Fight back against the online safety act
Contact your local MP and spread this far and wide:
Subject: Urgent Action Required – Online Safety Act Harms
Dear [MP’s Name],
I am writing to you as a concerned constituent to demand urgent review and amendment of the Online Safety Act (OSA). While its stated aim is to protect users, it has already created serious harm to privacy, freedom of expression, and access to public knowledge.
The Government’s response to the Change.org petition failed to meaningfully address any of these widely raised concerns, offering vague assurances instead of evidence or concrete changes. This is unacceptable in a democracy.
Key problems now being reported:
• Excessive censorship – Vague definitions of “harm” are silencing lawful speech, political debate, and online communities.
• Privacy risks from mandatory age verification – Requires intrusive ID checks (including facial recognition), creating huge data breach risks.
• Threat to public-interest platforms – Wikipedia and similar sites could face UK restrictions if forced to verify all contributors.
• Erosion of encryption – Weakening secure communication systems in a way experts call “authoritarian” and “technically incoherent.”
• Ineffectiveness – VPN use has surged by over 500%, making the law easy to bypass while still harming UK-based platforms.
• Harm to vulnerable communities – Risks “outing” LGBTQ+ individuals and deterring use of safe online support spaces.
Recent events highlight the urgency:
• High Court ruling (Aug 2025) dismissed Wikimedia’s challenge, but confirmed Ofcom must act proportionately.
• Major online communities and platforms have blocked UK users or imposed invasive checks.
• Civil rights groups and tech experts continue to warn the OSA is fundamentally flawed.
I am asking you to:
1. Support a full Parliamentary review of the OSA’s harms and unintended consequences.
2. Press for immediate amendments to protect privacy, encryption, and public-interest platforms.
3. Suspend or repeal the most damaging provisions until they can be replaced with proportionate, evidence-based measures.
This is not a partisan matter — it is about protecting fundamental rights, digital freedoms, and public trust. I request a written reply outlining your position and the actions you will take.
Yours sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
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Armenia and Azerbaijan publish US-brokered peace agreement (FULL TEXT)
Armenia and Azerbaijan publish US-brokered peace agreement (FULL TEXT)
Armenia and Azerbaijan have published an agreement on establishing diplomatic relations and renouncing territorial claimsRT
Bill Forsyth — „Local Hero“ (1983)
Ein Film aus einer anderen Zeit. Ein Märchen. Über einen Oligarchen, dem es noch genügt hat, die Sterne nur zu beobachten – statt Raketen zum Mars zu schicken. In Schottland. Vielleicht der schönste Film, den Sie dieses Jahr gesehen haben werden. Mit Sicherheit ein lebenslänglicher Lieblingsfilm. (ARD, Wh)
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Filme in der ARD: Local Hero - hier anschauen
Spielfilm 1983 MacIntyre ist ein erfolgreicher Manager des texanischen Ölkonzerns Knox Oil. Zwar kommen seine Vorfahren aus Ungarn, doch wird MacIntyre von seinem Chef, dem Konzernbesitzer und leidenschaftlichen Hobbyastronomen Felix Happer, wegen…www.ardmediathek.de
Quattro anni di battaglie nel più orribile conflitto della storia dei primati fin troppo umani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Quattro anni di battaglie nel più orribile conflitto della storia dei primati fin troppo umani - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Cantami o Diva, del pelide Figan l’ira funesta, che tanti lutti addusse ai Kahama, di Godi, De, Hugh e Charlie.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
new academic book about the fediverse just released!!!
Better social media is possible.
In his new book Move Slowly and Build Bridges, Robert W. Gehl tells the story of the activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized alternative social media system. Unlike big tech corporations like Facebook, TikTok, or X, the fediverse is comprised of thousands of small, independent communities who use a Web protocol to communicate with one another.
These small communities govern themselves and moderate content at the human scale — compare that to Facebook and X, which try to moderate global conversations. And the fediverse isn’t built in order to gather user data and sell attention to marketers — it’s a more privacy-respecting social media alternative.
The most notable part of the fediverse is Mastodon. Founded in 2016, Mastodon was positioned as an alternative to Twitter. Like Twitter (or X), Mastodon members can post, like, share, and connect with one another across the world. Unlike Twitter/X, Mastodon can be completely under the control of its members, from how it’s run to its underlying software.
Making a noncentralized, ethically run social media system isn’t easy. The people building the fediverse have faced long hours, burnout, angry debates, and, worst of all, bigotry, death threats, and discrimination. They face constant, nagging doubts: Can we really do this? Can noncentralized social media survive in a world that is used to corporate social media? Can we—all of us—have our own social media?
As Move Slowly and Build Bridges shows us, the answer is yes, but it’s going to take a struggle.
The soy milk is OK
Lactose in enough quantities gets my tummy rumbling in a bad way so I'm trying out alternatives.
Oat milk in hipster coffee drinks is pretty good.
Soy milk as a protein and calcium beverage is fine. Tastes OK.
There is lactose-free milk too but that is still suspect. Either it's not all the way lactose free or too much of any kind of dairy quakes my intestines.
The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed
The train that never came - how maglev technology was derailed - TechCentral
This is the first in a series of articles about amazing technologies that promised to change the world but which did no such thing.Ivo Vegter (TechCentral)
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Palestine Action ban ‘could become Starmer’s poll tax moment’ as backlash grows
Palestine Action ban ‘could become Starmer’s poll tax moment’ as freedom of speech row grows
Baroness Chakrabarti said the proscription of the group risks exacerbating community tensions, and campaigners warned the ban was a threat to freedom of speechKate Devlin (The Independent)
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Do something and actually help people
Palestine action got banned for doing something in order to actually help. Youre pissing on the wrong foot here buddy
Banning protests in the UK under the fake guise of terrorism is a despicable move that makes us no different to Russia or China or countries we are supposedly superior to because of our moral human rights framework.
Gaza has proved all of this to be a hoax. It shows that tolerating a genocide and war crimes against brown people only invites the same authoritarian tactics to be rolled out against Western populations when they become troublesome.
Starmer is a fascist cunt.
The P in HIPAA stands for portability, not privacy
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More like weigh the potential benefit with the potential risk.
I know it sounds wild, but now everyone’s medical data is going to be fed to Palantir, and RFK jr wants to put mentally ill people into camps. Are you comfortable with every mental health survey you’ve taken at appointments being in his hands? Do you think people with drug use in their medical history are going to feel comfortable with their health data being filtered through an AI selecting targets?
I mean, you’re seeing the same news we are. Still think I was being too paranoid?
Ill conceived idea to resurrect a dead torrent
Hi, let me know if this is obviously stupid and won't work. I'm an old pirate but obviously still pretty uneducated. I've got a dead torrent that's a collection of roms. 4 seeders, 800 abandoned peers (ungrateful basterds). Seeders are rarely online or can't provide more than 8% after a week. The roms are pretty mainstream and it's strange for this torrent to have been abandoned.
If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder? is it that simple or is this hubris? am I too old to be this stupid?
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Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34531039
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDTThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Funeral held for Anas al-Sharif and other journalists killed in Israeli strike
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, laments world doing nothing to stop ‘massacre’ of PalestiniansLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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Well, these are far from the first round of journalists.
As a sidenote, an incomprehensible number of Palestinians have been killed, and countless more have been wounded, terrorised, and displaced.
Global outrage is disgracefully slow!
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34531039
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDTThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Funeral held for Anas al-Sharif and other journalists killed in Israeli strike
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, laments world doing nothing to stop ‘massacre’ of PalestiniansLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem
Mon 11 Aug 2025 07.39 EDT
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) admitted carrying out the attack, claiming Sharif was the leader of a Hamas cell responsible for rocket attacks against Israel – an allegation that Al Jazeera and Sharif had previously dismissed as baseless.It was the first time during the war that Israel’s military has swiftly claimed responsibility after a journalist was killed in a strike.
Funeral held for Anas al-Sharif and other journalists killed in Israeli strike
Last post from Al Jazeera’s Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, laments world doing nothing to stop ‘massacre’ of PalestiniansLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
True or false
Can AI systems decipher the difference between true and false information and ideas?
Is this more abstract and complex computation for these models?
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants
An energy leap which overshadows Wyoming’s population
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GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android
How EU digital identity rules and Google's restrictive policies threaten the future of privacy-focused Android operating systems like GrapheneOS.
Archived version: archive.is/20250810234024/forb…
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There's a Broken Tesla Cybertruck Stuck on the Rubicon Trail Right Now
Drivers who saw it on the treacherous 22-mile trail told us it snapped multiple tie rods and needed a steering rack replacement.
US | Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions
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Just got a new GPU, why is it so hard to use it?
Hey all, just got a Geforce 5070 to replace my 2070 from years ago. Ubuntu's been pretty smooth sailing for me until now, and I'm not exactly the best at navigating this stuff.
When Ubuntu starts to boot, the GPU stops outputting display to my monitor. As though it doesn't detect the new GPU. I tried putting the 2070 back in and downloading the 570 drivers but it didn't change anything. I found a tutorial for what seemed to be my issue that asked me to change the kernel, but halfway through the tutorial, commands that worked on their machine started failing on mine. I wish I'd documented what the error messages were because when I went to poke around more today, I got a message about kernel panic and can't even boot with the 2070. Where do I go from here?
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Is self-hosted OpenVPN on a vps safe enough for p2p?
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Your VPS provider will likely just forward copyright infringement letters to you, same as your ISP would, or they'll suspend your account.
It will hide your ISP IP from torrent peers, but the VPS provider still knows exactly who you are.
but how hard is it for the vps traffic to be traced back to me?
Very easy by the VPS provider, as the VPS has a static IP assigned to you.
The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
The Sick World of Prison Tycoon Games
Only a deeply broken society would create a mobile game like “Lands of Jail.”Stephen Prager (Current Affairs Inc)
The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results
TikTok Trends Are Driving Random Consumer Spending Spikes
Trends always have an element of randomness, but our algorithmic feeds have made them unintelligible.Amanda Mull (Bloomberg)
This reads like "old man yells at clouds"
Like on one hand, sure, tiktok has accelerated the amount of info/media kids are latching onto. But also, remember street sharks? Remember pogs? Or floam? Like.. shits always been like this.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Not that reddit isn't hot garbage right now, and has been for a while actually, but there's a lot of people here who have glazed over the reason why reddit instituted this policy.
AI companies are scraping the Wayback Machine. This is something that should concern all of us.
And what do I care about Reddit getting paid?
If the IA doesn't complain about being used, then it's fine for me. The ideal outcome would be, if the archive can make some arrangement where they scrape the data and provide it to everyone. That way, sites only get scraped once and not constantly hammered.
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Lenovo Webcams Can Be Turned into Persistent Attack Platforms
Linux USB webcams from Lenovo can be turned into persistent “BadUSB” devices to inject keystrokes, drop payloads, and surve system reinstallsBill Mann (CyberInsider)
Vuoto a perdere 06: o mio o di nessun altro!
MONDO REALE: Freddie Mercury non ha mai avuto dei figli ma Mary Austin, la donna che lui ha amato, sì.
Il frontman dei Queen però era appassionato di gatti e per questo ha scritto una canzone per la sua preferita. Delilah.
FANTASIA: Mark Wilson scopre un segreto molto personale su Freddie intercettando alcune lettere a lui indirizzate, e la decisione è presa: Freddie, di quella corrispondenza, non saprà mai; è un’arma troppo potente nelle mani di Mark!
Racconto aggiornato dopo la pubblicazione iniziale (2021)
Vuoto a perdere: o mio, o di nessun altro!
Per giorni il mio defunto compagno Andrew continuò a ripetermelo nel sogno: “Dissangua il mio gifter, porta la sua anima da me!”
Dalla sera in cui Freddie si era tagliato un dito durante una cena, l’idea di ottenere il suo sangue diventò un’ossessione e più passava il tempo, più la determinazione si tramutò in rabbia.
“Se Freddie non sarà mio, nessun altro lo avrà!” dicevo tra me, ogni volta che mi alzavo dal letto e mi guardavo nello specchio.
Non riuscii mai però ad avvicinarlo davvero: lo vedevo girare insieme al suo staff, sorridere, parlare con l’assistente Melania ma era impossibile avere un’occasione per stare da solo con lui.
Non restò altro che studiare un piano per tendergli una trappola che l’avrebbe potuto dissanguare ma sfortunatamente, documentandomi grazie ai pochi mezzi di informazione disponibili, capii quanto il virus HIV fosse debole: la trasmissione non avviene senza contatto diretto col sangue del malato!
Il piano del dissanguatore
La sola speranza per me era stare lì mentre accadeva, e raccogliere il prezioso fluido in velocità: Ogni qual volta pulivo la sua stanza, cercavo di escogitare un sistema per sabotare un lampadario, una finestra, qualsiasi altro oggetto di vetro che potesse infrangersi su di lui mentre dormiva e io sarei corso ad aiutarlo, guarda caso mi sarei tagliato e poi…
No, alla fine decisi che non valeva la pena; troppo rischioso per la mia reputazione, mi avrebbero accusato di omicidio facendomi finire come Mark David Chapman, l’uomo che nel 1980 sparò a John Lennon. Povero idiota, quando John venne portato via rimase lì a leggersi Il Giovane Holden aspettando gli eventi, ma non ebbe alcun legame col proprio mito.
Io invece, facendo le cose per bene, potevo essere unito a Freddie per sempre e, soprattutto, diffondere il virus consentendo al mio idolo di vivere per l’eternità. E pazienza se per il mondo sarei stato l’ennesimo criminale! Mi sentivo coperto, nella mia falsa identità di William Karson.
Buone notizie?
Assorto nei miei pensieri non mi accorsi immediatamente di qualcuno che bussava alla porta della mia stanza; “Karson, c’è bisogno di te!” Mi disse Jim, il compagno di Freddie, quando aprii.
Stringeva in mano una busta. “Questa l’hanno mandata un paio di giorni fa destinata a Freddie, e appena ho letto da dove arriva mi sei venuto in mente subito.”
Allora era vero, hanno letto il mio curriculum prima di assumermi! Presi la lettera fra le dita e mi lasciai andare a un sospiro di malinconia, quando lessi la provenienza del mittente: Bugliano, culla e tomba per i miei sogni di scienziato.
Ricordai immediatamente il mio passato da studente di medicina, quando la speranza di sconfiggere l’AIDS con le mie sole forze, mi aveva indotto persino a fare pace con chi mi aveva sempre bullizzato. Raymond Still, che quando mi bocciarono, diede un colpo di spugna alla nostra inaspettata amicizia e mi umiliò il doppio.
Promozioni e fallimenti
“Mark Wilson, Lei può solo pulire i gabinetti”, mi disse impietoso l’insegnante quando provai a contestare il risultato finale; e Ray Still non mosse un dito per difendermi, anzi mi voltò le spalle per godersi la sua promozione con tutti gli onori!
Soltanto pochi mesi dopo aver accettato il lavoro a casa di Freddie Mercury, scoprii che mentre io facevo le pulizie Raymond Still aveva fatto carriera e avviato un’importante ricerca su HIV, con tanto di annuncio: “Sto cercando una celebrità risultata positiva al virus per sperimentare il mio nuovo studio. L’HIV, opportunamente modificato, può trasmettere emozioni e talento da una persona all’altra!”
Quale occasione migliore per fargli sapere di Freddie?
Stringendo ancora fra le mani la busta consegnatami da Jim, ripensai alla mia lettera appena spedita a Raymond in risposta al suo annuncio; gli avevo raccontato per filo e per segno la positività di Freddie ma anche dopo giorni dall’invio della missiva, non ricevetti alcun riscontro.
E se la busta in mano mia contenesse proprio la risposta di Ray, che da Bugliano voleva parlare direttamente con Freddie?
Non mi feci alcuno scrupolo e me la misi in tasca: “Mai paura, Jim! La porto io al capo, il messaggio è in buone mani.”
Inizio di un inganno
Alla svelta, chiusi la porta della mia stanza e tirata fuori la lettera, iniziai a leggere quel foglio scritto a penna:
Sono incinta, amore della mia vita. Aspettiamo una bambina, il nostro miracolo ma anche la mia più grande paura.Il mondo è un posto crudele e sento di non essere capace di proteggerla abbastanza perché sono in Russia, sposata con un violento.
“Che cosa? Freddie ha una figlia in Russia, o a Bugliano? Dove? Poco importa”, pensai. Se è vero non lo saprà mai! Richiusi la busta come nulla fosse e la nascosi nella mia borsa. Sarei stato l’unico a conoscere il segreto, avrei girato il mondo per trovare quella presunta bambina, dopodiché Freddie sarebbe stato mio, e solo mio!
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer
Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievementsJessica Elgot (The Guardian)
Program alternative SCRU
Before I fully make the switch to Linux I'm looking for options to replace an old Windows program called SCRU. You set a folder to watch, and an output folder and it automatically copies specified extensions or extracts rar into the output folder.
I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to do this in terminal and haven't dug into scripts yet, just want to know of it's possible.
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The Linux way:
- write a script: you can use the find command to find for example rars in a folder. find ~/thatfolder -iname '*.rar' -exec uncompresscommand. Read 'man find' for specifics. Script's first line is #!/bin/bash. Say 'chmod u+x script' to make it executable.
- set up a systemd timer unit that calls a service unit that runs your script at intervals.
- you can use something like for file in ~/thatfolder/* ; do sed trick that extracts the file extension and puts it in a variable ; case $variable in ; bunch of cases for different extensions. Variable $file will hold the source file name. Read up on bash scripting to figure it out.
Welcome to penguinland 😁
Is it possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp?
Note: I am not requesting a link, source, nor a how-to, but rather I am curious if it is possible to use plugins if I have Illustrator from M0nkrus or Genp, because then I will know that continuing to search for one won’t be in vain, and that I am not just being foolishly optimistic.
Thank you.
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Finalmente una stretta...
Mi riferisco al decreto che modifica il codice della strada, in relazione all'abbandono di rifiuti oppure oggetti lanciati dal finestrino dell'auto.
Era ora!
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Tolleranza zero per chi getta rifiuti dall’auto: d’ora in poi si rischiano multe salate e anch ...
Dal 9 agosto chi getta rifiuti dal veicolo rischia multe record e arresto. Le telecamere ora sono prova: ecco cosa cambiaRiccardo Liguori (GreenMe.it)
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Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules
The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Google Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
Google May Be Using Generic & Undocumented Google Crawler
There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named "Google," and it is not listed in any of the documenBarry Schwartz (Search Engine Roundtable)
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A Plea From Gaza: You’re My Only Hope
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5783600
My name is Soliman — a young man and student from Gaza, carrying a burden far heavier than my age. Between my studies and the hardships of life, I try to be the backbone of my family in the most difficult of times.We once had a small farm — olive and citrus trees, and a greenhouse where we planted not just crops, but dreams.
That farm was our only source of income, and more than that, it was a place full of memories, of hope, and of the laughter that once made life a little easier.But in a single moment, everything was gone.
A fire reduced our years of effort to ashes.
We lost our source of living, our stability — and with it, a part of our souls.Now, despite the pain, I’m trying to start over. I’m doing everything I can to keep my family standing, to find even the smallest light of hope that might restore our strength, dignity, and sense of humanity.
I share these words with honesty and hope, hoping they reach a kind heart — someone who can help, or even simply share my story with others who might be able to.
If you’re able to support us in any way, here is the link to our GoFundMe campaign:
👉 gofund.me/da782c66
Every share, every kind word, every small donation could be a lifeline for us.From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking a moment to read my story.
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL will stop offering dial-up internet service after more than 30 years in business
AOL, an internet pioneer that brought millions of Americans online for the first time, is discontinuing its dial-up service next month.Gabriel Sama (The Mercury News)
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in reply to mysticmartz • • •I then suggest we build a public list of MP’s that agree with us and those that don’t .
We don’t have to just contact our local MP’s we could contact other political parties and their leaders with a little rewording of the above.
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in reply to mysticmartz • • •JumpyWombat
in reply to dysprosium • • •PRESS RELEASE I European Parliament votes to force pornographic websites to use effective age-verification tools to protect minors - FAFCE
admin (FAFCE)mysticmartz
in reply to JumpyWombat • • •JumpyWombat
in reply to mysticmartz • • •I suggested the Catholics because they just did it, but that idea seems to appreciated by autocrats and fascists worldwide from China to the US. Here in the EU we are hypocrites: we do it "for the children" to make it palatable to the general public that will never dare to oppose to that excuse. "If you are against this, you are with the pedos" is a frequently used argument.
Obviously porn will not disappear from Internet, and there is no regulation that can achieve that, but the goal is not porn. The goal is to make it harder for a child to access scientific information about his sexuality while growing up, or for an adult to access historical information about what fascism really meant. Things like that are the real targets.
Because ignorance is a fertile ground to cultivate idiot voters.
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in reply to dysprosium • • •PrivacyDingus
in reply to mysticmartz • • •The best work on this is being done by ORG IMO: action.openrightsgroup.org/tel…
Kick them some change if you can afford it too.
Tell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t working
Open Rights Groupshortwavesurfer
in reply to mysticmartz • • •As far as Wikipedia specifically goes, I made this comment on a different post that seemed to get some pretty nice engagement. I based this comment off of the SOPA and PIPA stuff from the US when i was in highschool.
lemmy.zip/comment/20740370
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