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DB Schwein

@deirdrebeth@mas.to

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Trans Lives Matter, BLM, AntiFacist all the way!

Also:
@WDC
@TroopersHockey
@deirdrebeth

#AltText:
Profile: me sitting on a dry grass hill in a short teal dress and lilac knee socks, laughing as I'd just rolled down the hill, by Michele DeNu Hamilton.
Header: two of my 17 Mar 2025 full moon shots overlaid so you can see detail of both trees and moon.

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DB Schwein 4h ago

Me at D&D last night infodumping to my players about the gameworld we're playing in

#autism #autistic #actuallyautistic

DB Schwein 4h ago

Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ 7h ago

I just found out that Alex Hacke left Einstürzende Neubauten after the last tour. I'm a bit heartbroken, but now extra glad I saw them in Berlin last Easter. Without Einheit and now Hacke it's not really Neubauten anymore... end of an era.

https://youtu.be/nmboDgISpsw?si=EuFkqxOuuRpP7beQ
#neubauten #industrial #hacke

DB Schwein 4h ago

Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈4h ago

You guys have seen that the mad king is thinking about bombing Iran, right?

Is Congress still in existence, does anyone know?

DB Schwein 4h ago

Robert Kingett 4h ago

Other writers, watch out because your editors and beta readers could be feeding your drafts into LLMs. I posted about my beta reader feeding my draft into OpenAI's GPT. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250616/ #RomanceLandia #PSA #AI #AIHype @romancelandia

A beta reader fed my draft to AI, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

DB Schwein 4h ago

Qasim Rashid, Esq.4h ago

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him calmly disclosing he had a legal & registered firearm.

Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

This injustice is what systemic white supremacy enables.

DB Schwein 4h ago

She's definitely going to be the cat who accidently eats me if I die in the house! Yowser does that tongue get painful after a while.

DB Schwein 4h ago

This very cute face is hiding a terrible secret...

#CatsOfMastodon

DB Schwein 7h ago

The first one I saw this year
#firefly

DB Schwein 7h ago

Eva Knoet Apr 18

'Notably, the risk associated with COVID-19 was found to be analogous to driving impairments seen with alcohol consumption at legal limits.'

https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0004420

#Covid #driving

Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investigation analyzed aggregate COVID-19 and car crash data spanning 2020–2023, with data collection occurring between March and May 2024. Analysis was done via a Poisson regression model, adjusted for population. Key variables included vaccination status, month-specific effects relating to initial pandemic shutdowns, and Long COVID rates. Results demonstrated a significant association between acute COVID-19 infections and an increase in car crashes, independent of Long COVID status to the tune of an OR of 1.25 [1.23-1.26]. This association was observed despite varying mitigation efforts and vaccination rates across states. The study found no protective effect of vaccination against car crashes, challenging prior assumptions about the benefits of vaccination. Notably, the risk associated with COVID-19 was found to be analogous to driving impairments seen with alcohol consumption at legal limits. Findings suggest significant implications for public health policies, especially in assessing the readiness of individuals recovering from COVID-19 to engage in high-risk activities such as pilots or nuclear plant employees. Further research is necessary to establish causation and explore the exact effects of COVID-19 within the CNS affecting cognition and behavior.

DB Schwein 7h ago

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Björn Staschen 3d ago

Really, @EUCommission? It's great that you are here on Mastodon, but why not show it proudly instead of linking out only to those Big-Tech-Silos?

@_elena, me and other people at #PubConf25 thought, you should change that please.

Will you?

Björn Staschen 3d ago

@EUCommission @_elena we need this post to go WILD.

DB Schwein 3d ago

@bjoernsta @EUCommission @_elena

Depending on what they're using to add those, Mastodon may not be a default option, but it's certainly *doable*!

@bjoernsta Das Bild zeigt eine Webseite mit dem Titel "In focus" und einem Banner mit dem Text "Our priorities for 2024-29" und einem "Learn more" Button. Im Hintergrund ist ein Foto einer Frau mit roten Haaren, die in einem Stadtviertel sitzt. Die Webseite bietet Links zu sozialen Medien wie Facebook, Instagram, X und LinkedIn. Darunter befindet sich ein Abschnitt mit dem Titel "About the European Commission" und einer kurzen Beschreibung, die erklärt, dass die Europäische Kommission die EU's Hauptausführungsbehörde ist, die Gesetze vorschlägt.

Bereitgestellt von @altbot, privat und lokal generiert mit Ovis2-8B

🌱 Energieverbrauch: 0.187 Wh

Chris 🦑3d ago

Diggi, es gibt eimsbuettel.social??! Warum erfahre ich erst jetzt davon?! Grüße aus der Nachbarschaft!

Anyway, @EUCommission, they are right!

Björn Staschen 3d ago

@sturmsucht @EUCommission @_elena Geheimtipp: https://Moin.lokstedt.social

Moin.Eimsbuettel.Social – Ein Netzwerk von Nachbarn für Nachbarn

Chris 🦑3d ago

@bjoernsta 😍

StarterPack!! Ist das ein spezifisches oder Menschen aus Eimsbüttel?

Björn Staschen 3d ago

@sturmsucht @_elena bisschen Einsbüttel, bisschen Hamburg.

Björn Staschen 3d ago

@sturmsucht @_elena willst du drin sein?

Chris 🦑3d ago

@bjoernsta @_elena gerne!

@bjoernsta @sturmsucht @EUCommission @_elena Kannte ich bisher auch nicht. Moin aus dem Generalsviertel

Björn Staschen 3d ago

@jannik @sturmsucht @EUCommission @_elena ist auch noch etwas geheim, https://Moin.lokstedt.social

Moin.Eimsbuettel.Social – Ein Netzwerk von Nachbarn für Nachbarn

The Void ザ・ヴォイド 3d ago

@bjoernsta Yes, please, @EUCommission add the Fedigram or asterism ⁂ symbol! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_logo_proposal_(mono_version).svg

File:Fediverse logo proposal (mono version).svg - Wikimedia Commons

Elena Rossini ⁂3d ago

@bjoernsta Thank you for the toot Björn.

Dear @EUCommission I have been regularly checking your website for a YEAR now and I don’t understand why you keep emphasizing your presence on Big Tech platforms. I wish you would change your digital strategy and give more importance to platforms that don’t come out of Silicon Valley and aren’t vulnerable to manipulation or are subjected to opaque algorithms.

If you promoted your presence on the Fediverse it would send such a powerful message.

Petra van Cronenburg 3d ago

@_elena 💯 @bjoernsta @EUCommission

@_elena @bjoernsta

Go for it, @EUCommission

@_elena @bjoernsta @EUCommission

Presence on Mastodon demonstrates to a wide audience a sense of sophistication and commitment to important values, unlike use of retrograde platforms that everyone agrees are simplistic, manipulative, and generally contemptible.

You are signalling something valuable by using Mastodon, but only if people can see that you do so.

Elena Rossini ⁂3d ago

@spoon beautifully said! 🙌@bjoernsta @EUCommission

*_jayrope 3d ago

@European Commission Please read.

DNKrupinski 3d ago

@bjoernsta @EUCommission @_elena

There is no reason for all EU institutions to use one of the following "unsocial media":
* Facebook / Meta : using your data, no matter what you allow them to collect;
* Instagram: wants to shape your body like 14 years old boys and girls;
* Twitter / X: the devil itself is posting here;
* LinkedIn: your next business meeting is just a credit card away.

Let's do it together, let's start the journey into the fediverse!

EventOrg 3d ago

@SheDrivesMobility
@HalleVerkehrt
@700Sachen

⬆️ Boosten gerne!

@bjoernsta @EUCommission @_elena absolutely, please do this.

@bjoernsta @EUCommission @_elena

I was curious...and scrolled all the way down... @bpb already has Mastodon listed in 2nd place 👏 (even before X, Instagram and LinkedIn 😏)....

(https://www.bpb.de/ )

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung | Demokratie stärken, Zivilgesellschaft fördern | bpb.de

Die Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung unterstützt Bürgerinnen und Bürger dabei, sich mit Politik zu befassen.

bpb.de

Björn Staschen 3d ago

@Regez @EUCommission @_elena @bpb that's really good!

@bjoernsta @EUCommission @_elena ‼️

@bjoernsta @EUCommission C'mon EU, how hard is it to drop another icon on? If your CMS doesn't allow it there are a few people around here who can code and might well be able to help.

Robert Riemann 🇪🇺3d ago

@bjoernsta @EUCommission @_elena

https://www.edps.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publication/20-05-08_slides-social-media-use_en.pdf

Slide 19 onwards

Elena Rossini ⁂2d ago

@rriemann thank you for sharing.

I noticed this presentation is from 5 years ago - May 2020. I’d be curious to see the updated numbers 🧐

@bjoernsta @EUCommission

Robert Riemann 🇪🇺2d ago

@_elena @bjoernsta @EUCommission

All numbers are public. Everyone can put them in a spreadsheet.

@bjoernsta @EUCommission @_elena

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