The light was too bright, but Pabu was too tired to move to a dark area to nap, so he used the paw blindfold

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In 1946, a Black Army veteran was beaten by police in South Carolina simply for asking to use the bathroom. He emerged from the jail permanently blind.

His name was Isaac Woodard. His fight for justice reached the White House, inspired artists like Billie Holiday and Woody Guthrie to speak out, and helped set the stage for landmark civil rights victories. Yet his story is largely forgotten.

https://theconversation.com/the-police-beating-that-opened-americas-eyes-to-jim-crows-brutality-53932
#VeteransDay

Mastodon to Lemmy Federation Test.
@fediverse

Writing this from Mastodon as a Test. Hello!

This is my first time doing this, i didn't knew that you could do this with Lammy groups until a few hours ago.

Can someone tell me how Lemmy instances handles quotes from Mastodon and PeerTube links and stuff like that? Don't want to pollute the this group with test messages.

That’s because they’re actually propagandists for those authoritarian governments pretending to be communist. They’re about as communist as the Nazis were socialist.

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@TentinQuarantino I'm glad to hear that! 🤘 Which festival did you attend?

The #gig on Saturday went really good. Well, it was awesome! I finally had the perfect monitoring, the drumkit on the stage wasn’t junk, no hurry, everyone was chill as hell. The #festival had two stages and no two bands played simultaneously. So even as an opener the club was full! We’ve got so many positive feedback, sold a lot of merch, a bunch of people wanted to have pictures with us.
We also had some networking and maybe we’ll have 3-4 gigs next year.
I had my doubts about this festival. I thought it will be lame and we drove 12 hours for nothing. It was completely different. It gave me such a boost for practicing and creating merch 🤘🏻#ossarium

The Cybertruck is so popular you’re discontinuing it in 8 months? Whatever dude 🙄

Holy wow, WHAT?? We do not permit CP. Full stop.

As Ace@feddit.uk said no one under the age of 18 can be posted and they have to be verified as such. Genuinely it seems like the only issue is the name, which can be changed to clear up any confusion.

I also agree with this that Ace@feddit.uk said:

There’s a very clear line in the sand to me: don’t post anyone underage. Posting overage girls is fine to me no matter what they like. Should the “small boobs” community also be banned because people might mistake a 25 year old with As for a 15 year old? Come on.

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You/they are accusing them of “hosting child pornography” on the basis that they have nude images of proven-overage adults.

@TheBreadmonkey

Sorry Ben! Should have realized these were mine when I pulled them on,

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Er bewertet nicht, er denkt sich nur einfach seinen Teil.

He doesn’t judge; he just thinks what he thinks.

#WhiskersWednesday #CatsofMastodon

in win95 we didn't have dark mode and light mode, we knew about: dialog box with gray background

@molly0xfff I know somebody who knits with a headlamp on.

@falcennial Sounds like their main problem is video essays' accessibility.

I’m a big nazi simp. I’ll take every opportunity to glaze Himmler & the boys, fondly reminisce of WWII atrocities, and debate whether we should have included the bavarians in the shoah.

Found the nazi!

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I also believe that disdain for small things is the worst starting point for fixing big things.

Stephen Miller diary entry ahhh reply

I just looked at the actual posts in the community, since I didn’t before. Most of them don’t even look that questionable tbh, although a couple do. But they’re all just naked people posing for the camera. It’s not like they’re dressed as school girls or anything. And every post has the age verification as required by the rule, and most of the images have company watermarks on them. They’re professional shots, not amateur candids. There’s nothing about the posts that implies that the models are underage other than the title of the community. As someone else said, they could be listed as “legal teens” instead and I doubt anyone would bat an eye.

I also think most people here care more about actual harm than legality.

Well this post is specifically about the legality, trying to frame it as illegal content. But, that aside, I just don’t see the “actual harm” being done. If visitors are fully aware that they’re looking at adults, and every post explicitly reaffirms the age of the specific model shown, then I don’t see the harm there.

Should they allow written rape fantasies of minors?

No, because that’s illegal.

this is rather normalizing and harm producing

I just don’t agree with the slippery slope argument. It comes down to saying that “well if they’re looking at 19 and 18 year olds, then next thing is that they’ll be looking at 17 year olds and then 14 year olds!!”. Like I said, there’s a clear line, and getting close to it isn’t the same as crossing it.