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Please donate what you can financially, and contact me if you want to help in other ways, to help people find places to move and fund the move or make this stable community safer in their current location if the police will back off. opencollective.com/mpls-nort…
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Benjamin Melançon retweeted
Every time the city evicts a encampment they put indigenous women at risk of being sex trafficked we need a solution @MayorFrey NO MORE STOLEN WOMEN
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Benjamin Melançon retweeted
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Remember, hostility toward all people starts with hostility toward the most marginalized— while calling them please also let them know you are aware of their employee John Myles making threats both against unhoused people who are not on park land… and me: social.coop/@mlncn/110623091…
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RT @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io John Oliver did a crypto episode on Last Week Tonight! 😁 (I'm not in it, I just helped a little with the content and fact-checking) youtube.com/watch?v=o7zazuy_… hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110…
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RT @cwebber@octodon.social somehow I've noticed that the youtube engagement algorithm seems to be repeatedly sneaking in a bunch of "subtly religious" content that then walks you into more and more extremely religious stuff, with more and more of it being right wing (1/3)
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religious stuff too eg you're listening to lofi girl and then suddenly at "catholic lofi" girl praying rosaries and you didn't notice and then suddenly you've got all this deeply religious christian stuff and you can't stop it without clearing your cache I set up my (2/3)
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browser to clear my cache every time I restart my browser, so seeing this happen multiple times makes me think there's been intentional effort to have this kind of "algorithm onboarding" octodon.social/@cwebber/1102… (3/3)

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RT @zekuzelalem@journa.host THREAD: Meta's massive Ethiopian failures are the subject of a multi billion dollar lawsuit. An intro for my new fediverse family, highlighting how hate speech and misinformation on Facebook incited bloodshed, worsened ethnic tensions amidst a (1/2)
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RT @russss@chaos.social CW: UK, alert test Emily_S there's an "emergency alert history" page buried in the settings chaos.social/@russss/1102485…
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RT @yasha@sciences.social CW: Mention of suicide research The current model for understanding suicide seems to be: faulty brain in a body. The model I think we need is more along the lines of: working brain in a body in a social context. It may be a subtle difference, (1/2)
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RT @doctorjaymarie@mastodon.world Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #AudreLorde mastodon.world/@doctorjaymar…

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RT @coloradosun@mstdn.social A Durango homeless encampment’s closure left many with nowhere to go. Now, the ACLU is threatening to sue. Read more: coloradosun.com/2023/04/14/p… mstdn.social/@coloradosun/11…
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