Trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️✊

🎄✨ WiFinachtsbaum-Workshop am 13.12. im @maglab

Wir löten WLAN-gesteuerte Lichterketten: programmierbar, Open Source, zum Mit-nach-Hause-nehmen.

📅 13.12. | 11:00-15:30 Uhr
📍 Lindenstraße 14, Fulda
🎟️ Material zum Selbstkostenpreis
⏰ Anmeldung bis 30.11.

Alle Infos & Tickets: https://wiki.maglab.space/de/Veranstaltungen/WiFinachtsbaum

#WiFi #DIY #Löten #OpenSource #LEDs #Hackspace #Fulda

Flock cameras are...wildly insecure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

Google's image-gen and editing apps *regularly* won't work on my photos if there's *any* hint of skin. Sometimes it will even reject editing simple (fully clothed) selfies of mine because it determines they're too risqué.

I tried this photo numerous times, getting rejected over and over, until it finally accepted it. Same photo. Same edits. Different results.

This reminds me of the research I did years ago on the racial, gender, and economic biases in the three main image-gen models (at the time). I showed statistically that each model associated women with domestic abuse victimhood, men with aggression & violence (specifically frat boys and Black men), racial minorities with poverty, and well-paid professions with white men.

Now we're seeing more sexist bias in *AI tools* that are being put into commonly-used software. This makes me want to run tests on image edit rejection in Google Photos with variously femme and masc-presenting images in different states of undress.

#Puritanical #Corporate #AI #BuiltInBias #Research

Le monde va mal mais la description des banquets artistiques à Florence en 1512 donne le sourire 😊

"Rustici offrit un pâté en forme de chaudron dans lequel Ulysse plongeait son père pour lui rendre sa jeunesse : les deux personnages étaient réalisés avec deux chapons bouillis (...). Andrea del Sarto apporta un temple octogonal (...) : le pavement était un immense plat de gélatine en mosaïque de différentes couleurs ; les colonnes (...) étaient de grands saucissons dodus ; les bases et les chapiteaux étaient de parmesan, les corniches en sucre candi et l’abside en quartiers de massepain."

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#HistoireDelArt #Renaissance #Florence #Vasari #Histoire

RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/115566866770915835

i feel like this goes double if your friends are black, brown, and trans.

@Andres4NY It’s short for “RUBOUT”, old school terminal speak for “Delete”

@TheBreadmonkey
All of a sudden everything vanishes into utter darkness, a quick dramatic drumroll & a spotlight shines down on you.
You have no idea what's going on but for some reason the ground beneath your feet is sandy. You hear the odd cough, quiet murmuring & shuffling of people sitting.
Another spotlight reveals an entrance, or exit, to your left & slightly behind you. You turn towards it a bit. You see a flamboyantly dressed ringmaster, complete with top hat & tailed coat in various brilliant colours.
As they enter the ring, their arms raised & wide the whole ring is lit up.
They are doing their quick introduction & greeting to the crowd before turning to you. They now turn their attention to you, walk around you, extolling the sheer awesomeness that is The Great Bendini!
They walk around you making grand gestures & finally once the crowd quiets down & looking towards you, utter the words, "Release the bees!"
As they say them they smile the warmest, happiest smile you've ever seen & gesture grandly at & around you before pirouetting away & making their way back from where they came.
That happy, jazzy circus music that you hadn't noticed suddenly becomes clear & the audience is cheering you on.

This has been your animated .gif meme replacement service.

Good and bad news for Trans Americans.

Bad news first - An American Trans Woman has been denied asylum in the Netherlands.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/dutch-court-denies-u-s-trans-woman-asylum-on-basis-of-her-gender-identity/

We continue to discourage American trans people from seeking asylum anywhere. Premature asylum claims will make it harder later.

@lgbtqia
@lgbtq@newsmast.community
@lgbt
@LGBTQ@kbin.social
@queer
@QueerNewsat
@QueerNews_2024
#trans #TransRights
#USPol #UKPol
#Trans #Refugee #Migration #Genocide #Transgender #TransRightsAreHumanRights
#neveragainisnow

A federal magistrate says the criminal case against former FBI director Comey could be in serious trouble because of apparent errors committed in front of the grand jury by the inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to handle the matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/comey-justice-department-misconduct.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.n0Xb.a5xI8UzSlMgO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Superb take on geothermal. Especially good: no coy question in the title. Just a convincing explainer of "Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy" by one Rivka Galchen in the @NewYorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/why-the-time-has-finally-come-for-geothermal-energy

#climate #energy #geothermal #newyorker

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're using Bridgy Fed to bridge yourself to Bluesky / ATProto, you should set up a custom domain so you look more native there.

Here's how: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-enhanced

@halcy I HAVE THE SAME ISSUE FOR A FEW WEEKS

I think it’s the dry air.

[repost Aborcyjny Dream Team] To już 9 miesięcy od otwarcia @abotakprzychodnia

40 tygodni nękania nas i naszych sąsiadów przez organizacje Godek. Te 9 miesiący to 4 ataki kwasem masłowym, kilkaset zgłoszeń na policję i kilkadziesiąt apeli do miasta w tym do @trzaskowskirafal o uniemożliwienie Kai Godek nękania nas hałasem, syrenami alarmowymi, blokowania wejścia do Przychodni czy rozlewania czerwonej farby pod drzwiami.

Prezydent miasta pozostaje niewzruszony na nasze prośby, a wystarczyłby jeden podpis.
Te 9 miesięcy to też kilkadziesiąt aborcji w mizolatce, kilkaset konsultacji, miliony łez, uśmiechów, westchnięć ulgi i objęć. Przyjeżdżacie do nas z całej Polski, od nastolatek po matki 4 dzieci. Przychodzicie z przyjaciółkami, partnerami, dziećmi a czasem same, ale same nie jesteście.
Nie poddajemy się, bo mamy Was, wasze wsparcie i zaufanie. Dziękujemy za wszystkie słowa wsparcia, odwiedziny w Przychodni, darowizny (które pozwalają nam działać). Bez was nie dałybyśmy rady z tymi atakami i obojętnością ze strony władz.

Pytacie co możecie jeszcze zrobić:
💞polub 💞udostępnij 💞dodaj link do zrzutki: https://cause.lundadonate.org/aborcyjnydreamteam/kwasnasniezatrzyma

Nie jesteście same, możecie na nas liczyć!
With love,
ADT&Abotak

#aborcja #abotak #wiejska #warszawa #trzaskowski @aborcja

A new Greenpeace report shows the G20, responsible for most global emissions, is far off the action needed to keep the 1.5°C climate limit within reach.

Millions of people are already living through worsening climate disasters, from fires to floods to deadly storms.

#COP30 #ParisAgreement #COP21

Read more: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/79789/greenpeace-report-g20-failing-bridge-1-5c-ambition-gap-2035-ndcs/

People have a good reason to resist acknowledging the male loneliness crisis. They correctly perceive that women are being blamed and told to fix it.

But the real cause is predatory capitalists who profit on keeping men isolated and online.

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/17/dont-blame-women-for-mens-loneliness-blame-capitalism/

@neil I think if you find a valley with water in it the parking is more a-fjord-able