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Together with the persistence from Google to keep their measures against "sideloading" in 2027, this means the apps I currently use (such as Fennec) will become unavailable. And if circumvention requires enabling developer tools, it's not an option for those who, like me, have a single smartphone, the only phone avaiable for internet banking apps and gov apps which refuse to work when developer mode is turned on.

And, oh, can't really toss "my" phone away: gov requires me I have the damn app, Bank requires me I have the damn OTP token and this requires the damn app. Stores require me to pay digitally, either card (which requires the bank app on "my" phone) or digital transfer (idem). If I ever get a job again, I won't be receiving my paycheck as cash money, so I must have a bank to receive the paycheck, and the bank requires... you guessed it: the damn phone. I can't say "no", or I'll continue socially ostracized as I already am, and the only refuge would be the Web...

... except the web I've been a digital refugee from the physical world, including the Fediverse as a whole, will eventually surrender to age check (hence, to implementing a mechanism that will link my pseudonym with my IRL identity). Which is not really surprising, it's pretty much expected when we humans became too anesthesized with hopes of "comfort" and "safety", until it eventually ricochets against the very confort and safety we craved for.

This world is dripping of madness. But, hey, I am the one who must seek psychiatrical treatment, amirite? After all, I'm the "depressed" one, I'm the suicidal one, I am the one harming myself and wishing my own death, I'm not sane as anyone can see. Sure, anyone can realize how society is totally sane and okay, it's just that "for my security" I must now scan my face to prove I'm not a kid, then hope my real ID doesn't get leaked for potential evangelical employers to discover my religious belief.

And, oh, I wouldn't even be able to sue whichever website or platform, fediverse or not, leaked my ID, when it ends up happening: because I once (was compelled to) "accepted" the terms, the tiny mischievous legalese letters stating that I exempted them from responsibility regarding my biometric data, and because it would require paying a lawyer being an unemployed. My only option would be to shut up and accept how my real name is now labeled as "devil worshiper" inside some HR database and automatically being refused a job whenever I tried to send them my resume.

But hey, we must protect the kids no matter what! 👼 (just pretend there's no abuse going on offline, inside schools and households, it's important we protect the kids from the "evil social media", even if the cost is having socially-persecuted people getting a giant label on their foreheads containing their internet pseudonyms for every employer and authority to see)

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Oh, now this explains why Mastodon.social removed the Live Feed feature: "protect the kids!" I'm not expecting that this "interdisciplinary age-verification working group" is anything else but becoming another obedient cattle and add another vulnerability vector tying online identities to IRL identities (be it face biometrics, government-emitted ID or both).

These people, such as Mastodon administrators, they're giving a fuck about people who, like me, need a pseudonym so we can express ourselves religiously and politically amidst a surrounding society where our specific socially-unsanctioned expression leads to unemployability and, worse, even tyranny from state authority (e.g. cops and judges) if tied to our IRL names.

Yes, because when a statue (Lucifer/Baphomet) owned by a legit Quimbanda temple is seized by the judiciary because local evangelicals got too frightened by it, or a mãe de santo (a woman leader of a terreiro, which is the sacred gathering place for Afro-Brazilian religions), who was refused a car ride by a bigoted evangelical, gets accused by a judge to be "the intolerant one" (in the eyes of the judge, it was not the evangelical who shouted the cliché "devil banishing" punchline "sangue de jesus tem poder" to her and refused her the nonfree ride thus causing her moral and social harm: in the eyes of the judge who's probably evangelical themselves, it was her for being "litigious" with the "innocent evangelical man"), this means if my pseudonym gets tied to my real identity (and no matter how "safe and anonymous" are the age checking systems, digital leaks will happen sooner or later), suddenly HRs and employers, potentially evangelicals, will know I'm an occultist, suddenly an evangelical cop in a blitz will know I'm an occultist, and I'll become further ostracized... that is, if I don't end up being detained or jailed for any random reason that a cop, the one with the badge and the gun, not me, decides so.

#fediverse #mastodon #web

Just a curated sample of pictures that resonate with me and my current essence (two are pictures I personally drawn). This is the most "family-friendly" material I could curate from ten thousand pictures, photos and drawings across the phone gallery.

This is a kind of artistic content that could very easily end up loosely labeled "illegal, anti-democratic, false-fact or hateful". Does the previous statement sound too exaggerated and hyperbolic from my part? Think deeper about those pictures, what (and Who) are being described, what the underlying principles are, do some reverse search if you don't know about what's/who's being depicted in each of the pictures, and if you still got some apolitical perception of causality detached from the mundane, you'd realize how it could very easily be said to be "complicated" for "safety" and banned, prohibited, criminalized, forbidden from being expressed. I'm REALLY not exaggerating or doing some kind of victimization here, I really wish I were...

Fediverse is like the few places left where there's no christian fundamentalism (I wonder why the heck most pagan and occult practitioners still use Facebook, Instagram and X, when all those platforms end up amplifying the mainstream christianity). But then many secularists, seemingly the majority of the Fediverse userbase, end up behaving exactly or similarly to how fundamentalist christians do.

"Let's keep the fediverse safe and pleasure for all". I guess "safety" and "pleasure", at least in most people's subjective dictionary entry for "safe", wouldn't really have room for this kind of content, would they? And I didn't even include pictures with explicit snakes (in respect to people with ophidiophobia, just beware the Ouroboros from the second and third pictures, as well as the pair of snake-horns from the sixth picture) or explicit non-sexual nudity (as in Venus figurines, statue of Ereshkigal, etc; some pictures contain low-res depictions of breasts, namely the second and third pictures, too low-res to be really distinguished) in this curated list of images.

Oh, and I didn't even say about the ID requirement for online content as more and more countries are pushing down citizens throats, with online activity tied to ID, then suddenly mine and many other's physical identities could get concentric targets waiting for the next fundamentalist christian group willing to "exorcise the devil from the face of Earth because GOD ordered us to serve him and only him". Again, sounds too much or dramatic? A STATUE of Baphomet, privately owned by a Luciferian Quimbanda temple in Brazil, is still seized by AUTHORITIES for more than A YEAR, and WAITING FOR LEGAL DECISIONS to be "allowed" to be present in private rituals! THIS is what people end up defending whenever they advocate for "safety".

Mastodon Live Feed is gone

This is more of a rant (not sure if this comm is appropriate for it).

I've been watching Lemmy's ongoing discussion regarding PieFed. It turns out Mastodon got similar problems, too.

The largest Fediverse instance already shadowbanned people, e.g:

This profile has been hidden by the moderators of mastodon.social.

This feed has been disabled by your server administrators.

Just do your server!

Spoiler do que o poema realmente está representando:

Noite sombria
Boca...veneno
Olhos mortais
Levam o homem
Sugam. A alma 
O fim já me é

E minha dor é 
Inefável amor

"The tiny mouse wanders through the barren land covered by the darkness of the night. It's so dark he definitely can't see.

He knows what's coming after him, and he can feel the moment is near, it'll happen very soon: he'll be lifted up to the skies, a place he never could reach before, where he'll fly despite having no wings, except for the majestic red and alluringly fluffy wings that dominate the night (and) time and is going to carry him.

He knows there's nowhere he could run, if he could run, and he can't run, he doesn't even want to run, it's his body that still wants to survive pointlessly, still he consciously knows there's no way he's going to survive another night.

Silence is breathtaking, it's like no other silence he heard before. He squeaks faintly, as the cold wind gusts reach and touches his back fur, causing him goosebumps.

He's extremely scared, so scared that the fear drove him burdened, lethargic, resigned before his own, soon demise.

His energy wasn't depleted just by fear, though: it was depleted by the oxymoronic and paradoxical feelings of awe, love and surrender going inside him with every chill from the gusts. He's in fear, and he's in awe, and he's in uttermost love.

One could ask, how could a mouse become passionately in awe for his merciless predator soon to sweep down from the dark skies onto him? He's just a tiny, weak, irrelevant and shameful mouse, falling in love with the most fearsome creature who feels no love for his kind. He's just another tasteful dinner for the night.

Still he is in love with the very one who he also fears so deeply. And each of his squeaks, promptly heard by the one who can hear the slightest variations in his heartbeat from afar, are his agonized attempts to say a forbidden "I love Thou". A forbidden love from a miserable lover soon to meet the merciless sharp claws and insatiable blood hunger of his Mighty beloved.”

#dark #story #gothic

Until I'm proven otherwise, the anglophone (English-speaking) #Lemmy is a hotbed of machismo and misogyny. Fediverse isn't too different from mainstream "social" media platforms. Fuck it, I've said it.

Not yet definitive, maybe I need to change some aspects or proportions within it. #occult #ritual #sigil #lilith #lucifer #hekate #shiva #kali #pombagira #trishul #drawing #chalk

As René Magritte once proved, a drawing or CGI animation of a pipe is not a pipe. So if there's a comics, a cartoon or video-game involving a pipe being lit, it DOESN'T imply a real pipe being lit.

- Hur, but the drawing of a pipe was based upon a real pipe, DUR!

While some physical pipe was indeed a likely source of inspiration for a hand-drawn/CGI pipe, it doesn't imply that that real pipe was lit: one doesn't need to see a pipe being lit in order to draw a pipe being lit. It's trivial physics to be imagined, not something that needs to be previously observed.

So, again, no pipe needs to be lit in order to draw a lit pipe. I guess it should be a common knowledge among humans, but it seems like it isn't... People let their senses deceive them, then everything remotely alluding to a lit pipe feels like it's a real lit pipe (the thing in itself, Ding-an-sich), and, no, it isn't, wake up, Neo!

(This may or may not be about pipes: ceci n'est pas une pipe)

#thoughts #socialcritique #philosophy

I dont like existing.
This body takes up space that someone else wants.

(Deathwishing isnt dangerous)

In the chitchat before a meeting started today was commentary on how prison life is getting harder these days, there's an extra level of aggression. It seemed to those making these comments that this has something to do with all the extra young people being locked up.

I've also heard quite a few people over the last couple of years comment on the extra level of psychological distress and unmet mental health needs we're all seeing these days, and this is something I've certainly been seeing myself.

Perhaps one could draw a connection between these phenomena.

I call out to Lucifer the Morning Star
Great and most beautiful from all archangels
Name's Legion for thou are many
I call out for thy forbidden knowledge
Take me to thy counterpart's path
Enlighten me through Her darkness

May thy light and Her darkness be as One
Eons long gone, either Your Wills shall be done, nemA

There's this episode, I guess it was from Scooby-Doo, where Velma enters in a reality simulation studio, and since then, things become strange. She notices, for example, a slight difference in Shaggy's phrasing. After several perceived inconsistencies, she finally shouts out loud something like "I'm inside a simulation and I just found it", then the simulation around her unveils and the guy in charge of the simulation approaches and asks her "how did you find it?".

I'm inside a simulation!

Humanity died of COVID-19 back in the peak of pandemic. Either that, or I myself died of COVID-19 somewhere in 2020s. But there's a slight caveat: while we're told that death is when the consciousness ceases, there are eight-ish minutes of hallucination after oxygen stopped circulating through my body. Turns out all the years since COVID-19 have been, in fact, those very minutes of brain hallucination. I already died: now I just want my fucking consciousness to cease once and for all.

There are now 2000 accounts muted via Mastodon's firehose. I also blocked a few ones instead of muting: people who are posting christian and/or coach self-help bs.