For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech

Men, I need you to understand something, and this is going to be difficult so I'm going to hold your hand while I say this.

If you:
- don't sexually assault women
- don't make jokes about sexually assaulting women
- don't support the sexual assault of women
- don't enjoy being in the company of men who do

That doesn't make you a "good man". Okay? You aren't a "good man" for not doing those things. That makes you a *normal man*. Those men, who get off on assaulting women? Those are predators. They aren't normal, and you don't get a trophy for not being a predator.

Okay?

Just tired of the bar being buried a dozen miles underground so how about we raise it up just a teensy bit.

Lost my wallet this afternoon in Sidney BC. If this were twitter-of-old, I could reasonably tag this with where I lost it ( #Sidney #SidneyBC #yyj #VictoriaBC) and hope that someone might see it and reconnect me with it. But, sadly, I don't think fediverse has quite the same level of reach. And I'm certainly not signing up to facebook or whatever to try asking there.

Hopefully someone found it and did something reasonable, like dropping it in the post.

Update: Someone found it!!

Vladimir Nabokov Creates a Hand-Drawn Map of James Joyce’s Ulysses

https://www.openculture.com/2013/08/vladimir-nabokov-creates-a-hand-drawn-map-of-james-joyces-ulysses.html

When you live in a country, where the dictator can never be wrong, the only ones left to blame are the citizens.

So now that Putin has killed so many young men, that birth rates are dropping catastrophically, Russian Deputy Minister of Justice Vsevolod Vukolov reports, that new laws will make it illegal for women not to have children.

Do try to keep up, Republicans — you are so much behind the forefront of the dystopian nightmare.