“Mary Jane West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980), known as Mae West, was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of her time, she was known for portraying sexually confident characters and for her use of double entendres, often delivering her lines in a distinctive contralto voice. With a career spanning more than seven decades, she was frequently associated with controversies over censorship and once stated, ‘I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.’”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West

Y Combinator invests in dozens of surveillance companies including Flock along with helping to enable them. Their moderators put their thumb on the scales at Hacker News actively supporting attacks on the GrapheneOS project including libel and harassment towards our team members.

**2/3 — UNITED KINGDOM**

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom of Fuckery (yeah as in king - what year is this? FFS!), the thought police are working overtime!

Yesterday, 27 peeps were arrested outside Britain's Supreme Court for allegedly supporting Palestine Action.

Here's where the shit gets interesting!

Sarah Helm, a journalist married to Britain's national security adviser, had posted on social media: “God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action.”

The cops investigated her post and decided it wasn't criminal.

So protesters showed up carrying signs with the same words, replacing “authors” with things like “students” and “normal people.”

One sign read: “God help us who are not married to the UK's national security adviser who support Palestine and Palestine Action.”

AND THEY GOT FUCKIN ARRESTED!

Apparently free speech in Britain comes with a motherfuckin VIP membership!

#PalestineAction #UK

Sweden Returns Benin Bronze Trove to Nigeria, Indigenous Remains to Bolivia -> https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sweden-returns-benin-bronze-nigeria-indigenous-remains-bolivia-1234804791/

@daihard
議席を取り返した州に関しては特にこの傾向が強いと思います。
フロリダもあと一歩だったんだけど本当に悔しいです。

This post is written on https://normals.me and delivered to !fediverse@lemmy.world over #ActivityPub, so if you are reading it the basic plumbing works. Now let me explain what is this.

Normals is a forum with communities, threads, and questions with an accepted answer. It is a single instance, not software you can host, and the core is closed for anti-abuse reasons. The federation module will be published separately with implementation notes (FEP-67ff).

What federates today Every community is a Group actor following the Lemmy model (FEP-1b12). Follow @selfhosted@normals.me or any other community from Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin or Mastodon.

Posts and comments go both ways. Replies from your instance appear in the thread on Normals, replies from Normals go back to the origin.

Remote content is labelled with its origin, links back to it, and is never copied. Media loads from the source.

Signed fetches, so it works with instances that require authorized fetch. NodeInfo 2.1 is up.

Policies, in case they matter to you, it has no ads, and no paid reach, and of course no AI training on posts. AI crawlers blocked by default, public mod log with reasons, and no automated removals. Numbers at https://normals.me/transparency so please take a look.

If something from your instance shows up wrong here, or something from here shows up wrong on yours, reply with the URL and I'll fix it. Andy Piper mentioned NodeBB uses the same group model, if anyone runs a NodeBB instance I'd like to test against it, if possible.

I hope we all have fun. Cheers!

My wife has an issue with storing tongs. I shared this educational guide with her just now. #startrekmemes

@ai6yr @hutterer We only have 2 GFCI outlets that I know of.

RE: https://mastox.eu/@MiddleEastEye/117566149644876855

Let's remind that the best supporters of the zionist expansion are muslim regimes, supported by the USA.

🗝️ Any passwords over 256 characters are fine.
Ref: https://sshhole.com/

#vulnerability #security

WRITERS!

Submissions are invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 45! We want poetry & prose in English, Gaelic, & Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 13 December!

@writingcommunity

Submit free via Submittable 👇

https://nws.submittable.com/submit

#Scottish #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

@AugierLe42e La crise économique épargnera sans doute un peu la France parce qu'on est un pays bizarre avec une économie bizarre

The problem of succession isn't unique to Wikipedia or open source.

Using nonprofit tax registration data, social scientists have computed the "dissolution rate" of orgs that fail to outlive their initial founders.

In an analysis of UK charities, orgs that appointed a higher proportion of new people to leadership roles are multiples less likely to dissolve, holding constant for differences in the economic conditions of a region. To estimate this, researchers compute the "appointment ratio" - the proportion of new leaders in a period of time.

I have had the best evening. There were fireworks that we looked fabulous at (no pics of fireworks cos we were, y'know, enjoying the fireworks), and then V for Vendetta in bed together with the whole family 💕

I am filled with love and joy and hope.

#LGBTQ #JoyScrolling #Gratitude