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Rachel Greenham

@StrangeNoises

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402 Following

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she/they; I quit my career as a software developer so I could spend more time coding.

GitHub

https://github.com/StrangeNoises

Rachel Greenham 1d ago

Leslie Burns 1d ago

People… don’t make me tap the sign…

Rachel Greenham 1d ago

Nol Malone ☭1d ago

If you are confused as to why Democrats are mourning the loss of a fascist who spearheaded an organization that called for the death of transgender people and openly supported genocide, it may be you don't yet fully understand how class solidarity works.

Rachel Greenham 1d ago

Baron von Klar Esq ✠🛩️2d ago

1995: The humanities are useless. Study STEM.
2005: The humanities are useless. Study STEM.
2015: The humanities are useless. Study STEM.
2025: Why are Nazis suddenly starting to take over?

Rachel Greenham 4d ago

unawarewolf 🐺5d ago

All in all Canonical and Ubuntu, through their inaction, and by electing a mod team that made this decision with seemingly no dissent, have taken the far right position that people shouldn’t even be allowed to mention their queerness, which gives the extremists what they want, and them not being able to be explicit about their hate (and the mods here are already very implicitly bigoted), is a small loss when they already get their way by forcing us queers into the closet in any of their spaces. On top of that, even though it’s been a couple days so far, the leadership hasn’t done anything and saying queer is seemingly still banned on their forums.

This is absolutely unacceptable, and I recommend anyone who is queer, has queer friends, or just generally cares about people being allowed to live their lives, to not use Ubuntu, spread the word, and not contribute to their community; until they put solid policy in place to make it clear that everyone is welcome and allowed to be themselves in their community.

Collection of evidence:
https://nextcloud.aztinet.eus/s/sxqEDJDZGp7a9rx

This folder includes the screenshots quoted, along with a lot of other screenshots and information not covered by my post.

Original post by the one discriminated against:
https://bark.lgbt/@lukas/115164258497365823

Other post:
https://blahaj.zone/notes/aca8zuhiducu005g

And remember, the more people boost this, the more likely Canonical is to feel pressured to change their policies and take action to help queer people feel included in their community. Queer Ubuntu users deserve to be able to openly be a part of the community and be treated with the same respect as anyone else.

5/5

Ubuntu Transphobia Sources

Aztinet - Autonomia beude, ez hodeien menpe!

Aztinet

Rachel Greenham 5d ago

Deniz Opal 5d ago

How we used to read before that know it all Newton invented gravity.

Thanks for nothing Isaac.

Rachel Greenham Sep 4

Ivy Amaya Bloodstone Sep 1

Hi friends! I’m new to Mastodon, and just wanted to quickly introduce myself.

I’m a trans woman from the UK living in the US (poor choices were made lol), and professionally I am a financial consultant. Non-professionally though, I’m into cool things, and that’s what this account will be more about! I’ve had a passion for cybersecurity, hacking, and data privacy for years, and I love connecting with people about that. Never has been and never will be a career for me, as I love it too much to burn out on all that.

I’m also really into martial arts, occultism, kink, being queer, and in my new era of loving myself 🖤

Rachel Greenham Sep 3

Stuff I found Sep 3

Seriously, this photo is gold!

#ACAB #AllCopsAreBastards #PoliceProtectTheCapitalNotThePeople #police #fuckthepolice #activism #anarchism #cops #defundthepolice #antiauthority

Rachel Greenham Sep 2

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Sep 2

A recent post here criticized people who continue to use and buy #Apple hardware after Tim Cook's recent gross display of sucking up to Trump.
"It blows my mind," the post said. "Truly disgusting."
I'm not going to engage directly with that post. It's tone makes clear that the author's mind is not going to change, and there's nothing to gain from antagonizing him or wasting my time engaging in a fruitless discussion. However, I feel the need to offer an alternative viewpoint.
#tech
🧵1/8

Rachel Greenham Sep 2

"The left of the Labour Party are nice, decent people and it was a privilege to meet them. The right of the Labour Party are some of the most f***ing horrible people - vile, gruesome people. I've never met such awful people as those on the right of the Labour Party." - Alexei Sayle

Rachel Greenham Sep 1

@Peternimmo The ECHR was created for a reason. Specifically, it was created in the aftermath of the Second World War, with Britain being very instrumental in its creation, to stop Nazis from happening again.

And those who find they are obstructed by anti-Nazi measures are telling us clearly who they are.

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Master Control Program Aug 13

We now show all UK users this page based on their IP address.

We have to do this because of a new censorship law that was passed in the UK.

See it in action:

https://community.lgbtqia.space/blocked-uk

official_verified

@mcp @alice 😔💔

Jamie Dowling Aug 13

@mcp Guess that means I’m moving off here then. This is my professional work safe account. If potential clients and employers can’t even see the I text I post (and I’m happy to say why they can’t see pictures) then there’s not much point being on this instance.

Jamie Dowling Aug 13

@mcp OFCOM has no power over anyone outside of the UK. The British Empire has been dead for decades - Britain no longer has nor deserves the clout it once had.

The rest of the non-fascist world should stick a giant middle finger up to OFCOM.

Fascists in all forms should be rejected and made uncomfortable. It would be nice if a whole bunch of European folk pooled their efforts into contacting their EU representatives to investigate and initiate withdrawing from any extradition agreements between the EU and the UK.

Why would EU countries support a fascist state?

Master Control Program Aug 13

Because UK is a major airplane hub and some of our moderators must visit the UK from time to time because of work and friends.

Jamie Dowling Aug 13

@mcp My condolences and sympathies on that.

TundraWolf Aug 13

@mcp You missed out that ISPs are already obliged to provide parents with the ability to block VPNs and filter content, so the act was entirely unnecessary, unless the idea was to spy on everyone, all the time - another part of the UK's war on 'innocent until proven guilty' and replacing it with a continuous, perpetual requirement to prove innocence.

Buxton The Red (Matt)Aug 14

@TundraWolf This isn't quite accurate.

They might be required to offer the choice, but it is entirely legitimate for the response to "Yes I want family-filtered internet service" to be "sorry, we don't do that, go elsewhere".

For instance, https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/real-internet/

Real Internet

TundraWolf Aug 14

@BuxtonTheRed Which a concerned parent should then do.

Ellie‽ (Radio Edit)Aug 13

@mcp what a shit little island this is.

It's a bit of a ball-ache to have to use a VPN to access this place now but needs must. Is this something all other instances will have to do as well?

@ellieraejaye @mcp Pretty much any page/server/thing with a decent UK user base will hit the same wall. The UK basically just pulled the plug on itself. Keep pushing this and we’ll see a wave of geoblocks… worst case, welcome to the North Korea Starter Pack™ internet.

Androgynes 🏴‍☠️🫂🔞Aug 13

@ellieraejaye @mcp

No instance does. But some instances are choosing to OBEY in advance and fall into line when the idea they are actually going to be focused on with their tiny user bases is ludicrous.

They do this because they are scared of being fined 18 million quid. But if you haven;'t got 18 million quid then so what?

All those instances that have changed nothing will, I am certain, carry on unmolested. All those who stymied themselves did it for nothing.

@ellieraejaye The owner of a social media site (which is all mastodon operators) either must comply with invasive age verification for UK users, block UK IPs, or make the argument that they do not have a significant UK userbase. But that last option involves rolling the dice on arguing that case in court, and if you're found non-compliant you're looking at fines that will for certain bankrupt you, as well as possible criminal charges.

🧵 https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3ltnal4534c23

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social)

Sites are not going to ignore it. The civil fines for noncompliance are ruinous and the law also allows for criminal charges to be brought against the owners and executives of covered but noncompliant sites. Site owners will not go to jail just to avoid age-verifying their users.

Bluesky Social

Ellie‽ (Radio Edit)Aug 14

@ceremus ah yes, if I remember correctly it hasn’t been specified what ‘significant UK user base’ actually means? It’s hard to argue against that if you don’t know how many users is significant. 25%? 50%? 10%?

@ellieraejaye yup! It's vague and loosely defined, as most shitty law tends to be.

🦔🦇 DarkOverord

@mcp I genuinely think one of the worst parts of it is that it's not info the government deals with, it's entirely "did you abide by our requirements? Okay cool thanks for letting your users offload data to some random company, better hope they told the truth when they said they would delete the personal data after verification has been completed when they inevitably get breached!"

Granted it doesn't have to be ID, or a face scan, a bank transaction is enough too (yay now you can link bank accounts to it!) which makes it all the more laughable.

But honestly, the govt wants you all to block the UK. It's been openly stated that if a site doesn't want to comply and geoblocks, that's a favourable outcome to them doing the other way eventually after their nonsense fines eventually don't work (how do you force someone not in the UK to pay up?)

They want compliance to either allow 3rd parties to farm data, or to firewall the UK out of existence.

Kerplunk Aug 13

Thanks to Keir Starmers@ Labour party

You the prime Minister and your party have broken election promises.

Ordered arrest for a huge number of peaceful people protesting against a Genocide UK obviously supports.

Destroyed working trans rights,

Introduced a perverted process for Internet access.

Made a speech about an island of strangers, blamed script writers then reluctantly said you regretted the words.

You have not ordered a police crackdown on violent far right rioters.

FAIL

Markus Gerstel Aug 13

@mcp mind adding a link to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 until 22nd October?

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

@mcp in ned beauman’s ‘venomous lumpsucker’ (2022), the UK is known as the ‘hermit kingdom.’ seems he was really short-range prescient with that one.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Aug 13

PERFECTION
10/10 no notes.

GhostOnTheHalfShell Aug 13

Yeah, but I think other people who remarked about complying in advance do have a point.

I don’t know if UK has an equivalent of a class action suit, but also there’s the idea that this is an essence defaming all these websites.

Stating without proof that they inflict harm.

@mcp appreciate you taking this stance ☺️

Completely unrelated, but I now have every device and every family member on my vpn account.

LukefromDC Aug 13

@mcp It is well known that VPNs and Tor bypass geoblocking. To maintain plausible deniabiity does require not openly directing users to Tor/VPN use on that splash page though.

Any site that has no "business presence" in the UK can ignore this entirely, same as ignoring Saudi laws about pornography from anywhere else.

If enough sites geoblock the UK it will force the repeak of this crap. Google or Facebook could probably do this unilaterally with success

Damn, that should be on every website that geoblocks the UK.

@mcp can I use the same page on my website, keeping the text and attribution?

@mcp @alice I would maybe suggest a more heavy-handed hint about "as long as we know you're from the UK".

So people might get the idea "what if they don't know?".

diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Aug 15

UK now has the most worthless IANA address blocks

First they came for the ports
Now it is entire address blocks
The entire IPV4/IPV6 is next