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Woohoo!

One year on Mastodon! 🎉

Grateful for the incredible journey of connecting with wonderful humans.

Here's my very first post:

Hi Mastodon,

Me:
& pet
(MA)
Nerd (AuDhD)
Marathoner & triathlete
Environmentalist
Into , , , , , & more.

My photography:
flickr.com/photos/raffkarva/
raffkarva.com

Gratitude for the connections & conversations.

My first pic on Mastodon:

Billions of people will die. Whole species will cease to exist. Yet the only language these people can speak is the economy, mortgages, investments, efficiency, and growth.

The sentence “Climate crisis will destroy capitalism” is on par with claiming that “liver failure will destroy one’s alcoholism.”

Money is our poison. Not fossil fuels, not climate change. Money. This Guardian article is written from the perspective of a (money) addict.

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurerBy Damian Carrington
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YouTube has just changed its rules to allow hate speech against gender minorities 😞

usermag.co/p/youtube-removes-g

If you currently publish on YouTube, please consider putting your videos on PeerTube instead or as well:

fedi.tips/how-to-publish-video

Your audience doesn't have to be on PeerTube themselves. They can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon etc, and they can even follow PeerTube from podcasting apps such as Apple Podcasts.

(via @taylorlorenz on mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/)

User Mag · YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policyBy Taylor Lorenz
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A real treat: On Sunday I was one of the lucky ones to attend a zoom workshop where Beth Johnson taught the Baby Grand Piano by Patricia Crawford. This is the result of a fast paced hour of folding, without additional refinement. A fun fold and a great model from the early seventies!

#origami
#irigamiart

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Despite everything, I hope we celebrate our trans #joy today.

If you're cis, educate yourself!! Don't be complacent. No TERFs. No deadnames. Be bold. Listen to trans, #non-binary and #gender-nonconforming folks. Be prepared to defend us.

While there is a long road ahead to liberation for all beings, #intersectional change is what is needed to bring it about. #Solidarity is how we win.

#trans
#tdov
#tdov2025
#transgender
#photography
#transjoy

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Russia's federal budget deficit exceeds its Finance Ministry expectations

Russia's federal budget recorded a deficit of RUB 3.8 trillion (approx. US$44.7 billion) in January-February 2025, surpassing the Finance Ministry's earlier estimate of RUB 2.7 trillion (US$31.7 billion).

pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/03
#news #ukraine

Ukrainska Pravda · Russia's federal budget deficit exceeds its Finance Ministry expectationsBy Viktor Volokita
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concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead

"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”

"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”

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Did you know? Chromosome testing in sports has been done before and was stopped because cisgender people repeatedly learned that their chromosomes didn’t match their assigned sex. — Something the “XX and XY only” crowd seems to have forgotten.