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Eine sehr schöner Fediverse Guide "Fediverse Erkundungstour BETA" , der zwar gerade erste entsteht und wohl noch viel vor hat. Die Anfänge sind sehr vielversprechend.

tour.fediverse.at/
#Fediverse #Federation #Friendica #Mastodon
Fediverse Erkundungstour BETA

This article in Forbes outlines a strategy by Republican lawmakers to bypass the electoral polling entirely.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/23/report-trump-campaign-actively-discussing-radical-measures-to-bypass-election-results/#1d0c39d54800

The first phase was suppression by gerrymandering. Next was throwing out voter registration. Then came claim the vote is fraudulent. Now we have an attempt to bypass the democratic system entirely.

What we are witnessing is the disintegration of democracy in the United States.

if there is ONE thing you do this week to proactively help your community, get the flu shot. there are so many places to get the flu shot for free, and while we don’t have a covid vaccine yet, we do have another extremely safe and extremely helpful vaccine available widely, free of charge, that will also help prevent thousands of deaths.

get your flu shot.

"It would be a disaster for feminism to return either to a strictly biological understanding of gender or to reduce social conduct to a body part or to impose fearful fantasies, their own anxieties, on trans women... Their abiding and very real sense of gender ought to be recognised socially and publicly as a relatively simple matter of according another human dignity. The trans-exclusionary radical feminist position attacks the dignity of trans people."
Judith Butler, interview with the New Statesman
#judithbutler #transfeminism #feminism #philosophy

LOOOL this interview is so fucking funny

https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times

Eine Auswahl von fünf Microsoft-Mythen, die insbesondere im Bildungsbereich (Schulen, Universitäten etc.) anzutreffen sind, werden beleuchtet und argumentativ entkräftet. Schluss mit Produktschulungen und Werbung für einen multinationalen Konzern in Schulen!

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/bildungswesen-entlarvung-der-haeufigsten-microsoft-mythen/

An estimated 1.7% of all people worldwide are intersex.

That means there are 132.6 million intersex people on Earth.

727 thousand Oceanians.
7.3 million South Americans.
10 million North Americans.
12.7 million Europeans.
22.9 million Africans.
79 million Asians.

Intersex characteristics vary wildly, and not all are obvious. Many people do not know they are intersex.

A huge part of destroying public libraries has always been about taking a huge resource away from poor people. It's wild that this isn't common perception.

If you sat through the Lord of the Rings movies, you can watch this whole video of a spider making an egg sac.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/09/22/the-clever-spider-and-its-masterful-artifice/

"#Facebook disabled accounts of people with posting privileges on 18 different pages belonging to environmental and Indigenous rights orgs"

Another reason not to trust Internet monopolies, when those talking about #ClimateJustice are considered outlaws.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/09/21/Facebook-Disables-Wetsuweten-Linked-Accounts/

Hey I just noticed that The Dispossessed is now on libcom, or has been reposted on libcom.
http://libcom.org/library/dispossessed-ursula-le-guin
So now it's definitely there.
It was on The Anarchist Library. I guess that's why it was posted on libcom. Her short story about Odo "The Day Before the Revolution" is still on there. If you loved The Dispossessed and haven't read it yet, I recommend it.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-day-before-the-revolution
Even if you haven't read The Dispossessed yet, I recommend you read it (that and The Dispossessed).

Happy Equinox everybody 🌞

Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads https://www.wired.com/story/companies-track-phones-movements-target-ads/