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2026-07-20 09:46:27 UTC

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Still curious about the legal basis for the arrest. Reading aloud is not a crime.

2026-06-14 17:20:45 UTC

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Yes, it's a huge issue. And a lot of outlets really haven't recognised the hazard yet.

2026-06-14 14:16:32 UTC

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In the Indian context specifically that would make sense. In some ways the country seems very divided.

2026-06-14 04:47:11 UTC

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Is this limited to Indian people? I'm wondering if it's a more generic power thing. Certain groups in India do seem to have held power, insulated from any basis in effort or ability, for a long time, which tends to foster this. But it seems more about the power than the Indianness, if that makes sense — at least from an external perspective (so perhaps there's something I'm missing) 🤔

2026-06-07 04:33:31 UTC

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I've noticed a lot of the opinion operations seem to be aimed at discrediting the figureheads and trying to undermine perceptions of how much momentum the CJP has. But that ignores the fact that the concept has really struck a chord with a significant number of people. That wouldn't have happened if there weren't real issues. It's disappointing (although not surprising) that it mostly seems to be being handled like a threat to power, rather than a canary in the coalmine for something that needs to be addressed.

2026-05-10 05:11:14 UTC

I don't know where those behind the "thin scrollbar" trend got their computing education, but they need to go back there and do the HCI course again. Then they need to spend at least a week using glasses that distort their eyesight while they work, so they can learn what people with vision challenges experience while trying to use what they built.
Same for the "small text" trend. And the "it doesn't matter how much you zoom or unzoom this page nothing changes" trend.
#accessibility #inclusion

2026-05-02 16:31:02 UTC

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wow congratulations! That must be such a good feeling ☺️

2026-05-02 09:14:10 UTC

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This is why when bollywood celebs post some kind of "send me a video" challenge, and their inner circle of favourite "fans" send back a production-quality edit of the celeb's show as requested within two hours, during the working day, you know someone in this arrangement isn't telling the truth 👀

2026-04-11 09:09:23 UTC

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This crosses my mind every time Trump bitches about NATO. He can leave any time he wants. And when he does, he can stop occupying Germany, the U.K. and all the other NATO countries that live in the shadow of U.S. military presence. It's impossible to see them as protectors. They are a liability and a menace.

2026-02-28 16:25:05 UTC

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Congratulations! 🙌🎉

2026-02-27 10:40:24 UTC

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Tried this? 👉 https://wikis.world/@legoktm/116094231639119189

2026-02-24 05:53:02 UTC

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It can be pretty draining, because of the level of focus required. I bet after four or five days of 20-minute bursts you'll feel able to do a bit more, mind. Or, if you feel ready, you could try two 20-minute blocks in a day, spaced far apart.

2026-02-07 06:32:34 UTC

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Excellent reporting - thank you for sharing it. Casteism definitely seems to be a factor. It's almost as though the families see the work as something they're entitled to, as well, even beyond the caste issue. But as the report makes clear, they relinquished that right. The guy comes from a family with temple links, and isn't overseeing the work of others. Preserving traditions is one thing, but this seems more like dogma.

2026-01-26 00:25:57 UTC

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Wonder how it got that 🤔

2026-01-26 00:22:53 UTC

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I think a lot of people literally do not know. The great firewall is hardly ever covered these days.

2026-01-21 14:57:06 UTC

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congrats! 🙌🎉

2026-01-09 10:26:25 UTC

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That's an excellent video. Is there a follow-up on what we should do about it? Or do we just have to wait so long people suffer enough to start killing billionnaires and blowing up datacentres, forcing the arm of politicians to regulate and restore the protections and guardrails that are currently being eroded? @npub19at…c8rf @npub1yek…9ze2 @npub1fdr…lvhs

2025-12-27 05:08:55 UTC

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I think the platforms are very enthusiastic about giving users the impression their data will be safe and secure. To then not live up to that is a dereliction of duty. The responsibility falls on the platforms to fulfil their promises, not on their victims to anticipate the ways they might be betrayed by bad-faith operators. Of course, trying to anticipate that will keep you safer in life. But it shouldn't be the expectation—that's called victim blaming.

2025-12-27 05:07:22 UTC

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You're never obliged to feel anything. Not everyone is in a position to be fully informed about these hazards, though, or adequately resourced to be able to do something about them. We have the time to read about the risks, and then sit here sharing ideas about how the internet could be better. That means we have time and resources others don't have—we didn't need to spend that time working, or supervising children, or caring for elderly infirm relatives, or doing unpaid domestic labour.

2025-12-23 16:05:22 UTC

Why are all my hobbies a bit like work? 🤔

2025-11-28 11:00:07 UTC

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(I mean, anyone can get Japanese nationality in theory if you spend five years here and learn the language but people who have a Japanese parent can choose to hold Japanese nationality without doing anything... which is fair, of course.)

2025-11-28 10:53:24 UTC

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... in childhood or attend international schools here. They face a different set of challenges, I think — they don't choose their situation, we do; they often face racism on all sides; they have to deal with major language challenges in childhood disrupting schooling, unlike people who choose to relocate here later. But they also are much more accepted and their work on fluency in childhood puts them in a much stronger position professionally. And they can get Japanese nationality.

2025-11-28 10:50:24 UTC

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"Half" is the term used in Japanese (ハーフ) for people who have one Japanese parent and one parent who is not Japanese. It's a pretty awful term (reminds me of "half-cast" in the U.K., which was recognised as inappropriate many, many years ago) and there has been debate about it, but it hasn't shifted so I've used it reluctantly here to refer to the community of people who fit that description.
People who grow up in those families are often raised bilingual and spend time overseas...

2025-11-27 12:42:36 UTC

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This doesn't feel like a good time to be in Japan. I wish I was more surprised by what's happening here. Some people say there's a silent majority that doesn't support the ideas that are being put forward. It doesn't matter how much of a majority they are if they remain silent.

2025-11-27 11:47:55 UTC

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Maybe there should be a Japanese citizenship exam.
Go on, "they're not Japanese enough" culture police. Write the syllabus for this Japanese culture you think no human without Japanese-ethnicity blood can learn.
It can't be written down... because to write it down would be to write the lie: that "they're not Japanese enough" is, for many, a flimsy eumephism for "they are not the same ethnicity as me, and that is all I have."

2025-11-27 11:21:54 UTC

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(My personal view is that it's a mistake for Onoda to be seen as an advocate for all foreign nationals in Japan. The "half" community is distinct from foreign nationals. Each community has its own challenges that the other doesn't fully understand. Japan accepts members of the "half" community into politics and public life in ways it never would with other foreign nationals, but the idea that she can represent the interest of everyone who isn't Japanese is flawed.)

2025-11-27 11:17:52 UTC

Worth a watch if you're interested in spending time in Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GKmqa4cWj4

2025-11-15 06:37:18 UTC

#SoftBank is really negligent at addressing #spam.
After missing an important message from my landlord's management agency because it was in a sea of spam and I hadn't been able to turn on notifications due to that, I finally managed to get the spam filter set up in a way that works for me.
But I was still left with over 18 months of up to 20 phishing messages a day that could very, very easily have been identified and filtered by SoftBank. It's mindblowing they're allowed to let that happen.

2025-11-09 04:28:03 UTC

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People need to justify themselves? One man's expat is another man's immigrant. How do these people get in the way of addressing justice, dignity and rights?

2025-11-08 03:12:17 UTC

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Here's where it gets interesting.
Any post I sent last night that was visible to users on other instances remains there.
I can't delete it, because I can't see it on my instance. Auto-delete won't delete it either, for the same reason.
In terms of people's ability to control their data, this is a problem. It affects all #Mastodon users.
It's also a problem Mastodon has known about since December 2022, when I sent them a suggested fix: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22154
Which they ignored, as usual.

2025-11-08 02:34:12 UTC

So it looks like everything I posted last night was lost as mas.to tried to update to #Mastodon 4.5
👀

2025-10-24 14:00:24 UTC

Whatever monstrosity Trump builds next to, or over, the White House, it should get torn down.
No matter how long it takes, or what it takes. Or even if it has merits (it won't). It must go.
"The cruelty is the point" is the only language he understands.

2025-10-11 02:45:42 UTC

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How is it legal to keep debt off the balance sheet in the first place?

2025-10-09 08:20:45 UTC

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I think there's also been a big shift to messaging. A lot of younger people seem to use messengers much more than social media now. I think they've seen the privacy loss involved in putting life online (with real names, at least).

2025-10-09 08:18:35 UTC

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(Thinking of people like Swastik Productions, recently renamed Swastik Stories. Their Instagram channel carries multiple new stories every hour of the day. It's insane. I don't know how they expect anyone to interact with that volume of content and watch TV shows as well. It can only be targeted at students and housewives, although I have a hunch even most housewives don't have that much time in the day.)

2025-10-09 08:16:33 UTC

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I think it depends on how you're using it. If your feed is full of influencers and you're trying to compete with them, that is going to be work.
It's also hard to do well at the insane pace set by people who make money out of it, and so are happy to post so often their audience would only be able to keep up by abandoning their real lives altogether, irrespective of the harms.

2025-10-07 10:54:03 UTC

Is something up with #fdroid? Have been trying to install the Android fork of #syncthing for two days. The download is really slow, and it keeps stopping. I have to go back into f-droid to manually restart it, and it looks like last night it just gave up altogether.

2025-10-06 15:40:50 UTC

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Stunning - thank you for sharing! 🙏💗

2025-10-01 15:26:26 UTC

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That's a really beautiful view. Thanks for sharing these pics 🧡

2025-09-20 05:41:06 UTC

Was looking for some straightforward web page widget that would tell me when major markets were open, but there's nothing. In fact, hardly any widgets seem to be available these days — I guess because most people don't code their own html pages anymore.
Depressing. Html is really straightward. That everyone has the ability to craft an internet presence is essential to democratizing our online existence. We've let tech bros appoint themselves gatekeepers by convincing us basic markup is hard.

2025-09-18 14:03:17 UTC

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That's interesting, and very different to everything I've heard about it previously. Perhaps I've just been hearing a lot of rich people whinging 😬 Thank you for the info! 🙇‍♀️

2025-09-18 08:06:37 UTC

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Does it count as evasion if he just doesn't choose to pay double taxes? I'm lucky here as the U.K. has a tax agreement with Japan, but most of my U.S. colleagues end up getting taxed twice on the same earnings when they only live in one country, and I can definitely understand them making the choice to not do that anymore. (Obviously genuine evasion is a bad thing and I'm 100% opposed to that.)

2025-09-08 12:50:45 UTC

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It is strange how little vegetarian cuisine there is here given the prominence of Buddhism. You'd think there would be more (even if the flavours would probably still be different to what you're looking for). Maybe if there are restaurants in the areas with large Asian populations they'd be more authentic.

2025-09-07 05:53:11 UTC

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A group of people being ignorant about how good food can taste is probably less correlated to race or origin, and more correlated to experience. Lots of restaurants here cater to the Japanese palate, too, which (in general) differs significantly from a lot of the rest of Asia.

2025-08-24 09:00:03 UTC

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The problem comes when you're too worried about 100 problems all at once to sit down and meditate.

2025-08-14 03:13:30 UTC

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(I guess Mastodon's DMs kind of work that way. I'm not sure what happens here if you set any post to followers only but then tag someone who doesn't follow you 😅)

2025-08-14 03:11:53 UTC

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It'd be really neat if it did work that way—would be super useful for organisations to be able to receive messages from accounts they don't follow without the senders having to expose their whole account publicly, as well. Maybe it's something more social media platforms should adopt. 🤔

2025-08-13 14:08:39 UTC

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It's really good that they helped. Even if someone is a "model" speaker of English (whatever that is) there is always some tidying up required. I hope it ends up taking less time than you fear! 🙏

2025-08-13 13:47:23 UTC

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You will get a bit faster. If you already have the transcript and you're just tidying it, that's a lot of work done. The tidying and neat formatting is probably slower than touch typing the initial transcript, though. I did transcription for a publishers for a while. I think to do the whole recording from scratch it would take about the time you mention - maybe six or seven times the length of the recording.

2025-08-13 13:45:46 UTC

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It takes way longer than anyone would expect to work through a transcript. If you can get a decent audio player that you can control (pause, rewind a second or two and play) with keypresses it helps, so you don't have to keep moving your hands off the keyboard then switching back to type. A footpedal is apparently helpful but I've never used one and it's probably not worth buying for 10 hours of audio.
I think I used to use VLC. There might be other apps that work better.

2025-08-13 12:59:46 UTC

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... But it sounds like even the replies don't work the way they describe. 🤦‍♀️

2025-08-13 12:59:23 UTC

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That's really interesting — thank you for the info! I started wondering after looking at the privacy options today. It says that if you lock your account, people not following you can't see your posts (as expected) but that if you reply to a post by someone who doesn't follow you they can see what you wrote 🤔 That's seemed odd to me, although quite neat if it works—so it got me wondering if you have to reply to an actual post or if tagging them is enough....

2025-08-13 07:24:38 UTC

If you set a #Threads profile to followers-only, then write a post that tags someone who doesn't follow you — not replying to their post, just a plain old post that tags them — can that person see what you wrote?
(Not advocating for Threads, am just trying to understand their privacy model.)

2025-07-26 05:12:07 UTC

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It's almost like building a technology that gives people the ability to use technology in the most powerful ways without any requirement for them to know anything about how that can go wrong is a really bad idea.
There are reasons programming is something you *learn*. AI is an attack on learning, and anyone who has ever learned anything already knows exactly why that's such a terrible and dangerous idea.

2025-07-26 05:00:39 UTC

This is a very frustrating rationale from the Mastodon team for not making quote posts "opt in" and not allowing people to choose to disable quote posts in the forthcoming 4.5 update.
(Notice how I've "quoted" Claire here, out of context? She won't be able to turn that off in 4.5 no matter which option she chooses, because she had "mentioned" me. Even Bluesky lets users disable that, but not Mastodon. How is any of this what Gargron promised?)
https://mastodon.social/@ClearlyClaire/114914937573288580

2025-07-22 10:19:06 UTC

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" ... Without doubt, O Krishna, a terrible calamity approacheth the Kurus when specially, O thou of Vrishni's race, the planet Mahapat afflicteth the constellation Chitra. The spot on the lunar disc hath changed its position; and Rahu also approacheth towards the sun."
Ganguli translation, I'm afraid, as it's the one I'm most familiar with navigating: https://sacred-texts.com/hin/m05/m05143.htm
Doesn't sound like straightforward astronomy to me, though.

2025-07-22 10:18:23 UTC

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Udyoga Parva, Section 143, Karna:
"That fierce planet of great effulgence, Sanaischara (Saturn), is afflicting the constellation called Rohini, in order to afflict greatly the creatures of the earth. The planet Angaraka (Mars), wheeling, O slayer of Madhu, towards the constellation Jeshthya, approacheth towards Anuradhas, indicating a great slaughter of friends. ... "

2025-07-22 06:53:10 UTC

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That first one states that jyotish wasn't mentioned in any ancient texts before 1,000AD, but I'd thought the timing of the battle of Kurukshetra was analysed with reference to astrology in the Mahabharata 🤔 You might want to check that.

2025-07-21 08:21:01 UTC

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How though?

2025-07-21 05:58:17 UTC

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I don't know how you safeguard the freedoms of online video platforms and free online speech, while protecting against the genuine dangers of people who abuse that privilege for the sake of their own power and influence. Genuinely, what is the solution?

2025-07-21 05:54:15 UTC

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Few things push my buttons quite like people destroying what has benefitted them for those who follow. And then there's the hypocrisy, bigotry and ignorance in the mix. It's a real button bonanza.
How many times are we going to let internet populists damage our societies and democratic systems by pandering to ignorance before we do something about it?

2025-07-21 05:51:29 UTC

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Of course, if you spoke to any of these people individually, they would probably tell you what they were really doing was registering a protest vote.
And when the consequences of the voting choices hit the fan, you will hear, "I didn't think it would tear the fabric of society apart! I didn't think it would have all these negative consequences. Nobody told me that. Nobody told me that as someone who has spent their life enjoying democratic norms I had any responsibility whatsoever."

2025-07-21 05:46:54 UTC

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Like, if life is an immigrant is such a great deal, why the f*** are you still here?

2025-07-21 05:45:57 UTC

Anyone who thinks an immigrant has advantages and an easy life should be invited to spend at least five years living as an immigrant.

2025-07-20 12:15:08 UTC

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(I don't have any particular issue with Atheists being Atheists, but I do dislike how some of the more vocal Atheists show much less respect for other viewpoints than people with religious or even agnostic views, and much less respect for others than they demand themselves. Atheism is fine, hypocrisy and double standards are a problems.)

2025-07-20 12:10:41 UTC

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I think a lot of Athiests fail to appreciate that Atheism is as much a religious viewpoint as any other, and that claims science is at odds with all religious ideas are flawed. Science is not "on the side of Atheism", some vocal Atheists would just like to claim that is the case in a bid to make their own unprovable arguments sound superior.
In doing so they have pinned the blame for human fallability on religion. The religion is now gone, but the fallability is still here.

2025-07-20 12:09:50 UTC

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Thank you for saying this. And yes, a lot of science fiction including Star Trek touched on some really important themes (Babylon 5 comes to mind, as well). Shows don't seem to go near those questions now.

2025-07-20 11:49:51 UTC

In a culturally diverse society, the reduction of time spent on religious education in our curriculum may be a practical necessity.
But where is the moral education to replace it?
Love or hate religion, along with the religious verses came hours each week of moral guidance. Even if you disagreed with what was said, you considered it.
Perhaps the purging of this from many Western societies in the name of secular objectivity has played a part in leading us to where we are right now.

2025-07-20 04:46:32 UTC

The #Fediverse is home to some really fascinating people with immense and diverse knowledge and experiences. I'm fortunate to be here, and hope this incredible community can be protected and maintained 🙏

2025-07-13 05:41:49 UTC

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Wish I could say I was surprised. I saw your note before, wondering how they'd feel about the coverage. How did that go?

2025-07-10 14:04:13 UTC

In #Mastodon 4.4 they've added the horrible popup window from #Bluesky when you try to click on a #hashtag.
If I wanted to do something weird with the hashtag, I'd right click it. Now I need to make an extra click every single time I just want to view the posts. It's one of the worst features of Bluesky, and they've added it into Mastodon.
It doesn't even do anything useful like tell you if you're following the hashtag.
Every time they update the Mastodon UI they make it worse.
#MastoDev

2025-07-10 04:58:50 UTC

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Are you on Facebook again? 😉 I have not told any North Indians to learn Marathi: I reject this accusation.

2025-07-09 03:58:43 UTC

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What should be published in their place?

2025-07-08 12:00:19 UTC

You need to go to sleep in 90 minutes.
You still feel the irritation, tension, frustration and anxiety of the day... in the pit of your stomach, clenched around your ribs.
You know what you need for that not to build up and cause you problems is to be rid of it.
What do you do?
(Boosts for reach gratefully received 🙏)

2025-07-07 01:05:44 UTC

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Does the right speak in the vernacular across the country or mostly in the Hindi belt?

2025-07-06 03:35:14 UTC

via [@_L1vY_](https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_ ) (https://mas.to/deck/@_L1vY_@mstdn.social/114802017935651205, retooting to add CW)
Unbelievable. MTG is already out there openly promoting absolutely bonkers conspiracy ideas that the Texas floods (and other natural disasters) are "not natural" and were /are being created by weather control i.e. some Democratic weather cabal. 🤦🏻‍♀️
This will be their playbook for EVERY natural disaster that could have been averted or mitigated by NOAA or FEMA funding or was made far worse by Medicaid defunding.

2025-07-05 03:09:14 UTC

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Yeah, that's not something that should be condoned at all. Thank you for sharing this about the situation there. You're absolutely right about all of it. I hope the problems you mention can be addressed. Perhaps the debate about this will cast some light on them—I know that's not often what happens, but there is always a chance.

2025-07-05 02:47:17 UTC

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I guess the issue of why people are having to migrate so far from their own communities for work is something none of the politicians want to get into. Soundbites on language win votes but actually getting into any of the political business that needs to be addressed is a quagmire.
The three-language policy was formally withdrawn about a week ago, though, wasn't it? Did someone propose it again, or has the issue just caught attention because of the formal move?

2025-07-05 02:43:49 UTC

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Yeah that's true. If they're only there short term and there is a language that can be used, it doesn't make sense to learn a whole new one.

2025-07-05 02:40:50 UTC

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(I mean the traders in the minority groups)

2025-07-05 02:40:03 UTC

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That's really interesting. As someone unfamiliar with it, I'd have thought those who move there would have the sense that if you move to a place the burden is on you to become capable of functioning in the language for day-to-day use (even acknowledging that that is hard and that people don't always have the resources—even if it isn't possible, one can still recognise where the responsibility lies). The minority groups are different, of course. Historically only traders learned Marathi?

2025-07-05 02:14:34 UTC

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Are there a lot of people in Maharashtra that don't speak any Marathi?

2025-06-20 13:14:32 UTC

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What are they doing that makes them fear people would target them in that way?
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/715/866/883/005/995/original/d3bc7957b918541f.png

2025-06-16 16:04:26 UTC

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oh no! Hope you can rest and that you're on the mend soon 🙏

2025-06-15 14:24:09 UTC

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Maybe they upgraded to a shop nearby 🙏 Print is suffering everywhere, mind. I think it really has to differentiate via quality these days, and the price will probably have to go up quite a lot to compensate for the loss of sales. Whether it's possible to balance that and keep the price within an affordable range is the big question.
At least now, mind, the wire services aren't so much at liberty to give their content away for free while charging papers for it.

2025-06-14 09:31:34 UTC

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Relieved I don't have to do this every time I leave the house
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/114/681/009/597/321/968/original/4c9d3e23c843727a.webp

2025-06-13 01:12:35 UTC

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Keep writing. It's not all editors. And if the story isn't there to be used, it can't be used.
(But yeah, I absolutely hear you. Did you notice as well how many more front pages carried LA riot/police images compared to how many carried person-of-colour-being-dragged-away-by-ICE-in-civvies-and-masks images? 🤬)

2025-06-12 23:25:21 UTC

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I'm dreading full details of the cause as I have a feeling it will be due to Boeing and entirely preventable. Of course, it's still too early to tell. But Boeing should already be out of business for everything they've done, everyone they've killed, already. The U.S. system presides over so much injustice. How long will it go on?

2025-06-07 10:55:12 UTC

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Someone needs to mock up a cover of that book so it can do the meme rounds 😂

2025-06-07 10:53:19 UTC

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If they'd been Palestinian journalists it wouldn't have been reporting footage and family photos that would've been deleted, it would've been their actual families.
But you have to act surprised where Israel is concerned, or you'll be accused of "anti-Semitism".
Telling an Israeli genocide is unacceptable is an attack on Judaism and Jewish people, apparently 🤷‍♀️ (And the whole of the West nods its head and lets it go.)

2025-06-03 06:50:10 UTC

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Did you see that now they've gone after the person who criticized her post? Complaints riddled with allegations have been filed against him and he's "missing".

2025-06-02 02:03:37 UTC

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Maybe there should be a website with all the masks made worldwide in there and all the standards, and you'd be able to do comparisons on them the same way some sites do with smartphones or computers 🤔
#wearAMask

2025-06-02 01:54:54 UTC

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Although standards exist, they seem more obscure than they need to be, and like the minor differences between standards in each country are there to protect manufacturers from customers choosing to import, rather than for any real benefit. Don't you want the best protection for everyone?
Also, that the Japan standards are so much less rigorous for a "general" mask than for a "medical" mask speaks volumes.
I'm exhausted by all of it. There should be one standard: keep #covid out.
#wearAMask

2025-06-02 01:50:45 UTC

Every time I try to shop for masks these days I get frustrated. According to one page I checked the standard Japan came up with for medical use matches N95 (if you get the medical ones, not the general ones, even though they're conveniently called the same thing) but KF94 also had a maximum inward leakage rate of 11% (even though KF94 is very slightly less protective than N95, otherwise).
The Japanese medical JIS T 9001 standard doesn't seem to specify an inward leakage limit.
#wearAMask

2025-06-01 06:11:49 UTC

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Yeah I've been trying to see what she wrote but none of the reporting is very specific (presumably to avoid the same liability).
I agree there are issues with how controversial online speech is handled. But if it's being handled that way when the speech was made outside the Hindu majority, it should absolutely be handled that way when it's made by that group, too. And self-appointed Hindutva pin-up Kangana Ranaut and her crew would be the first calling for it if this girl wasn't Hindu.

2025-06-01 05:43:30 UTC

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Being a law student she should know that deleting a post does not delete an offence.

2025-05-27 13:30:35 UTC

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(I know my problem solving isn't particularly impressive here, I'm sorry. It does really suck. Nothing the orange menace is doing is good, and his nonsense financial threats are ridiculous. It must be really bad being there at the moment. I hope this latest idea of his turns out to be just noise and never gets implemented.)

2025-05-27 13:27:07 UTC

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Or... I wonder if it'll be applied to purchases made with credit cards issued by U.S. banks 🤔 A purchase isn't a remittance.

2025-05-27 13:20:18 UTC

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Time to send home some "gifts" through the mail https://www.jmbullion.com/gold/gold-bars/all-gold-bars/ 🎁

2025-05-27 10:42:39 UTC

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Can you send them via Wise? (Will it be affected as well?)