@angelobottone@qoto.org

#GospelToday (Mt 19:29-30)
And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more, and will inherit eternal life.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

I don't even think 'altruistic surrogacy' is a good idea. Women are so socialized to be pleasing it's disgusting. Media stories about what a wonderful gift so and so woman gave to her gay brother etc etc. So easy for that to spill into crazy pressure. Women will feel obligated so as not to appear selfish.

It's illegal to kill and eat someone, even if they have consented in writing/ by video. It's illegal to sell your organs. It's illegal to take organs from the dead if they're not a donor.

It should be flat out illegal to rent, hire, or sell any part of your body, full stop.

@RadFemFatale

New issue of Position Papers: August/September 2019

You can read more here: August/September 2019 http://familysolidarity.org/new-issue-of-position-papers-august-september-2019/

Love In An Age Of Information Overload

When it comes to information, humanity has been playing a vast game of Tetris for thousands of years. New blocks of information are constantly being formed as we acquire new knowledge. As we encounter them, our objective is to rotate and place these informational blocks into our experience. This was easier for our ancestors. The […] http://familysolidarity.org/love-in-an-age-of-information-overload/

#GospelToday (Lk 12:49-53)
"I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!

Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. From now on a household of five will be divided, three against two and two against three; a father will be divided against his son and a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

Just some info

Who I follow in the fediverse is **not** a reflection of who's ideas I agree with. I generally follow people who make educated, rational, statements and can engage people with a difference of opinion maturely.

Most of the people I follow are people who think very differently than me and I enjoy the mutually respectful discussions that ensue.

#HongKong should make everyone realise how important Freedom is worth fighting for.
Look at the Hong Kong Youth, knowing they could be jailed for 10 years for so called "rioting", knowing that the PRC millitary could invade with/without the request of the HK government and slaughter them all.
That is why we shouldn't give up on basic rights just as Privacy, Freedom of Speech etc. because it is what matters the most.
#FreeHongKong

Quint Buchholz was born in Stolberg near Aachen and grew up in Stuttgart. He studied history of art for four terms, followed by painting and graphic design at the Munich Academy of Art under Prof. Gerd Winner. https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/187008099049/quint-buchholz-was-born-in-stolberg-near-aachen /2

#QOTO Update. We now have a PeerTube instance up free to all QOTO users to use. The new server can be found here: https://video.qoto.org

This server is in addition to several other servers we brought up in recent weeks, all are open to users of QOTO:

NextCloud: https://cloud.qoto.org

Gitlab (allows to host private domains as well as several free CI runners): https://git.qoto.org

Discourse: https://discourse.qoto.org

And of course there is QOTO mastodon at https://qoto.org

Later next week we will probably get FunkWhale server up and PixelFed. We will continue to be a home for Federated and Distributed social technologies that enable STEM projects to collaborate and publish their results.

Obfuscate Tracking Data Facebook Places in Photos with this Online Tool
https://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/09/webware/obfuscate-tracking-data-facebook-places-in-photos-online-tool.html

Episcopal Church continues downward slide.jpg h/t Fipi Lele

Accessing abortion may become easier than accessing contraception

By David Mullins If proposals contained in a submission to the Department of Health by the Irish Pharmacy Union are accepted; then access to an abortion will soon become more readily available than access to contraception. As things currently stand, any person aged 16 or over may access an abortion without parental consent. Those below […] https://ionainstitute.ie/accessing-abortion-may-become-easier-than-accessing-contraception/

#QOTO update:

We recently added a new service to the QOTO family of services. We now host a Discourse server are https://discourse.qoto.org

It is currently empty but will act as a space for discussion around open-source STEM projects or general STEM discussion. It will also act as a mailing list for any project managers who wish to use the service for their projects.

IT compliments our other services well including a GitLab instance open to the general public for open-source STEM projects as well as for our users to host private or personal websites.

We also have a NextCloud server open to the public for open-source STEM projects and individuals to utilize as well.

In the next few weeks we will continue to bring up new services including PeerTube, Pixelfed, FunkWhale, and many more on their way.

#Fediverse #mastodon

Triptych of Adriaan Reins (detail)

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Hans Memling
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memling_magdalene.jpg

The abortion movement and its root in eugenics

In a recent decision on the abortion law of two US states, Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, wrote an opinion of his own that drew attention to the embrace of eugenics by some of the founders of the modern ‘reproductive health’ movement. As he says: “From the beginning, birth control and abortion were promoted as means […] https://ionainstitute.ie/the-abortion-movement-and-its-root-in-eugenics/