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Petra van Cronenburg

I think that #writers watch these days with open mouths and surprise how reality can write the weirdest plots for #SciFi or #comedy. (Forget ChatGPT with its biased boring stories!)

“This isn’t reality TV,” said another former intelligence official. “There are consequences.”

And this is a #real quote in a real facts article about a real development in real #reality. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/pol
Try to sell such a plot to your publisher: 'too irreal', incredible, could never happen!"

CNN · Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources sayBy Natasha Bertrand
#RealityCheck
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Maggie Maybe

The motivation for the Christian Nationalists can be cruelty and control, but sometimes it’s just for $$$.

Keep an eye out for the rebranding of abstinence only sex ed. Apparently NH has not taken funding from those who provide funding for this grift. But they could, and I don’t know what the other states are doing.

“But even without federal funding in New Hampshire, business is still booming for Joneen Mackenzie. Today, her SRA education program is in 47 states, including New Hampshire. “

nhpr.org/second-greatest/2020-

Paragraphs from the link: Donahue no longer runs WAIT trainings, although she still teaches abstinence education on her own. WAIT training has a new name, "REAL Essentials," and it is run by the Center for Relationship Education (CRE). Like many organizations, CRE does not call its training abstinence education, but has rebranded under a new term: Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA). "The sexual health component in our work is so tiny, and in fact, in some schools, we even take it out because they don't even want to teach sexual health," said Joneen Mackenzie, president of CRE. "They don't want the controversy."
From the link: While Mackenzie says that REAL Essentials is not abstinence education, critics argue that this approach is really just abstinence education in disguise. Not talking about sex or witholding information from teens, some argue, is not education, but an absence of education. Mackenzie disagrees, and calls the binary between comprehensive sex ed and abstinence "unfair." "The soundbite that you can quote me on is: we cannot normalize teen sex... it's not healthy for them. Forget that it's not moral or immoral... that's not an issue. From a nursing perspective, from a public health perspective, if they're involved in teen sex, they're also involved in high risk behaviors.” says Mackenzie
#PublicSchool#SexEd#HIV
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Casil McArthur
This is a photoshoot/interview I did last year. Originally meant for Behind the Blinds, a huge men's editorial.
It was moved to their smaller publication Shadowplay for the pride issue, without notifying me. When I asked why it moved I was told that it just fit better in Shadow Play, and that if I didn't agree they could just pull the whole editorial entirely. Everyone on set worked really hard for this shoot, so I couldn't let it not be published anywhere.
But it is not lost on me the reality of the publications decision as well as the power imbalance going on.
That frustrated the hell out of me, I felt my experience in masculinity wasn't enough or valued for all types of men to read and relate too. I felt like they wanted to hide me, they didn't expect the styling and energy to be so feminine. I love my trans community, I also want to help encourage cis men to grow and heal, I can't very well do that if I'm restricted to smaller branching spaces. I guess atleast it got published tho sometimes i dream about what it could've been had they gone with the original plan and stayed courageous.

I think fashion now a days is playing it too safe tbh. ♡

Photography by Arden Arden.

#fashion #editorial #trans #ftm #highfashion #beauty #prada #celine #Lowe #transgender #transpride #interview #menswear #menshealth #maleprincess #transmasc #transman #casilmcarthur #real
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mythologyandhistory

Did you know that #invisibility cloaks are #real?

From the 2nd c's Cap of Hades to #Marvel 's Invisible Woman, magic that renders one #invisible is a common theme in #mythology & #scifi.

In 2006, #theoretical #physicist John Pendry figured out that light could be bent around an object so that it renders it invisible.
This led to many advancements in metamaterial science, known as 'metamaterial cloaking'.

I've enjoyed this talk by Pendry: youtube.com/watch?v=VO6IrynhjK [start: 4:43min]

YouTubeSir John Pendry "The Science of Invisibility Cloaks and Metamaterials"By UIMP
#science
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TheYOSH

@briankrebs

I know the feeling... I refuse the use any 'social media' that wants my phone number... No whats-app, signal, FB, Meta, Threads, etc.

If you want to contact me, ask me for my email or phone number. Happy to give if when you ask nicely...

But people do not understand that Big Tech does not respect any privacy.
So I am on my own federated social media platforms like Mastodon and Matrix running mine own servers...

#matrix #mastodon #privacy #real-freedom

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

#Explore the #Darkest #Corners of the #Internet to #Understand #Real-#World #PoliticalViolence: Read an #Excerpt of #BlackPill by #ElleReeve

If you’ve been struggling to understand how we arrived here, with an #insurrection in our recent past and #politicalviolence becoming almost #commonplace, take an eye-opening journey with an award-winning #journalist who has breached the #digital and #reallife #spaces where #hate and #conspiracy coalesce.

bookriot.com/black-pill-by-ell

BOOK RIOT · Explore the Darkest Corners of the Internet to Understand Real-World Political Violence: Read an Excerpt of BLACK PILL by Elle ReeveIn Elle Reeve's BLACK PILL, we meet a woman who championed a misogynistic white supremacist movement and revealed its chilling secrets.
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Erik van Straten

@textualdeviance wrote, among other things:

« Sudden revolutions come with obscenely high body counts of innocent civilians. »

That is not necessarily true, in for example the following cases:

🔸 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_R

🔸 A revolution that STOPS killing must take place #NOW. The anihilation of Palestinians is simply unacceptable, in particular because western countries condone, support or even encourage it. At some point the governments of the USA, NL and others must stop following orders from their Zionist sponsors, in order to not make them EVEN MORE complicit to genocide.

🔸 Personally I'm "fighting" for a safer internet; fixing tech does not have to involve bloodshed at all (although big tech and leeches like safer.io/ will lose income). Such as:

• By insisting on a system where internet users can distinguish betwee fake and authentic websites (see infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat);

• By providing strong arguments why "Chatcontrol" (governments scanning every smartphone looking for Child Sexual Abuse Material - and what not) will not protect a single child - on the contrary (infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat; chatcontrol is *not* just a privacy risk);

• By warning for passkeys (infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat) and suggesting better alternatives;

• By warning for risks such as when unlocking the screen of an iPhone/iPad with a PIN (infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat);

• By warning for security measures that are easily bypassed, such as 2FA/MFA (using SMS, voice, or TOTP "Authenticator" apps including Microsoft's using "number matching");

• Et cetera.

@0xabad1dea

en.wikipedia.orgVelvet Revolution - Wikipedia
#AIPAC#CIDI#Gaza
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