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You Were Lied to About the Tavistock Trans Youth Clinic

'1,000 former patients are suing Tavistock for being given gender affirming care!' was the battle cry Jordan Peterson and other transphobes used to undermine trans youth healthcare. Yet a new freedom of information request (FOI) has blown said lie right open.

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#tavistockgenderclinic #GenderAffirmingCare #pubertyblockers #transyouth #lgbtq #transgender #transgenderhealthcare #jordanpeterson

You Were Lied to About the Tavistock Trans Youth Clinic

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The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

AMA Board Newsletter

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We just released Mastodon 4.5.8, 4.4.15, and 4.3.21.

These versions contain various bug fixes, including fixes for medium severity security issues.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

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Releases · mastodon/mastodon

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Bullies are often fundamentally cowardly: if their home, or their country is under attack they rank saving their own life and possessions first and above the group.

A bully will expect any group they target to crumble in a similar manner. The idea that their threats and attacks might cause people to find a common cause, that it might inspire bravery and unification is not something they can anticipate or imagine.

Because were it them? They would shove the child out of the lifeboat and run.

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Nothing irritates a bully more than when someone else demonstrates the courage or honor that they lack. They will have an immediate need to prove that any such acts were either a sign that the person was duped, or that the sacrifice was motivated by a desire for public acclaim, not any principles or moral values.

To confront true selflessness is terrifying for the bully. Nothing could be more alien. Nothing more clearly calls into question their own self worth.

No! It's virtue signaling!

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There is this cynical and currently popular idea that everything is "virtue signaling" and to some extent it's true. Part of why people do what is right even when it won't benefit them is about making a statement to themselves and others about what we value.

But, it's also ... not that hard, not even that remarkable to really want to be a good person even when you don't personally benefit. I'd even suggest it's normal.

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Doc AWFL*

doing good that doesnt benefit us in some obvious and direct way is normal in that it occurs in other species as well. Not to mention, we often do what's right while actively avoiding recognition for it.

We've just drifted so far from a recognition that what's good for all is of course good for us: we, too, live in the better world we are making with kind, honest, and/or courageous acts. We *are* everybody and everybody is us. It makes me sad -- and it's not a little scary -- all these people who do not see the intricate, interconnected web of all life as it is.

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“virtue signalling” did start out as a value neutral term just for describing a completely normal social thing literally everyone does; like a generalisation of role modeling.

What was done to it is what happens to a lot of words and phrases: the right wing got hold of it, either misunderstood it or deliberately distorted its meaning, and for some reason everyone else adopted their framing

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@Luci Bitchface Angerfoot @myrmepropagandist The reason everybody adopt the new framing is that newspapers adopt the new framing, radio and TV newscasts adopt the new framing, politicians adopt the new framing, social media favors the new framing, etc… I put social media last because I believe the behavior predates Internet. For example “Socialist” and “Hippie” went through the meaning grinder in the US way before Internet was a thing.
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@sinvega it’s a pattern that goals back way prior to the algorithm- the earliest example i know of being “Politically Correct”

i vaguely remember seeing a segment on a guy whose professional job was coming up with these language manipulations- i remember him calling it “neurolinguistic programming” but when i tried to look that up it described some unrelated pseudoscience

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@sinvega @bri7

Yes. The Republicans have been excellent at Maddison Avenue manipulation of our speech. It goes all the way back to Reagan's Morning in America campaign if not before. It was definitely prevalent with the framing of the Healthcare initiatives as being manned by death panels.

Wish I could remember it but the guy who came up with the Republican talking points during George W. Bush's terms had a documentary about him out ages ago.

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When I first encountered the term "virtue signalling", I thought how apt that was for things like politicians harping on about how upset they were about people's suffering, when they had the power to change everything. It was dizzying how quickly it moved from "signalling virtue, doing nothing" to "making the world a better place but perhaps for a less than pure and saintly reason."
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Roy -- the dull one

I think you are right: it's normal (but not universal) to want to be a good person.

Learning about goodness from our parents or other mentors is very important, but it is not the only source of motivation to be good.

Experiments with chimpanzees, bonobos, other mammals, even birds, have shown that "fairness" is not a concept that is unique to humans.

However, goodness isn't universal. There are evil people, and they love evil societies. Good people must resist them.

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I am of the opinion that the best response to an accusation of virtue signalling goes something like this:

PERSON A: You're virtue signalling!

PERSON B: (PAUSE) …and?

If you're sincere, then there's nothing wrong with being open about it so others can see. It's the same reason why we resist (excessive) swearing in front of children. It's behavior modeling. You're showing other people the person (or Owlbear) you want to be.

(I am aware that some people are being insincere, but that's a different issue)

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From what I understand, "virtue signaling" is doing something that is considered good, but specifically because you have an audience when doing it.
With the implication that if no one was there to see you doing it, you wouldn't bother to do the right thing.
Is my interpretation false ?
(English is not my first language)
Because if it isn't, obviously this is an awful thing to do.
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@noodlemaz

Bear in mind that with the right it's ALWAYS projection, I read their accusations of "virtue signaling" as a confession of deep cynicism–they don't really believe anything they say so they don't understand how anyone else could, either.

@Marianne

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@Isaac Ji Kuo @Charlie Stross I don't believe that. They have very specific beliefs, and they will also virtue signal every chance they get. Although they are similarly blindsided as the left as of not being able to conceive other people don't think like them. On the right, it manifests in dehumanization and projection, on the left it manifests in compromises that are mostly abandons of their professed values.
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@hypolite @cstross @isaackuo

There is a difference between bullies and "the right" ... there are people on the right who believe in things. Some I can even agree with, but other ideas are ... deeply uninformed. This is what a political debate is mean to be about.

I do think that at this moment bullies, may find the right more accommodating to the kinds of things they want to do... but if a bully can get what they want with other values the values change.

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Trans health service ‘dismayed’ at NHS banning hormones for 16 and 17-year-olds

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Trans health service 'dismayed' at NHS banning hormones for 16 and 17-year-olds

Leading private trans healthcare clinic, Gender Plus, has condemned NHS England over its ban on HRT prescriptions for trans teens.
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A violent idiot.

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#JoeyBarton #UKCrime

Joey Barton arrested on suspicion of attacking man near Liverpool golf club

Former footballer detained after incident outside Huyton and Prescot golf club on Sunday evening
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#ukcrime #joeybarton

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Archived Twitter thread from 2020 with newspaper clippings of all the homophobic arguments that got recycled as transphobic arguments

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#transRights #GayRights #lgbt #lgbtq #transgender #lgbtqia #homophobia #transphobia

The Implausible Girl 🔻 on Twitter

“The Ithacan (New York), 1992-12-10 https://t.co/43TkAYcwXp "Making a man (or woman) shower in front of gay men (or women) is violating their rights, and it is not homophobia.
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#transgender #LGBTQ #transrights #LGBT #lgbtqia #transphobia #homophobia #gayrights

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The group chats contained NEO-NAZI and PRO-SLAVERY messages.

That isn't just "stupid kid" behavior. I wasn't a fucking Nazi when I was a stupid kid.

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JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions.
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Cass Review full of ‘stigma and misinformation’ and should not guide trans youth care, say experts www.thepinknews.com/...#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Cass Review full of ‘stigma and misinformation’ and should not guide trans youth care, say experts

A newly published study has argued the Cass Review into trans youth care, published in April 2024, is full of 'stigma' and 'misinformation'.
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please boost this kitty for federation -> ​:neocat:​ (she has no idea what she's doing)
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Born in the 1940s, Edmund knew he was gay from a young age, and thanks to attitudes of the time, believed he had to be cured in order to be a successful writer.
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#LGBTQ #QueerBooks #QueerWriters #GayWriters #EdmundWhite

#LGBTQ #queerbooks #queerwriters #GayWriters #edmundwhite

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I'm proud that Assigned Media offers opportunities to writers seeking a first professional byline, including those with no journalism background. Just today we had a first time writer on Assigned! We want to be an entry point. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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No Hormones, No Help

Georgia’s long running abuse of transgender inmates continues, with a May 2025 bill prohibiting access to gender affirming care for inmates being used to deny them these life-saving treatments.
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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s party facing controversy over Adnan Hussein’s trans comments
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/01/adnan-hussein-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana-your-party-trans/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s party facing controversy over Adnan Hussein’s trans comments

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new left-wing party is under pressure to address MP Adnan Hussain's recent comments about trans women.
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A jury has awarded at least $2.2m to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.

In the verdict last week, the jury found LA county liable for the injuries sustained by the man,
Cellin Gluck, and determined that he suffered $3.5m in damages.
They also awarded his daughter, who was there with him that day, an additional $300,000 for emotional distress
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Jury awards $2.2m to LA protester shot in face with less-lethal projectile in 2020

Cellin Gluck alleged in lawsuit that he was subject to excessive force during protest against police brutality
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There is an ongoing low-grade crisis of political manipulation on twitch, X, and youTube.

Here are three stories:

Rightwing twitch streamers were "botting"
forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/…

MAGA bot network on X
nbcnews.com/tech/internet/maga…

Secret Payments For Centrist Dems on YouTube (some conditions may apply)
wired.com/story/dark-money-gro…

MAGA AI bot network divided on Trump-Epstein backlash

A network of hundreds of accounts on X is using AI to reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, researchers say.
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DNC Chair Ken Martin killed the resolution stop arms to Israel claiming, "The party is deeply divided, we need time for dialogue."

The party is not deeply divided, Ken. You're deeply disconnected.

When 92% of Democratic Party voters are telling you that we want to STOP arming Israel, and you refuse to act, there's no division, there's only complicity.

There's nothing left to debate. Muster the courage. Show that we are the anti-war, pro justice, pro humanity party. Stop Funding Genocide.

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SPRING ROLLS ARE SALAD SAUSAGE.
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in case you want to skip all the corporate bullshit, this explains the process you'll have to go through in order to be able to sideload an app on your own fucking Android device

developer.android.com/develope…

you have to provide legal ID that Google will verify, and PAY $25 unless you're a "hobbyist or student"

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Let me start by saying Im no fan of Google keeping a register of every dev who wants to have their apps work on the majority of Android devices!

However, think this will be enforced by Play Protect, which IIUC (in 15 years of using android devices Ive never run a device with Play Services) can easily be turned off. No need to flash a different OS to avoid this.

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@slowfallinward @raito
I do very much think it should be possible to run a different OS on all consumer smartphones.

They should support yellow state - relocking the bootloader & getting full verified boot - by flashing the signing keys for the OS onto the device. Its not good that many devices only offer running something else with bootloader unlocked. Shouldnt have to accept this huge downgrade in security against local & remote exploitation, in order to run something else

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Emmett Till would've been 84 today. He was only 14 when white supremacist terrorists horrifically murdered him.

The white woman Carolyn Bryant Donham who accused him of harassing her later confessed she lied. The warrant for her arrest was never enforced. She died only 2 years ago in 2023 at the age of 88.

White supremacy terrorism isn't ancient history. It's not even history. It's contemporary reality.

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It's such a ludicrous notion, too. Nazi spaces these days function almost entirely as places that fetishize & offer explicit instruction in violent masculinity. They are structured around a desire to achieve a very specific vision of white manhood. That's so obviously not a draw for trans femmes.
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Without explanation, YouTube has removed my interview about Israel's genocide on Palestine with globally renowned Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. We are appealing.

Here's the full interview on my human rights newsletter. Share widely: qasimrashid.com/p/youtube-remo…

YouTube Removed My Interview on Gaza With A Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer

Watch the full interview with globally renowned Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu — a former lead negotiator between Palestine and Israel
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#Google is making it necessary for #Android app developers to disclose their personal information to Google. This includes legal name, address, email, and phone number.¹

Here is the timeline given by Google.²

1. October 2025
Start as invite-only

2. March 2026
All developers can disclose their identity to Google

3. September 2026
"Regional enforcement begins" in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand

4. 2027 and beyond
"Global enforcement"

We will explain more in next posts.

(1/3)

#google #android
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#Trump has terminated #SecretService protection for fmr VP #KamalaHarris. Trump signed a memorandum Thursday that will end Harris’s protection as of Monday.

The Secret Service usually protects a former VP for 6 months after they leave office, but President #Biden had signed an order extending Harris’s protection beyond that, due to increased threats.

#RevengePolitics #StochasticTerrorism #PoliticalViolence
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#Trump #kamalaharris #biden #secretservice #stochasticterrorism #revengepolitics #politicalviolence

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Happy #Skynet Day!
#skynet

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We have released Tusky 30 🥳 Highlights:

* New reporting flow
* Improved image editor
* Support for onion services
* Dialog to not lose poll that's being created
* New UnifiedPush connector
* Technical improvements (16KB page size)

Fixes:
* Sometimes wrong thread would open
* Layout tweaks
* Harder to lose a draft when switching apps

See changelog here:
codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/src/b…

#tusky #tuskyapp

Tusky/CHANGELOG.md at develop

Tusky - An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon
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Fread 1.6.0 version has been updated:
- Fresh new logo 🎨
- Material You dynamic theming 🚀
- Set your default timeline view 📍
- Smoother content add flow ✨
- Now supports RDF documents 📄
- UI polish & improvements 💫
- Bug fixes and performance updates 🐛

#Mastodon #fediverse #Opensource
#RSS #FOSS #Freesoftware #fdroid

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Release 1.6.0 · 0xZhangKe/Fread

Fresh new logo 🎨 Material You dynamic theming 🚀 Set your default timeline view 📍 Smoother content add flow ✨ Now supports RDF documents 📄 UI polish & improvements 💫 Bug fixes and performance updates 🐛
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Sometimes resisting fascism looks like a Mexican flag bumper sticker on a white woman's Tacoma.

#antifa, #chingalamigra, #abolishice, #fuckice, #nooneisillegal, #YourBordersKill, #refugeeswelcome

#antifa #refugeeswelcome #nooneisillegal #yourborderskill #AbolishICE #chingalamigra #fuckice
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Kiwix For IOS / MacOS Has Been Released And Brings The Hotspot Feature To Your Device

Kiwix for iOS / macOS has been released and brings the Hotspot feature to your device - Kiwix

There is a new release for Kiwix on iOS/macOS, and it allows you to use your device as a beacon to broadcast ZIM files!
The other Kiwix guy (Kiwix)

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