#t0000000000bs — Public Fediverse posts
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Fascism Watch for 8 September 2023: the I Have Notes edition
To get out of the way, here’s an update on schools: Pennsylvania school district requires social studies classes to incorporate right-wing propaganda. It’s mostly of interest because it’s not PragerU but another one of the factions. It’s not really the lead story in terms of importance or anything, but it doesn’t fit into the flow anywhere, […]
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Fascism Watch for 6 September 2023: the No Rest for the Weary or the Wicked Edition
No time to rest, I’m afraid. But that’s part the fascist “flood the zone with shit” tactic set for you.
Mainstream media is just barely starting to wake up to the reality that KOSA is intended to ban LGBT – particularly T – related material, with NBC finally stumbling across Marsha Blackburn’s straight-up staying that’s […]
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Fascism Watch Catch-Up for 5 November 2023, Part 2: The Wrap-Up Edition
This is a bit of a miscellanea post, everything else that I couldn’t wedge into parts one through five.
More on Mr. Radical Free Speech’s attempt to silence criticism though lawsuit: When we held up a mirror to Elon Musk’s Twitter/X he tried to sue us into silence. But I remind you he did reinstate a far-right user who posted child-torture sexual-abuse […]
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Fascism Watch for 5 September 2023: the Gods Help Us edition
Welcome to Fascism Watch Catch Up, Part 5: the Gods Help Us edition.
Let’s start with climate. Let’s start with carbon dioxide in particular. Let’s start with the Republican plan to end renewable energy, drill baby drill, and throw as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as possible as soon as possible. Let’s talk rolling […]
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anybody still on twitter is a goddamn fool
I’ve been warning people for months. This is how it works now. Get the fuck off the birdsite.
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quick nazi twitter update
Elon Musk, in conversation with neo-Nazis, blames Jews – via the Anti-Defamation League – for anti-Semitism, using the same argument Hitler used in Mein Kamph.
Can we just call Musk a Nazi now?
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Twitter (neé “X”) is a fascist platform
I know I go off on this over and over again, but people are still staying on Twitter (“X”) and in doing so, are actively aiding Elon Musk’s project to use the former birdsite as a propaganda and disinformation fountain for fascism.
To wit: Twitter is returning political ads to the platform. I mean, of course they are. They claim they will have […]
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that feel when
that feel when you notice that your blog’s right sidebar looks a little weird and broken and you realise the “share this on mastodon” button is just fuckin gone and then three hours later it’s not fixed because the mf wp-code plugin deleted all the code for you but damn the layout in that sidebar is now tight and also now tells you the […]
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google search is dead and AI finished it off
The attached image is my reproduction of an attempt to use Google Search to find the name of a country in Africa that starts with the letter K.
And no, Bard is not better – this is another person’s test posted to Mastodon:
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Another action item, this one’s worse: KOSA
I’ve been a little asleep on this multi-pronged attack against internet speech, but this tine is perhaps the worst of the fork: the Kids Online Safety Act. The fash right have already promised to use this bill against LGBT people (particularly trans people).
They will use it to ban queer content from the internet as much as they can. The […]
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An action item against Bad Internet Bills
Congress – and I do mean congress in this case, not just Republicans for once – are bundling together a bunch of really bad internet bills and trying to get them loaded onto must-pass legislation.
As is often the case, it’s centred on privacy-breaking encryption bans, an issue which has become worse, not better, over time given ever-more-ravenous […]
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This Sunday on Monsterdon
This Sunday, on Monsterdon, the weekly monster-film watch- and comment-along event on Mastodon (and the rest of the Fediverse):
THE GIANT CLAW!
I’ve seen this one before, it’s gonna be crunchy. xD
Deets below the fold!
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Fascism Watch Special Edition: Elon Musk doesn’t just recruit fascists to Twitter, HE PAYS THEM.
I’m making this separate because we are so far past excuses: Elon Musk pays fascists, misogynists, and alt-right activists of all sorts to be active on Twitter. He pays them THOUSANDS to TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. He does so openly. It is not in contention.
If you are active on Twitter, YOU ARE HELPING HIM PAY FASCISTS.
Twitter is now […]
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oh goddammit dreamwidth
I think that if I edit a post it gets marked as what Livejournal used to call “backdated” and is no longer visible in reading lists. I’ve just found out about this being an issue thanks to canyonwalker telling me a bunch of posts weren’t showing up in Reading.
I think I have a fix for it, I’ll just have to edit posts twice under certain […]
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Remember, Threads is Facebook
I know, I know, last post, but I put that thing up and this shit happens:
Yesterday, Congress members revealed the results of a seven-month investigation into tax-filing companies. Lawmakers found that H&R Block, TaxAct, and TaxSlayer “recklessly shared” potentially hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ sensitive personal and financial data with […]
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A wrap-up on the first week of Threads
This is probably the final post I’m going to make about Threads unless something substantial changes.
Based on information I was given about the product just before launch, I had hoped – well, I’m not sure “hoped” is the right word, but maybe it is – that Threads would be something other than just a Twitter clone. That they were […]
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threads is going well [everything on fire]
All the fash on facebook/instagram’s threads app have decided that the new threads logo is satanic.
No, really.
I’ll mention this again in the fascism watch because this is what all of the 2024 campaign is going to be like. Literally all of it. Particularly against queers – we’re “demonic presences on earth” […]
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meta’s threads: day one
I’m keeping an eye on Threads anonymously via the web UI, which offers partial views without a login. I’m also trying to get more information about how it works from people I know who have, however briefly, tried it.
At the end of day one, the hate brigade is definitely out in force and some harassment is definitely happening. It’s […]
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Fascism Watch for 7 July 2023: the Kill All the Queers edition
Let’s start with the Moms for Liberty cult. I want to stress that they are a cult. I’ve seen these before, it’s the standard fundamentalist authoritarian system of raising this particular kind of “mom” group, going back decades. This one’s bigger because it’s got more financing than they normally allow.
That […]
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I just tossed this long comment up on WaPo’s Zuck-sucking “what you need to know” article about Threads
They did a spread a bunch of bullshit in their little “is this the real Twitter replacement” booster article, including dismissing both BlueSky and the Federation (“Mastodon” only, of course).
Naturally, I replied. But you don’t have to go to the link, you can read it here too.
Mastodon in particular shows […]
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Meta’s Threads vs. Mastodon and the Federation
There’s a lot of drama in the Federation – Mastodon, Akkoma, Calckey, Lemmy, kbin, Friendster et al – at the moment about Threads, the new Twitter competitor that’s coming out from Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram. So let’s talk a little bit about that.
Threads is a Twitter competitor. It’s semi-standalone from other Meta […]
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Performing for the Machine
I just saw a post on Mastodon that made me realise the importance of something I should’ve realised months ago:
Unlike on Twitter or Facebook, you don’t have to make your posts performative in some way to trick an algorithm into showing them to your own followers.
Yes, that’s a thing that actually happens. Some or most of your followers […]
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toho: the stamp of quality
Cheri Baker, one of the Monsterdon regulars on Mastodon, the Sunday night event where we all watch a monster movie together and comment about it, made a Monsterdon Bingo card, which is great.
Naturally, I had to make a Monsterdon stamp for the Bingo card, one that impressions the TOHO logo, a.k.a. the Sign of Quality. There are both positive and negative impression […]
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okay that was unexpected
wow okay the weather guy in iowa who resigned due to all the threats he was getting in climate change? I covered this in today’s Fascism Watch?
He just floated by my timeline on Mastodon.
Mastodon got reach I guess O.o
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Fascism Watch for 25 June 2023: the Wait What and the Party of Lies edition
Leading again with some good news: Florida’s anti-drag law is likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules. The judge striking down Arkansas’s law against trans health care ruled heavily on the actual facts, correctly finding the anti-trans fundamentalist propaganda of cardboard science groups like the American College of Paediatrics meritless. The Advocate […]
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Fascism Watch for 22 June 2023: the “Cis is a Slur” and Queer Despair edition
Let’s start with the short list of good news: Arkansas’s ban on gender-affirming care has been at least temporarily struck down by a Federal judge. Florida’s similar ban relating to Medicare funding and care has been struck down outright, though I’m sure Florida will appeal. Also – on technical grounds involving standing to sue – the […]
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woah hello ukrainian kbin
omg, kbin – one of the Federation’s digg/reddit-likes, and yes, they talk to each other so you can pick your favourite – is rapidly stepping up as a Ukranian on-the-ground information resource.
This is kind of a big deal because… this is important. And it’s been a gap. Most of what’s been available in Federation has been reposts […]
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Today in radical free speech news
Following Musk’s removal of systematic intentional misgendering and use of anti-LGBT slurs generally as grounds for suspension or account revocation, Musk has now declared the words “cis” and “cisgender” to be slurs which are harassment and grounds for account suspension “at least.”
Twitter is a hate machine. If you’re […]
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Fascism Watch for June 20th, 2023: the Stop Pretending You Can Fight Back on Twitter edition
Musk is dipping again into anti-vaccination conspiracy theory, promoting anti vaccine conspiracy theories while bullying a famous scientist/physician who helped create a patent-free Covid vaccine. Because of course he is.
Musk Twitter is also in particular not only enabling real-world violence, not only doing it more than any of the other major social media […]
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nice
This Federated wordpress blog currently has 69 direct followers on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
(That’s not counting my individual account’s followers. And most commenters are on Dreamwidth.)
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Fascism Watch for April 26, 2023: Expel the Opposition Again edition
State Rep. Zooey Zephyr said – correctly – during the Republican Montana Legislature’s debates over their anti-trans-healthcare bill that people voting for it would have “blood on your hands.” This is, again, the truth, and she was saying this in context of youth suicide. They’re now moving to censure or expel her. We don’t know […]