UK Digital ID will be one of the biggest stories of 2026. And ORG is ready to fight 🦾
This year, we gave expert written and oral evidence to the Select Committee. We highlighted the risks that these plans pose to privacy and civil liberties.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/digital-id-org-warns-of-mission-creep/
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #NotoDigitalID #DigitalID #ID #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol
Often language has similar words or similar sounding words that people speak with incorrectly without really knowing or realizing it's misleading or not quite right.
There is a more specific words and less misleading versions of #words or #phrases...
➡️ For example "Common sense"
...might mean "Common principles"
"Sense" is similar to "principles" but importantly principles can be more specific or measured way of saying / doing things so a list everyone can see is more agreeable, rather than your own version of "sense" which might be differently measured than list of "principles".
Since EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT and naturally they have different personality, it's better to measure it a bit more clearly which a list of principles in the middle which can help indicate agreement or debate things with less #ambiguity.
➡️ Another example
(quick-fast / maybe not perfect)
💜 Love for others is perhaps top of the #list of #commandments for Jesus ✝️ and his principles - so clears up a lot of confusion between #Christian people or #Christianity or #Religion #debate - presenting a |Yes| or |No| simple question
We all need need to debate what loving people or looking after them means perhaps after that, but can assume better and not guess too not far off than even more general / unspecific words.
So if #love is top 5 on your list then a debate "Common sense" or "Common principles" about Jesus or something can be quickly agreed / answered rather than something #ambiguous.
#Lists are always good.
#CommonSense #List of #Principles
= #Answer for #Ambiguous #words or #phrases in #Debate
"Common sense" is a thought-stopping phrase and concept. It is the same as saying, "Just go with cultural traditions which support prejudice and oppression because those are familiar and comfortable."
➡️ Quote by timberwraith
@timberwraith
➡️ Post: https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/115793735897488579
When you see someone appealing to "common sense" when defending prejudice/bigotry, they're encouraging people to suspend thought or criticism that might challenge prejudice, and instead, retreat unthinkingly to the comfortable inertia of the social norms which establish the prejudice in question.
"Common sense" is a thought-stopping phrase and concept. It is the same as saying, "Just go with cultural traditions which support prejudice and oppression because those are familiar and comfortable."
@hazelweakly
I’m a bad person with a short temper, who occasionally realizes his anger should be turned on himself.
But thank you for your kindness.
Totally agree. This is why I argue for "non-autistic" in papers to describe research participants who are... not autistic, but could be unusual in loads of ways we didn't measure.
another very fine Honest Government Ad by The Juice Media ( https://www.patreon.com/TheJuiceMedia ) : about Social Media Ban by Australian government. December 7, 2025, https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZxRB5qWphJE
➡️ "Can we get actually smarter about ourselves?" ❓ ⬅️
"...we got weekends, we got vacations, we got self care, we got smart working, we can even survive nuclear war if we have to."
➡️ "Question is - do we want to, and do we care?" ❓ ⬅️
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Good questions...
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ANYONE IS WELCOME to answer if they care to!
Quoted text ➡️ Pēteris Krišjānis @peteriskrisjanis
Post here ➡️ https://toot.lv/@peteriskrisjanis/111519386657489330
➡️ "Can we get actually smarter about ourselves?" ❓ ⬅️
"...we got weekends, we got vacations, we got self care, we got smart working, we can even survive nuclear war if we have to."
➡️ "Question is - do we want to, and do we care?" ❓ ⬅️
================
Good questions...
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ANYONE IS WELCOME to answer if they care to!
Quoted text ➡️ Pēteris Krišjānis @peteriskrisjanis
Post here ➡️ https://toot.lv/@peteriskrisjanis/111519386657489330
"Question is - do we want to, and do we care?"
"Humans are not driven by logic. We are driven by mess of associations, hopes, dreams, expectations."
Quote by ➡️ Pēteris Krišjānis @peteriskrisjanis
Post here ➡️ https://toot.lv/@peteriskrisjanis/111519378718421240
@mendedpearl hahaha the new mozilla ceo wants to disable adblocking in firefox 🪦
I am Palestinian.
Not a terrorist. Not a threat.
I am a human being trying to keep my children alive.
My children don’t dream of toys or holidays —
they dream of warmth, food, and a night without fear.
We are civilians. We are freezing. We are starving.
We are asking for the most basic right: to live.
Please don’t scroll past our pain.
Stand with humanity.
Help us survive.
https://gofund.me/7da7202d8
@arezk_anthropos
People are not so interested in challenging themselves.
They will throw stones at remote / far-away people - but not just build friendship from strangers or even solidarity - it's all too one-way.
(this is after trying with many on Mastodon including top posters aligned - my profile PROVES my own experience). Just posting or throwing insults does BUILD (in the #mind) BETTER PEOPLE or even improve yours when you scratch the surface (we all have to face and practice actual conversation more, even randomly, as that's better than cursing the rich who are too far to reach and they 99% don't want to change / PROVEN IT THEMSELVES OVER A LOT OF TIME!).
WISE UP - talk to me / each other / audio chats welcome my side....
No complaints.
Palestine Action hunger strikers launch legal action against UK government
Lawyers of the group threaten court proceedings as top ministers refuse to meet them to discuss the protesters’ welfare.
London, United Kingdom – Lawyers of imprisoned hunger-striking activists linked to the protest group Palestine Action have put the British government on notice as the justice secretary refuses to meet them.
Imran Khan & Partners, which represents the collective, wrote a pre-claim letter to the government on Monday, warning that they would seek a High Court case should officials fail to respond by Tuesday afternoon.
Eight activists, aged between 20 and 31, have participated in a rolling strike that began on November 2. There are rising fears that one or more of them could soon die in jail.
In recent days, their relatives and loved ones have told Al Jazeera of their deteriorating health and repeated hospital admissions.
Their lawyers have long called for a meeting with Justice Secretary David Lammy to discuss welfare and prison conditions, believing such an intervention could be life-saving.
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In memory Ian Kevin Curtis, lead singer, lyricist and occasional guitarist of the post-punk band Joy Division, born on this day in 1956, Stretford, Lancashire, England.
Photo by Paul Slattery
#punkrock #postpunk #iancurtis #joydivision #history #punkrockhistory #otd
F is for Freedom and #FreeSchool hashtag is what this is about...
All things towards #Freedom (moving from Shorter to Deeper and Caring thoughts)
TOGETHER & MORE OFTEN DIRECTLY (who else is going to do it?).
#FreeSchool profile has #Notes #Quotes (extracts / gems) from great #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites from all around the world towards
#DIY Care (because nobody else is going to as best as you do for those around) - #Caring IS our main #Politics / #Politics and "System" (not a system of cheating each other but caring and what Capitalism is cutting out - this is what we need to put back in and teach to those willing).
#Degrowth / PostGrowth
#WellbeingEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
#CaringEconomy / #CareEconomy / #Partnerism
"Free School" is a term for a movement born from the 1960's / 70's using educational living & learning practice towards #Caring & #DIY with all others (all at the same time - not an after-thought or specialism in 1 field or person who is a #compartmentalised person ignoring others in other fields). Caring to involves more things, increasingly aiming towards everything...
Posts are 1-line #Notes and #Quotes that links all other things (it's all relative).
Long comments use CW to shorten post vertically and add a 'show more' button to reveal more text if you want it. Long posts might seem bad but it's giving chance to more connection and understanding.
All things towards #Freedom (life moving from Shorter to Deeper thought).
Freedom doesn't come from short-depth lifestyles / short lines of text / ignoring / #inaction. Not less communication between lovers of similar things. MORE!)
#FreeSchool = Learning Together 🔁
#FreeSchool = Working Together 🔁 (eventually + I do Free work for Freedom.
#FreeSchool = Co-Operating & #DIY Solutions 🔁
See My #FreeSchool (Hashtag) for latest examples anytime. Or keep open and refresh from time to time:
https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool
#FreeSchool ➡ Increment Talking + Peacefully solve everything.
TLDR - Inaction = Fascism
Trust comes from "slowly but surely"... Doesn't have to be all-in, but peace doesn't come from one-way short messaging on 'social' Mastodon either - collecting memes and cats only is limited!
Remember we need develop better humans as well as 'develop' code on computers etc.
☮ Peace needs more... even to save all types of cats!
Get in touch - I'm someone that cares for everything because it's all human-related...
Human #chats welcome - I using #Jitsi audio chat which uses JUST browser (ANY PLATFORM + 2minutes to enter !)
(i.e. no-install / no account / no google / instant / privacy-respecting / safe-enough, etc!) Really the best out there - any platform / device! Instant audio chat !
Just ask for a link and prepare a few topics!
#AltText used (when I remember).
FREE WORK - I do free audio and video editing (anything considered - just ask).
Again - Creating Trust needs a bit of trust given "slowly but surely"... not all-in... being relaxed about it... but has to be more - 'working' like a 2nd job towards peace because your job isn't going to do it / it's now allow by State to get there! War increases prices etc ☮
So do "peace" as a side-job like it was your real job in the world, parallel to the Capitalism (Trap) you (we) were born into. We have to accept that and fight out of that and not be comfortable in it.
Heart and Soul all the way.