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wacoca.com/media/430054/ 唐田えりか、映画舞台挨拶での”上品スタイル”を公開 | 話題の投稿 | スポーツブル (スポブル) #Crazy #film #Media #movie #sports #アスリート #クレイジー #スポーツ #ニュース #メディア #動画 #映画



Crystal Symphony, com'è viaggiare di una nave da crociera «boutique»
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/crociera-di-lusso-piccole-crystal-symphony-abercrombie-kent?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Viaggi @viaggi-VanityFairItaly



California Department of Justice Investigating Officer-Involved Shooting Under AB 1506 Involving Escondido Police Department oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases…





#BBCNews - Thousands demonstrate across Mexico for the 130,000 missing
bbc.com/news/articles/ckg4rnr7…
Almost all the disappearances have occurred since 2007, when then-President Felipe Calderón launched his "war on drugs".


Love you people.

Al Stewart...Year of the Cat...Extended Mix...
youtube.com/watch?v=OgnaJRcgCw…

#caturday #music #nowplaying




Also dyk that there's a CBC website/app for learning French (or English)?

mauril.ca/en/

It uses clips from CBC to teach you. Also you get to learn a Quebec accent which sounds so much like a southern US accent to me, but in French.



Sri Lanka’s 2025 public health allocation accounts for just 1.5 percent of its gross domestic product – five times smaller than the amount allocated to service the interest on public debt.

But this is not just a Sri Lankan story.

@monlarsl

#News #Srilanka #Debt

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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party will remove all net zero requirements on oil and gas companies drilling in the North Sea if elected.
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WH CAUGHT Using OLD VID as Reporters DEMAND PROOF of LIFE. Via @keithedwards #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️

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New Comic Strip Found: Baby Blues - 2025-08-30 gocomics.com/babyblues/2025/08…

#comicstrip #babyblues #parenting





You can watch Burning Man 2025 happening on a live stream.

burningman.org/live-webcast/

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I don't understand.
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If I have paid for a product, and agree to the terms of service, if the terms of service are changed I should either be able to keep the old terms, or be given a full refund if I don’t agree to the new terms. No holding my privacy hostage to the money I spent on a product! #privacy #tech

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I solved this JoWordle 1297 with 3/6 attempts in 49.9 seconds. Can you do better?
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branch screen-time/week-35 → ~8h daily (except 2 off commits).

What’s your branch say?




Guerra Israele, esercito avanza a Gaza City: migliaia in fuga. LIVE
https://tg24.sky.it/mondo/2025/08/31/guerra-israele-palestina-gaza-31-agosto-diretta?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Mondo @mondo-SkyTG24



Bernie Sanders demands that RFK Jr step down as health secretary theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a… #Trump




Microsoft Confirms Recent Windows 11 24H2 Security Update Not Causing SSD/HDD Failures cybersecuritynews.com/windows-… #CyberSecurityNews #cybersecuritynews #Windows11 #TechNews #Windows #windows




Wegen Meldestellen, Wahlausschlüssen und „Demokratieförderung“: Wie der Staat den Schein über die Volksherrschaft zu verlieren droht! riehle-news.de/wegen-meldestel… Ob Orwell damit rechnen konnte, dass jene Fiktion von 1984 rund vier Dekaden später in Deutschland derart authentisch, hautnah und nahezu 1:1 Wirklichkeit wird, wie er die imaginierten Zustände trefflich


#Chicago mayor signs order with blueprint for fighting a potential #Trump crackdown nbcnews.com/politics/politics-… #Illinois

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Entlassen, weil sie nicht genderte – Gericht erklärt Kündigung für ungültig apollo-news.net/entlassen-weil… Eine Mitarbeiterin des Bundesamts für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie hatte in ihrer Funktion als Strahlenschutzbeauftragte eine Strahlenschutzanweisung nicht gegendert. Von ihren ...
The post Entlassen, weil sie nicht genderte – Gericht erklärt Kündigung für ungültig appeared first on Apollo News. #news #press



Appealing the ban of user friendlysock


I noticed yesterday that the user @friendlysock had been banned.

I don’t know friendlysock personally and am not even sure I’ve ever interacted with them on here, but I was surprised to see that their account had been banned because I find their contributions substantive and interesting. Checking their profile, I see that they’ve been a member for 11 years and contributed thousands of comments and stories.

Here is the conversation that led to the ban. It appeared in a subthread about a project’s choice of mascot. I’ve slightly adjusted whitespace and elided extraneous text. I’m editing out names of the other users, as I don’t want to drag additional people into the discussion:

Root comment: On a personal note: a bit weird to see the “art”, I wish this project was more neutral. Some people like odd things, and that is fine. But doesn’t have to be the loading screen for a whole bunch of websites[…]

Other commenter: I truly do not understand this. Every company has a logo; many have mascots[…] What’s different about [project author]’s anthropomorphic jackal?

Project author: TBH I’m pretty sure it’s because I’m transgender and people are trying to use anything they can to discredit me because of it.

friendlysock: It’s pretty obvious to me: it’s a weird anime girl mascot that’s coded as underage. Such a mascot is, at best, usually totally different design-wise than whatever is behind [project].


(archived, as the original was removed by mods)

One of the mods responded to the comment. The response is too long to quote here, but they made several claims that surprised me:

  • There’s “clear intent” that friendlysock’s “‘coded as underage’ wording is a veiled insinuation of pedophilia.”
  • Saying the project mascot is “coded as underage” nearly rises to the level of the mod team having to notify law enforcement.
  • friendlysock’s comment makes it “clear” that “[they] don’t like the art or the person who commissioned it.”

The moderator told friendlysock that the mod team reached consensus that friendlysock “need[s] to apologize to [project maintainer] so that we can all move on from this.” friendlysock did not apologize, and they were subsequently banned.

My understanding of friendlysock’s comment was that they weren’t personally taking issue with the mascot but rather pointing out why others might object to it independent of the maintainer’s gender identity. I find friendlysock’s claim credible, as I also think a large percentage of adults might find the mascot objectionable/unprofessional even if they knew nothing about who commissioned or created it.

To me, friendlysock’s comment is similar to someone saying, “I could have predicted the negative reaction to Cracker Barrel’s new logo.” It doesn’t mean that the speaker personally has a problem with it; they’re predicting the average person’s response.

I understand that bigots attack marginalized groups by making insinuations about their art, but I don’t see evidence that friendlysock was doing that here. Just two weeks ago, friendlysock defended the right of Lobsters authors to include art that some might find objectionable:

Other authors here that are widely regarded have festooned technical content with all manner of furry art, lifestyle markers, and so forth–and yet we giggle or grit our collective teeth (to each their own), look past their chosen adornments, and engage with their technical content. You know, like functioning adults.


Could the mod team give this decision a second look?

I appreciate the mod team’s work and respect their decisions, so I’m not trying to attack the mods. This just seems like a very harsh punishment to a longtime member, who, as far as I know is otherwise in good standing. Is there another path here?

Edit: I previously described the moderators suggestion as an “ultimatum,” but @gerikson corrected me that there’s no evidence of an ultimatum. I’ve updated above to directly quote the mod feedback rather than potentially mischaracterize it.



Trump inherited an economy that was the envy of the developed world, one Biden's team navigated through post-pandemic inflation better than almost anyone.

In just a few months, Trump has torched it—simply because he takes pleasure in destroying his predecessor’s accomplishments. trib.al/uXVFv1Y