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-Italy begins stripping lesbian mothers of their parental rights-

"In conjunction with its crackdown on the rights of same-sex parents, the Italian government has begun retroactively stripping same-sex parents of their legal connection to their children."

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/07/italy-begins-stripping-lesbian-mothers-of-their-parental-rights/

#discrimination #homophobie #LGBTIQA #LGBTQ #italy #Meloni #Eu #children

Edit: And we're back! It didn't take as long as expected!

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It looks like they've underestimated the #ClimateCrisis impact on food worldwide. Starvation is coming folks unless we depose the ruling class and its farcical government and replace it with true #democracy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38906-7?error=cookies_not_supported&code=27e4145e-2526-43f2-abd6-f95f163a77a3

A #rentstrike in #Toronto is growing! Check out our latest column of @cdntirefire for a roundup of social movements and struggles across so-called #Canada. https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-61/

"Avenge Banko Brown"
Graffiti in San Francisco in reference to the murder of a 24-year-old black, trans, homeless activist who was unable to get a housing spot he’d long been pursuing, had been turned away from multiple shelters, and was forced to sleep on the train.

Brown’s friends and family suspect he was severely exhausted and hungry on 27 April when a security guard at a downtown Walgreens supermarket confronted him for allegedly shoplifting – and fatally shot him. Brown, who was unarmed, had reportedly tried to take snacks from the store.

The killing of a budding activist, and the San Francisco district attorney’s decision to not charge the security guard, and initial refusal to release video of the murder sent sent shockwaves through the city, sparking disgust at the quick use of deadly force by a private guard and protests about the city’s continued failures to provide housing, services and basic safety for Black trans youth like Brown.

Such an important observation!

"Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users [because] hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.

Mastodon is not an ad-driven platform. There is absolutely zero incentives to let awful people run amok in the name of engagement."

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

“American brain worms” is a thing we talk about regularly among my friends and family here in Iceland. It’s become really noticable that people who go to study in the US come back with extremely strange ideas. Noticably anti-union, libertarian (by Icelandic standards), pro-violence in all sorts of context, etc (Iceland is a broadly pacifist country with no army). You don’t see the same massive indoctrination in people who go and study in other countries.

@TheConversationUS

Canadian Forest Fire Crisis has burned 10 million hectares. More than the size of Ireland has already burned. It is still growing, not slowing.

Climate change is exactly as bad as warned, all assurances are exposed as lies.

Continents are drying out into the soil.The treeless shores of the Artic Ocean are burning. Nothing we can forecast is going to decrease the dryness of continents.

We must fullout build like war to replace carbon. Like tanks.

#climate

What's in the box? 🤔

Constellations of Starlink satellites swarming Earth’s orbital skies are currently polluting wavelength bands that are supposed to be protected for radio astronomy. https://www.sciencealert.com/spacexs-starlink-satellites-are-leaking-radiation-scientists-confirm