. 👍
Na 10 jaar gedegen onderzoek nota bene.
En zoals in de Franse wet staat, is de rechter VERPLICHT om dit soort daders hun passieve kiesrecht af te nemen, dus is dat ook gebeurd.
Maar omdat ze een fascist is, roepen Nederlandse media nu... moord en brand??
En dat haar veroordeling de fakking "dood van de democratie" is...?? 😳🤯😲
Als je ziet wie er door NUnl, AD, NOS, Volkskrant of ED wordt gevraagd om commentaar, dan denk ik dat het adressenboekje van Der Sturmer nog minder nazi's bevatte. Trouw noemt de veroordeling zelfs het "zwartste scenario".
Je bent zelf het zwartste scenario. Zonder jullie zaten we nu niet met een wereld vol zwarthemden.
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Wie heeft jou wijsgemaakt dat 2 jaar huisarrest en even niet gekozen mogen worden, de 'zwaarst mogelijke straf' is voor het jatten van 3 miljoen euro?
Wist je dat Le Pen zelf altijd heeft gepleit om de uitsluiting van passief kiesrecht levenslang te maken?
En dat haat beter verkoopt dan seks, media dat geen probleem vinden en denken "maar ja, boze reacties zijn natuurlijk fijn voor de clicks", dat lijkt me nu net de kern van het probleem waarom we nu zijn waar we zijn.
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Oh look at that, hachyderm.io has also banned my account. Maybe because hachyderm is just another mouthpiece for empire, huh?
Okay then, as for "stupid", how stupid do you have to be not to realize this is a psyops---a deliberate leak???
JD Vance saying "we're doing this for Europe". Sort of in the way we blew up the Nord Stream pipeline for Europe -- yeah we care so much about Europe.
WE DID THIS FOR ISRAEL!!!!
Only Ansarallah was able to attack Israel with hypersonic missiles!!
Only Ansarallah completely shut down Israel"s port of Eilat!!
Jeffrey Goldberg was an IDF prison guard and pro- Israel scum, who just happened to be let into the conversation, huh???
If you dont think this was a psyop to distract the public from the fact your govt is trying to start WW3 on behalf of Israel, you are not only stupid, you're complicit.
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it seems like something a sophisticated and conscientious black-hat would do.
i really hate that this happened on signal, now my family group is saying "oh, signal is not safe, private convos were leaked! you told us this was better than whatsapp!"
it's very hard to explain to some of the older members of the group that it's incompetency, not a hack, because they have a built-in belief that no person in a government could do something so stupid
they're well aware that they can do it by accident, but a person sharing very important security info? no way
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just like when people tried to explain fedi to others comparing it to email and then got mocked, I realsied most people just didn't know how email worked ...
I'm realising that not knowing the ends are the best attack surface shows that people don't know how end-to-end encryption works
If they had been using the government's own secure messaging system, with it's built in controls for tiers of security clearance, it would have been impossible to accidentally cc a journalist.
But it seems use of the interior Signal messaging app is pervasive in the Trump administration.
"Niemals wieder" is in de VS nu: "elke dag".
- Terwijl we zelf met een extreemrechts kabinet zitten wat dikke vrienden wil blijven met deze fascistische staat;
- Terwijl we in Nederland en vele andere Europese landen doen alsof wij helemaal anders zijn;
- Terwijl we allemaal weten dat Wilders precies hetzelfde van plan is;
- Terwijl extreemrechts enorm is gegroeid dankzij de collaboratie door VVD en NSC, en het gedogen door alle andere partijen en media ("laten we ze behandelen als een normale partij") ;
- Terwijl de collaboratie en normalisering van fascisme in mainstream media alleen maar in een stroomversnelling is gekomen, zelfs al zien we allemaal aankomen dat Schreeuwwitje II net zo heftig zal willen zijn als Trump II;
Blijft één ding waar:
Alleen doordat mensen bij voorbaat gehoorzamen, krijgen dictators macht.
Gehoorzaam niet.
Weiger collaboratie, ook in Nederland.
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If you want to understand Putin - fascism better, this is a very interesting interview.
Surkov is seen by many as the ideologue behind Putinism; this is his first interview in years.
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Schaamteloos, Bruins.
- Je eigen wetenschap kapot bezuinigen
- Daarnaast stel je (geheel volgens Project2025) voor om opleidingen niet alleen op studentenaantallen, maar ook op 'maatschappelijke relevantie' te financieren 👉 oftewel: kritische & 'linkse' opleidingen worden geschrapt.
- Je partij lanceert aanval na aanval op gender & trans
- Je zit in een coalitie met de klimaatwappies van PVV & BBB
- Kabinet Schreeuwwitje I ❤ ongelijkheid, en haat wetenschap
- En dan dit 👇
"Onderwijsminister Eppo Bruins richt een fonds op om zo snel mogelijk topwetenschappers uit het buitenland naar Nederland te halen. De aanleiding lijkt de snel veranderende situatie voor wetenschappers in de Verenigde Staten te zijn, al zegt Bruins dat niet hardop." (...)
"De situatie voor Amerikaanse wetenschappers is op dit moment onzeker. Sinds de beëdiging van president Donald Trump worden fondsen ingetrokken, regent het ontslagen en gaan bepaalde wetenschappelijke termen in de ban. Die harde opstelling lijkt vooral te zijn gericht op onderzoek naar klimaat, gender en ongelijkheid."
Bruins haalt nóg meer geld weg bij wetenschap om hen hier heen te lokken: "Topwetenschappers zijn immers goud waard voor ons land en voor Europa."
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So, science friends.
When in the 1930s would you have decided “no, I’m not going to go to that conference in Germany”?
Because the question now needs to be posed looking westwards across the Atlantic.
If your phone can be taken on arrival & searched for messages critical of the government & then you can be denied entry (or perhaps worse in the future), why would you even think of going in the first place?
Absolutely horrifying slide into totalitarianism.
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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searchedRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
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@va2lam I made a conscious effort not to go there after 2016, despite my normal schedule including up to six trips a year to the US.
On an occasion when I did go, I took a fully clean laptop & phone, & loaded everything from the cloud after I was in my hotel. I needed one password to access the account & that was separated on two pieces of paper, one in my shoe.
It feels absurd to think I thought that was necessary. But here we are again …
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yeah, I was at a conference in Beijing a few years ago and someone who was rotating at DARPA did similar things. But these days it's the US that is actually the danger.
I did go to a conference in the US last October because my Iranian student couldn't get a visa. But in the future I'm definitely planning to de-prioritize US conferences.
FWIW, the article suggests that the date this French scientist was refused entry was just before the annual Lunar & Planetary Sciences Conference in Houston, a key meeting for folk in those fields.
Will be interesting to see if further information emerges.
See also this Le Monde article (I don't read much French myself).
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Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines.Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)
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Speaking as an American in America: You absolutely do not want to be here right now.
Please apply economic sanctions on us before you have to start sending bombs and tanks.
@louis You have my deepest sympathy & concern – it seems to be even worse than the most extreme predictions & it feels certain that a lot of lives are being ruined.
I’ve lived five years in the US, visited more than a hundred times, & have been married to an American – I know that there are many good people there who absolutely don’t want this insanity.
Stay safe.
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We don't want any of what's going on and are doing what we can, but any help from the outside is much appreciated.
Yeah, the military strikes me as a major wild card in all this. I don't feel like I can predict what they'll do either way (unlike police, whom I can pretty confidently say will fall on the fascist side).
Will the military back Trump out of fear and/or misplaced loyalty? Will they overthrow him in a military coup? Will they fragment between those two goals and descend into infighting, and if so what will the balance of power between the sides be?
It's a tricky one. I currently have a conference in May in Chicago.
I know the "phone can be taken and searched" has been going on since 2001 really, but never thought "this could be me".
Now with this, and the more horrific cases with a Canadian, two Germans, and a Brit being thrown into ICE detention…
I like the folks that organise the conference, and know many of the other speakers, but is it now worth the risk? I don't know 😕
Certainly not going to plan to future ones.
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@derickr speaking as a non-scientist American (though I’ve got two scientists in the family), I urge you to boycott all things American.
It needs to sink in to the public at large that the US is dangerous (lots still in denial), and one of the best ways to do that is to stop spending money here. Don’t book those flights and hotels for the conference, don’t eat in our restaurants, and get around town via transit or taxi.
Conferences are big business—close them all down.
@grammasaurus This is not a big business conference, but a community one run on a shoestring budget. Flights are all booked (non US airline), and hotel too.
I don't want to be flaky with the people who organise it, nor miss a chance to see many friends, who honestly could do with some support.
But I might change my mind if it gets worse, and have been talking to the organisers about that too.
Beyond that, I'm definitely moving away from US (tech) providers.
@derickr The chance to see friends is important! and all anyone can do is make choices based on the best info they have at any moment.
I hope the US won’t be in crisis for too long, but know that many of us support whatever decisions you make that keep you safe.
My eyes were opened on this about 10 years ago when a customer of mine acknowledged that their corporate laptops had embedded self-destruct software in case they "fell into the wrong hands."
Those laptops were only intended to be used on trips to their US customers.
I've lost count of the number of times I've visited the US, including multiple times in the same week (just mad!), but I can't see me willingly going again...
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I am utterly ashamed of the things my country is doing
Don't overlook the profit motive and public corruption behind these immigration crackdowns & extra travel visa scrutiny.
Trump's administration is doing all it can to prolong detention time because it sends money from the detainees into the system.
borderreport.com/immigration/c…
Detainees are pressured into posting bail, hiring a US lawyer, working for free, signing over assets, or otherwise "feeding the beast" in order to regain their freedom.
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Trump is directing business away from certain law firms and towards favored legal representation.
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The Nazis did the same to people fleeing their dictatorship too.
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavar…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_p…
Baron Rothschild paid $21 million as his ransom to the Nazis.
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Carpetbagging has a long tradition in the USA.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet…
Germany: value of assets taken from Jewish emigrants 1933-1937 | Statista
The German state’s persecution of the Jews escalated following Hitler’s ascent to power in 1933.Statista
I had already decided not to visit the US for the foreseeable future, pretty much immediately after the election.
"perhaps worse in the future": this future is already here:
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(These are not scientists, but still). I had some business travel to the US come up, showed these to my manager and told him I feel that would be unsafe. I always loved visiting the US and this makes me sad indeed.
I've asked myself that question - and when Trump was elected the first time, I decided I wouldn't attend conferences in a country that had just issued a blanket ban on any colleagues from Muslim majority countries.
This time, however, Trump is launching an attack on US science itself, so I think it would be wrong not to go. As a white European, my personal risk is objectively very low (though I will certainly not carry data or access to data that could put others at risk).
The moment the election results got in I canceled all my CfP submissions to US conferences...
It hurt. But I can't make it. And would I have not done it, now would probably be the time where I'd cancel possible gigs. If I can't be certain that I don't end up in some slave-labour camp, I'm out!
@Remittancegirl @EricFielding Good spot – there’s a button on the article itself which gives an English language version, which is most welcome.
I had read it in French last night and again in English now – I’m curious which particular aspect of the French ministry response caught your eye?
(It’s possible that I know the researcher in question and they work in space science, the article says.)
@Talia Indeed. I felt the same during the first Tangerine Tyrant era – admittedly, I went for work still, but wouldn’t countenance any holiday there. In particular, we had hoped to go & see the 2017 total solar eclipse, but that got struck immediately.
But this time it’s far worse & I’d be hard pressed to agree to travel there now for any reason.
@Remittancegirl @EricFielding Indeed. It’s a complete abnegation of democracy to punish someone for having a negative opinion on an elected politician, whether foreign or not.
But the aim is clear here – to use arbitrary & excessive power to signal that dissent will not be tolerated, whether from foreigners or citizens. And there will be many in the relevant authorities who will enjoy wielding that power.
Classic authoritarian state rule. The US is sliding away before our eyes.
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I agree. All the COVID era online scientific and biomedical conferences were of widely variable quality.
An unfortunate situation with US science climate being so negative and inhospitable for visitors.
Searching digital devices started with 9/11 (aka DHS), so at this point I decided to avoid going to the US.
But what I see now is by magnitudes worse.
It is always wise to use „Travelequipment“ for the Entry into the USA, instead of traveling with you All-Day Electronics…!
@Ulli I know it does & there have been times in the past, notably during the Tangerine Tyrant’s last term, that I only carried scrubbed laptops & phones on trips.
The point is how often it is enacted, with what tolerance levels, & with what intent. And that has clearly changed, making it far more risky / dangerous for foreigners with opinions to travel to the US than it was two months ago. And arguably travelling tacitly legitimises the regime even if you carry clean electronics.
That amount hasn’t changed during the last months.
What changed was the coverage of single cases by news outlets and in the social media.
And it is always the same, the CBP-Officer has the last word about your entry into the US.
If he don’t like you, you are going back, that also hasn’t changed for the last 40yrs I observe it as a traveler and pilot.
@Ulli Thanks for putting some numbers on that for us – do you know what fraction of the total number of passengers that is?
And I know that US immigration officials have always had this power – I used to live there, had a Green Card, & have had some very interesting experiences with them over the years. I also spoke at one point with the most senior lawyer at the INS about the rules & they essentially said "it's entirely at the discretion of the officer you talk to on the day."
@Ulli That said, I think it's perfectly likely that the current government is going to weaponise that power, & I struggle to believe that turning back a scientist for having messages on his phone disapproving of the research funding policies has always been a reason for rejection.
So we also need to be careful not to shrug & say "business as usual", as it's clear that this is not a US government as usual.
But we have to concentrate on the cases related with the 🤡 in the WH!
If we concentrate on the „loudest cases“, but miss the real ones by that, we fall into the traps set by right-wing-media!
We had a large news coverage about our ministry of foreign affairs changing a sentence within the travel informations regarding the US, but there were no coverage of the Gytmo-Camps, or the illegal deportations of the Venezuelans, in Germany…
IATA is naming the number on „less than 1%“, but the Airlines doing a lot in front of the flight to make sure that only Passengers arrive, with a good chance for admission, as there are fines for every INAD for the Airline.
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Understanding the Issue of Inadmissible Passengers (INADs) and Their Impact on Travel
What are INADs (inadmissible passengers), why do they face entry denial, and what are the repercussions that follow?www.iata.org
We had issues with VISA for German researchers 9 years ago. They were Turkish Nationals postdpocs at our department. Visa procedure took simply too long so they could not attend
We had to sent a US or Canadian on short notice to present
So this is not so new. (And we do not need to speak about other nations who always had this issues)
This just never made news
New is, the US based researchers have to fear reentry is denied. So either we go hybrid, or we write off US Research.
I am totally with you.
It is something we should be ashamed to not have tackled as academia before. Even EU conferences are a problem for many.
So the second best time to work on this is now.
The question is how do we proceed with US-Based researchers. Many foreign young PhD candidates think they got the chance of their life to be there.
French researcher denied entry to US for 'expressing personal opinion' on Trump policies
France's research minister expressed 'concern' on Wednesday at this decision by the US authorities. The researcher underwent a random check on arrival, before his computer and phone were searched, a source said.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
Better use your brain in Europe, we'll need them.
Now you see that the First Amendment is just a lame excuse for dumb people to cowardly attack everyone else and the Second Amendment is brandished for personal egoistic reasons but never used when it is needed.
In a nutshell, more often than not, Americans invoking the Constitution couldn't care less about it.
What's scary is that it's become clear that a lot of rank-and-file right-wing citizens see the Constitution the same way they see the Bible: an infallible divine document that is nonetheless not for *their* lowly eyes to read, but for the "priesthood" to interpret for them in ways that point towards cruelty and hate.
I would go even further: Every foreign affairs ministry in every semi-functional democracies should issue travel warnings for the general public.
And those who go regardless must know they're on their own, with very few exceptions.
Oh, I've already cancelled trips to the US out of fear. I wrote this post over two weeks ago: mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/11409…
I got a weight of my chest: I turned down an invitation to a math conference in the US and cancelled another I had already accepted. I know I'm probably overreacting, but I was worried about being deported since I've read many news stories about this happening to people with valid visas —including Europeans, so I don't like my chances as a brown Mexican! And even though I know it was unlikely to happen to me (it probably only happens to a small fraction of visitors), I'm happy to stop the nagging worry in the back of my mind. It's a shame: both events would have been great and I would have seen many American friends I don't get to see often.
@oantolin I fully agree with your decision. I have many very good friends & colleagues in the US who are concerned & scared about the rapid dismantling any remaining semblance of democracy in their country & they have my sympathy.
My fear though as the catastrophe of climate change continues to increase, is that totalitarianism will take a deeper hold across the world, as populists & demagogues exploit the fear & denialism. The world is at a dangerous tipping point in many ways.
Good bye America’s soft power.
I hope Canada takes the place for scientific conferences.
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"Nee we spreken natuurlijk Israël niet direct aan. Maar we gaan er uiteraard volledig van uit dat zij zich zeer ferm aangesproken zullen voelen en direct actie ondernemen!
Zo, nu lekker koffie en lekkere Israëlische dadels! HMm, en waar zullen we daarna de burgers weer een poot uitdraaien...?"
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Kabinet lanceert nieuwe aanval op het Nederlandse onderwijs:
Schreeuwwitje I wil op politieke gronden kunnen gaan bepalen welke opleidingen nog geld krijgen en welke niet.
Minister Bruins wil het MBO, en straks ook HBO en universiteiten, niet meer alleen op studentenaantallen gaan financieren, maar ook op "maatschappelijk belang". Hij is bang dat er anders studies omvallen die gewoon belangrijk zijn voor ons allemaal.
Dit klinkt fantastisch.
Dat is het niet.
We hebben een extreemrechts kabinet, wat miljarden gaat bezuinigen op het onderwijs, en wat nu ineens zegt: het zou zonde zijn als er opleidingen omvallen omdat we alleen maar naar studentenaantallen kijken. Laten we ook kijken naar maatschappelijk belang.
Maar dat kan je ook omdraaien.
Kabinet Schreeuwwitje I zegt hier:
"Wij gaan wel eventjes bepalen wat wij van maatschappelijk belang vinden. En dus ook welke opleidingen volgens ons géén maatschappelijk belang hebben."
Dit is niet mooi, maar een directe aanval op onafhankelijke wetenschap, vrijheid van meningsuiting en kritisch denken. Het is voor het kabinet immers een fluitje van een cent om kritische of zogenaamd "linkse" opleidingen (denk bijvoorbeeld aan vrouwenstudies) of studies die het kabinet op het belang van de rechtsstaat wijzen (bv internationaal recht) weg te zetten als "niet van groot maatschappelijk belang".
Het kabinet kan met deze move onbeperkt gaan lopen schrappen. Alleen het chilling effect zal er al toe leiden dat onderwijsbesturen kritiek en kritisch denken op hun eigen opleidingen met alle macht tegen zullen gaan.
Project 2025 speelt niet alleen maar in de VS.
Het mooie praatje van Bruins:
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"maatschappelijk belang"
Is gewoon dit kabinet dat heel graag wil bepalen wat men gaat studeren...
"Control the knowledge, control the crowd"
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It is genuinely incomprehensible to me that while trans people are being stripped of their rights, and Black people are being fired for being Black and ICE is rounding up protestors, people are trying to make “rest is resistance” a thing.
Fuck that.
Rest is important. Sure. Humans physically cannot function without it. But it’s not an act of resistance. Neither is staying hydrated. You’re going to need to raise the bar on this one.
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Disability advocacy has something to say on this. Rest IS resistance when we are pressured to "work" to earn a place in society.
I hope you're willing to be specific with this critique, because you risk hitting with it folks for whom "work", "productivity" and the rest of it are levers of control and measures for how much support we "deserve".
(Edit: special thanks to the assholes speculating about my motivation in pointing out basic fucking intersectionality. I'm blocking all of you)
Edit 2: daojoan said "people". Not "white people" not "abled people" just "people". If she means "white people" or "abled people" she should SAY that.
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@quietmarc why is it ALWAYS some supposed “anarchist” on an FBI raided server who is clearly bigoted and deeply bothered by the presence or mention of Black people always trying to themselves the center of the fucking discussion
This is racist. I don’t give a fuck about your disability. It’s VERY clear that you are mad that Joan specifically mentioned Black people, and your own personal bigotry just couldn’t let you “rest”.
This is a whole new level of antiblack.
@ErickaSimone - especially seeing as the idea of Rest is Resistance was founded by a Black woman, and is grounded in the Womanist idea of Black people (Black women especially) being able to take a moment to be present in their humanity without being of service to anyone else - which is something afforded to white people all the time.
It's like the bastardisation of Self Care to mean white people taking scented baths and using a hair treatment.
once again, white people have taken something that was rooted in black resistance and meant for the oppressed…. and ruined everything about it.
Rest is for the oppressed. Not for white American people who consistently vote against their own best interest.
You are wrong. Taking care of yourself takes care of everyone. Love yourself. Don't promote #GeneralStrike and promote #TaxStrike.
Here's a nice timeline cleanser for you :
#TimeLineCleanser #LoveYourself #Resistance #DemocratsForFreedom
@Subterfuge "If you;re too disabled" tell me you have no meaningful connection with the disability community at all, why doncha.
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For 'disabled oracle' Alice Wong, rest is a radical act
Disability rights activist Alice Wong's debut memoir is out Tuesday. But don't expect to see her on a book tour, read from her work or sign copies.Sonja Sharp (Los Angeles Times)
"Rest is a radical act"?. I hope that that was the editor's words and not Alice Wong's, because that's the stuff of grift.
Moralistic, ineffectual culture war politics will get you no where with the fight we are in now.
There's no room for it.
What Musk and Trump are doing is beyond just dangerous, or a moral issue. It will be worse than the Gazan genocide in terms of the scale of material harm if they get everything they want.
You can't stop that by resting.
Have you looked into the origin of that? Tricia Hersey doesn't strike me as shirking responsibility.
The eight hour work day movement wasn't about giving up, either.
Grind culture doesn't belong in anti-capitalist activism. Burning out doesn't help a movement survive.
We're still in the middle of a pandemic that gives people energy-limiting post viral illnesses.
Fight, but fight smart. Fight, and don't become what you're fighting.
@Subterfuge @quietmarc he’s very serious, and I’m going to make it very clear. This is a very antiblack statement. This person is truly mad that Black people were mentioned. This is the only thing driving this response.
Disability or not. Some of you people are fucking racist demons and it will pop out every time.
Thanks for calling this weird shit out.
@anantagd@ieji.de @Subterfuge “now that disabled people…”
Didn’t matter when they were Black though right?
Okay.
For me as a disabled person, staying alive at this point IS indeed resistance. Thinking back to the initial murder of disabled people in Nazi Germany. #blind
@anantagd sure you are resisting pressures on you as an individual.
BUT
That is not collective action.
That is not political.
It is not resistance against the political changes happening right now.
And it has nothing to do with the Nazis killing disabled people in the 1930's and 40's.
Resisting what Trump and Musk are doing inside the US gov't requires active resistance, and collective action.
@anantagd no one's existence is political. Times like this expose such statements for the pap they have always been.
And your use of labels as weapons exposes your empty politics.
@anantagd then why chime in this conversation?
When you are under direct physical assault, survival is resistance, sure.
We have a political crisis here that requires active resistance to stop. Resting does NOTHING to stop it.
I disagree. She explains far more eloquently than I can why rest *is* an act of resistance. instagram.com/p/DDpXbRZOdNe/?i…
Also, and I can't stress this enough.. we should not be in the business of directing our anger at each other, or denigrating the form of resistance anyone else has chosen.
There is no One True Way of resistance. Every act of resistance matters, and every method is valid. We all have different skills, abilities, and particular areas of concern.
It is so, so tempting to try to convince other people to put their energies into That Thing!.. whatever issue(s) you're most passionate about.
We can't all pay attention to everything. Pick something you care about and do things towards that. Trust that other people will do the same, and that their efforts are meaningful.
Just as we find the rate of new dumpster fires overwhelming, there are more ordinary, righteously pissed off people than there are fascists. They can be overwhelmed by too many targets, also.
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Het is vandaag #LongCovidAwarenessDay.
Alles wat je niet wilt weten over #COVID:
- COVID is #airborne: het verspreid zich met name via minuscule zwevende druppeltjes door de lucht. Die kunnen uren in een kamer blijven hangen, en blijven dan besmettelijk. Afstand houden heeft alleen effect op grote druppels, maar niet op deze aerosolen.
- Covid is niet "mild".
- Infectieschade is cumulatief.
- Het maakt je vatbaarder voor andere infecties en ziekten.
- Er is geen genezing voor #longCOVID.
- De #pandemie is nog niet voorbij.
- Het dragen van een FFP2 #masker vermindert de overdracht wel enorm, tot 99%.
- Vaccineren & boosteren blijft nodig. Als je al meermaals besmet bent geraakt zonder long covid te krijgen biedt dat helaas geen enkele garantie voor de volgende keer. Vaccinatie vermindert je kans op long covid met de helft voor meerdere maanden (en het slaat nergens op dat je maar eens in het jaar een prik kunt krijgen)
- Als je covid krijgt is het ongelofelijk belangrijk dat je:
1. Thuis blijft en geen anderen besmet (of alleen met een FFP2 masker anderen opzoekt) - het kan voor mensen met slechte afweer nog steeds dodelijk zijn, of je geliefden levenslang long covid bezorgen.
2. Rustig uitziekt.
We weten nog steeds niet precies waarom de één long covid krijgt en de ander niet, maar van één mechanisme zijn we zeker: als je nog niet goed beter bent en dan toch al over je grenzen gaat, is dat de beste manier om long covid te ontwikkelen. Dit is de reden dat erg veel super gezonde topsporters long covid krijgen.
- Van de mensen die long covid krijgen, ontwikkelt ongeveer 25% de ernstigste vorm, met ME. #ME is een multisysteemziekte die je ook op kunt lopen van bijvoorbeeld Pfeiffer of Q-koorts.
Mensen met ME raken totaal uitgeput van de kleinste prikkels. Het is een soort straf op leven: alles wat leven de moeite waard maakt put je zo ontzettend uit dat je er uren, dagen of zelfs jaren ziek van wordt, alsof je een zware griep hebt.
Ongeveer de helft van de mensen met ME kan nooit meer werken, een kwart is nagenoeg of helemaal bedlegerig.
Dat wil je niet meemaken.
Het gaat bij die laatste, zeer ernstig zieke groep mensen om tienduizenden. Een groot deel van hen wordt nooit meer beter.
Je denkt dat ze niet bestaan omdat je ze niet ziet: ze zitten opgesloten in hun huis, omringd door een vijandige samenleving die hun ziekte het liefst negeert of zelfs agressief ontkent.
Kijken we naar het totaal van mensen met long covid, inclusief mildere vormen (die vaak met veel rust en maanden tot jaren uitzitten, nog wel genezen) dan hebben we het over honderdduizenden Nederlanders.
Nu de overheid heeft besloten om de ernst van covid simpelweg te ontkennen, en de honderdduizenden mensen met long covid af te schepen met een fooi voor een paar long covidklinieken die slechts genoeg financiën hebben om enkele tientallen patiënten te ondersteunen (en een methode voor genezing is er überhaupt niet), is er maar één ding wat je kunt doen.
Probeer zo min mogelijk besmet te raken, en als je toch besmet raakt, besmet dan geen anderen en ziek zo rustig mogelijk uit.
Wat helpt om besmetting te voorkomen is:
- goed aansluitende #FFP2 maskers
- mensen in de buitenlucht ontmoeten in plaats van binnen
- luchtzuivering met HEPA filters voor binnen (je kunt al een mobiel stil apparaat kopen voor in je huiskamer vanaf een euro of 85)
- een tip waar al wel bewijs voor is, maar waar nog meer onderzoek naar moet worden gedaan: bepaalde neussprays met algen blokkeren de receptoren in je neus, waardoor covid maar ook verkoudheid en griep veel minder kans hebben om je te besmetten. In Nederland is dit middel te bestellen onder de merknaam Algovir.
- Hoe meer van deze tips je tegelijkertijd inzet, hoe minder kans je op besmetting hebt.
Op dit moment is het aantal besmettingen in Nederland gelukkig heel laag, maar dat blijft niet zo. Over een paar weken of een maand komt er weer een nieuwe variant, die de getallen omhoog zal jagen. Dat is geen doomsday prediking, maar gewoon hoe evolutie werkt.
Zo lang de wereld niets doet tegen verspreiding, zal covid blijven muteren. Dat elke nieuwe covid variant minder heftig is, is een sprookje. Of een nieuwe variant zwaarder is of niet, is volstrekt random. Het enige wat je zeker weet, is dat als er een nieuwe variant dominant wordt, dat deze besmettelijker is dan de vorige. Anders zou die namelijk niet dominant worden.
Heel, heel veel warmte voor de mensen met long covid. De één heeft slechts maanden last, de ander is levenslang aan huis gebonden, of zelfs aan bed. De één is slechts doodmoe en ruikt bijvoorbeeld niets meer, de ander kan niet eens rechtop gaan zitten zonder flauw te vallen. De één wordt beter, de ander niet.
Juist de ernstigste vormen hebben helaas minder kans om beter te worden, hoewel ik ook mensen ken met heel zware vormen, jarenlang, die daarna toch deels opknapten, soms tijdelijk, maar soms ook (naar het zich laat aanzien) definitief.
Hou vol, lieverds.
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The precedent being set is clear: legal authority is only respected when it serves their agenda.
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The Texas Attorney General says that all drivers licenses and birth certificates must be reverted for trans peopleErin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
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For the sake of transparency.
I know I seem like I have it together, but some days, I am genuinely terrified for my future. I have one amazing freelance client, but as a trans person in tech with soft skills - and as a trans journalist - work started drying up after the election last year.
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My partner and I wanted to have a baby this year, but I can't see a path to making that happen. All I have is my writing, and some days it feels like I'm deluding myself into thinking that will be enough.
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I have the cash runway to make The Index work for the next few months, but after that it’s down to subscribers.
I made the decision a while ago to never take sponsors or sell ads. All I can do is hope I can keep finding an audience or look for investors who believe in indie media. But that brings its own trouble.
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My partner tells me, take it one day at a time and everything will be okay.
She’s a smart thing. I’m going to keep listening to her.
But if you’ve got any spare luck, send a smidge my way 🫡
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::sending whatever lucky vibes can be mustered::
May the Force be with you.
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I have stopped watching tv, quit drinking in January, and am caring for my wife. And my cat.
I can’t honestly say things will get better, but you are heard, are helping me understand stuff.
Thank you.
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Ok, how can we help? Is there a way to subscribe? It would be easier for people to do this if you had more info and even a subscription link in your profile. Note that people are not fond of #Substack these days, so if you can enable direct payment and bypass them it would be good.
Also, people want to pay via PayPal, Credit Card, and Venmo. There's also Zelle and some other what I would call secondary payment options.
But if it's not easy people won't do it.
My 2 cents.
@Ehay2k There are links to both my sites on my profile, and both are built on Ghost. I wouldn't go near Substack with a ten foot pole. Wrote about that here:
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There is something perverse about every voice of record, every journalist with a profile, every writer with an audience abandoning ship for Substack. It's been a growing trend for the past few years, and it's getting worse.Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
I'm using Maston v2.9.4 for Android. I definitely don't see any of those links.
Maybe it also has something to do with my Mastodon instance?
In the near term, maybe put those into your general profile text?
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Maybe @Frohmann / @ChristianeFrohmann would be an interesting follow (even if it is german) and good for your network.
It's just an idea. 🤔
Well, you're much-loved and appreciated on the fedi for your insights.
I've had a few emotional wobbles myself recently. The world just seems like such a cold and unforgiving place with fascism on the rise everywhere.
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@ashley not true! We need to pressure all the Senators who are on the fence about cloture, before they vote on it. Schumer deserves a bunch of faxes, too. @heidilifeldman just posted his fax numbers along with some free fax services:
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Exactly. I know it means I could go to jail, but jail sounds a whole lot better than compliance right now.
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Powerful men often funnel money via their wives. In 2001, the wife of the Saudi Ambassador to Washington - who would become head of Saudi intelligence, and was close friend of both George W. Bush, President of the United States, and George Tenet, head of the CIA - was Princess Haifa. Haifa sent thousands of dollars a month to Majeda Dweikat, wife of Osama Basnan, and Manal Bajadr, wife of Omar al-Bayoumi. These two men materially assisted 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi.1/n
huh..
I wonder if the "let's rape the earth now for a quick profit" capitalist mindset is part of the same mentality is the same as the "as long as it's not me" approach to fascism? Both are focusing on the near future to the detriment of the (not all that) distant future..
@TheGreatLlama
Yeah, the problem is not apathy. People care. The problem is a (perceived) lack of agency. People don't believe they can influence things, and/or don't know how to. Activism is a positive feedback though.
Once you get the feeling that it's possible to make change, it becomes hard to lose it.
Maybe it's just too early to spur on the majority to protest. After all, it was only a short while ago that most voters chose Donald T. as their leader. Letting go of a belief is difficult for humans, likely even if it is as stupid as believing Donald T. will eventually change their lives fot the better.
I remain astonished by the amount of money Republican billionaires spent on buying a fascist takeover of the USA and the decades-long backsliding of democracy.
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'This Is Just the Traceable Money': $2 Billion Pumped Into 2024 Election by Billionaire Families
"It's no secret that political spending is a huge way for billionaires to rig the system to their liking," said Americans for Tax Fairness. "Enough is enough."julia-conley (Common Dreams)
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If Democrat senators actually go along with this, they've just ensured that the Dem Party loses the midterms and possibly the next general election.
Even if there's some kind of legitimate aspect to this, and even if Schumer has absolutely 0% appeasement in his head, he's helping to sign the party's death warrant.
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The UN special rapporteur on the right to food on Wednesday warned that Israel is carrying out an unprecedentedly rapid campaign of starvation in Gaza, calling it "the fastest in modern history."
"How is Israel able to starve 2.3 million people so quickly and so completely?" Michael Fakhri asked in a joint press briefing alongside other UN special rapporteurs in Geneva.
"This is the fastest starvation campaign in modern history," Fakhri said.
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Israel carrying out 'fastest starvation campaign in Gaza in modern history': UN envoy
UN special rapporteur on right to food describes current ceasefire as slowing down of military violence while speeding up violence through starvation - Anadolu Ajansıwww.aa.com.tr
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Alleen in Nederland. 🤬
Heeft u een beroerte?
Gaat u dan maar even voor de camera staan mijnheer, dan kijkt de helpdesk-neuroloog wel even op afstand wat er is.
"Ziekenhuis Meppel test neurologisch onderzoek op afstand"
#Zorg #austerity #AusterityIsMurder
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Duterte is opgepakt en is onderweg naar het Strafhof in Den Haag!
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PVV politicus & klimaatwappie doet poging tot doodslag op klimaatactiviste
NUnl geeft hem meer ruimte dan het slachtoffer. Zonder ook maar 1 kritische vraag mag dit Statenlid vertellen dat hij voortaan de bus neemt, zodat hij niet opnieuw een poging tot doodslag pleegt. Niet omdat hij het erg zou vinden om vreedzame demonstranten te doden, nee, dan zou XR "in het nieuws" komen, dat gunt hij ze niet.
En dat hij expres tegen een vrouw aan reed? Hij weigert zelfs excuses.
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Toch geen lobbyregister: ambtenaren zien niets in extra transparantieregels
Nederland krijgt geen verplicht register voor lobbyisten. NSC-minister Judith Uitermark van Binnenlandse Zaken schrijft aan de Tweede Kamer dat ze dat "niet proportioneel" vindt en dat ze meer vertrouwen heeft in "bestaande instrumenten".
Toch geen lobbyregister: ambtenaren zien niets in extra transparantieregels
De Tweede Kamer wil dat multinationals minder lobbyen in achterkamertjes. Maar als het aan het kabinet ligt, komt er geen lobbyregister.Nieuwsuur
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"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
~Unknown
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there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop
"there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop. I have to
eat better and also avoid a plague. my rent went up
$150. I'll need to pick up more shifts. Twenty people died
in Rafah this morning and every major news outlet is
stretching the limits of passive voice to suggest whole
families may have leaped up through the air at missiles
that otherwise had the right of way. I just got a
notification that my student loan payments are starting
up again and my phone isn't charged. My cousin got
COVID for a fourth time and can no longer work or walk
or even feed himself. The person across from me on the
L train seems to fashion themself a punk rock
revolutionary, but they're not wearing a face mask, and
that's the kind of cognitive dissonance that makes me
want to steal batteries. Fascists keep winning primaries
for both parties, and I think I gained a few pounds. The
CDC just announced there are no more speed limits on
highways, and I think this Ativan is finally hitting. The
NYPD farmer's market only sells bad apples, have you
heard that one? Listen it's warm today, too warm for
March. But I don't have time to think through the
implications because there's laundry to do and a
genocide to stop."
Vinay Krishnan, 2024
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De Dam stampvol bij vertrek Internationale Vrouwendag demonstratie vanmiddag.
Pas om 14:40 had de staart van de protestmars de Dam verlaten.
Bron: youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9d4q6WvU…
#Amsterdam #deDam #Dam #InternationalWomensDay #InternationaleVrouwendag #vrouwendag #IntVrouwendag #FeministMarch #TheFutureIsFeminist #IWD #IWD2025 #womensday #ForAllWomenAndGirls #feminisme #feminist #feminism #feministen #dolleminas
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Groepen
Ik ben er inmiddels achter hoe je een groep maakt in Friendica. Even gecopypasted uit het Engels, met dank aan @Erik van Schaaik :
"To create a group like Facebook, you have to make an entirely new account on Friendica, then switch it to a Group account in the settings. You can use the same email address as your personal account".
"In Friendica, you can create sub-accounts under your main account. These can function as groups. By giving your sub-account a clear name, everyone will immediately know what the discussions are about.
SWITCHING BETWEEN ACCOUNTS
If you have one or more sub-accounts, you can easily switch between your main and sub-account:
Click on your avatar in the top right corner.
Select ‘Accounts’ and choose the desired account.
CREATING A SUB-ACCOUNT
Click on your avatar in the top right corner.
Go to ‘Settings’.
In the left menu, click ‘Manage Accounts’.
Click the hyperlink ‘Register an additional account’.
Enter the following details:
- Display Name: a name for the group (for instance: Make Love, Not War).
- Nickname: a unique username (for instance: Lennon@friendica.world).
- Password: enter the password of your main account (no new password required).
- Do you want your main account to also participate in the group? Then choose
‘yes’ under ‘Include your profile in member directory’.
SETTING UP THE SUB-ACCOUNT AS A GROUP
Log in to your new sub-account.
Click on your avatar in the top right corner and go to ‘Settings’.
Click ‘Account’ in the left menu.
Click ‘Advanced account types’.
Choose ‘Community Group’, then ‘Public Group - Restricted (Contact requests have to be manually approved)’. People cannot join the group automatically. When someone requests to join, you will receive a notification with an access request, which you can approve or deny.
ADDITIONAL OPTIONS
There are many more things you can add and settings you can set. Besides setting up a group, you can also configure your sub-account as a regular account or explore other options."
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Ik lees het als: een groep is ook een account, dus je maakt een totaal nieuw account aan dan wel een subaccount onder je originele account. De naam daarvan is je groepsnaam. Verder volg je de beschreven procedure.
@Erik van Schaaik Jij werkt al met een groep. Kun jij dit bevestigen?
Ja, 't is dat.
Ik heb eigenlijk niet veel belang bij groepen. Mijn interesse ligt meer bij een community, waar je met elkaar over een bepaald onderwerp kunt praten, zoals Discord. Het gratis en open-source Revolt is daarvoor meer geschikt, maar dat moet nog een beetje groeien.
“The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, and, later, Elon Musk showed support on Wednesday for the firing of a state employee who refused to remove his pronouns from his work email signature.”
“Abbott celebrated the move on X, sharing a report from the Austin American-Statesman on the firing and writing: ‘A Texas state employee refused to remove pronouns from email signature. He was fired before noon’.”
“Musk, […], replied to Abbott’s post with two fire emojis.”
Having pronouns in your signature is resistance, folks. Put them everywhere.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
#OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #USpol
Elon Musk and Texas governor celebrate firing of worker over pronouns in email signature
Billionaire Trump ally and Greg Abbott tweet about Frank Zamora, who was let go after refusing to remove pronounsErum Salam (The Guardian)
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It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning
Former allies, take note The American military has signed a deal with Scale AI to give artificial intelligence, as far as we can tell, its most prominent role in the defense sector to date – with AI agents to now be used in planning and operations. …
#theregister #IT
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Vandaag zijn drie anti-abortusmoties door de Kamer aangenomen. (Een vierde is nog wel verworpen)
Wat in de VS gebeurt kan ook hier. Wij zijn niet immuun.
Niet voor voor het verdwijnen van abortusrechten, niet voor de rest.
Sterker nog, voor wie het heeft gemist: ook Nederland heeft een extreemrechts kabinet.
Als Schreeuwwitje een tweede termijn krijgt, zal hij net als Trump (en Orban, en Poetin, en Bibi en alle andere fascisten die via verkiezingen aan de macht kwamen) in een hogere versnelling schakelen.
De enige manier waarop dictators aan de macht kunnen komen, is als mensen daar aan meewerken. Er niets van zeggen. Doen alsof het een normale partij is, waar normale procedures voor gelden. Zich bij voorbaat aanpassen. Mee beginnen te lullen. Proberen om bij ze in een goed blaadje te komen. Collaboreren.
Rutte en Schoof vinden dat Zelensky zich nederiger had moeten opstellen
(alsof hij dan wel hulp had gekregen, alsof niet al lang duidelijk was dat Trump de zijde van Poetin kiest.)
(Alsof je fascisten zou verzwakken als je doet wat ze willen.)
Wat vind jij?
Wil je bij voorbaat buigen?
Wil je net zo lang doen alsof het jou niet aangaat, totdat ze aan je deur staan, en er niemand meer over is om je te verdedigen?
Vind je dat bullies moeten worden beloond?
Of wil je wat anders?
Samen kunnen we ze stoppen.
Niet met één demonstratie. Niet met een petitie (aan fascisten? Ze lachen je uit) Niet met een paar dagen niks kopen bij Amazon, META, Tesla en de rest van het tuig wat hen in het zadel helpt. Niet met een beetje hulp aan hun eerste slachtoffers.
Maar wel met al die dingen tegelijkertijd.
Kies je methode. Kom naar de demonstratie, of ondersteun mensen die het moeilijk hebben, of sluit je aan bij een organisatie die al tegenwicht biedt aan de opkomst van extreemrechts, of doe iets anders.
Weiger bevelen uit te voeren die onmenselijk zijn.
Je hoeft geen held te zijn. Je hoeft niet zelf het wiel uit te vinden.
Maar wees een steentje, wees een beetje cement, in de grote onverzettelijke muur die we samen kunnen vormen.
Organiseer je. Laat dit niet opnieuw gebeuren.
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Vraagje met betrekking tot die demonstratie: waarom richt die zich niet simpelweg tegen fascisme? Waarom wordt het onterechte onderscheid op basis van ras erbij gehaald, en niet bijvoorbeeld ook het onterechte onderscheid op basis van vermogen (hebben we daar een woord voor?)? Fascisten gebruiken uiteindelijk iedere vorm van onterecht onderscheid voor hun egocentrische gewin. Tegelijkertijd grijpen de racisten die zichzelf anti-racist noemen alles aan om racisme in stand te houden/versterken. Het is toch jammer als zij de kans krijgen een boventoon te voeren bij een hard nodige demonstratie tegen fascisme?
"de racisten die zichzelf anti-racist noemen"??
Dag Fleur, pleur maar eens een eind op.
Solidair met wethouder Bart Heller
Heller heeft vandaag zijn ontslag aangeboden als Hilversumse wethouder. Daar is hij toe gedwongen door extreemrechtse zionisten en het laffe college van Hilversum.
Waarom?
Heller uitte zijn solidariteit met kinderen in Gaza, en volgens rabbijn Binyomin Jacobs (die zichzelf trots zionist noemt) is dat een uiting van anti-semitisme.
Wat een land zijn we geworden.
Juist rechts, wat steeds weer beweert dat ze opkomt voor de vrijheid van meningsuiting, censureert mensen. En zelfs in de zogenaamde tempel der democratie wordt daar volop aan meegewerkt.
Mensen zoals Jacobs, die het helemaal okee vinden om tienduizenden burgers af te slachten, stellen het opkomen voor simpele universele mensenrechten nu gelijk aan precies het omgekeerde. En de gemeenteraad klapt voor hem.
Kaltstellen, zo noemden de nazi's deze tactiek. Het monddood maken van mensen die voor onderdrukten opkomen. "Kaltstellen doet men iemand, als men hem tijdelijk of voorgoed uit zijn kring van politieken invloed verwijdert en aldus machteloos maakt." schreef men honderd jaar geleden al.
Screenshots van de mail van Bart Heller die tot zijn ontslag leidden, en zijn afscheidsbrief vandaag.
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this man 🙏
fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1140897…
PSA: Europe PubMed Central exists."Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. With Europe PMC you can search and read 45.6 million publications [10.5 full texts], prereprints and other documents enriched with links to supporting data, reviews, protocols, and other relevant resources."
europepmc.org/Scope: europepmc.org/Help#sources
Also @SafeguardingResearch got the database of #PubMed
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someone also pointed out the Europe PMC is contractually required to delete content if the NIH decides so... I can look up the source, which you surely like to see (found/solved)
Source: social.esmarconf.org/@kdnyhan/…
@nemobis
I think that such future revocation may be a problem.
This is about Europe PMC:
I could be completely mistaken ofc
How much data is it?
anything USA can do Europe can do properly.
time to close up shop, USA. give all the land back to the First Nations, who actually have a use for it. and fuckin apologise.
everybody who lives there will be better off with a mighty societal upgrade like that, I guarantee you.
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"Nederland krijgt fonds van honderden miljoenen voor essentiële grondstoffen"
Dus ehh, Nederland kríjgt geen fonds maar betaalt het. Bedrijven krijgen van dit extreemrechtse kabinet een fonds van honderden miljoenen, betaald door jou en mij. En het fonds heeft niet eens duidelijke grenzen aan wat er mee moet gebeuren. Het lijkt gewoon een cadeautje aan de zware industrie en de financialiseringswereld, terwijl in ruil onze zorg, asielopvang, onderwijs, natuur en cultuur kapot worden bezuinigd.
Als we NUnl toch niet hadden voor onze duiding, hè?
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