My donation this week for @freemo are these pics of Valiente (Val) living her best life. Notice her green binky (Nerf disc) that she carries around and then naps with. She's ridiculous but makes for happy Friday viewing as one of the #CatsOfMastodon
Here's hoping your weekend is fabulous - thanks for all you do!
@JoshuaACasey I try not to make personal judgements or attacks... But yea she certainly acts pretty damn toxic and fascist.
@teknomunk Yup, which is exactly the sort of toxicity the #UFoI will hopefully remedy.
@MrsDi Awwww that is one happy kittum... I approve... best donation ever :)
Proof that the new "fediblock" on the wiki run by Paula intentionally suppresses counter-evidence and proof towards block entries. Despite the fact that I provided tons of proof that show the "evidence" provided for a block against QOTO is false they refuse to updatte the block with the additional evidence and effectively suppresses countner evidence.
This is why there needs to be Due process like im trying to build with the #UFoI and not just one dictator named paula cherry picking what evidence she thinks is valid and blocking the rest.
Here is a link to the discussion if you want to see it first hand (screen shots included). I highly recommend everyone leave a comment expressing your concerns for visibility:
This weekend I will be working more on the "United Federation of Instances"
First thing I want to do is go through all the issues in the repo and try to comment or add my opinion on them.
Feel free to get in on the conversation here, its open to everyone.
https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution/-/issues
Next I will work more on finishing the full bylaws, and try to incorperate any new perspectives from the discussions in the issues (eventually we can vote on the final wording).
Anyone interested in seeing the progress on that (the first draft isnt done) you can check that out here:
https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_bylaws.pdf
Of course you can see the original proposal document (which is the easier read and sumarizes the bylaws) here:
https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf
If anyone wants to contribute just join the first link I mentioned and feel free to offer merge requests. Also if anyone wants to help work on things like a website for us please speak up.
As always if you want to get into the conversation there are two ways other than the gitlab.
The first is fediverse groups: @ufoi
The other is our matrix chat room: #UFoI:matrix.org
Hope to see you all there.
Yea he lied, claiming I harassed him. I show pictures of our conversations in full showing what he claimed was "haassment".. Judge for yourself but I think everyone agrees it was exceedlingly nice and considerate instead:
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
At the time, I did not expect to live to 50.
I’m 55 now.
HIV treatment works and it means I can’t pass it on - we call this #UequalsU.
HIV changed. Tell everyone.
#WorldAIDSDay #WorldAIDSDay2022 #AIDShistory #CantPassItOn #FightStigma
@zleap I agree, though i would say tthat has always described us, its hardly anything new. But yes I agree.
For the record I have no issue with any instance that wants to block for well informed reasons. I will say tech.lgbt is just generally a bad choice since they have been known to lie in this regard and generally are very toxic and mistreat many of their own members.
The other instances there are good choices though.
@lazzarello Congrats! You rock
FYI, here is the full conttext behind that thread:
@Lizerreal There still are :)
Just make the changes on the TEX and when it gets approve the new pdf will compile and get hosted automatically
I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.
"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant
But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"
@Squirrel What do you normally see in the news column? Maybe they are using a feature that is not part of the open ActivityPub standard (vanilla mastodon sometimes does that, but rarely)
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
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Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
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(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
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My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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