#adoption — Public Fediverse posts
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As the need for foster parents skyrockets, this Ohio lesbian couple has opened their home and hearts
Currently, over 700 children in the custody of Summit County Children Services are in need of a safe, loving and caring family.
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#adoption-ohio #families #foster-care-ohio #fostering-ohio #gay-ohio #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #summit-county-children-services #transgender-ohio
https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/08/12/how-one-ohio-lesbian-couple-has-opened-their-home-and-hearts/ -
As the need for foster parents skyrockets, this Ohio lesbian couple has opened their home and hearts
Currently, over 700 children in the custody of Summit County Children Services are in need of a safe, loving and caring family.
Archive: ia: ht...
#adoption-ohio #families #foster-care-ohio #fostering-ohio #gay-ohio #lgbt-ohio #lgbtq-ohio #summit-county-children-services #transgender-ohio
https://thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/08/12/how-one-ohio-lesbian-couple-has-opened-their-home-and-hearts/ -
A recent survey by the Ifo Institute indicates that many German companies expect wages to decline over the next five years due to the adoption of Artificial Int... https://news.osna.fm/?p=59145 | #news #adoption #ai #experienced #finds
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A recent survey by the Ifo Institute indicates that many German companies expect wages to decline over the next five years due to the adoption of Artificial Int... https://news.osna.fm/?p=59145 | #news #adoption #ai #experienced #finds
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https://www.evshift.com/506909/the-us-is-lagging-behind-in-ev-adoption-even-as-the-rest-of-the-world-moves-on-ev-electricvehicle/ The US is lagging behind in EV adoption even as the rest of the world moves on #ev #electricvehicle #Adoption #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicle #ElectricVehicles #electricvehicle #EV #lagging #Moves #rest #World
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“Some that maybe tried to come back, they weren't necessarily accepted … not everybody gets a happy, welcoming homecoming from a community that really doesn't know much about you.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #adoption #sixtiesscoop #youngreaders
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“Some that maybe tried to come back, they weren't necessarily accepted … not everybody gets a happy, welcoming homecoming from a community that really doesn't know much about you.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #adoption #sixtiesscoop #youngreaders
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#Fedihelp #Resturlaub #Elternzeit #Frühgeburt #fruhgeburt #Adoption
#phantastikprompts
hallo miteinander, wer kennt sich denn mit Resturlaub vor Elternzeit aus?
in meinem aktuellen Schreibprojekt adoptiert eine Frau mit Absprache der leiblichen Mutter ein Baby vor der Geburt (geht das überhaupt? Oder kann man nur adoptieren, was bereits sichtbar ist?)
Das Baby soll im November kommen und sie nimmt ihren Resturlaub, weil sie danach zuhause bleibt und sich um die dann insgesamt fünf Kinder --> -
Have you ever had to learn part of your own family culture as an adult? What first led you back to it?
#family #heritage #adoption #belonging #norway #finland
https://www.nordicprairielife.ca/prairie-fjords-blog/can-you-inherit-a-culture-you-werent-raised-in
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https://www.evshift.com/503258/top-5-issues-stopping-full-ev-adoption/ Top 5 Issues Stopping Full EV Adoption! #Adoption #CARS #ELECTRIC #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicle #ElectricVehicles #EV #Full #issues #leaf #nissan #Stopping #Tesla #Top #Vehicles #zoe
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Die #Ideologie der eigenen #Fortpflanzung war von den Nazis ja heftig angeschoben worden ... mit schlechten Ergebnissen für die #Geburtenrate trotz #Mutterorden und Propaganda durch die #Kriegsvorbereitung. Sollte auch heute thematisiert werden ... #Adoption als #Risiko?
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Die #Ideologie der eigenen #Fortpflanzung war von den Nazis ja heftig angeschoben worden ... mit schlechten Ergebnissen für die #Geburtenrate trotz #Mutterorden und Propaganda durch die #Kriegsvorbereitung. Sollte auch heute thematisiert werden ... #Adoption als #Risiko?
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Love story: We brought home three orphaned children on the same day
By Amy SheehanAnna and Mark Dombkins say their love for one another and helping others led them to move overseas to adopt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/love-story-anna-and-mark-dombkins-adoptive-children/106944780
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Love story: We brought home three orphaned children on the same day
By Amy SheehanAnna and Mark Dombkins say their love for one another and helping others led them to move overseas to adopt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/love-story-anna-and-mark-dombkins-adoptive-children/106944780
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Pour #adoption : Quand le refuge SPA a été évacué à cause des feux de #Gironde, j'ai pris ce #BorderCollie en famille d'accueil. Il a ses habitudes chez moi, on sort 3x par jour, il fait des câlins sans arrêt, il respecte bien les interdits, il est sage en mon absence ... Je dois maintenant le ramener au refuge, mais il va déprimer en box, et je ne me sens pas prêt à adopter un chien pour la vie. J'en dors plus la nuit 😭 Qq'un veut adopter cet adorable chien proche #Bordeaux ? #dogsofmastodon
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Pour #adoption : Quand le refuge SPA a été évacué à cause des feux de #Gironde, j'ai pris ce #BorderCollie en famille d'accueil. Il a ses habitudes chez moi, on sort 3x par jour, il fait des câlins sans arrêt, il respecte bien les interdits, il est sage en mon absence ... Je dois maintenant le ramener au refuge, mais il va déprimer en box, et je ne me sens pas prêt à adopter un chien pour la vie. J'en dors plus la nuit 😭 Qq'un veut adopter cet adorable chien proche #Bordeaux ? #dogsofmastodon
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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136821
#HackerNews #Google #RSS #Adoption #TechNews #MediaAnalysis #DigitalTrends
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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136821
#HackerNews #Google #RSS #Adoption #TechNews #MediaAnalysis #DigitalTrends
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OPIATE OVERDOSE, AN OPEN VERDICT AND WITHHELD INQUEST RECORDS: WHY WAS THE DEATH OF CATHRYN LOUISE SMITH NOT INVESTIGATED AS A POTENTIAL UNLAWFUL KILLING?
Medical records show that Cathryn Louise Smith had documented adverse reactions to dihydrocodeine, including a rash. Despite those warnings, dihydrocodeine was subsequently listed as a repeat prescription, alongside Zomorph modified-release morphine. Cathryn later died from an overdose of opiates, and the inquest returned an open verdict.
The underlying toxicology, post-mortem evidence, prescribing records and complete inquest file have not been provided to her partner, Martin Newbold. He has instead been told that he is not recognised as an interested person.
These circumstances do not permit the public simply to conclude that nothing criminal occurred. They require an independent homicide assessment, preservation of all records and disclosure of the evidence needed to establish precisely which substances caused Cathryn’s death, how she obtained them, who prescribed or supplied them, and whether another person’s actions or failures caused or contributed to her death.
I am therefore asking every MP subscribed to this system I am asking you to examine and formally refer the evidence concerning the death of Cathryn Louise Smith.
Her medical history records adverse reactions to dihydrocodeine, including a rash. The same records later show further prescribing of dihydrocodeine and modified-release morphine. Cathryn subsequently died from an overdose of opiates, and the inquest returned an open verdict.
The complete toxicology, post-mortem and inquest evidence has not been disclosed to me, despite Cathryn being my partner and the mother of my daughter.
For murder in England and Wales, there must be evidence that someone unlawfully caused the death with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm. https://www.cps.gov.uk/…/homicide-murder-manslaughter… If a person knowingly prescribed or administered a drug despite a documented allergy, and medical evidence proved that it caused the death, that could support an investigation into unlawful killing.
“The coroner informed my mum that Catherine had 7% alcohol in her body, along with benzodiazepine/diazepam. Taken together, these substances can cause heavy sedation, unconsciousness, breathing suppression, or death.”
Reported to Sussex Police who did not want to act on 982/01082026.Catherine’s medical record documented an adverse reaction to dihydrocodeine, including a rash, in 2007. Despite this, dihydrocodeine was subsequently listed as a repeat prescription in May 2009, alongside Zomorph, a morphine-based opiate, prescribed in April 2009. Her death certificate later recorded her cause of death as an overdose of opiates. This apparent contradiction requires investigation of the prescribing decisions, dispensing records, warnings available to clinicians and the substances identified at post-mortem.
The record says “adverse reaction”, rather than proving a life-threatening allergy. It does not, by itself, establish murder, but it does provide documentary grounds for questioning why dihydrocodeine was prescribed again after the recorded reaction and how the opiate prescriptions related to her death.
Without evidence of intent, a death caused by grossly dangerous medical conduct could amount to gross-negligence manslaughter. However, if a member of the opposing party in the Family Court proceedings deliberately planned and caused her death, intending to kill her or cause serious harm, that would be a premeditated murder.
The record shows that Catherine/Cathryn had two documented adverse reactions to dihydrocodeine, including a rash, yet dihydrocodeine was later issued again as a repeat prescription. She was also prescribed modified-release morphine and later died from an overdose of opiates.
2011-03-22 – Emilys Mums Death Certificate – overdose of opiates.pdf
That is evidence of a potentially unlawful killing that required a proper criminal and prescribing investigation.
But these pages alone do not prove murder, because they do not show who supplied or administered the fatal dose or that anyone intended to kill her or cause serious harm. Without that intent, a death caused by grossly dangerous medical conduct would more likely fall under gross-negligence manslaughter, or murder. If it is connected to premediated event in Family court.
The interim certificate dated 16 July 2010 recorded the medical cause of death as “Unascertainable.” The final certificate subsequently recorded “Overdose of opiates,” with an open verdict. The toxicology, post-mortem evidence and complete inquest records have not been disclosed to her partner.
What precise document was restricted, who ordered the restriction, on what date, under which legal authority, for how long, and did the restricted material include the post-mortem report, toxicology results, prescription and dispensing records, witness evidence or the coroner’s notes?
Evidence
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by Martin NewboldAugust 9, 2026 #addiction #adoption #childWelfare #courtCrisis #depression #DunkleyBairClinton #humanRights #ManslaughterMurder #mentalHealth #parenting #recovery -
OPIATE OVERDOSE, AN OPEN VERDICT AND WITHHELD INQUEST RECORDS: WHY WAS THE DEATH OF CATHRYN LOUISE SMITH NOT INVESTIGATED AS A POTENTIAL UNLAWFUL KILLING?
Medical records show that Cathryn Louise Smith had documented adverse reactions to dihydrocodeine, including a rash. Despite those warnings, dihydrocodeine was subsequently listed as a repeat prescription, alongside Zomorph modified-release morphine. Cathryn later died from an overdose of opiates, and the inquest returned an open verdict.
The underlying toxicology, post-mortem evidence, prescribing records and complete inquest file have not been provided to her partner, Martin Newbold. He has instead been told that he is not recognised as an interested person.
These circumstances do not permit the public simply to conclude that nothing criminal occurred. They require an independent homicide assessment, preservation of all records and disclosure of the evidence needed to establish precisely which substances caused Cathryn’s death, how she obtained them, who prescribed or supplied them, and whether another person’s actions or failures caused or contributed to her death.
I am therefore asking every MP subscribed to this system I am asking you to examine and formally refer the evidence concerning the death of Cathryn Louise Smith.
Her medical history records adverse reactions to dihydrocodeine, including a rash. The same records later show further prescribing of dihydrocodeine and modified-release morphine. Cathryn subsequently died from an overdose of opiates, and the inquest returned an open verdict.
The complete toxicology, post-mortem and inquest evidence has not been disclosed to me, despite Cathryn being my partner and the mother of my daughter.
For murder in England and Wales, there must be evidence that someone unlawfully caused the death with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm. https://www.cps.gov.uk/…/homicide-murder-manslaughter… If a person knowingly prescribed or administered a drug despite a documented allergy, and medical evidence proved that it caused the death, that could support an investigation into unlawful killing.
“The coroner informed my mum that Catherine had 7% alcohol in her body, along with benzodiazepine/diazepam. Taken together, these substances can cause heavy sedation, unconsciousness, breathing suppression, or death.”
Catherine’s medical record documented an adverse reaction to dihydrocodeine, including a rash, in 2007. Despite this, dihydrocodeine was subsequently listed as a repeat prescription in May 2009, alongside Zomorph, a morphine-based opiate, prescribed in April 2009. Her death certificate later recorded her cause of death as an overdose of opiates. This apparent contradiction requires investigation of the prescribing decisions, dispensing records, warnings available to clinicians and the substances identified at post-mortem.
The record says “adverse reaction”, rather than proving a life-threatening allergy. It does not, by itself, establish murder, but it does provide documentary grounds for questioning why dihydrocodeine was prescribed again after the recorded reaction and how the opiate prescriptions related to her death.
Without evidence of intent, a death caused by grossly dangerous medical conduct could amount to gross-negligence manslaughter. However, if a member of the opposing party in the Family Court proceedings deliberately planned and caused her death, intending to kill her or cause serious harm, that would be a premeditated murder.
The record shows that Catherine/Cathryn had two documented adverse reactions to dihydrocodeine, including a rash, yet dihydrocodeine was later issued again as a repeat prescription. She was also prescribed modified-release morphine and later died from an overdose of opiates.
2011-03-22 – Emilys Mums Death Certificate – overdose of opiates.pdf
That is evidence of a potentially unlawful killing that required a proper criminal and prescribing investigation.
But these pages alone do not prove murder, because they do not show who supplied or administered the fatal dose or that anyone intended to kill her or cause serious harm. Without that intent, a death caused by grossly dangerous medical conduct would more likely fall under gross-negligence manslaughter, or murder. If it is connected to premediated event in Family court.
The interim certificate dated 16 July 2010 recorded the medical cause of death as “Unascertainable.” The final certificate subsequently recorded “Overdose of opiates,” with an open verdict. The toxicology, post-mortem evidence and complete inquest records have not been disclosed to her partner.
What precise document was restricted, who ordered the restriction, on what date, under which legal authority, for how long, and did the restricted material include the post-mortem report, toxicology results, prescription and dispensing records, witness evidence or the coroner’s notes?
Evidence
August 1, 2026Related Posts
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- CASE SUMMARY: THE STEALING OF EMILY NEWBOLD-SMITH
- Mail to [email protected] was rejected by Parliament’s email system
- HIDDEN BY CLINTON LIBRARY TO COVER UP CRIMES
- MP Communications and CRM
CASE SUMMARY: THE STEALING OF EMILY NEWBOLD-SMITH
by Martin NewboldJuly 31, 2026Mail to [email protected] was rejected by Parliament’s email system
by Martin NewboldJuly 31, 2026HIDDEN BY CLINTON LIBRARY TO COVER UP CRIMES
by Martin NewboldJuly 29, 2026 #addiction #adoption #childWelfare #courtCrisis #depression #DunkleyBairClinton #humanRights #ManslaughterMurder #mentalHealth #parenting #recovery -
Long Lost Family search sees former baby found in locked flats make incredible discovery
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Long Lost Family search sees former baby found in locked flats make incredible discovery
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the #adoption industry cannot meet its clients’ insatiable demands without exploiting vulnerable people’s desperation and ignorance. It has always been this way.
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another myth is that #adoption heroically rescues defenseless children from imminent peril (as manifested in the way we’re told that our alternative fate would have been to be thrown in a dumpster).
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one of the biggest myths about #adoption is that most or even many adopted people are orphans. Almost none of us is a true orphan. We were orphaned by a sociolegal system, not by death or fate.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mysxye325i2tcnnduw7tmdtr/post/3mrs5zl2mns2d -
Shopping im Gebärmutter-Markt: Der weltweite Handel mit dem Wunscherben
Bestellt per Mausklick, geliefert aus dem Niedriglohnsektor: Wie deutsche Politik & Justiz die kommerzielle Leihmutterschaft als Nächstenliebe verkaufen. -
Shopping im Gebärmutter-Markt: Der weltweite Handel mit dem Wunscherben
Bestellt per Mausklick, geliefert aus dem Niedriglohnsektor: Wie deutsche Politik & Justiz die kommerzielle Leihmutterschaft als Nächstenliebe verkaufen. -
Abolish plenary #adoption. End the adoption industry.
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‘Part Fable, Part Porridge’: Jackie Kay & Dame Hermione Lee on Writing the Self
For many theorists of autobiography, the form assumes a self that can be known & a life that can be accounted for. But how do you write an autobiography when your origin & identity are unknown, uncertain, or multiple?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRPfyW2Vjk
#Scottish #literature #writing #autobiography #lifewriting #identity #ScottishIdentity #adoption
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‘Part Fable, Part Porridge’: Jackie Kay & Dame Hermione Lee on Writing the Self
For many theorists of autobiography, the form assumes a self that can be known & a life that can be accounted for. But how do you write an autobiography when your origin & identity are unknown, uncertain, or multiple?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBRPfyW2Vjk
#Scottish #literature #writing #autobiography #lifewriting #identity #ScottishIdentity #adoption
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‘Overdue reunion’: an aviation hero’s long lost granddaughter uncovers her secret past.
Judy Bain, 81, spent most of her life unaware she was a direct descendant of the daring pilot Arthur Whitten Brown.
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‘Overdue reunion’: an aviation hero’s long lost granddaughter uncovers her secret past.
Judy Bain, 81, spent most of her life unaware she was a direct descendant of the daring pilot Arthur Whitten Brown.
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Korbit, South Korea's first cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2013, has been acquired by Mirae Asset Consulting, which now holds a 97.15% stake. The acquisition by the financial giant managing 1T USD in assets signals growing institutional involvement in crypto. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/23/south-korea-s-oldest-crypto-exchange-is-now-part-of-the-usd800-billion-mirae-group-family #Blockchain #Crypto #Adoption
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A June study found Codex in use by 17.3% of active organizational users versus under 1% of individual users. The gap suggests workplace adoption differs sharply from consumer uptake—a pattern worth monitoring as agent use scales. https://www.implicator.ai/openais-work-agents-reach-10-million-users-nearly-doubling-in-july/ #AI #Work #Adoption
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A June study found Codex in use by 17.3% of active organizational users versus under 1% of individual users. The gap suggests workplace adoption differs sharply from consumer uptake—a pattern worth monitoring as agent use scales. https://www.implicator.ai/openais-work-agents-reach-10-million-users-nearly-doubling-in-july/ #AI #Work #Adoption
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Was den #Spahn Rücktritt angeht, hege ich einen Doppelverdacht:
a) Spahn soll durch die #Adoption menschlicher wirken.
b) Sein unausweichlicher Rücktritt kann in kurzer Zeit zu vorbildlicher Integrität umgedeutet werden, um ihn als jemanden zu verkaufen, der sich für höhere Ideale opfert.
Was er eigentlich gar nicht tut denn:
(Nur zur Erinnerung): Herr Spahn kassiert immer noch allein für seinen derzeitigen politischen Status fast 19000 Euro pro Monat. Nebeneinkünfte mal ganz unerwähnt. -
On Online and Offline Culture
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Guardian has an article about [Going Offline is Fun](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/19/going-offline-is-fun-living-offline-was-not-just-ask-a-child-of-the-90s). It’s about how “young” people are trying to disconnect from mobile phones and other technology. There was another article about how 61 million CDs have been sold as people buy physical media rather than digital copies.
When the web and social networks were young and built around communities rather than the cult of personality (aka Influencers) it was rewarding because the more time you invested in a community, the more you became a part of it. It was also a time when no one was online, so you had to spread the net very wide, globally, to find like-minded people.
The Summer of Ludd, whilst great in concept is just a backlash to the cult of personality that masquerades as social on antisocial media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more. With the cult of personality, and the time suck of reels people are wasting time on antisocial media, rather than investing it. That’s why they feel that disconnecting from smart phones is a good thing.
They have been fatigued and brain washed into thinking that social media, and online social networks are a toxic waste of time, because that’s how Facebook and other companies can keep their toxic social networks going, as toxic social networks.
Compare Meetup and Strava, as healthy social networks/social media, compared to Facebook, Threads, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. On Strava, and Meetup, we barely exchange anything in typed form. We join an event, we participate, we run, cycle, hike and walk together, and then we disconnect except for kudos, until the next ride.
In parallel we have GoSocial, the Nyon Social Crew, the Ochsner Sport Running Group, Tête de Course whatsapp chats and more. When Twitter, and Facebook were new, they were huge, because they needed to be. Now that everyone and their pet is on Whatsapp, Strava and Telegram (especially for the Ingresss game) we don’t need the social media giants anymore. We have local communities with online presence.
My use of smartphones and social networks, and social media, has always been about connecting with people online, with the ambition of meeting them in the physical world, rather than just keeping things “virtual”. I use “physical”, rather than IRL because to me, on a healthy social network we are real about our passions, and more.
In 2007 several people said “I feel like we have been friends for years, and yet tonight was the first time we met in person”. For me, that is a healthy social network situation. For me, that’s what social media should be.
The Summer of Ludd and other movements are rebelling against corporate utilitarian antisocial media, rather than smartphones and online social networks.
When you have gone from meeting people in person, to online discussion forums, to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and from dial up modems to ISDN lines to broadband to ADSL lines and from being offline when you weren’t at a computer to online everywhere, so we have seen the positive, rather than the negative.
Too many people, especially the young, but also mid to late adopters think that smart phones are about addiction. They ignoring that for introverts, in the 21st century, and people living alone, and working at a computer, rather than with people, smartphones, and social networks online are our social anchors, and that without them the loneliness epidemic would be even worse.
When social media giants, Apple, and Google/Android allow for dark design patterns to make smartphone and social media use toxic they justify our shift away from their platforms and devices. They make returning to feature phones, photo cameras, music CDs and printed books justifiable, because none of these will distract us. They allow us to focus, and be in the moment.
By not self-regulating they encourage a cultural backlash via movements like the Summer of Ludd.
#adoption #modernity #technology #ubiquity -
On Online and Offline Culture
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Guardian has an article about [Going Offline is Fun](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/19/going-offline-is-fun-living-offline-was-not-just-ask-a-child-of-the-90s). It’s about how “young” people are trying to disconnect from mobile phones and other technology. There was another article about how 61 million CDs have been sold as people buy physical media rather than digital copies.
When the web and social networks were young and built around communities rather than the cult of personality (aka Influencers) it was rewarding because the more time you invested in a community, the more you became a part of it. It was also a time when no one was online, so you had to spread the net very wide, globally, to find like-minded people.
The Summer of Ludd, whilst great in concept is just a backlash to the cult of personality that masquerades as social on antisocial media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more. With the cult of personality, and the time suck of reels people are wasting time on antisocial media, rather than investing it. That’s why they feel that disconnecting from smart phones is a good thing.
They have been fatigued and brain washed into thinking that social media, and online social networks are a toxic waste of time, because that’s how Facebook and other companies can keep their toxic social networks going, as toxic social networks.
Compare Meetup and Strava, as healthy social networks/social media, compared to Facebook, Threads, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. On Strava, and Meetup, we barely exchange anything in typed form. We join an event, we participate, we run, cycle, hike and walk together, and then we disconnect except for kudos, until the next ride.
In parallel we have GoSocial, the Nyon Social Crew, the Ochsner Sport Running Group, Tête de Course whatsapp chats and more. When Twitter, and Facebook were new, they were huge, because they needed to be. Now that everyone and their pet is on Whatsapp, Strava and Telegram (especially for the Ingresss game) we don’t need the social media giants anymore. We have local communities with online presence.
My use of smartphones and social networks, and social media, has always been about connecting with people online, with the ambition of meeting them in the physical world, rather than just keeping things “virtual”. I use “physical”, rather than IRL because to me, on a healthy social network we are real about our passions, and more.
In 2007 several people said “I feel like we have been friends for years, and yet tonight was the first time we met in person”. For me, that is a healthy social network situation. For me, that’s what social media should be.
The Summer of Ludd and other movements are rebelling against corporate utilitarian antisocial media, rather than smartphones and online social networks.
When you have gone from meeting people in person, to online discussion forums, to MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and from dial up modems to ISDN lines to broadband to ADSL lines and from being offline when you weren’t at a computer to online everywhere, so we have seen the positive, rather than the negative.
Too many people, especially the young, but also mid to late adopters think that smart phones are about addiction. They ignoring that for introverts, in the 21st century, and people living alone, and working at a computer, rather than with people, smartphones, and social networks online are our social anchors, and that without them the loneliness epidemic would be even worse.
When social media giants, Apple, and Google/Android allow for dark design patterns to make smartphone and social media use toxic they justify our shift away from their platforms and devices. They make returning to feature phones, photo cameras, music CDs and printed books justifiable, because none of these will distract us. They allow us to focus, and be in the moment.
By not self-regulating they encourage a cultural backlash via movements like the Summer of Ludd.
#adoption #modernity #technology #ubiquity -
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Analysis from the Ifo Institute reveals a notable difference in the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) between Eastern and Western Germany. Although... https://news.osna.fm/?p=56049 | #news #adoption #ai #analyzing #businesses
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Analysis from the Ifo Institute reveals a notable difference in the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) between Eastern and Western Germany. Although... https://news.osna.fm/?p=56049 | #news #adoption #ai #analyzing #businesses
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Chicago Fire (one of my guilty pleasure TV shows) has done a lot of dumb things over 13 seasons, but
a woman saying "I would love to have a family, but I don't want to get pregnant, could we choose adoption?"
and her husband enthusiastically agreeing with that idea
is peak representation we needed
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Chicago Fire (one of my guilty pleasure TV shows) has done a lot of dumb things over 13 seasons, but
a woman saying "I would love to have a family, but I don't want to get pregnant, could we choose adoption?"
and her husband enthusiastically agreeing with that idea
is peak representation we needed
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ohh fuck the #adoption industry is going in on AI now
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xfh2umw7hzgxh6j77cdeuefy/post/3mqzb6ddqt22n -
Es ist natürlich ein Genuss, wie verlogen die konservative Sexualmoral ist, und das persönliche Scheitern dieser bigotten Lurche immer und immer wieder breitzutreten. Darüber hinaus darf man aber nicht vergessen, dass sie von Anfang an nur an die Hälfte von dem glauben, was sie erzählen, in jeden Politkfeld. Das Fanatische und das Verlogene gehören zusammen; das zu verdrängen ist die toxische Selbstlüge "konstruktiver Zusammenarbeit" zwischen Wohlmeinenden und Arschlöchern, die bürgerliche Kompromissfalle.
