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I look like I'm about to do some death metal with a bit of kid rock influence :)

Ok this one is kinda bad ass... though I do have some questions....

Ok I think we have a winner in the AI generated images of me :)

LOLOL they say AI generated portraits add 100 lbs :) The damn AI did me dirty.

A painting done of me in medieval style by an AI... I must say this is kinda awesome.

Just saw my fist poster that was accessible for vision impaired people and it is amazing, why don’t we all do this!

#ScienceForEveryone #Inclusion #DEIA #Lightning #Atmospheres #AGU22

I'm Gregory Penn. I created magpie.masto.host for friends and family, and their friends and families, to connect without the privacy problems of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. I hope this can be a place for personal connections, so most of what I post here is only for people following me, and I individually approve new followers. I post more publicly from qoto.org.

The #Fediverse and #Mastodon are experiencing some recent growing pains. There is a risk that developments could lead to the network fracturing into walled gardens of individual communities that are isolated from each other. There are also people who want to assert centralized control over the network. These dangers are described and a bold solution is proposed here:

ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/un

Join the conversation by following @ufoi

#UFoI #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonAdmin

The insult crowd seems to be very transphobic. They seem to assume people are here to convert theur kids while this is not true at all. It really use the moral panic very well.

@JonKramer @freemo My guess (and I could be very wrong about this) is that the ambiguity stems from racists using "ethnicity" as a dog whistle / proximal term for "race" for so long that it eventually just evolved meanings in common English.

Kind of like how "ignorant" has come to mean something closer to "indignant" in common usage.

Or like how "groomer" used to refer exclusively to predatory pedophiles, but now it's nearly equivalent to "faggot".

For how much bigots tend to claim to be "conservative", they sure do a lot of damage to the English language.

Ryle had a heart attack. 

People being sent death threats... DDoS on UFoI members, one LGBTQ server in good standing was blocked by 33 other instances for supporting us openly.... Yet they insist there is no problem that needs addressing, to the point they violently oppose an agreement between server admins to engage in transparency, ethics, and evidence in interinstance moderation....

These things prove that the need for the UFoI is very real.

@ufoi

Transparency Reports  

Ryle had a heart attack. 

Ryle had a heart attack. 

Ryle is now hospitalized after having a heart attack last night. Ryle asked the Awoo! moderation team to write a post on their behalf and to be transparent. The conversation was brief, and we have pieced together most of the details.

Ourselves believe the heart attack was caused by a combination of things, suspect the recent stress involving strong conversations around Fedifence, Fediblock and UFOI. The triggering message was in reply to one of the UFOI threads telling Ryle to kill themselves and with video footage of men brutally stabbing a woman to death. Ryle is unlikely to be around for a while.

Receipts of the post is available on request through direct message to: @Transparency

This material is heinous and will break rules of other instances, so we are only sending this instance administrators/moderators on request. They are free to share at their own risk the receipts.

DO NOT attempt to contact Ryle to harass, upset. The moderation team also now have full access to Ryle’s account, and ourselves will be actively removing any unpleasant direct messages left.

If the heart attack is discussed, ourselves ask that you PLEASE do not tag Ryle in the conversations. Replying to this message is okay. If you are going to discuss anything regarding Ryle otherwise, PLEASE do not tag Ryle on conversations that would cause stress.

@LouisIngenthron Irregardless to common sense it seems anti-semite is defined regardless of the definition of semite. This may make conversations about the subject a bit inflammable!

TIL the term "Semite" refers to both Jews and Arabs collectively.

Hi, first toot! I'm a scientist and secular humanist. I love reading (fantasy and sci-fi but anything really), clouds, timekeeping, moose, the 80s, and classic rock music. Causes include the planet, human trafficking, and US blue wave 🌊

@freemo @Gaythia @ufoi Hi, welcome to Qoto! Happy to see a fellow chemist! 👩‍🔬I’m fairly new here as well and I came in without much Mastodon background, but Qoto has been really nice so far.

@freemo @ufoi I didn't have a whole lot of background information on Mastodon or Qoto when I made my instance selection. But I'm happy to be supporting Qoto. I left the birdsite searching for something better and I feel that I have found it here on Qoto.

S. Winfrey wrote the following post Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:37:12 +0200

In 1933, Nazis led torchlit mob into the square and looted the library of the adjoining -Universitat. 40,000 people cheered as they burned over 20,000 books by mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors. Many years later, a panel of glass was set into the ground to mark the spot. It’s a window. Leaning over you can look into a room below. The room is white, lined from floor to ceiling with plain shelves—an empty library. The sort of world we’d live in if the fanatics had won.

Apparently now people are sending death threats to UFoI members... all this does is reafirm to me the dire need for sonethi g like the UFoI

awoo.fyi/@Transparency/posts/A

@ufoi

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