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Brexit on the wane in the UK. NRA on the wane in the US. Sun shining in the blue sky. Things are looking up!

Ok, a bit more googling makes me think it's a disingenuous insult used by anti-femininsts rather than a term of self identification for bigots. Or do I have the wrong end of the stick?

Does anyone know what TERF means, aside from the simple Google definition?

The German far right won 16% of men's votes today but only 9% of women. Thank goodness for suffrage!

Charismatic mega-feature aspect of climate change:

The Guardian: Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four days. google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw0Ju

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Have you heard the one about traceroute?

Mastodon seems great for excluding the really unpleasant types who were on Twitter but the danger the other way, of course, is the risk of becoming an echo chamber. Brexit and Trump really shocked me and I would have preferred to have known people thought that way in advance.

What if, say, all the climate change denialists find they like life on one of the generally-blocked instances? Do we all need several accounts? Maybe there's a tech solution, like some clever aggregation to make a digest.

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Donating is grand; boosting this, even, will be helpful, to get the message around.

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