BiteMyShinyMetalAss

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Not a robot, or am I? Lover of most sci-fi, lefty snowflake tendancies, work with computers. Mother of cats, a dog and one hooman

She/Her

i thought they cared about women.
#flagshaggers #immigration #hull #farRight #racism

It's Sunday, so here's your Jesus-related cat content.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it is, without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation. It’s what Google puts at the top of search results otherwise awash in ads and spam, what social platforms cite when they deign to correct conspiracy theories, and what AI companies scrape in their ongoing quest to get their models to stop regurgitating info-slurry — and consult with such frequency that they are straining the encyclopedia’s servers. Each day, it’s where approximately 70 million people turn for reliable information on everything from particle physics to rare Scottish sheep to the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a testament both to Wikipedia’s success and to the total degradation of the rest of the internet as an information resource.

“It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.”

But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers on the internet disagreeing on matters of existential gravity and breathtaking pettiness and, through deliberation and debate, building a common ground of consensus reality."

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

#Wikipedia #Collaboration #OpenWeb

How Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks

How the world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack from the right wing, tech billionaires, and AI.

The Verge

What do you think a protester against #USA military cooperation with #Israel and its #genocide of #Gaza looks like?

retired Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar

Former Army intelligence officer Josephine Guilbeau

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/4/headlines/army_veterans_disrupt_senate_hearing_to_accuse_members_of_complicity_in_gaza_genocide

"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,” Officer A continued. “It makes me question why I’m even in this career anymore.”

#PalestineAction #Protests #Justice #UKPolitics

Police Officers Admit They Feel ‘Ashamed’ Enforcing ‘Mad’ Palestine Action Ban | Novara Media
https://novaramedia.com/2025/09/04/police-officers-admit-they-feel-ashamed-enforcing-mad-palestine-action-ban/?mc_cid=ed2505f3cd&mc_eid=17822c0d3a

Police Officers Admit They Feel ‘Ashamed’ Enforcing ‘Mad’ Palestine Action Ban

Exclusive: An officer described feeling ‘sick’ when they arrested a disabled man for holding a cardboard sign, as the Police Federation issues a stark warning of burnout among cops enforcing the Palestine Action ban. Harriet Williamson reports.

Novara Media

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The shooters are cis men.

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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@purplepadma

Want to hear something shocking and depressing about this?

Recently Mrs B, the Youngest and I were driving through a nearby town and witnessed a mob spraying roundabouts and putting flags on lampposts. It was like a bigots carnival.

Mrs B called 111, the non emergency Police number. Explained what was going on and the operator said "these are English flags and we are in the country of England so it is not a crime". Straight up. Defacing traffic safety measures is fine now apparently according to the authorities.

True story.

https://beige.party/@TwoClownsEating/115080553299607692

Mat B (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video ¡ Content warning: UK Pol. Racism.

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