@angelobottone@qoto.org

The grim reality of surrogacy in Ukraine

Irish media often present surrogacy as an uncontroversial option for couples who struggle with infertility but we rarely hear reports about children who have been abandoned by commissioning adults, or about the poor women who have acted as surrogates and regret it. A new documentary by the Australian ABC TV covers the story of baby […] https://ionainstitute.ie/the-grim-reality-of-surrogacy-in-ukraine/

Maria Steen on liberal intolerance

Maria Steen had a column in The Irish Times on Saturday which caused a big online response. The topic of her article is crucial; are liberals as liberal and tolerant as they purport to be? Increasingly, many liberals seek to shut down debate on substantive issues. Instead debates (such as they are) are intra-liberal ones, […] https://ionainstitute.ie/maria-steen-on-liberal-intolerance/

Police Draw Guns For the First Time at #HongKong Protests
https://youtu.be/bcf4JJkpRr0

@freemo @mngrif @Rovine @angelobottone @snder @koyu@koyu.space @Curator @rvlobato @pschwede @comphys @TheGnuMaster @adrianomaini

Look at that list...wowee.

The grim reality of #surrogacy in Ukraine https://ionainstitute.ie/the-grim-reality-of-surrogacy-in-ukraine/

Re organ donation, this is worths listen. It's about artifical wombs but also covers transplants

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxh

Here is my #FF ( #FollowFriday ) list. We have a lot of new faces on #QOTO I just have to share, and a new few friends from around the fediverse. Plus some old friends too.

@mngrif - hacker, gamer, bit of retro computer, ham radio, all around interesting guy and an old friend.

@Rovine - New member, mostly posts about learning experiences. Friendly and sweet.

@angelobottone - A philosophy teacher

@snder - Fair minded admin that runs several instances around the fediverse

@koyu@koyu.space - A lovely down to earth person with some tech interest, also a fellow instance admin.

@Curator - Shares wonderful art from the art instance

@rvlobato - Linux enthusiast and physicist.

@pschwede - Fellow coder

@comphys - Professional in Physics and Computing, excellent technical posts.

@TheGnuMaster - Fellow Open-source enthusiast, usually engages in discourse respectfully, good conversations.

@adrianomaini - Posts absolutely amazing vintage photos

More news on the terrible surrogacy situation in Ukraine https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-21/australian-parents-warn-about-ukraine-surrogacy-lotus/11426396

#GospelToday (Mt 22:36-40)
"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"

He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.

The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

Government should be fair to all child-care choices

The recent outcry about the poor treatment of children at a number of creches focused public attention once again on the issue of daycare. But the debate centred almost entirely on the need to better resource the sector and to regulate it more. But as Maria Steen argued in The Irish Times on Saturday, the […] https://ionainstitute.ie/government-should-be-fair-to-all-child-care-choices/

Even before birth biological males have genetic physical advantages over females.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/114327152/even-before-birth-genetic-building-blocks-are-giving-athletes-born-male-a-massive-advantage-over-females?fbclid=IwAR1nuJjfdSIXYD2Y43AQY90wNQE_6AeC9cVBMEJNjMdPA1TnDnVyBqe0aZ0

#womenssports

#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