Taylan (GNU+Feminism Cat)

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Born: December '93
Residence: Germany
Sex: Male
Gender: Atheist
Blog: https://blogs.feministwiki.org/taylan
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2026-04-19 17:33:22 UTC

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Arch was (almost) my first distro and I used it for years, but haven't done so in 10+ years. Artix seems really cool. Maybe I should go full circle and switch to Artix. :blobcat-joy:

2026-04-14 20:49:53 UTC

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People who are unable to care for their child for any reason should be able to give them up for adoption or foster care, although I have to point out that the foster care system is deeply broken and abusive in many places, which makes this very complicated in practice.
But in any case, "in an ideal world" she would simply give the child up for adoption if she can't properly love the child due to the trauma of having discovered that fact about the husband. The child could remind her of him all the time so it's an unreasonable expectation.
A person who hasn't had any personal relation to the man would probably find it much easier to overlook this fact about the biological father. To the adoptive parent, it's just a poor kid whose dad came out to be a monster so his mother couldn't bear to raise the kid.

2026-04-11 19:35:04 UTC

I hear Viktor Orban is finally close to meeting his political end, which makes me happy.

2026-04-08 08:48:41 UTC

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@npub16hx…aras is this true

2026-04-07 21:13:25 UTC

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"Stay at half a tank" confuses me. Is it a psychological thing?
BTW a tip one might not expect is "keep the windows shut" because it makes a big difference in aerodynamics.
I think using the AC may actually be better than rolling down the windows but that probably depends on a lot of factors.

2026-03-29 16:50:32 UTC

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This is just paranoia man. It's basically "they'll allow you to marry your dog next." All the law says is that an OS should require the admin to specify the age bracket of a user account, and offer an API to check the age bracket. It specifically says:
> This title does not require the collection of additional personal information from device owners or device users other than that which is necessary to comply with Section [The one about age brackets].
There are also separate privacy laws that forbid the collection and storing of personal data without consent. If I remember correctly, California is actually ahead of other US states in that regard, and have something similar to EU's GDPR.
The feature mandated by this law is not useless, because it makes the enabling of parental controls seamless and automatic. Most parents are tech illiterate and have no idea how to install anything on their router. Most people still call their router a "modem." When I do a quick web search on how to enable parental controls on MS Windows, I get some stupid complicated mess about some "Microsoft Family App" or whatever.
The whole idea is so simple, it's amazing that the tech industry didn't standardize something like this 20-30 years ago already on their own volition, without needing lawmakers to pressure them. Children and teens have been watching hardcore porn unrestricted for decades, and all the tech industry needed to do was implement the OS feature that this law asks for, and have websites send HTTP headers to indicate age restriction.

2026-03-28 04:39:11 UTC

So the "age verification" law that everyone is freaking out over just says an OS must offer an interface for specifying the age of a user? And offer a way for applications to check it?
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3269704
No third party verification of any kind? What even is the problem? THIS IS GOOD.
This is almost exactly how I thought it should be:
1. Adult owner of computer specifies that user account "Timmy" is for a person born in 2016.
2. The OS offers applications a means of asking whether the current user is age X or older.
3. Websites meant for age X and over must send some signal to specify this, such as with an HTTP response header.
4. The web client application (e.g. Firefox) must react to this signal from websites and perform the age check using the OS mechanism mentioned in step 2.
When Timmy goes to adultsite.com, Firefox receives the header "User-Age-Check: 18" and asks the OS if Timmy is 18 or older. The OS says no, so Firefox stops loading the site and shows an error.
The law basically specifies points 1 and 2, just going into unnecessary detail about "age bracket" stuff. (Realistically, an OS would just offer a generic "age ≥ X" check so it can support any age brackets of any jurisdiction.)
This is a step in the right direction.

2026-03-28 04:17:19 UTC

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Isn't it literally just a DoB field added to the user DB? That's not "age verification" it's just a metadata field about a user account.
Unless they did more than that, I think this whole thing is just another case of humans showing their swarm stupidity by spreading panic and anger over a nothingburger.
Assuming it's just a DoB field: There's many sensible ways to make use of that in such a way that the adult owner of the computer retains full control and any user of the computer retains privacy. The crucial point is that the metadata fields about users are under admin control.
I'm not pro systemd but I'm anti being so anti against something that one sees problems where there are none.

2026-03-27 18:24:23 UTC

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This shit is exactly why people hate wokism. And why the right wing is gaining popularity.

2026-03-16 05:35:00 UTC

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You know what it's all about when men, especially of the 4chan variety, LARP as little girls, right? :blobcat-googly-notlikethis:

2026-03-13 03:49:23 UTC

> DOGE staffer who flagged grants for 'DEI' struggles to define the term
This is painful to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbGF7l-t2w

2026-03-10 15:25:59 UTC

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God damn it. I want chickens now.

2026-02-20 21:38:27 UTC

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The irony of this is that I said that in the context of a debate about the Canadian ruling which decided that saying you don't believe in gender identity is a form of illegal discrimination.

2026-02-20 21:37:41 UTC

Serves me well for using Shitcord.
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/0c/76/3f/0c763f57af18882f68255da0e1b198f7d5f72f01a443e08c97739e8ff67672a9.webp

2026-02-17 17:08:30 UTC

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Female bodies aren't simply "like male bodies but smaller on average." There's a variety of differences relevant to athletic performance, such as the amount of essential body fat (thus affecting how optimal your muscle to total weight ratio can be, rendering weight alone an insufficient metric), bone density, lung size (due to skeletal differences), the "Q angle" and so on and so forth. Here's an often cited infographic.
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/bf/86/29/bf8629d02f46afe2b9995f58b0bc4b89534f582eadcf86c6bff0db5301930ed4.webp

2026-02-06 02:25:35 UTC

How was this guy a member of the Black Panther Party?
What?
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/47/13/e5/4713e50dc217321a0d1fe160bd34d85086dd8fa6dbbfa418b4203fa5381b6617.webp

2026-01-25 23:44:41 UTC

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Logging in still didn't tell me what message(s) I was banned for. :blobcat-joy:
I wrote this. Let's see if it goes anywhere.
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/41/10/35/411035d4cc45cc66cb809001c66e6eb9ad2140ba865df4eb380f32ee28038f61.jpg

2026-01-25 23:37:00 UTC

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Tempting but I don't think I wanna bother...

2026-01-24 08:14:57 UTC

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I think the linked article misses the mark. This kind of insane tribalism, dishonest tactics, etc. isn't unique to either side of the political spectrum.
By the way, I thought the text at the top must be some kind of anti-socialist satire, but apparently Saul Alinsky was an actual socialist activist, and the text is wrongly attributed to him in an attempt to defame and paint him as a villain. That's a tad bit ironic.

2026-01-24 07:54:52 UTC

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I expected it to be fairly insane but getting an email saying I support terrorist organizations was even beyond my imagination. :blobcat-joy:

2026-01-24 07:39:44 UTC

I've used #BlueSky for about a day or two more than a year ago, and defended feminist views / criticized people slandering JK Rowling. Today, got this email.
It can't be stressed enough just how much of a clown show the whole platform is. Apparently, they consider the expression of feminist opinions to be terrorism and criminal.
I think it's probably based on the fact that I said the nazis did not specifically persecute "trans people" in the way they persecuted gay people or Jews. According to trans activists, that's "Holocaust revisionism," which they accuse JK Rowling of. And from there, I'm guessing, they tell themselves that my posts could be considered to be disseminating content for neo-nazi groups, hence this moderation decision. It's mental gymnastics at Olympic level.
They are living in an alternate reality, and the reason they're perpetually mad is that actual reality won't bend to their will. It's sad.
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/56/50/df/5650dfc0b63ff3ca8481750a11e68a940a577e39f362753a539e538672ff9bce.jpg

2026-01-14 20:37:23 UTC

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Looks like I have him muted. I only mute complete and utter eejits so don't bother.

2026-01-13 10:29:14 UTC

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It can be decided on a case-by-case basis by a judge and/or jury. Laws can't always be crystal clear because reality is messy.
Interestingly enough, this line of thought is similar to: "There is no absolutely clear line between what makes a person female or male, therefore the distinction is arbitrary and we should not have any policies that depend on making the distinction." Which as you know I also disagree with.
(Examples of the blurriness between female and male in humans: XY CAIS individuals like Eden Atwood who are born with unambiguously female external anatomy despite internal testes; individuals with Swyer syndrome who have XY chromosomes but can go through a successful pregnancy after embryonic transplant because they sometimes have a functional uterus.)

2026-01-13 10:08:46 UTC

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The line between non-hate speech and hate speech is blurry, but it exists. If someone brandishes nazi flags, and banners stating "Jews hate freedom," then it's clear enough which side of the line they're on. I definitely disagree with overly broad hate speech laws, but banning nazi symbols is fine by me.

2026-01-13 09:36:16 UTC

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Y'all kinda ignored the part where he's a member of a neo-nazi organization, expressed adoration of Adolf Hitler, and took part in rallies expressing hatred against ethnic groups.
https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/national-socialist-network-leaders-thomas-sewell-joel-davis-to-form-neonazi-political-party/news-story/afd51b3cf7b0198a039211da3f8779e9
inb4 you tell me to care because "first they came for the neo-nazis" :blobcat-joy:

2026-01-12 10:31:04 UTC

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choke on a futa

2026-01-12 08:11:24 UTC

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2026-01-11 09:50:36 UTC

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I think saying that race "isn't a thing" is a bit counter-productive, because people can clearly see that different groups of people have different genetic traits, so it comes across as denying basic reality. Even in medicine, it can be useful to know someone's "race" because people from different gene pools have different levels of vulnerability to certain diseases.
Instead of saying they aren't a thing, I'd rather say that races are blurry, mix easily, naturally change over time, and it's usually insignificant what "race" someone is.

2026-01-08 05:28:08 UTC

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I think that's just normal very dark skin + makeup to accentuate it?

2026-01-07 20:03:36 UTC

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Don't see a problem, except if many are "desperation abortions" due to poverty, the pregnancy arising from assault, etc. But you don't seem to care about that.
> Taking medications at home, known as telemedicine, was the most common procedure, accounting for 61% of all abortions in 2022.
Imagine being angry that women take a pill that prevents some tissue in them from eventually growing into a baby. Couldn't be me.

2025-12-19 03:37:33 UTC

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Look it's you.
@npub10us…p5pu @npub1kzl…h23m @npub1nfa…rjl3 @npub1rsq…33yg
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2025-12-18 22:54:44 UTC

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LOL. "White genocide." LMAO, even.
I didn't call you a nazi. I said you're the closest one could politically be to that without literally being it.
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2025-12-18 16:43:58 UTC

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Thank you for demonstrating my point.
@npub10us…p5pu @npub1kzl…h23m @npub1nfa…rjl3 @npub1rsq…33yg

2025-12-18 16:02:10 UTC

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He's a literal ethno nationalist far right idiot. The closest you can get to being an actual neo nazi while still technically not being one.

2025-12-18 00:33:09 UTC

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I'm so glad that you're already on the FBI watch list.
@npub10us…p5pu @npub1kzl…h23m @npub1nfa…rjl3 @npub1rsq…33yg

2025-12-17 23:10:32 UTC

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I actually agree that left vs. right tribalism is harmful, but you gotta admit that a lot of people are really dogmatic about their "anti-woke" stances (actually just anti-left) and ironically become "woke right" as a result. Lotta people like that on the noauthority.social and annihilation.social domains.

2025-12-17 22:43:58 UTC

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Right-wing conservatives cheering her on simply because they see it as a dunk on LGBTQ activism are pretty dumb though.
She is indeed very based, because she supports feminism and gay rights. :blobcat-hearts:

2025-12-17 09:59:45 UTC

There are two cats in this photo.
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/02/4b/35/024b35d43bf71ea728d714e25a46ff5bea22df9725b9623e76d799d5d5190071.jpg

2025-12-17 09:45:50 UTC

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Watching this is physically painful. Due to both of them. Why would anyone inflict this upon oneself.

2025-12-15 23:26:23 UTC

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He's so completely and utterly mad that it puzzles me a little why so many people can't see it.

2025-12-14 20:44:58 UTC

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Should I start watching Star Trek? :blobcat-eyes-owo: Literally not watched a single episode of it in my life, I think.

2025-12-14 20:33:41 UTC

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Damn, that's hell of a good scene. The villain seems perfectly reasonable and it makes you think he may really not be the bad guy here. Until he drops that line about being the superior race...

2025-12-09 16:40:58 UTC

:blobcat-extremejoy:
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/bc/b7/9d/bcb79d7a96c68a16cbd794d3e48a616848ebf1f17fa15190712e53d2362d1f3f.webp

2025-11-28 13:24:02 UTC

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Nah that's dumb. Think about how anti-social and vindictive a lot of people in software are. (Many of them probably got bullied too much at school and didn't take it well.)
If you take their unlicensed code because you thought they're cool, and make something serious out of it that you may even start to make money with, but then they start sperging at you because you called their waifu a shit, they may very much try to sue you.
A free software license is simply a guarantee that no matter how much the author spergs out, they have no recourse against you using that code in accordance with the license terms. I'd very much prefer to have that guarantee, especially when working with randoms online who I don't know very well.

2025-11-19 17:23:44 UTC

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Not to mention that the party before and after Hitler was barely even the same party, if I'm not mistaken.
I've not gone to school much in Germany, and haven't studied any German history, so I may be wrong, but from what I know, all the authoritarianism and Jew hatred only became a thing in the NSDAP after Hitler took over.

2025-11-19 14:41:15 UTC

Rightoids: "The Nazis were left-wing! They were SOCIALISTS! It's in the name!"
A certain Austrian painter:
> ...The Jewish doctrine of Marxism ...
> ... with the help of his Marxist creed, the Jew ...
> ... and the Marxist weapon of Jewry ...
I don't think this guy was very fond of Marxism. I heard he didn't like Jews much.

2025-11-14 07:46:27 UTC

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He didn't legalize pedophilia. That's something right-wing outlets made up to create a false association between gay rights and pedophilia, as they've done for decades.
What actually happened:
Pedophilia was already legal in California, if the child is at least 14 years old, and the adult is no more than 10 years older. For example: a 24 year-old with a 14 year-old, or a 25 year-old and a 15 year-old, and so on.
But the law said it's only legal if it's a heterosexual couple having penis-in-vagina intercourse. Other types of sex were illegal. He got that exception in the law removed.
So... now it's pedophilia for everyone, and not just straight people. In other words, the problem goes much deeper and has nothing to do with gay activists like him.
(I don't know anything about the "letting the state take gay kids" part or where that claim comes from.)

2025-11-10 13:37:59 UTC

I wish The Boys / Gen V had not been turned into US culture war slop. Still watching it but I cringe every time they insert political shit.

2025-11-06 21:21:03 UTC

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It's actually a common part of the discourse in modern feminism to say "tell men not to rape, instead of telling women to avoid rape" and this is obviously a sarcastic joke in that vein. They must have hired a "cool gen Z feminist" or so who made this for them.
What surprises me is that, from what I know, the Philippines has a very corrupt government and a very conservative Catholic culture, so it's strange seeing their government put out something like this. I would have expected a publication like this from something like the Labour party for example, but not from the corrupt government of a southeast Asian country that is also deeply Catholic.
I probably just don't get Philippine culture and only have the political cliches from the west that are familiar to me as a frame of reference. Could see if people in r/Philippines have anything to say on this but they often seem to be communicating in Filipino there.

2025-11-05 15:34:41 UTC

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I think a healthy dose of democratic socialism is required to keep capitalism in check. Beyond that, I don't know, historically it doesn't seem to have went too well most of the time.

2025-11-05 15:29:37 UTC

Some of the centrist (or arguably center-right?) commentators whom I respect, like Konstantin Kisin and Andrew Gold, seem to dislike the NY socialist guy, Zohran Mamdani, who has now won the mayoral election.
I've never looked into the guy and have no strong opinions, but just knowing the fact that hardcore right-wingers are seething is giving me joy. :blobcat-extremejoy:

2025-10-30 07:37:59 UTC

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Probably. I'm afraid we might never have an actually objective and neutral website akin to Wikipedia, because there are far too few people on the planet who are willing and able to put aside biases and accept well-evidenced facts even when they don't personally like them.

2025-10-28 00:34:19 UTC

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That's so weird. I always associate Catholicism with the more extreme stuff and Protestants as more moderate. As always, reality is more complicated...

2025-10-27 23:56:31 UTC

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> tfw no Klan gf
wait...

2025-10-27 05:31:09 UTC

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2025-10-27 05:28:11 UTC

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Wow this is legitimately the most retarded thing I've read in a while. Congrats.

2025-10-27 05:24:08 UTC

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Do it.
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/01/c8/54/01c854d0b0930e07fe1fc0b973e6a3c891dc60b7f1d51a12c8339a3c302b1c92.gif

2025-10-25 17:39:16 UTC

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It's important to remember that not everyone lives in the U.S., or is affiliated with or closely tuned in to U.S. politics.
Sabine is a German, who studied in Germany, and as far as I can tell from the timeline of her academic career listed on Wikipedia, has lived in Germany her whole life and does so still.
We in the rest of the world all hear about U.S. politics all the time, and many of us may comment on it every once in a while. And I guess it's to be expected that a lot of her audience are Americans, since her channel is in English. But nevertheless, I don't think it's fair to hold her responsible for some indirect effect her takes might have on U.S. politics. More than anything, she is a far-away observer of U.S. politics.
I just peeked into the video you mention, and I now remember having watched it with interest back when it came out. What's important to note is that she explicitly does *not* say whether she thinks the "burning down" of academia, as you put it, is something she necessarily wants or thinks is going to be a good thing once it happens. She merely says that, in her view, it's inevitable, because academia is in big trouble, and not for illegitimate reasons.

2025-10-25 17:05:01 UTC

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Thank you for saying that so openly! Sorry if I came across strongly.
I keep encountering people who thrash Sabine Hossenfelder, and I find it so strange, because I've been following her on YouTube for a while now and can tell that she's a very sincere person, who's unafraid to point out some major problems in academia, her own field in particular.
I've seen no indication that she does it as a "grift" (intentionally stirring up controversy to draw more attention) or any other such thing. Frankly, I suspect that most of the hate she receives comes from a sort of group-think, where people see others having strong negative sentiments against her, and then they start repeating those sentiments as an instinctive attempt to fit in with one's social group. (Almost all humans have such group-think tendency, IMO, due to our nature. It's not a call-out against any specific group.)

2025-10-25 15:00:02 UTC

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Painting this as "making fun of math and Chinese" is a new low for the obsessive Sabine haters. How about you actually link to the video whose context you've taken this out of?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4iiNpkClRU (~1:00 time mark)
Painting this as "mocking Chinese" is beyond silly, so I'm not even going to entertain that, and focus on the other claim instead. No, she isn't mocking maths, or even the concept of positive geometries in particular.
She admits that she had to ask ChatGPT for what it is, and makes a joke about how impenetrable GPT's definition was to her, because she isn't familiar with this terminology. This could be interpreted as a display of humility, or at worst, annoyance at opaque terminology.
It isn't "making fun of math" beyond what mathematicians themselves often do. Also see: The endearing "abstract nonsense" label for Category Theory. She goes on to say, right in the next sentence:
> But when I looked into this a little closer, I realized it's not that complicated. We've actually talked about it before, [link to previous video] ...
And then she mentions Nima Arkani-Hamed's work. The same you just mentioned. And by the way, no, your explanation was not any simpler than the one by GPT that she made a joke over.
I wonder, did you even watch the video?

2025-10-22 17:49:39 UTC

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Ah yes, the "non-crime hate incidents." :blobcat-eyeroll:

2025-10-22 17:47:03 UTC

Oooh I had not followed up on this case. Glad to hear there was a sensible decision. Still horrid that they thought they had a case in the first place.
https://fedi-uploads.feministwiki.org/media/b8/ee/78/b8ee78d53ca2c2bb98e9430d9f22fa806c45e4736d2a463e5b12a9f36e1382d8.webp

2025-10-22 15:54:23 UTC

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Humans are obviously not "equal" in the sense that every individual is different from every other individual in some sense.
It's your generalizations that are total shit. Way too overly broad, and without any logical reasoning or empiric evidence behind them.
Has it been completely ruled out that a person's sex may have certain effects on their neurological development and thus their mental faculties in some way? No, but neither has there ever been any good evidence for it.
In addition, we know that certain assumptions that were made about the sexes, for literally thousands of years in some cultures, came out to be complete hogwash once scientifically studied with modern methods. Like the assumption that women are less intelligent.
Therefore I see no rational basis for your stance. It's simply based on outdated thinking and likely a large amount of confirmation bias.

2025-10-22 15:47:30 UTC

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Total shit-take, is all I'm gonna say.

2025-10-22 15:06:28 UTC

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> Men and women are not the same
It has been proven fairly conclusively that women are, on average, of equal intellectual prowess to men. Recommending them to stay out of academic and career pursuits in the year of 2025 is cringe and ultra outdated. Get with the times.

2025-10-22 15:05:27 UTC

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:blobcat-eyeroll:
They've been cutting costs and the workers were overwhelmed with over-tourism for a while. The thieves took advantage of that. But sure, make it about the fact that the chief and director were women... As if the chief of security needs to personally have a lot of physical strength. It's just a management role.

2025-10-22 12:30:02 UTC

The FSF keeps posting people's "reason to donate." Would it be incendiary if I donated and said:
> Seems to be the only free software organisation that doesn't implement discriminatory policies against those who don't follow woke politics.
I don't love the term "woke" though. :blobcat-thinking:

2025-10-20 16:28:31 UTC

I'm with Lunduke on this one. The wokies in the software industry (incl. Free Software and "Open Source") have long lost the plot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw1lIae15P0
He's right of center (I'm not sure how much right) and a conservative, which are opposite of my politics. But compared to all these people he's complaining about, he's really just a normie. An average, polite guy, who simply speaks his mind.
I wish the wokies would come to their senses and stop all their destructive behavior. It's why right-wing politics has become so popular among youth: "Left-wing" groups have become extremely obsessive, oppressive, and dogmatic. Things that young people tend not to like.

2025-10-16 06:17:39 UTC

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We don't hate news editors enough.
All the headlines make it sound like he was busted. In fact, (he claims) it was vandalism and has opened an investigation into it.
Don't know much about the guy but I find his claim believable.
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2025-10-14 18:14:24 UTC

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You are seriously deluded man. What is it with these stupid nazi fantasies.

2025-10-14 17:56:47 UTC

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You need to take your meds.
Shit like this is why they're winning, by the way. Modern "Leftists" and their constant screeching about imaginary fascists and nazis, their cancel culture, and their incessant moralizing, is no different from Christians a few decades ago with their screeching about evil satanists, their panic over atheism and blasphemy, and their, well, incessant moralizing.
Which side did the younger generations take in the past? Which side are the younger generations taking now?
You have successfully managed to turn Leftism into the dominant authoritarian religion of our times. Congrats! Just one problem: Now the counter-culture is right-wing, and it's in full swing.

2025-10-13 06:57:55 UTC

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As a German and as someone who wants to change the minds of right wing people instead of trying to bully them into submission, I find it deeply shameful how nonchalantly you abuse the word "nazi."
Thank you for your service in emboldening and radicalising right wing people further with such language, making the lives of sane leftists so much harder. Really appreciate it. :blobcat-thumbsup:

2025-10-04 13:07:19 UTC

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2025-10-01 20:19:35 UTC

Breakfast:
- 1 latte macchiato
- 1 large double shot long coffee
Lunch:
- 1 large glass of milk
- 450 grams of veal medallions
- 1 protein bread
I don't feel so good...

2025-10-01 20:13:50 UTC

It's unclear to me why health insurance for illegal immigrants is automatically a bad thing.
You pay for insurance, don't you?
And especially if privatised, the prices are such that it turns a profit, no?
So how is it fundamentally different from them buying any other service?
RE: https://bird.makeup/users/jdvance/statuses/1973418427118391767
#note1j8m…kaql

2025-09-28 13:11:41 UTC

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To be honest, following Medium accounts like that doesn't mean he was necessarily indulging in it. He may have been keeping tabs on it.
This reminds me of that time TRAs lost their mind because one of them saw Helen Joyce reading Harry Potter fanfic on the train or something. (She was trying to understand young people who are into fanfic and then start to identify as queer and whatnot.)

2025-09-26 16:40:10 UTC

Tempeh does NOT taste good. :blobcat-cry4:

2025-09-25 13:57:38 UTC

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To be honest, based on what I know about him, I couldn't really care. I'm for free speech so I wouldn't actively endorse banning someone so long as they don't commit some direct "speech crime" like undeniable incitement / instructions to commit a crime, but on the other hand he's firmly in "dumb rage-baiting troll" territory so... :blobcat-shrug:

2025-09-25 13:26:44 UTC

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Huh? I heard he just got back on YT? Did they ban him again hours later?

2025-09-25 13:25:21 UTC

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I don't think extremists like the killer of Kirk can simply be called "Democrat." That'd be like attributing KKK members to "Republicans" IMO.

2025-09-25 12:05:25 UTC

Republicans are not ok.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/charlie-kirk-could-placed-us-currency-under-new-house-gop-proposal

2025-09-24 12:17:49 UTC

Who dis
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2025-09-20 17:32:34 UTC

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I think you should have to pay a US$1,000 tax for your hourly consumption of oxygen.

2025-09-20 17:05:12 UTC

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> can I ask why you aren't open gay in your profile here? I've seen many on the nicer parts of fedi.
Why doesn't your profile say you're straight?
Odd question, isn't it? :blobcat-wink:

2025-09-20 11:11:39 UTC

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That's very violent language of you and it hurt my feelings. Kill yourself.

2025-09-20 00:11:24 UTC

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2025-09-19 15:19:13 UTC

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Saying "nigger" as an insult isn't nice. Please use "retard" instead.

2025-09-19 12:54:12 UTC

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2025-09-19 10:57:41 UTC

Mastodon.art never ceases to amuse.
"Libertarian" :blobcat-extremejoy:
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2025-09-18 21:55:50 UTC

OK but where's the lie though?
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2025-09-15 11:45:22 UTC

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Yeah I figure it's mostly the Bluesky demographic that gloats and asks who should be next, whereas the "normie Democrat" demographic is probably appalled by the murder.

2025-09-15 04:04:38 UTC

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It does actually appear to be true though.
Btw this website is hilarious:
https://checkyourfact.com/2019/12/24/fact-check-633000-homeless-million-vacant-homes/
> An image shared on Facebook claims that there are more than 633,000 homeless people and more than 13.9 million vacant homes in America.
> Verdict: False
> The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.
> While it’s accurate to say there are more vacant homes than homeless people in the U.S., the statistics cited in the image aren’t correct.
It's FALSE because it's even worse than the slogan said. :blobcat-googly-trash:

2025-09-15 03:55:02 UTC

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Umm actually ChatGPT said it's true :blobcat-nerd:
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2025-09-15 02:31:22 UTC

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I actually think the Joe Biden thing is the most damning statement by him I've seen so far. He for sure wouldn't have said that about any former president with similar politics to his.

2025-09-14 15:41:55 UTC

I follow the "fedi block bot" and... why the F do I occasionally see a notification about a server being blocked for "CP"? Shouldn't that be impossible to host on the clearnet without quickly getting raided by FBI, Interpol, etc.?
Initially I thought these block notifications were referring to lolicon material or such, but today I've actually seen a block notice that said something like "this server says loli, but it's actually CP" so what the hell is going on there?
I don't even want to investigate this too closely myself for obvious reasons, but it's making me curious/worried because I always assumed it was practically impossible to openly serve illegal content like that without using a Tor HS or something.

2025-09-14 10:52:47 UTC

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Thanks. Looking into these:
> https://x.com/RightWingWatch/status/1701259614077989121
> Quoting the bible saying that cross-dressers are an "abomination to god" and then calling out William/Lia Thomas specifically
That's pretty horrible, but he's talking about the William/Lia Thomas case which was particularly egregious due to women being effectively forced to change in his presence in the women's locker room and then also losing titles to him.
> https://x.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1626672143617384472
This seems to be entirely about the female-only spaces thing. He's obviously not suggesting that men go out and harass or lynch trans people or cross-dressers, but rather that they should "man up" and physically keep male people out of female-only spaces.
Regarding the "suggesting they should be locked up" claim I'm going to assume (since you didn't provide a citation, unless I missed it) that it was most likely in reference to males who enter female-only spaces.
> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-black-women/
> Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk once said some prominent Black women did not have "the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously."
That's a really shitty thing to say about those women, but it was clearly a comment on DEI and those specific women, not a generalization about black women.
This is just like if someone talked about certain "old white men" being shitty people and only having the positions they have thanks to privilege. Right-wingers then often conclude "they're racist and sexist against white men" which isn't correct either. There's a difference between being pro-DEI and "racist against whites" just like there's a difference between being anti-DEI and racist against non-whites.
> https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/charlie-kirk-once-called-for-patriot-to-bail-out-paul-pelosi-assailant-david-depape/
> Access denied for some reason, so I'll go by this instead: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-bail-pelosi-attacker/
> Kirk's remarks, delivered during an Oct. 31, 2022, episode of his podcast, "The Charlie Kirk Show," also included him saying, "I'm not qualifying [the attack]. I think it's awful." He asked why the attacker was held without bail, claiming that in Chicago someone can "commit murder and be out the next day."
Seems to be complaining that there's an apparent double-standard applied to that particular murderer, while acknowledging that he's a murderer and that what he did was awful. Take note how he made sure to add that he thinks it's awful; something which a lot of left-wing people commenting on Kirk being shot omitted in their posts glibly talking about it (like the two RedHat employees mentioned in the Lunduke video).
All in all, while I agree that he had horrible opinions, and that the "abomination" thing crosses the line, it seems to have been an exception due to the heat caused by the changing rooms issue, and I still don't see any evidence of him promoting violence against political opponents in even a single instance, let alone there being a pattern of such rhetoric.
So far what I'm seeing continues to confirm my idea that the reactions to him are a typical case of words being twisted and someone being made out to be ten times worse than they really were as a person. Same thing that right wingers, trans activists, pro-Palestine people, pro-Israel people, and frankly sometimes even the GC feminists I support, are all guilty of. People just completely give up objectivity and fairness when they hate someone's ideas.

2025-09-14 09:33:13 UTC

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Can you provide sources for such claims? It's extremely common for people to twist the words of political adversaries, just like it seems to have happened with the "stoning gay people" thing.
Unless you provide a source and I check out what he actually said and in what context, I have to disregard the accusations.
I hate it when people twist my words or the words of people I support and agree with (e.g. JK Rowling) so I would be hypocritical if I let it slide when it's done to people I disagree with (esp. someone who literally got murdered).

2025-09-14 09:13:32 UTC

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(I assume this post was targeted at me, not anemone?)
Charlie Kirk didn't call for gay people to be stoned to death.
> In 2024, Kirk criticized children's YouTuber Ms. Rachel for arguing that the bible verse "love thy neighbor" in the Leviticus 18 scripture should apply to gay people. On the podcast, Kirk said: "by the way, Ms. Rachel, you might want to crack open that Bible of yours. In a lesser reference, part of the same part of scripture, is in Leviticus 18, is that ‘thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death.' Just saying."
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/09/12/stephen-king-charlie-kirk/86123212007/
He's also quoted as saying:
> “I believe marriage is one man, one woman. Also, gay people should be welcome in the conservative movement,” Kirk posted. “As Christians, we are called to love everyone. I will always stand against people who wish to establish their own personal values as a reason to kick others out of our movement.”
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1197979402472046593
If you watch the whole video in that tweet, he passionately argues against the homophobic audience member, saying you have to be respectful to people who "make other life choices" (such as not following Christianity, or being openly homosexual) and that you should still be friendly and cooperative with them.
All in all he seems to have been a fairly standard 21st century Republican who tried to follow a positive and somewhat humanist interpretation of Christianity while still being firm about conservative beliefs. Not someone I'd easily agree with on most things, but also not some kind of extremist who "had it coming."

2025-09-14 06:29:52 UTC

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I'm not sad either. Here's the tldr of my view on the event:
https://fedi.feministwiki.org/notice/Ay6lrw6zUoNTGEfxmS
The post "when behaviour has consequences" by Karol Herbst in particular is easily interpreted as an endorsement or normalisation of what happened. As in: "If you say the kinds of things he said, you should face the consequence of being shot." This is an interpretation, but not a stretch by any measure given that the tone of the "consequences" post is clearly sarcastic.
If a right wing person said that about the killing of Melissa Hortman, how would you judge it? I'd see it as utterly disgusting and as a trivialization of the killing at best, and at worst a dog whistle calling for more such killings.

2025-09-14 06:12:50 UTC

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I think calling the posts by the RedHat employees a "celebration" of the murder isn't too far off the mark.
(I didn't look into the MS ones. Don't care about MS.)
It's like "hey technically I didn't say it was a good thing or expressed any obvious happiness over it so I didn't 'celebrate' it!"
Yeah sure but we all know what you meant more or less. And that's them holding back because they're high profile public figures.
But yeah a more factual headline would have been appropriate.