⛵️holly 🇺🇸➡️🇯🇵 @holly@v.st

Oh cool, my VPN has sent letters to the EU Parliament! #chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle

For US trans folks, ProPublica is looking at barriers to gender affirming care. (These are the investigative big guns, so people with good documentation this goes double for you.)

https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/have-you-faced-barriers-gender-affirming-care

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It blows my mind how many people are in favor of the outright banning of TikTok rather than advocating in favor of data privacy regulations.

People figured out where the Lofi Beats to Study To person lives based on the buildings in the background. People continue to be scary, keep up on your opsec, folks.

Dringend stemadvies.

I hope the right-wing freak-out over "15-minute cities" will show that there is no concept so anodyne or benign that they won't freak out over it.

Freaking out and screaming about "liberal overreach", "woke conspiracies", and so on is simply WHAT THEY DO. They will do it whether we try to accommodate them or not.

So, seriously: stop even trying. Promote good, progressive ideas! So what if the right freaks out? They were going to anyway.

Pi Day is a fake holiday made up by Big Math to sell more math.

Never get tired a this un...

"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no.
Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed.
Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die.
You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food.
You are meat for prowling beasts.
No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others.
Be civilized.

In het bloed van Nederlandse boeren worden verhoudingsgewijs veel bestrijdingsmiddelen aangetroffen en huisstof op boerderijen bevat maar liefst 144 soorten landbouwgif.

Europese normen bieden weinig bescherming, omdat die niet kijken naar de totale gezondheidseffecten van gelijktijdige blootstelling aan meerdere middelen.

Onderzoekers vrezen voor tal van ziekten als parkinson, kanker en verminderde vruchtbaarheid. En niet alleen bij de boer, maar ook bij omwonenden...

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6253392/gezondheid-boeren-op-spel-door-grote-cocktail-van-landbouwgif.html

happy gender pay gap bot day to all who celebrate

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2023