Lauowolf
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Like a ridiculous number of things, it is a lot more complicated and nuanced than people think! Even the most outrageously fucked up sites out there who behave in ridiculously bad ways are *also* subject to an incredible amount of equally fucked up government interference over nothing.
February 10, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Like a ridiculous number of things, it is a lot more complicated and nuanced than people think! Even the most outrageously fucked up sites out there who behave in ridiculously bad ways are *also* subject to an incredible amount of equally fucked up government interference over nothing.
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(With a side of the EU and UK explicitly doing it out of animus for several specific US companies because of a lot of very complex clashes ranging from genuine issues with the behavior of said companies down to those companies' refusal to cooperate with censorship orders.)
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
(With a side of the EU and UK explicitly doing it out of animus for several specific US companies because of a lot of very complex clashes ranging from genuine issues with the behavior of said companies down to those companies' refusal to cooperate with censorship orders.)
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The governments pushing the moral panic the loudest are doing so because it's an excuse to further the destruction of anonymity and privacy and further advance the surveillance state.
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
The governments pushing the moral panic the loudest are doing so because it's an excuse to further the destruction of anonymity and privacy and further advance the surveillance state.
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The people pushing the social media moral panic the loudest genuinely believe it because it is a simple, reductive explanation for a complex, nuanced, and multifaceted problem that also allows them to blame people they don't like
February 10, 2026 at 11:47 AM
The people pushing the social media moral panic the loudest genuinely believe it because it is a simple, reductive explanation for a complex, nuanced, and multifaceted problem that also allows them to blame people they don't like
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The patchwork worldwide legal framework resulting from the ungrounded moral panic over people under 18 using the internet has a lot of us making extremely unpleasant choices. The blame lies on the governments mandating them.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
The patchwork worldwide legal framework resulting from the ungrounded moral panic over people under 18 using the internet has a lot of us making extremely unpleasant choices. The blame lies on the governments mandating them.
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Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.
February 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.
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Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
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LEAVE JANET JACKSON ALONE
Rep Mark Alford (R-MO) says House Rs are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show & talking with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Alford says he didn't watch the whole thing & also doesn't know Spanish but suspects it might have been "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction"
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
LEAVE JANET JACKSON ALONE
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2 Crows enter, 1 Crow leaves!
February 10, 2026 at 7:38 PM
2 Crows enter, 1 Crow leaves!
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CROW THUNDERDOME
(In which Bill Crow compliments Trace Crow on the script for Earth Vs. Soup, and Trace Crow compliments Bill Crow for luring Tom Servo into trying to destroy Canada)
(In which Bill Crow compliments Trace Crow on the script for Earth Vs. Soup, and Trace Crow compliments Bill Crow for luring Tom Servo into trying to destroy Canada)
February 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
CROW THUNDERDOME
(In which Bill Crow compliments Trace Crow on the script for Earth Vs. Soup, and Trace Crow compliments Bill Crow for luring Tom Servo into trying to destroy Canada)
(In which Bill Crow compliments Trace Crow on the script for Earth Vs. Soup, and Trace Crow compliments Bill Crow for luring Tom Servo into trying to destroy Canada)
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February 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
When we get out the other side of this, we should think seriously about making signs like this permanent, like the plaques in Paris that tell you that you're standing on the exact spot where a resistance fighter was shot down by the Nazis in 1944.
For Ireland they were very understanding of birth registers AND my father-in-law's annoying habit of changing his middle name randomly
Three times - birth, marriage, and passport were all different
The consul just shrugged
Three times - birth, marriage, and passport were all different
The consul just shrugged
February 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
For Ireland they were very understanding of birth registers AND my father-in-law's annoying habit of changing his middle name randomly
Three times - birth, marriage, and passport were all different
The consul just shrugged
Three times - birth, marriage, and passport were all different
The consul just shrugged
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…if the Canadian ancestor predates birth certificates, certified baptismal records in Canada. If you cannot get those, you will have to use a plethora of secondary sources: for instance census records, marriage records, to tell a story of someone consistently born in Canada.
February 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM
…if the Canadian ancestor predates birth certificates, certified baptismal records in Canada. If you cannot get those, you will have to use a plethora of secondary sources: for instance census records, marriage records, to tell a story of someone consistently born in Canada.
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Bree I have a specific answer to this because I talked to an immigration lawyer there. (3 out of my 16 great-great-grandparents are Canadian.)
In the best case scenario, you will have certified birth records detailing the chain. This means birth certificates, or…
In the best case scenario, you will have certified birth records detailing the chain. This means birth certificates, or…
February 11, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Bree I have a specific answer to this because I talked to an immigration lawyer there. (3 out of my 16 great-great-grandparents are Canadian.)
In the best case scenario, you will have certified birth records detailing the chain. This means birth certificates, or…
In the best case scenario, you will have certified birth records detailing the chain. This means birth certificates, or…
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I actually do have the Acadian great-grandpa's non-anglicized name now, but it turns out I can try to find his paper trail or I can do resistance and I decided I gotta do the latter, but I mean. If anyone already versed in how you find papers in Canada wants to drop a website??? LOLOL
I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.
February 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
I actually do have the Acadian great-grandpa's non-anglicized name now, but it turns out I can try to find his paper trail or I can do resistance and I decided I gotta do the latter, but I mean. If anyone already versed in how you find papers in Canada wants to drop a website??? LOLOL
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“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help
Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:19 AM
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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If the world made any fucking sense anymore, every single tech company would be keeping its head the fuck down, too terrified of scrutiny. The whole fucking industry should be too busy running damage control to carry on unabated. That there’s no damage for them to control is fucking warped.
February 11, 2026 at 12:20 AM
If the world made any fucking sense anymore, every single tech company would be keeping its head the fuck down, too terrified of scrutiny. The whole fucking industry should be too busy running damage control to carry on unabated. That there’s no damage for them to control is fucking warped.
IMPEACH HIS MURDEROUS ASS
Vinay Prasad of the FDA has broken with the usual approval process and refuses to review Moderna’s new flu shot.
He claims that the proposed clinical trial, which would compare the new vaccine to an already approved one, “does not reflect the best-available standard of care”.
He claims that the proposed clinical trial, which would compare the new vaccine to an already approved one, “does not reflect the best-available standard of care”.
Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot
Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the FDA on the experimental influenza shot, called mRNA-1010.
www.cnbc.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
IMPEACH HIS MURDEROUS ASS
!!!!!!!!!
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:45 AM
!!!!!!!!!
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Important connection because this is something Tim Walz can do something about bsky.app/profile/swee...
I can confirm this is true and I can also say that the lack of an eviction moratorium is fueling this trend.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Important connection because this is something Tim Walz can do something about bsky.app/profile/swee...
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They’re so excited for us to die, it’s wild
Breaking: The FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine www.statnews.com/2026/02/10/f...
FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine
FDA refuses to review Moderna’s influenza vaccine, which could raise concerns about the agency’s posture toward vaccines and drug approvals more generally.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 AM
They’re so excited for us to die, it’s wild
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This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.
The FDA has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said, in another setback for the technology that’s been a target of some Trump administration health officials. https://cnn.it/4kt8iyn
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.
Nah
TARGET: "Sooner or later, these useless decisions we keep coming up will actually work, and Black people will stop this #BoycottTarget nonsense and come back to shopping in our stores because they like us again."
Black people:
Black people:
February 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Nah
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The Oglala Sioux Tribe unanimously banned ICE from Pine Ridge in South Dakota, and rejected a federal immigration agreement, during a special session of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council on Jan. 21, 2026.
Council members said Lakotas are being targeted by ICE in Denver and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Council members said Lakotas are being targeted by ICE in Denver and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Oglala and Cheyenne River Lakota Nations Ban ICE -- ICE Terrorizing Native Americans : Indybay
The Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne River Lakota Nations in South Dakota have banned ICE. Further, the Oglala Nation in Pine Ridge rejected a federal immigration agreement aimed at compromising its soverei...
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February 10, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The Oglala Sioux Tribe unanimously banned ICE from Pine Ridge in South Dakota, and rejected a federal immigration agreement, during a special session of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council on Jan. 21, 2026.
Council members said Lakotas are being targeted by ICE in Denver and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Council members said Lakotas are being targeted by ICE in Denver and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.