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The house were the Brontës were born in Thornton, Bradford, has now passed into public ownership. It is run by Brontë Birthplace Ltd., a community benefit society.
Photo: courtesy of the Brontë Birthplace Facebook Group.
https://brontebirthplace.com

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The Bronte Birthplace Campaign is raising funds to acquire and restore the birthplace building of the renowned Bronte sisters.

I just fell for a very scary #aprilfools in a Facebook group for Icelandic Geology, which is usually a place for serious discussion - hell, they remove pictures that were obviously done by entering restricted areas or ask about how to circumvent police barricades.
But today, they accepted a post "Katla started to erupt today 🌋 Confirmed 👆"
Some things you just don't joke…

Every time the power goes out I go to the local Facebook group to complain. And every time I chuckle at the banner image for the group.

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

It’s one traitor after another in the #AirForce lately…
“A U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst advocated publicly for a second Civil War, running a high-profile anti-government Facebook group—and at one point shared classified information he ‘likely’ got from the ultra-covert National Security Agency, according to investigators.”

Airman Jason Travis Gray Accused of Sharing Classified Info With Boogaloo Buddies
USAF intel analyst and alleged extremist Jason Travis Gray ran a high-profile anti-government Facebook group, according to the feds.

Well-meaning relative sees a facebook post about a lost greyhound on the loose
…shares it to a greyhound facebook group
…tags me in their post
…asks me if I am a member of that group and have I seen their share
It is a group I (help) run.

The #Sun at 0:23 UTC on the 10th and 2:21 UTC on the 11th, i.e. 1/2 hour ago: the big #ActivityRegion (1)3576 has just crossed the disk's center - and performed an almost-X #flare a few hours ago: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=893802412753552 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=881819310619719 (this could have consequences; details are TBD). A much stronger X3.3 flare on the 9th - https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/519/20240209-x3-3-solar-flare.html - was harmless, though, at it happened in another group already behind the Sun's limb.

There is a Facebook group for this area called “Everything Sunshine Coast”. The description/rules say, “No irrelevant posts.”
The admins either don’t know what “everything” means or they don’t know what “irrelevant” means. 😂

<3 had a lovely time organizing different things between different LGBT groups
you know, they also had... a facebook group
*gasp!*
(I think the local mutual aid did much more positively for my life, than that angry "grr, no threads, queers don't use threads" conversation on fedi)
(and... guess what... organizing will continue on any platform, regardless of whatever tech absolutists think)

I have a private Facebook group for a family thing and for the last week I’ve been getting a flood of requests from random accounts trying to join the group. Anyone else ever seen this? Is this just going to go on forever?

always a link to Russia lurking in the background #TraitorTrump #MoscowMarjorie #UsPoli

I just fell for a very scary #aprilfools in a Facebook group for Icelandic Geology, which is usually a place for serious discussion - hell, they remove pictures that were obviously done by entering restricted areas or ask about how to circumvent police barricades.
But today, they accepted a post "Katla started to erupt today 🌋 Confirmed 👆"
Some things you just don't joke…

Cw: discussion of #transphobia; JKR; politics and power
Someone in a Facebook group I'm in asked:
"What the f☆☆k has JK Rowling got to do with removing the appalling Zionist Keir Starmer & the rest of our neoliberal NATO supporting warmongering parliamentary representatives from power?
Asking for a very angry feminist socialist lesbian disabled 70 year old."
I thought this was actually a deceptively good question, so I thought I'd share my answer here...
The thing to understand is that trans rights and trans healthcare are being used as a 'wedge issue' by the right wing: something to divide and distract us while they get on with their usual business of plundering everybody.
Rowling, as a billionaire with a huge platform and a great deal of time on her hands, has done more than practically anybody else to drive this wedge deeper.
Like every scapegoating campaign used by the right - against gay people, immigrants, minorities, benefits claimants and so on - the anti-trans moral panic has serious, material consequences for its targets.
The ones who benefit from these hate campaigns (and often fund them, directly or indirectly) are largely indifferent to the harm caused; the distraction and division are the main points, but stoking fear and hatred are time-worn methods of achieving those.
Hope this helps!

#Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/08/facebook-instagram-censor-zionist-israel/

Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word “Zionist”
“I think it may actually harm the fight against antisemitism,” said the head of a Palestinian digital rights group briefed on the potential change.

A colleague who’s in the online advertising space explained to me that while WhatsApp messages are indeed end to end encrypted, the social graph that links you to your connections (ie the people you message with) is not encrypted and not private. Facebook sells that info, but most people incorrectly think that because messages are encrypted that everything about your WhatsApp messaging is private. It is not. I’m not defending this, just explaining it.

Just had a weird stress dream where my Libra Link software unexpectedly updated itself, connected with Facebook, and I started seeing the lines of other members of a Facebook diabetes support group when I went to check my blood sugar, like they had gamified it into some kind of weird competition.
Abbott Pharmaceutical: if you are getting any ideas in this direction: no no no no no no.
#diabetes

As a result of this, I was booted from this Facebook group. The only reason I realized this months later was when I looked to follow up with my well earned “I told you so” that following winter. Someone had of course been unable to stop going down this hill and clean took out the stop sign. I’m just reminded of this story today, as I witnessed 1 car sliding straight into the middle of the intersection as I went the other direction. 2/3

This just in from @… at @…:
#DriveThruRPG will shortly—within a week—start producing

Random story time: About 5 years ago a local blowhard in my neighbourhood lobbied to get an unnecessary stop sign installed near his house. It was already a 2-way stop, but it was at the end of a long, gradual hill. At the time it happened I made a post in the local Facebook group about it, and how it was dangerous placing a stop sign at the bottom of the hill. I recall some discussion on it, nothing too intense, but apparently this put the local blowhard’s nose out of joint 1/3

KDE disappointed me, but I'll keep using it. Here's why. https://ludditus.com/2024/03/27/et-tu-kde-vulnerable-by-design/