I'm making my first brush pack for Procreate available, completely free =)
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Maioria nas redes desaprova megaoperação e culpa Castro pela crise de segurança no Rio
A maioria dos usuários de redes sociais responsabiliza o governador Cláudio Castro (PL) pela atual crise na segurança pública do Rio de Janeiro, segundo pesquisa da AP Exata. O levantamento também revelou desaprovação à megaoperação policial realizada na terça-feira (28), que resultou em mais de 100 mortes. As informações são do Estadão. De acordo com […]
Elodie a Milano, la possibile scaletta del concerto al Forum di Assago
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/musica/2025/10/30/scaletta-elodie-milano-concerto?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Elodie a Milano, la possibile scaletta del concerto al Forum di Assago
Leggi su Sky TG24 l'articolo Elodie a Milano, la possibile scaletta del concerto al Forum di AssagoMatteo Rossini (Sky TG24)
Ci riproviamo! Martedì 18 novembre c'è l'inaugurazione dell'Ofpcina a La Casa del Mondo!
Ci saranno:
🍺 Aperitivo & Birrette
🪛 Ciappini
🎶 Dj set di Oloturia
👾 Arcade games
🐉 Presabbene!
Ci vediamo in via Antonio di Vincenzo 18/A dalle 19 alle 23.
NB: C'è un grande un portico quindi nessun problema se piove!
Release v3.1.2 of Ktistec
I'm working on federation issues.
👻 Release v3.1.2 of Ktistec improves support for Lemmy and community servers like it that distribute content by wrapping it in Announce activities (FEP-1b12: Group federation support). Ktistec also supports the audience property, although support for that was removed from Lemmy earlier this year.
🎃 This release also adds support for delivering to shared inboxes, which are widely supported by other ActivityPub servers. Despite being federated, the Fediverse is not highly distributed, and this optimization can reduce outbound delivery traffic by 10-20x.
Added
- Support for the
Dislikeactivity. - Support for the
audienceproperty on activities and objects. - Support for delivery to shared inboxes.
- Support for full-width hash signs in hashtags (e.g. ＃日本語) commonly used in Japanese and other Asian languages.
Fixed
- Strip HTML from object summaries rather than escaping it.
- Properly unwrap Lemmy-style
Announceactivities.
Changed
- Destroy discarded drafts instead of deleting them.
Enjoy!
#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang
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Single user ActivityPub (https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) server. - Comparing ebc7405c...65fd47cb · toddsundsted/ktistecGitHub
When I was working for a dallas company I asked a senior executive,
“I want to take the team out to dinner, where is the nearest good restaurant?”
And she replied, “New York.” mastodon.social/@TexasStandard…
Texas Standard (@TexasStandard@mastodon.social)
The Michelin Guide honored three more Texas restaurants with its one-star rating Tuesday night at a ceremony in Houston. https://txst.us/a5fjn0Texas Standard (Mastodon)
Report: Around 70% of Palestinians "oppose Hamas disarmament, poll finds"
"Among Palestinians, support for Hamas has increased over the last two years."
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Overwhelming majority of Palestinians oppose Hamas disarmament, poll finds
An overwhelming majority of Palestinians are opposed to Hamas's disarmament and are deeply sceptical that US President Donald Trump’s peace plan will lead to a permanent end to Israel’s war on Gaza.Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
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We're spilling the TEE: We're disclosing vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-59054, CVE-2025-58356) in LUKS2 disk encryption affecting 8 confidential computing systems.
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Vulnerabilities in LUKS2 disk encryption for confidential VMs
Trail of Bits is disclosing vulnerabilities in confidential computing systems that use LUKS2 for disk encryption. These vulnerabilities allow attackers with access to storage disks to extract confidential data and modify contents.Tjaden Hess (The Trail of Bits Blog)
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Stragi nazifasciste in Val Sangone a maggio 1944
Le stragi di Pinasca, San Giorio e Sant’Antonino
Le perdite partigiane non si fermano all’arrestarsi del rastrellamento: i tedeschi continuano a mietere vittime fino al 18 maggio 1944: il primo episodio a Castelnuovo di Pinasca dove 12 partigiani (9 dei quali conosciuti, secondo Sonzini, 8 secondo l’ASN, Atlante delle Stragi Naziste e Fasciste in Italia) vengono fucilati dopo esser stati torturati. Le vittime, secondo l’ASN <64 sono Fiorini Nunzio, Issoglio Eraldo, Cattaneo Luigi, Bricarello Mario, Perino Romolo, Perino Severino, Pesando Vittorino, 5 ignoti: Cataldo Russo secondo Sonzini) più 4 ignoti <65.
A San Giorio i partigiani fucilati sono 5, tutti riconosciuti e operanti nelle bande della Val Sangone, due dei quali nativi di paesi appartenenti alla Valle (Coazze e Volvera) Del Martino Aurelio,Governato Vincenzo, Martoglio Valerio, Morello Pietro e Staorengo Giuseppe <66
La strage di Sant’Antonino, perpetrata <67 due giorni dopo, si inserisce nel medesimo contesto di terrore che i nazisti lasciano in Val Sangone attraverso la fucilazione di 17 ostaggi partigiani presi prigionieri durante il rastrellamento e tenuti prigionieri nella scuola elementare del piccolo paese al confine con la Val Susa. A cadere sono partigiani militanti sia nelle brigate valsangonesi sia nelle brigate valsusine; una coppia di fratelli, i Nissardi, giungono abbracciati al luogo dell’esecuzione <68. I rimanenti prigionieri, circa la stessa cifra dei giustiziati, vengono portati a Torino e poi deportati in Germania: questo l’elenco <69 delle vittime: Barella Romano, Cartei Nello, Chicco Giorgio, Cumiano Nicola, Fagiano Luigi, Grosso Nicola, Guglielmino Angelo, Leschiera Elio, Maritano Felice, Nissardi Gino, Nissardi Angelo, Priano Armando, Richiero Francesco, Righi Giuseppe, Servino Giovanni, Spinello Cesare e Vanni Bruno.
La strage di Forno
La strage di Forno [n.d.r.: in località borgata Ferria, del comune di Coazze (TO)], perpetrata il 16 maggio, presenta delle caratteristiche diverse rispetto alle esecuzioni sopra citate; i condannati non vengono giustiziati attraverso un colpo alla nuca o attraverso la fucilazione ma attraverso il lento e sofferente dissanguamento provocato da un fitto mitragliamento alle gambe tale da provocare una lenta e interminabile agonia. I condannati vengono vegliati costantemente da guardie armate per scoraggiare i civili dal prestare le cure ai condannati moribondi e sofferenti. Sono 26 i giustiziati, 7 ignoti; tutti combattenti in bande valsangonesi; 10 nella ‘Nicoletta’, 7 nella ‘Sergio’, uno nella ‘Nino-Carlo’ e uno nella ‘Genio’ <70. Questo l’elenco <71 dei martiri: Armando Pierino, Berruti Giuseppe, Dall’Oca Roberto, De Marchi Antonio, Galetto Aldo, Gaviati Guido, Guglielmi Giuseppe, Lipari Biagio, Mazzeo Salvatore, Medico Riccardo, Mingozzi Lamberto, Pasquale Nicola, Pavone Umberto, Ramo
Tornani Cesare, Riccarelli Ugo, Rolla Francesco, Ruffinatti Renato, Sibona Luigi, Stefanon Ettore Bruno, Vanni Curzio, Zaccarelli Anselmo, Zeglioli Luigi, Zuin Albano. Ignoti n 7.
L’allora sedicenne Maria Teresa Usseglio Mattiet ricorda di quell’episodio: “quando c’è stata la strage a Forno di Coazze avevo 16 anni, siamo andate noi ragazze con la signora Mimi Teppati a vedere cosa era rimasto, cercavamo di trovare segni distintivi, qualche oggetto particolare, oppure tagliavamo qualche pezzo di stoffa dai vestiti per far riconoscere i corpi dei ragazzi alle madri” <72.
L’assurda storia dell’eccidio di Forno si contraddistingue, dunque, per il sadismo e la crudeltà degli aguzzini e per le inenarrabili sofferenze che 26 ragazzi patiscono fino alla fine della loro lunga agonia.
Dopo l’operazione Habicht: altri 42 martiri
L’operazione Habicht termina il 18 maggio: a operazione finita, il 19 maggio, elementi della banda ‘Genio’ comandati dal partigiano Rinaldo Baratta <73 sparano e uccidono due ufficiali della Flak in transito sulla strada del Colle Braida. <74 Una settimana dopo, il 26 maggio, 31 partigiani vengono prelevati dal carcere ‘Le Nuove’ di Torino dove sono reclusi dal rastrellamento avvenuto la settimana precedente, accorpati ad altri dieci giovani partigiani rastrellati in valle, divisi in quattro gruppi e giustiziati. <75-76
Episodio di Giaveno: 11 fucilati <77
Baudino Ugo, Belletti Carlo, Bruno Carlo, Groppo Mario, Marocco Giovanni, Marconetto Giorgio, Marconetto Pietro, Medici Giovanni, Moine Andrea, Peticchio Salvatore <78 e Virano Vincenzo
Episodio di Valgioie: 10 fucilati <79
Bogiatto Giuseppe, Folis Domenico, Franco Ugo, Galetto Mario, Grisoglio Giovanni, Goffi Mario, Morra Giovanni, Nepote Terenzio, Perino Aldo e Ronco Angelo
Episodio di Coazze: 10 fucilati <80
Barral Severino, Bert Gioachino, Galeazzo Giorgio, Guastalla Romano, Mora Attilio, Quattrocolo Sergio, Remogna Leo, Silvestri Angelo, Storero Giuseppe e Vaira Giuseppe
Episodio della Bonaria: 11 fucilati <81
Cavallero Agostino, Ceresero Ugo, Cottini Renato, Romagnoli Brusa, Teobaldo Gatto Corinno, Gentili Orfeo, Maroncelli Giovanni, Rosso Giuseppe, Marocco Ugo, Serra Vittorio e Ravelli Attilio. I 42 martiri non provengono dalla sola Val Sangone: 19 nominativi su 42 trovati <82 del database Istoreto risultano provenire da vallate diverse; la maggior parte dalla Val Sangone, poi Chisone, Susa e Pellice. Anche l’orientamento politico non risulta conforme; accanto ai partigiani militanti nelle bande apolitiche della Val Sangone compaiono militi della banda Cattolica della Val Chisone, giellini e garibaldini.
La scia di sangue che i nazisti seminano in Val Sangone si conclude con altri partigiani giustiziati o deportati e con case distrutte dagli incendi o dai bombardamenti.
[NOTE]64 ASN straginazifasciste.it/?page_id…
65 Sonzini M. Abbracciati per sempre: Il rastrellamento del Maggio ’44 in Val Sangone e l’eccidio della Fossa Comune di Forno di Coazze. Gribaudo; 2004. p 55
66 ASN straginazifasciste.it/?page_id…
67 La targa commemorativa presso Sant’Antonino di Susa reca la data 12/05 mentre l’ASN reca la data del 13
68 Sonzini M. Abbracciati per sempre, cit p 63
69 L’elenco, tratto da ASN coincide con quello contenuto nella targa commemorativa del comune di Sant’Antonino di Susa contenuta in comune.santantoninodisusa.to.i…; entrambi consultati il 21/02/24
70 Comunità montana Val Sangone. Ricordi ed immagini della Resistenza in Val Sangone, Tipografia commerciale; 1998, p 67
71 ASN straginazifasciste.it/?page_id…
72 Intervista a Maria Teresa Usseglio Mattiet (n. 1928) al sottoscritto, rilasciata telefonicamente il 9/01/24
73 Fornello M., La Resistenza in Val Sangone, Tesi datt. Universit., 1962, p 73
74 ASN straginazifasciste.it/?page_id…
75 Il database dell’Atlante delle stragi nazifasciste non contiene gli episodi di Coazze e Bonaria, per cui l’unico testimone considerato è Sonzini, le cui informazioni sono in parte confrontate e tratte da Fornello, 1962, vengono citati prima gli episodi di Valgioie e Giaveno che dispone di confronto tra Atlante e Sonzini
76 I nomi delle vittime sono comunque stati riportati in relazione alle lapidi apposte sui luoghi delle fucilazioni visionate in loco
77 Così come riportato sulla lapide apposta in piazza Molines, a Giaveno
78 Nominativo comparso in piazza Molines ma non nell’Atlante che porta i partigiani giustiziati a 42 anziché 41
79 Elenco tratto dall’Atlante delle Stragi Nazifasciste poiché la lapide posta a Valgioie non presenta i nomi dei partigiani deceduti
80 Elenco tratto da lapide posta in loco in via XXV aprile a Coazze
81 Così come riportato sulla lapide commemorativa in strada Colle Braida.
82 Compilando le voci ‘data caduto’ e ‘provincia’ inserendo la data del 26/05/1944 e la provincia di Torino
Alessandro Busetta, La resistenza in Val Sangone e la divisione Campana, Tesi di laurea, Università degli Studi di Torino, Anno accademico 2022-2023
#17 #18 #1944 #AlessandroBusetta #CoazzeTO_ #CumianaTO_ #GiavenoTO_ #guerra #maggio #naziste #partigiani #Piemonte #provincia #Resistenza #Sangone #stragi #Susa #tedeschi #Torino
Infanzie al centro – Ricercare nuovi sguardi assieme
Il 7 e 8 novembre 2025 si terrà “Infanzie al centro – Ricercare nuovi sguardi assieme”, un programma diffuso dedicato alla valorizzazione delle culture dell’infanzia sul territorio del CPT Val di Susa e Val Sangone.www.comune.santantoninodisusa.to.it
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Nach Epic-Urteil: Google öffnet den Play Store in den USA
Google hat den US-Play-Store nach der Schlappe gegen Epic fristgemäß geöffnet. App-Anbieter erhalten mehr Flexibilität bei Abrechnung und In-App-Zahlungen.
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#Android #EpicGames #Google #InAppKäufe #IT #Mobiles #Security #Wettbewerb #news
Tra palme, design e musica: The Sanctuary Milan è la nuova oasi dei Navigli
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/the-sanctuary-milan-oasi-urbana-porta-genova-paradiso-tropicale?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Viaggi @viaggi-VanityFairItaly
Shaders are awesome
Companion post for the "Shaders are awesome" lightning talk.Sebastiano Poggi (/dev/random)
"Het politieke midden (GLPvdA, D66, CDA, VVD) moet nu samenwerken en verregaande maatregelen nemen tegen de online verspreiding van fascisme en de invloed van algoritmes. Het is de laatste kans de hondsdolheid te beteugelen."
"[..] Die [hondsdolheid] wordt namelijk niet veroorzaakt door reëele zorgen maar door online propaganda."
(Sander Schimmelpenninck @schimmelpenninck.bsky.social op BS) #TK2025 #fascisme #extreemrechts
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Galatea Bellugi: «Girare con Virzì in Cinque secondi mi ha fatto riscoprire la parte più autentica di me»
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/galatea-bellugi-film-virzi-cinque-secondi-intervista?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Cinema e Serie TV @cinema-e-serie-tv-VanityFairItaly
Galatea Bellugi: «Girare con Virzì in Cinque secondi mi ha fatto riscoprire la parte più autentica di me»
L’attrice franco-italiana racconta un ritorno alle origini che è anche un viaggio dentro di sé: il set toscano, l’incontro con Valerio Mastandrea e la voglia di abbracciare nuove sfide, restando fedele alla propria essenzaGianmaria Tammaro (Vanity Fair Italia)
Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college
From government-mandated paid maternity leave to tuition free college, the CNBC All-America Economic Survey reveals a surprising American appetite for some very progressive policies.Steve Liesman (CNBC)
You should sign this! www.eurogroupforanimals.org/transport-re...#Europe #EU #Animals #AnimalRights
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Send a message to MEPs: step up and protect animals during transport!
Urgent action is needed to save the Transport Regulation: the policy created to protect the welfare of animals during transport.www.eurogroupforanimals.org
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Canada e Singapore celebrano 60 anni di diplomazia - Asia - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/asia/2025/10/30/canada-e-singapore-celebrano-60-anni-di-diplomazia_8995d7b8-b9aa-4deb-9946-59618421024d.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Canada e Singapore celebrano 60 anni di diplomazia - Asia - Ansa.it
Il primo ministro Lawrence Wong e la sua controparte canadese Mark Carney hanno celebrato i 60 anni di relazioni diplomatiche tra i loro Paesi durante la visita di quest'ultimo nella Repubblica, riaffermando al contempo il loro impegno per il libero …Agenzia ANSA
Massimo Giannini: Io tifo per il tris di Mattarella
https://www.repubblica.it/venerdi/2025/10/30/news/massimo_giannini_io_tifo_per_il_tris_di_mattarella-424948163/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Massimo Giannini: Io tifo per il tris di Mattarella
Tra due anni una nipotina di Almirante al Quirinale non so se riuscirei a reggerlala Repubblica
Che tenerezza chi festeggia Halloween, perché da italiano maschera una forte ignoranza... Noi abbiamo già le nostre feste semi-pagane dei morti, ma poiché siamo pro-Aglofoni, poiché il nome straniero fa figo... buttiamo nel cesso le tradizioni ed abbracciamo l'uniformismo.
Ad esempio riprendiamo il Mortu Mortu in Sardegna, la Processione dei Murticielli (immortalata da Mimmo Jodice che ci ha appena lasciati), lo Ìornu di li morti’ in Sicilia, etc...
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Per me possiamo far passare anche l'idea di festeggiare tutto, ma non vi ho mai visto festeggiare la fine del Ramadan... come mai? L'Islam è una religione di serie B? Ha meno valenza di quella celtica?
Siate correnti nella vita 😉
Housebound is the best horror/comedy I've seen in years. Found it on Rotten Tomatoes top 200 horror movies. It's the first feature from Gerard Johnstone, who directed M3gan. Check it out!
#film #HorrorFilm #horror
Ethical fashion failing? Social auditing is broken. The No Sweat T-Shirt Project proves worker power is the only sustainable model. We work with independent trade unions for genuine rights.
Read why we must move #BeyondAuditing @BHRRC ➡️ business-humanrights.org/en/bl…
Worker power as a business model: the case of the No Sweat T-shirt project - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource CentreBusiness & Human Rights Resource Centre
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The Blue Wall Under an Orange Sky (actually, on the contrary)
🎞️ LomoChrome Turquoise
📷 Holga 120GN
#HolgaWeek
#BelieveInFillm
#FilmPhotography
#120film
#Lomography
Molten amber.
A view looking down on the sunlit & wind blown surface of Clear Creek in Coralville, Iowa. Looking closely you can see a few spots where the distortion is minimal & objects on the creek bed are visible. Hence, "Clear Creek".
#StormHour #nature #abstract #Photography #AltText
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Vorrei sollevare, solo a titolo personale e senza pretesa di rappresentare alcuna istituzione, alcune domande riguardo a una vicenda recentemente avvenuta all’Università di Venezia e di cui i giornali hanno riferito. A me pare che a Emanuele Fiano, che è…
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Disponible Fedora 43
#linux #fedora #fedora43 #gnulinux #softwarelibre #blog #enmiblog
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Disponible Fedora 43
Ya tenemos entre nosotros la nueva versión de Fedora y quiero dejar mis habituales impresiones. Una vez más, la distro comunitaria de Red Hat se siente continuista aunque estable, sin cambios radic…THE_CHEI$
New Comic Strip Found: Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler
Too Much Coffee Man - 2025-10-30 gocomics.com/toomuchcoffeeman/…
Killer quote:
“I’m going back to the Fediverse. Back to Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick, it’s a survival strategy.“
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A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…Hilda Bastian (Absolutely Maybe)
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📷 Pentax K-1 II
#flowerfarm #flowers #bees #bienen #photo #nature #natur #blumen #photography #foto #fotografie
J'ai une lunette astro Perl a donner sur Rennes
Il y a un trépied en alu, plusieurs objectifs, un chercheur, le manuel et un moteur de compensation basique pour le mouvement de la terre
Il est rustique mais fonctionne bien pour des observations de base 
Si personne ne le prend ici ou sur lbc je pense il va être jeté alors qu'il est complet, snif
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The world knows that Trump got played by China. And that is a dangerous place for us. Others are watching and learning.
Hier ist ein Alt-Text für das Bild:
Das Bild zeigt eine Nahaufnahme des Gesichts einer Person. Die Person hat kurze, graue Haare und trägt eine Brille mit dicker, schwarzer Umrandung. Der Hintergrund ist dunkel und unscharf. Am unteren Rand des Bildes befindet sich ein Schriftzug: "Wolfgang Kubicki erstellt eine neue Antwort auf eine Anfrage". Am oberen Rand des Bildes steht "#Klima". Neben dem Wort "#Klima" befindet sich eine kurze Zeile Text mit der Aufschrift "Die Angst vor dem Verlust der Lebensgrundlage wird zu einer politischen Spaltung. Es ist eine Frage der Angst. Sie werden nicht in der Lage sein, eine Lösung zu finden, wenn sie nicht die Sorgen der Menschen verstehen".
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📝 AI Act and EU Digital Legislation: A European Parliament Study Reveals Regulatory Complexity and Overlaps
In-depth European Parliament study on the interplay between the AI Act and EU digital legislation (GDPR, Data Act, DSA, DMA, CRA, NIS2, DORA). Analysis of regulatory overlaps, regulatory complexity,...
Oh, das ist ja inzwischen wesentlich einfacher geworden. Früher™️ waren dafür Änderungen in diversen Dateien und ein Rebuild nötig.
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Modify Increase post max characters count limit for self-hosted Mastodon server » MszPro・株式会社Smartソフト
In the newest Mastodon V4.3.0, you only need to modify one file in order for the maximum character count to be changed.msz (MszPro・株式会社Smartソフト)
Every single BBC news report of an offence that I've heard in the past couple of weeks refers to the ethnicity and national status of the offender.
Except when they are white.
Superreiche zur Kasse bitte
Ihren ausufernden Lebensstil und Ignoranz gegenüber #Klimawandel kann/darf man nicht länger tolerieren, deshalb
#Vermögenssteuer
Höhere #Erbschaftssteuer
Jetzt
Quelle: DIE ZEIT
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Oxfam: Reichste Menschen verursachen die meisten CO₂-Emissionen
Das reichste 0,1 Prozent der Deutschen emittiert täglich 840 Kilogramm CO₂ pro Person. Die ärmsten 50 Prozent verursachen laut Oxfam nur einen Bruchteil davon.Susanne Ködel (DIE ZEIT)
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Anyone aware of #Javascript jobs at a UK, not evil/impactful company?
I’ve got 15 years of experience, fluent in React and NodeJS with Express. Experience with Postgres, SQLite and NoSQL dbs. Got my last company Cyber Essentials Certified. Im proficient in dev ops and sys admin. Have a small (but growing!) portfolio of FOSS work.
Have an extensive background in teaching programming too, so can mentor juniors. I LOVE mentoring. Have an academic background too. #GetFediHired boosts welcome 💖
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Culture Wars, episode 1: The Fascist Menace
In a post here back in 2020—entitled Albion: utopianism and the post-apocalyptic pastoral—I mentioned that culture and the arts are the main way to inspire someone about a political viewpoint:
Despite the clumsiness of info-dumps and/or other literary faults, fiction—or any other artform—is far better at describing, and igniting the imagination about, different potential futures than any dry political tract (or indeed blogpost) filled with jargon, references, and footnotes. That’s why even frothing right-wing libertarians spend more time trying to get people to read Ayn Rand’s terrible novels rather than pushing people to read a formal socio-economic treatise on the subject.
In fact this was related to something I’d touched on a couple of years before that in a blog post called Deep England, where I concluded the post by talking about the collective auto-stereotype of the social myth—our collective vision of who we are—which is intrinsically bound up with, perhaps even controlled by, culture and the arts:
This is why such minor-sounding changes send the far-right into rabid rage. A muslim woman winning the Great British Bake Off; a female actor playing Doctor Who - why would these tiny things provoke such a huge response from the far right? Why do they immediately trigger numerous dog-whistle articles in the Daily Mail? It’s because they incrementally reshape the social myth. Each change is a precedent, a small alteration in the shared social myth that both controls us and that we control. These aren’t shouts of rage from the far right, they’re howls of fear and loss, wounds from yet another irrevocable progressive change in the myth they thought that they owned and which served them.
Tim Footman, over at Cultural Snow, wrote a great post entitled About cultural (in)coherence, in which he sums up the latest shots fired by the far-right in the ongoing culture wars, starting with Katie Lam MP (who has recently been tipped as a future Tory leader, since she has been lurching as far to the right as is possible without coming out of the other end of Reform/BNP/NF’s collective alimentary canal):
I have an instinctive fondness for the notion of a culture war, but inevitably it turns out to be less fun than it sounds, being shorthand for dim bigotry. First up, the Tory MP Katie Lam, who argues that the scorched-earth repatriation policy she’s floating will leave a population that’s “culturally coherent”, whatever that might mean. Do we all need to believe in God? Support the monarchy? Declare that Del Boy falling through the bar is the funniest thing that ever happened? And if we are an incoherent people, with differing cultural assumptions and aspirations (a “nation of strangers” as another politician put it), might that not be something to do with private and/or selective education, gated communities and all the other manifestations of class and income inequality? Nah, let’s just point at the brown people, it’s easier.
There is, of course, no difference between “culturally coherent” and “white ethnostate” - the former is just a flimsy synonym of the latter that allows the media to reprint it without challenge or shame (at least for the parts of the media who have given up all pretence at journalistic integrity, which is sadly most of them).
And that’s without even mentioning the relentless attacks on Trans people from Reform, the Conservatives, and Labour.
In its current culture wars the far-right is obviously trying to spread—and normalise—far-right political opinion - that’s the primary aim. But one of the big problems it’s come up against is that to normalise these opinions they need to have them reflected and repeated constantly in daily culture.
And that’s why having these far-right opinions contradicted in mainstream culture irks the far-right so much: whether that be Reform’s Sarah Pochin recent complaint about seeing non-shite faces in TV adverts (which Tim also mentions in his post, linked above), or as I mentioned in my Deep England post, a muslim woman winning the Great British Bake Off or a female actor playing Doctor Who (and, since I write that post back in 2018, Ncuti Gatwa playing the same character).
The thing with the far-right’s constant attempt at policing mainstream culture is that it needs their constant and relentless effort because it goes against the way that, generally, people will interact and live if left to their own devices. Or, if you’d like a pop-culture version, to quote from Nemik's manifesto from the TV series Andor:
And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
[And here I should mention that Benji created a free printable & foldable zine version of that manifesto “The Trail of Political Consciousness” - if you’re in UK/Europe you’ll need to fiddle with your printer margins/scaling—and chop off a couple of centimeters of the short side of the paper—to get it all on one A4 page and to get it to fold and cut correctly because it was designed for US Letter sized paper.]
Anyway I deliberately used an Andor reference here because it’s leads to my next point: as Tim points out in his blog post cited above when he talks about that Reform MP’s complaints about ‘woke advertising’:
Which is rather to misunderstand the dynamics of advertising; it’s not the woke liberati that actually call the shots, rather the clients trying to sell energy drinks and funeral plans and sanitary towels and if they think black faces won’t shift enough units, they won’t use black faces. It’s capitalism, Sarah. I thought your people liked that sort of thing.
The left-wing political thread running through Andor is there because (I assume) writer Tony Gilroy wanted to promote that political viewpoint.
Some people have made the point that the series can’t be taken seriously as a left-wing or revolutionary narrative because it’s produced by Disney, a capitalist mega-corporation. This is a valid point worth raising, but in my opinion I don’t think that Disney particularly cares about the politics in the series so long as the series shifts enough units - which it certainly did. Or, as I quoted the words apocryphally attributed to Lenin in my first post about Andor, the capitalist will sell you the rope you’ll use to hang him. I think they rest assured that it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism (attrib. Fredric Jameson and/or Slavoj Žižek) and keep watching the bottom line.
But the time and effort that the far-right need to put into policing mainstream culture fascinates me - it seems to need to be a constant and relentless task. And here, I think, is the essential difference between neoliberalism and the far-right (don’t get me wrong, I hate them both).
The neoliberals—in the UK this would be every Tory government from Thatcher onwards, with the exception of Liz Truss’ 49 days of premiership which lurched into the far-right’s politics, and also the Labour governments of Blair/Brown and Starmer—let a lot of cultural stuff just ride because they were confident that the current “neoliberal consensus” would continue.
And yes, sure, Blair and Brown (and perhaps even Starmer, but his government is far more to the right than Blair ever was) have been a tiny bit nicer to the 99% than the Tories, but they (rightly) believed that nothing would really threaten the deep-seated inequalities, and, because of this, they and their ministers would all be on the nice profitable gravy train after they left office. And that’s what stops a lot of people from engaging with politics.
For example we all kinda suspect that Peter Kyle, the current Secretary of State for Business and Trade, will end up with a nice cosy job with one of the billionaire-owned AI companies when his political career ends, completely unrelated to his selling out the UK creative industries to having their works hoovered up and consumed by the AI industries, of course. And Wes Streeting, the current Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, will probably end up with a cushy consultancy at a private health company. That’s just how the government has operated in neoliberal times.
But the far-right are different from the neoliberals. They can’t rely on the neoliberal trap that it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism because it is easier to imagine an end to fascism than the end of the world because, within the last hundred years, we’ve seen fascist regimes beaten and defeated. And I think that’s why the far-right are so desperate to control culture: because fascism is brittle and it requires constant effort, whereas neoliberalists could just lean back and relax because no one could imagine anything changing.
Now, I’m aware at this point that I might be seeming to be pushing a left-accelerationist agenda: i.e. we can beat the fascists, but not the neoliberals, so let’s cheer for the neoliberals lurching to the right to fascism so that we can win. But that’s not my agenda at all. Any far-right government will cause so much more misery and suffering than even a neoliberal government because that is their prime directive. And I stress that this is not meant to belittle the misery and suffering that neoliberalism inflicts.
The huge lead the far-right Reform party currently have in the opinion polls (at time of writing) is obviously extremely worrying as an indicator of the UK’s impending descent into fascism. It is tempting to think that any future far-right Reform government would spend all of its parliamentary time policing culture and legislating that the BBC must broadcast repeats of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and The Black and White Minstrel Show every evening, but I think this is naïve as we have seen from the far-right Trump administration in the US.
Of course, a lot can happen between now and August 2029 (the latest possible date for the next UK general election). I’m not making any predictions here, but I do want to examine one potential scenario based on multiple current polls that show Reform out in front, Labour and the Conservatives continuously losing percentage points, the LibDems fairly stagnant, and the Green Party seemingly only a few polls away from overtaking everyone apart from Reform. In other words the next election could primarily be a contest between Reform and the Greens, with the LibDems again taking the role of kingmaker in a coalition government.
Opinion Polls—especially this far out from any general election—are based on who you would ideally want as the next government. The actual way people vote under a First Past the Post system is very different, and frequently involves a lot of tactical voting at constituency level as we saw in the 2024 general election where there was widespread tactical voting to unseat the deeply unpopular Tory government.
As such, in this hypothetical Reform vs. Green vs. LibDem scenario, I’d expect to see a lot of tactical voting against Reform, and also some against the Greens by the right-wing given the anti-Polanski attack pieces that are starting to pepper the right-wing press, and which I suspect will rise in intensity going beyond those aimed at Corbyn in the run up to the 2019 general election. I’d also expect, in this scenario, for it effectively to be the end of both the Conservative and Labour parties. Is this how neoliberalism dies, replaced by either fascism or some sort of left-green progressivism?
There are, of course, four long years still to go until the next general election and a million-and-one things can—and will—happen between now and then that will affect how people vote and will probably change the hypothetical situation I’ve described above.
But over these next four years we’re going to see an even greater escalation of the culture wars from the far-right, because they need to normalise and sanitise ideas such as building a white ethnostate, sorry I mean a “culturally coherent country”, in the minds of the electorate. According to opinion polls they’ve already convinced about 30% of the UK to support fascism so the fightback needs to be rapid.
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