We shouldn’t be forced to use toxic platforms that track and profile us in order to get public information.

Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube track and profile their users so that they can target advertising towards them.

Their business models fuel online harms by pushing more and more extreme content to users. Despite this, these platforms are one of the primary ways that government departments share public information.

Tell your MP to support the EDM calling on the UK Government to ensure that all public sector social media content is published on open, decentralised and federated platforms!

Act now: …openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-government-must…

#socialMedia #UK #politics #UKpolitics #fediverse #initiative

@ChrisPirillo Turning reflow into a game mechanic is the most fun anyone has had with a resize event.

@exa yay

something that comes up a lot when i talk about fat liberation: this is not about if you, personally, are attracted to fat people. it is not about "well someone might find you attractive some day" it is not about fishing for attention or compliments. it is about basic human rights and dignity such as the workplace, access, medical bias and neglect, etc

@mcc Outside of zoos, here's me with some jackass penguins I saw in 2005.

ugh what's this

#Element #Matrix

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!

@mdhughes it's the best spiderman

@cmdrmoto @ajroach42 My brother was a jock and program manager from the mid-70s until the late 90s who left radio work in the great consolidation. I was fortunate to hire Uncle Ricky as a front-end web developer in the early 2000s after he ended his radio career from the same consolidation wave.

The '96 Act mostly destroyed the local and regional nature of radio. The profits for the rich don't compensate America for the loss of so much culture.

https://reelradio.ncbhp.com/collections/the-uncle-ricky-collection/

The epidemiologist
told me
after this week
he feels more hopeful

The climatologist
told me
after this week
they feel more hopeful

The historian
told me
after this week
she feels more hopeful

The activist
told me
after this week
we must do more
than just feel hopeful.

@internetarchive

I wrote about this topic in my article "the legacy".
https://www.nicolaottomano.it/en/2026/11/04/leredita/

2026/11/07:

Hexagram 33 - Temptation

@jfmezei the autobody guy didn't know anything about car charging :-)

JD Vance is already trying to slither away from Trump. After the GOP’s midterm wipeout, he’s blaming the Iran war and pretending he had nothing to do with it.

But let’s not forget who made JD: Peter “The Antichrist Guy” Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire behind the tech right’s alliance with MAGA.

As Vance eyes 2028, he may think he can outrun Trump’s baggage. He can’t outrun the shadow of his Thiel-backed rise.

#PeterThiel #JDVance #Midterms #MAGA #NerdReich

@douglasvb The 2nd Armored was based at Fort Hood in Texas; there's an Army museum there, they might be worth contacting as well.

https://nmwfoundation.org/visit-the-museum

@artcollisions Cuff size. I will have to roll them over a bit, I think. But, TBD when I wash it again, the lengthwise shrinkage on every wash of the denim is pretty impressive, lol. Pretty sure if I wash this again it will snug up (which is why I cut and sewed it large). The other jeans really did tighten up a good percentage after washing it again (and on cold! Just hanging driving them outside too).

キヴォトス生徒えっちな目でみるのありえない​​