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   Mark (thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Sunday, 15-Mar-2026 19:30:56 JST Mark

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   @kevie Of course not! And I am (timewise) way ahead of you.As I see it now I'll be lucky to get one or two episodes in 🤣 But I've got S01 in anyway. And David Morrissey is his usual strict, to say the least. Looking forward to it. And Capture, you and the missus follow that? Ep01 last week was great!

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   Jordi (Housekarl Urban) (jorsh@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 05:38:09 JST Jordi (Housekarl Urban)

   For #InternationalMensDay, I only really want to address one aspect of malehood that probably isn't being discussed much: #Asexuality.

   If you are an ace man who has ever been demeaned or embarrassed or otherwise humiliated because you have no desire to engage in sex, feel little to no sexual attraction, or are merely repulsed by sex, then know that you are no less of a man for it. Masculinity and sexuality are not the same issues, but they go hand in hand due to most cultures' patriarchal bent. Anyone who takes your ace identity as an insult against masculinity does not understand anything but a flawed concept of weakness vs strength.

   Being a man is more than just gender or sexual identity. Masculinity can be positive or negative. True positive masculinity is accepting that men are not so cut and dry. Gay men, Trans men, Ace men, however you identify yourself, nobody can take it away from you.

   As an ace man, I've occasionally felt a nagging inside that maybe I'm not really a true man. That, of course, is internalized misogyny and acephobia. And that's horseshit. My dick doesn't define me. It's a feeling I have inside. I know that I'm a man, and I also know that sex means very little to me, at this point in my life. They are mutually exclusive concepts.

   To all my male brothers, whoever you are, whatever you look like, whoever you love, never doubt your identity just because some chud thinks you're weak. True strength comes from having a strong character, and you have that in spades.

   Lots of love. ❤️

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 22:24:17 JST Aral Balkan

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   Hey all,

   @joynewacc and I had a meeting today to discuss how Gaza Verified will continue to evolve in the coming days based on our experience of having run it for one month now (yes, it has only been a month).

   Gaza Verified started with a simple mission: To try and protect the legitimate accounts of Palestinians in Gaza for whom Mastodon and the fediverse is their last lifeline to the rest of the world.

   These are people suffering through genocide and famine at the bloody hands of the Israeli state. Not only has every physical door been slammed in their faces but every virtual door as well, with Big Tech closing their accounts almost as soon as they are opened.

   Then, about ten days ago, as Israel began the latest “ground offensive” stage of its genocide, ordering 1 million people to move South, we realised we had Gaza Verified families trapped without funds to move. So last Saturday, we launched the emergency appeal (https://gaza-verified.org/emergency), with the initial goal of raising $15,000 to help 8 families. As the week progressed and we got more information from the ground, the campaign extended to cover 16 families and has, to date, raised ~$40,000.

   This has already enabled many of our families to move South and, for those who had already evacuated, to obtain land and tents. I’ll have exact numbers and case studies in the blog post I write up later.

   But we also learned a few things that now give us pause as we consider the path ahead:

   1. The campaign has raised an amazing amount of money in a short period of time but we are also getting reports from members that their individual fundraisers have been negatively impacted, with, in some cases, donations to them stopping all together.

   While our other members may not be in the North, the situation in the South is also dire. They still need steady donations each week to afford food, water, and the basic necessities. They pay rent for land and shelter at exorbitant prices.

   The emergency appeal was never meant to be permanent and I do not want us to become the single location for gathering donations for Palestinians. Nor do I want us to play god in distributing them.

   2. We’ve uncovered a small group of people from Gaza, displaced in Egypt, who are misrepresenting their location in order to gather donations. Some still have family in Gaza, others don’t. We have no reason to believe they’re not genuine victims of Israel’s genocide. However, they are also collecting money under false pretences.

   As such we are evolving our rules to explicitly state that misrepresentation will result in instant removal from the programme. We are also evolving our verification process to include multiple other means of verifying their immediate location.

   To be clear, we have a very good understanding at this point of the common characteristics of the accounts from Egypt that are involved in this and we should be readily able to filter any new ones in the future. And, again, this is, to our knowledge, a very small and concerted group of people and should not be taken as a reflection of the greater diaspora of people from Gaza displaced in Egypt or as a reflection of our Palestinian friends from Gaza in general.

   While the situation in Gaza is as dire as ever, Joy and I have never been under any illusion that we can save everyone or even come anywhere close to that. The sad reality is that the only people who can do that – the spineless and complicit leaders of our so-called Western democracies – are not lifting a single finger to stop Israel’s genocide. However, with your help, we can still do some good. And that matters too.

   So, given that (a) we do not want the continuation of the emergency campaign to suck all the oxygen out of the room for the individual fundraisers, (b) we refuse to play god in deciding who gets help and who doesn’t, and (c) we need to evolve the verification process and find new ways to help our families that do not end up in creating unscalable and unmanageable centralisation, we have decided that this is a good time to retire the emergency appeal as it reaches its current $40,000 goal today after having run for a week (I just checked and we have $639 to go).

   We will not run the emergency appeal again next week.

   Instead, we will continue to work to expand the reach of the individual campaigns and help all our families, while welcoming new ones.

   I’ll write a blog post about this today with more details. We will also come up with a plan to distribute the final raised amount (~$5,840.12 + whatever else comes in) to the families that still need assistance and I will, of course, write up a final impact report for you.

   As I said at the start, it’s only been a month since we started Gaza Verified and I’m very proud of what we’ve achieved together. There’s more do. And we are learning and evolving as we go.

   Please continue to show our friends and family in Gaza that they are welcome, safe, and loved on the fediverse.

   Thank you!

   💕

   #GazaVerified

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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Friday, 30-May-2025 07:15:15 JST Steve's Place

   If it's asked by a woman, and he doesn't like the question, it's a "nasty" question. His deep hatred for women is never not just below the surface. He despises women. He rapes them.

   What happened to you, generals? In WWII you'd have taken Nazis out with great prejudice.

   Now you lay on the floor as he walks on you.

   As he pees on you.

   He's a seething Nazi determined to destroy the country that prosecuted him

   Forget how to shoot Nazis, General Bullshitter?

   Oaths are lies.

   https://newsie.social/@ProgressivePower/114592690561176299

   #USpolitics #Pentagon #women #hate #Nazis #Republicans #Trump

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   Tingo (fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 16:16:13 JST Tingo

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   What the geniuses in the Whitehouse did not seem to factor in is that making enemies of your closest allies exposes you.

   As long as you can keep them in line, good and dandy. But if you can't ... (looking at you, Canada) all your closely guarded bullshit suddenly goes into the wild.

   Tactically and strategically, one of the stupidest moves made by any declining empire ever. But from this Whitehouse, would expect nothing less.

   #fiveeyes

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   Qasim Rashid, Esq. (qasimrashid@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 03:29:57 JST Qasim Rashid, Esq.

   If you enjoy a cup of joe in the morning, or if you care about human rights, this post is for you.

   As the holiday season kicks off I want to make a pitch, and ask you to support a new coffee company I’ve launched with a few childhood friends called Grounds For Peace.
   https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/grounds-for-peace-coffee-and-human