https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/lesbian-mothers-win-legal-status-italy-ivf-ruling-rcna208623

another aside:

i do think people are entirely focused too much on tech these days. the main and arguably only thing one needs to know about the state of the world in its relationship to tech now is that things like the global rise in fascism is not the sentiment of normal people. it's being orchestrated by these tech giants and their algorithmic systems. if you want to end fascism of our current era, end big tech.

if that doesn't change your way of life and thinking idk what will.

as an aside to all this:

the LLM ("AI") problem is contextual. if it had zero negative ecological impact, if it was free and open and owned by all, if it didn't make anyone or any entity a profit, then it'd be a different story. it'd be a tool. maybe not a great one, but it'd be a tool. one might be able to actually refer to it as consulting our "collective consciousness" then. but until that day comes, it's nothing more than yet another destructive force in this world.

i realize everything will inevitably get co-opted by someone. even "mutual aid" is being used by surveillance capitalism corpos for their bootlicking tech now. there's nothing mutual aid about cops showing up in your community. there's nothing ecologically positive about AI generated images. there's nothing punk about a single person trying to be the face or custodian of something.

tbh nowadays i feel like i should be distancing myself from the label because of how people are behaving.

there are no manifestos. there is no right way to punk. y'all go on about decentralization and how it's the future yet try to centralize an idea? a feeling? a society? what are you even doing?

movements like this aren't just art. they aren't just survivalist grit. they aren't just a quick grab for a solution to any of the world's problems. they're a feeling, and a deeply rooted passion. you're either in it and understand it, or you're flailing on the surface with vibes and aesthetics.

ah, i see the "solarpunks" are beating each other's asses again on social media over who's right and wrong about a dynamic, flexible, and nebulous movement while creating boring, unimaginative green-washed AI images for all their posts

i've always had a reluctance to attach labels to myself due to all the baggage that comes with a label. one thing that's necessary is for narcissistic individuals to stop trying to be the leaders or visionaries for something as nebulous as solarpunk. no individual will ever have the right nor the capability to define the meaning of something like this. each group will have their own consensus, and that's it. browbeating people about what it is and isn't, while being wrong yourself is a bad look.

movements die by people attacking and eating each other inside said movement

one of the many ways an abusive relationship, whether intimate or professional or anything, can actually kill you

my blood pressure in such a situation: 151/92

my blood pressure out of it: 118/76

don't let anyone or anything steal your life and health from you

@xgranade i remember my doctor arguing about this with me recently, saying that none of that will ever be accessible without permission. and i was like yeah, i'm gonna keep being cagey about anything ive learned in my therapy sessions so it's not on record, because i know that's a lie. and here we are with the autism registry and a free for all on access to people's private medical data. sick.

@xgranade and she whipped out her god damn AI assistant app to listen to our conversation to help her with her notes. it's literally hell out here. i told her no thanks, not agreeing to that either.

funny how private, protected, incredibly inaccessible medical information actually isn't

@feld these are definitely not exhaustive but found a couple just now
https://www.toollibraryalliance.org/
https://localtools.org/find/

so far this month, the local tool library has saved me $1000 for only putting in a very VERY small fraction of that for an annual membership

i think i'll give $100 in donations for every $1000 they save me, sounds about right

#solarpunk

who up waxing they gibbous

if you're someone like me, who can blend in and easily move through groups that have higher concentrations of fascists, i have inspiring stories for you because i do this fairly regularly.

hard, established facts often don't matter to these people because they're generally so low information that their beliefs and hear-say about something ARE their facts. they don't ever have the chance or the interest or the will to figure things out on their own. their spaces are hallucinogenic and addictive.

@davidrevoy yet I’m sure they let their kids consume Disney and other hetero narrative stories without end, as well as force religion on them

edit: what's even more wild is the tracker prevention kicking in on a supposed personal email lol i mean, it may not be a tracking pixel in that little red dot up top and instead is some weird stylistic choice of putting an image in sent emails buuuut 😂

im noticing the EU has a very strange obsession with needing birth certificates as part of certain immigration processes despite having a whole ass passport for a country that objectively proves citizenship and age (which requires sufficient records locally to even be able to get).

what if someone doesn't have a birth certificate, and instead only ever had a religious record like a baptism certificate? some people aren't born in hospitals, and some people are born in very poor very rural areas.

guess everyone who didn't vote this election because of the israel and gaza situation and contributed to trump being elected are proud of themselves now 🤡

gonna be real... sometimes i really hate how my principles and morality keep me from becoming wealthier faster