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Hrefna (DHC)

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Setting aside the deliberately provocative lead-in, I'd like to talk about something about how unions work that I think a lot of leftists could learn from.

When you see a worker in trouble you have solidarity with them _first_. It doesn't matter if it has never […]

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Very few queer people took time out of their party weekend to join the protest, but local Fight for 15 members, mostly middle-aged women speaking in Spanish, gave speech after speech that moved me to tears. None of them had met their co-worker across the country; a few said they’d never met a trans person before that day. But they knew or had personally known the feeling of a leering, smug manager using his position to humiliate them in intensely personal, sometimes sexual ways. They shared their own stories about fighting a boss for their bodily dignity, connecting them to their disgust at the treatment their far-away comrade had endured. They knew whose side they were on, and in turn, I learned there were more people on my side than I’d ever imagined.

November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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Of course there's also the Roman Catholic Catechism.

Hey Vance, I'm talking to you.

2443 God blesses those who come to the aid of the poor and rebukes those who turn away from them: "Give to him who begs from you, do not refuse him who would borrow from you"; "you received without pay, give without pay."231 It is by what they have done for the poor that Jesus Christ will recognize his chosen ones.232 When "the poor have the good news preached to them," it is the sign of Christ's presence.233

2444 "The Church's love for the poor . . . is a part of her constant tradition." This love is inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes, of the poverty of Jesus, and of his concern for the poor.234 Love for the poor is even one of the motives for the duty of working so as to "be able to give to those in need."235 It extends not only to material poverty but also to the many forms of cultural and religious poverty.236

November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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These people are not Christians. They are idolators.

Like, my voice doesn't amount to much given that I am not a Christian and haven't been for some time. But it still irks me how they subvert Christian imagery in the service of their false idols.

Matthew 25:41–46.

41Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; 42for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ 45Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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These passages live rent free in my head.

(Welcome to Dorley Hall)

"Good," Bea says. "You've got to nip that sort of silliness in the bud, early."

"Have a lot of experience with trans women, do you?"

"Enough to know that if you give them an inch they'll steal ten years from themselves."

"Stef, if I may be blunt—and everyone around me is, so I believe I shall indulge—you are a woman. You have always been a woman, whatever your external appearance might suggest. You have, therefore, experienced masculinity, and particularly the kind of grasping, possessive, abusive masculinity that we as a society have decided is appropriate to teach our young men, as nothing but a curse, correct? An unpleasant and often entirely irrational system of behavior to which you have been expected to conform, and uphold in others."

"Um," Stefan says, trying to control his reaction to being called a woman, to having his woman]hood recognised so casually, acknowledged so completely. "Yes, I suppose."

"Would you agree that your compliance with masculinity has been, shall we say, coerced? Not something you would have chosen for yourself?"

Stefan nods, and carefully avoids getting lost in memories.

November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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[animal death]

We lost our best rooster tonight. He died in the line of duty to what we suspect was an owl attack. He successfully drove off the predator, doing his job to the very end.

I always find predator attacks sad but more manageable than disease […]

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An extremely fluffy fizzle bantam rooster, red in color, with a black copper maren pullet in the background.

October 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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Some light reading.

Two books. The one on the let is The Book of Gates: A Magical Translation, by Josephine McCarthy

The one on the right is Through A Glass Darkly: Magic, dreams, and prophecy in ancient Egypt. Edited by Kasia Szpakowska.

October 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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Anyways, today I was doing a bit of an interesting dive into Egypt at around the time of the unification of Upper and Lower egypt and found this kind of really interesting situation.

There was a royal consort named Penebui (P.nb.wj). She was possibly the wife […]

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Hieroglyph of a woman with blood coming out of her head facing a reed above a rekhyt bird drawn with a "cut" across the neck.

A series of hieroglyphs for excrement, Penebui's name, and a hieroglyph of a woman with blood coming out of her head. The center hieroglyphs here are circled in red using a computer to showcase them.

October 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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This person gets it

https://www.tiktok.com/@waykeeper_girl/video/7556698330932317471?q=kinktober&t=1759447575466

A woman with curly hair and blue eyes stares at a camera, headphones on and a hand with red fingernails outstretched. Underneath is the text

"Seeing people rage about the kinktober prompts when my first reaction to them was "wow that's tame"

October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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I present: a fluffy dodgeball.

#chickensofmastodon

A red bantam rooster with feathers curved backwards and a black copper maran pullet.

July 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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Something tells me that accuweather is using generative AI to write these…

A morning shower; otherwise, clouds and sun; a few afternoon t-storms, some severe; storms can bring flash flooding, hail, damaging winds, and even a tornado Hi: 80º

June 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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[statistics on men disbelieving sexual assault]

I'm sorry. 17% of men saying they wouldn't believe a woman who has been assaulted is not a "pretty small number." What the frak are you even on dude.

That's also the number who ADMIT that they are predisposed to […]

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Only 17% said they wouldn't believe a woman who claimed to have been assaulted.

17% is actually a pretty small number.

June 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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Status.

A plastic bolognese side sword with a wrapped handle and metal guard and pommel.

April 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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#silentsunday

A mute swan cuts across reflective water.

April 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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Gods I hate commentary like this. Like, seriously now, an _iota_ of self reflection. Please. I'm begging you.

What do you do if your host instance is down _here_, exactly?

A robustness analysis could be a valuable exercise, but this seriously isn't it.

#bluesky #atproto

Bluesky is down. You know what you could do if ATProto was truly decentralized right now?

#Bluesky #ATProto #SocialMedia

April 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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This is a _very_ fast well to convince me to not use your services.

Warning !

This website contains graphic images. By continuing to our website, you agree that you are 19 years old or above.

[I am 19 years old or Older]

March 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM

Hrefna (DHC)

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I just…

When you run face first into the point and miss it anyways.

*headdesk*

@rolle@mementomori.social Why is it that a "technical" server admin is needed to run mastodon?

The whole process of installing mastodon and getting an instance up is far too complicated. Essential to make it as simple as possible so non-technical people can create their communities.

https://anarchism.space/@abdullahkhalids/113933214189887049

Roni Laukkarinen
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@abdullahkhalids Why is an architect or construction workers needed to build a house?

February 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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I'm sorry _what_?

Did everyone just collectively forget what happened with kolektiva? Or a half a dozen or so other, smaller servers I could name that have lost all of their data due to an _autoupdate_?

Or from an engineering standpoint, the giant, "this […]

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For some, joining Mastodon might seem risky because "the server could shut down at any time" or because it's managed by a single administrator. While these concerns are understandable, Mastodon has far more safeguards in place compared to centralized platforms:

1. Admins are typically experienced sysadmins with a strong passion for server management.

February 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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I also look at "how can I use this framework to make a decision, what decisions does it support, what decisions does it forbid, what decisions does it make Complicated™"

What decisions are forbidden here? What decisions are being supported? What does it look […]

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2.12 The web can be consumed in any way that people choose

People must be able to change web pages according to their needs. For example, people should be able to install style sheets, assistive browser extensions, and blockers of unwanted content or scripts. We will build features and write specifications that respect people's agency, and will create user agents to represent those preferences on the web user's behalf.

a) Patients should be treated with respect, regardless of their gend er, age,
relig ion, d isab il it y, race, ethn ic ity, social, financial, or medical status,
life-styles, or sexual preferences.
b) Patients must be respected and have the right to refuse their treatment and to
participate in their choice of medical therapy.
c) Physicians should act in the best interests of the patient and be guided by the
principles of both beneficence and non-maleficence.
d) Physicians must act in a just and fair manner in matters involving the
distribution of scarce health resources and in decisions pertaining to access to
specific treatments

December 15, 2024 at 6:28 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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A lot of it reads vaguely, speaking of "we" in a very generic sense, but not imposing anything on anybody, and not saying how it will happen even when things are proposed that AFAICT are _not_ being done today.

Compare these two passages, one from the W3C and […]

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2.5 The web is secure and respects people's privacy

When we add features to the web platform, we are making decisions that impact people's ability to control their personal data. This data includes their conversations, their financial transactions and how they live their lives. We will start by creating web technologies that create as few potential threats to web users as possible, and mitigate the threats that we cannot avoid. We will make sure people understand what risks they are taking when they use the web.

1.6 Respect privacy.

The responsibility of respecting privacy applies to computing professionals in a particularly profound way. Technology enables the collection, monitoring, and exchange of personal information quickly, inexpensively, and often without the knowledge of the people affected. Therefore, a computing professional should become conversant in the various definitions and forms of privacy and should understand the rights and responsibilities associated with the collection and use of personal information.

Computing professionals should only use personal information for legitimate ends and without violating the rights of individuals and groups. This requires taking precautions to prevent re-identification of anonymized data or unauthorized data collection, ensuring the accuracy of data, understanding the provenance of the data, and protecting it from unauthorized access and accidental disclosure. Computing professionals should establish transparent policies and procedures that allow individuals to understand what data is being collected and how it is being used, to give informed consent for automatic data collection, and to review, obtain, correct inaccuracies in, and delete their personal data.

December 15, 2024 at 6:24 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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Thinking about it more, part of my problem is fundamentally just how it is framed in the core principles themselves.

For example: "The web is for all people"

Does not read as an ethical principle because it doesn't talk about human or organizational behavior […]

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A.1.a. Primary Responsibility
The primary responsibility of counsel-
ors is to respect the dignity and promote
the welfare of clie

December 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM

Hrefna (DHC)

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More BlueSky killer features.

(name on post removed because the actual content isn't what I'm focusing on here and I don't think she'd appreciate extra attention over it)