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The FDA DID NOT end its ‘ban’ on blood donations. It EASED the restrictions. There is a MASSIVE difference.

Before:

Men who have sex with men must ABSTAIN from sex entirely for 3 months to donate.

Now:

People who have sex with a NEW partner, or more than one partner, in the last three months, cannot donate. And still no anal sex for 3 months before you donate.

Slightly better? Yes.

Now EVERYONE is being judged by the same criteria. But…. To say “No anal sex for 3 months before you donate” is STILL primarily targeting gay men.

And that is not better.

I remain perplexed, since it’s not like the labs aren’t checking donations to make sure you don’t have some surprise disease (I know someone who learned they had leukaemia from a donation).

Make a note and let them donate.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65566500

—@ipstenu

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Sometimes criminals close the door when plotting crimes.

“We should ban doors!” 🚫🚪

Sometimes criminals hide weapons under their clothes.

“We should ban clothes!” 🚫👖

🙃

Do not fall for these misguided arguments.

Most of the time people use end-to-end encrypted apps to talk about the most mundane things.

Sometimes vulnerable people use end-to-end encryption to protect themselves and stay safe.

We should keep and cherish encryption.

We should demand it everywhere.

End-to-end encryption protects our human right to privacy and safety.

We must fight for it! ✊🔒

#RootForE2EE #E2EE #Encryption #Privacy

—@Em0nM4stodon

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Telling me that I’m going to be the next Helen Keller, or <insert disability activist here> is like me running after you and desperately, determinedly proclaiming, oh my god, you’re so inspirational, you’ll be the next thomas edison! If you are not a carbon copy of whichever famous person or big figure from the past you most relate to, we’re not either. that is essentially telling us we don’t get to be our own person because we have the same disabilities as another person. we don’t much like it.

—@cadence022

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cuppatea (@pistons@dice.camp) (Dice.camp)
At what point are people going to realize that NYT and CNN won't be shamed out of their rightwing asskissing? Yes, what they're doing is dangerous and irresponsible, whether CNN's shitshow tonight or NYT platforming dangerous and willfully disingenuous whataboutism about trans people. But being shocked about it? Folks: have you not been paying attention? how many times recently have they done things like this? Because we can count more than a few times. It's deliberate. Name it.
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I’m going to repeat this so it’s clear.

If the fedi fractures around the ideological lines of safety vs. unsustainable growth, I’m okay with that.

I am very comfortable with being part of the fedi that actually gives a shit about people rather than treating them as product.

I have no interest in repeating the same mistakes and creating decentralized rage engines.

I believe this space can be better.

—@Are0h

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8/ The great disservice #Apple did the world was showing how it was profitable to treat the customer as an idiot.

“We know you don’t REALLY want a floppy drive.”

“We know better than you what to run on your device.”

And ultimately, “You can’t be trusted to program your own device.”

That is the same message the schools are giving kids with the locked-down laptops: “You can’t be trusted.”

In the 80s and 90s, teachers pulled me out of class to help them with computer problems.

—@jgoerzen