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Working on projects that help to protect human rights even when the law does not is my personal equivalent of touching grass right now.

We're back to getting rid of blocking, everyone.

Oh no, a woman blocked this guy. Must get rid of the blocking feature. https://twitter.com/notshenetworks/status/1772082477386920067

shenetworks (@shenetworks) on X

So how’s your night going

X (formerly Twitter)
Spanish Twitter has discovered this and is going nuts cos they had no idea the Ecce Homo fresco disaster was a meme outside Spain. getting to exercise my important Spanish shitposting skills. "no sé lo que dices, es la foto original enviada desde el palacio de kénsington"

Not a single case of cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women in Scotland following HPV immunisation when they were 12-13 years old.

Not a single case.
https://publichealthscotland.scot/news/2024/january/no-cervical-cancer-cases-detected-in-vaccinated-women-following-hpv-immunisation/

No cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation - News - Public Health Scotland

An exciting new study from PHS, in collaboration with the Universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh, shows that no cervical cancer cases have been detected in women vaccinated at age 12-13 since the Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme started in Scotland in 2008.

Wow, @pluralistic is on fire again, this time explaining how the scam economy, AI, and hustle culture make everyone's lives worse (but especially those of the scammed scammers):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/#four-hour-work-week

Pluralistic: Sympathy for the spammer (15 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Happy 23rd anniversary to @wikipedia and happy #WikipediaDay to the rest of the #fediverse!

Our #browser has #Wikipedia as a default, both as a Web Panel and a search engine (which means you can perform searches in Wikipedia right from the Address Field, by typing W followed by a space and the search term!)

How do you use it the most? 😃

Newton stressed that it wasn’t simply a handful of Nazi newsletters that made him leave. Platfomer’s analysis found dozens of far right publications advocating for the “great replacement” conspiracy theory and other violent ideologies. Newton also said he was troubled by the founders’ “edgelord branding", which he believes has attracted more bad actors to the platform. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/11/substack-platformer-nazis/
Substack’s woes deepen as tech blog leaves over Nazi content

One of the newsletter platform Substack’s most prominent writers is abandoning the platform over its decision not to moderate praise for Nazis and pro-Holocaust material.

The Washington Post
There goes @caseynewton with Platformer, one of Substack's largest newsletters 👋
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack
Why Platformer is leaving Substack

We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out

Platformer