@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2025-08-27 11:25:49
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2025-08-27 11:25:49
@malik@Mastodon.Social2025-08-22 00:22:14
@servelan@newsie.social2025-07-25 23:59:09
#Grindr blocks users from writing "No #Zionists" on profiles but allows "No Blacks" - #LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/grindr-blocks-users-from-writing-no-zionists-on-profiles-but-allows-no-blacks/
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2025-07-24 19:53:54
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-07-26 16:35:47
🏳️🌈 My flags are a total disaster, it looks gloriously bad in here, and honestly, I live for that chaotic energy.
🏳️⚧️ I’m so unapologetically gay and proudly gender-fluid, you wouldn’t even believe it.
#PrideFlag #Pride
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2025-09-25 18:35:31
China is using Deepfakes for anti-#LGBTQ imagery:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/horror-film-digitally-altered-china-gay…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-09-23 07:15:42
It's International Celebrate Bisexuality Day!
a.k.a. Bi Visibility Day!
I plan to boost a few things as the day goes on :-)
#InternationalCelebrateBisexualityDay #BiVisibilityDay #BiDay #bisexuality #LGBTQ #queer
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-08-09 02:55:08
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-07-08 10:27:18
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-09-20 15:42:10
Not clear on the definition of Fascism?
Benito Mussolini 1932
#TeaParty #MAGA
"Fascism was not the nursling of a doctrine previously drafted at a desk; it was born of the need of action, and was action; it was not a party but, in the first two years, an anti-party and a movement.”
#Democracy #Freedom #Autocracy
“[Fascism] is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts the rights of the State”
#PersonalIdentity
"Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State..”
#WorkersRights #Corporate #Billionnaires
"Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State.
#SelfExpression #Trans #LGBTQ
"if liberty is to he the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism…”
#totalitarianism
"Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people”
#austerity
"life, as conceived of by the Fascist, is serious, austere, and religious; The Fascist disdains an “easy " life.”
#environment #climatechange #peace #war
"[Fascism] does not believe in the possibility of "happiness" on earth … it therefore rejects the theological notion that at some future time the human family will secure a final settlement of all its difficulties.”
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-19 09:37:38
Content warning: what I plan to contribute to BiCon (July 2025, Nottingham and online)
I have plans for a few different things...
• Wednesday evening, 23 July, I'm hosting a 1-hour online thing that'll be open to whoever's already booked by then. It'll be a somewhat structured talky session on a theme of "inventing the BiCon you want", and an opportunity to meet other people who are going. Newcomers especially welcome :-)
• On the Friday morning at in-person BiCon, I'm offering a session called "Curiosity Skills". It's about which kinds of questions are genuinely "open", versus which kinds of questions allow your own assumptions and biases to sneak in! It'll be partly me explaining, and partly the chance for some little conversational experiments, to notice how the different questions work in practice.
• Subject to finding a nice quiet airy place to do it, I plan to run a mask-decoration session at some point on the Friday. I'll bring a few different kinds of masks, plus lace, beads and sequins, and some past experience of how to decorate masks without compromising the seal or the breathability. I'll invite donations for the materials. Decorate your mask for Pride! or for BiCon partying! or just because you like to :-)
• Also I will bring my badges and zines, and have them on sale!
=
By the way, if you might come to the Wednesday evening online bit, let me know what time you'd like it to start, because that's a question I have open at the moment. Could be 19.00, 19.30, 20.00. For myself I don't really mind, but I'm aware that some people have teatimes or child-bedtimes that can't easily be moved.
#bi #trans #Nottingham #EastMidlands #England #UK #BiCon #bisexual #bisexuality #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-19 08:48:43
Content warning: BiCon coming up, Fri 25 to Sun 27 July 2025, Nottingham and online
BiCon comes to Nottingham this Friday!
It's a masking-friendly, though not mask-required, event, in a venue which is said to be pretty good for air quality.
There's also an online-only option, which I went to myself last year when the in-person side wasn't in Nottingham. We had a nice little group being companionable on the Zoom, with some of the in-person sessions running as hybrid.
You don't have to be bi to go - just bi-friendly and trans-inclusive. Typically it does include some non-bi people who just like the vibes :-)
Sliding-scale admission prices:
- in-person weekend tickets £65 down to £20
- in-person day tickets £40 down to £10
- online weekend tickets £20 down to £4.
Venue this year is two of the buildings belonging to the girls' high school, in between the Forest and the Arboretum. Nearest tram stop is High School. Nearest bus lines are brown, green, yellow, and purple.
There's usually a variety of session options in the day: some talky and some not; some bi-themed, some unrelated. In the evenings there'll be social space. Some people will go and march as a group in Notts Pride on the Saturday. I'm going to host an online pre-meet on the Wednesday evening.
Myself I've booked for the weekend, but in reality I might only make it to the online-Wednesday-pre-meet and the Friday, esp if I do go to Notts Pride on the Saturday. I might be all used up by Saturday night. (Even pre-covid I might've run out of steam by then :-) ) But if I didn't come in on the Sunday, I probably would still join in at least a little bit online.
More below on what I'm planning to contribute!
Feel free to ping me if you have questions :-)
#bi #trans #Nottingham #EastMidlands #England #UK #BiCon #bisexual #bisexuality #queer #LGBT #LGBTQ