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Rowland Mosbergen
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocate and writer. Working in medical research as a Research Software Engineer. #RSE #ResearchSoftware #Melbourne […] [bridged from https://disabled.social/@rowlandm on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it has food for all of Gaza Gaza for three months - if Israel would let them deliver it.
#aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Breaking #breakingnews #un
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Rowland Mosbergen @rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
7409 - There's biases on both sides. MAiD was established after multiple cases of parents/guardians mercy-killing disabled kids on the premise that they were burdens to their families & better off dead than disabled. The media romanticized these murders as acts of compassion […]
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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
I can't fix the big things, but I can do something about the small ones.

A few days ago I went to the post office to ship something. I put it in one of the flat rate boxes and went to address it. Of the 6 pen-on-chain doodads they had, only one was left, and […]

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A post office table with two round black discs where the pens used to be. A post office table with brand new pens.
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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
WTF

Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class.

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents
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Rowland Mosbergen @rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
@dangillmor This is a very handy resource
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
The Trump Action Tracker is brilliant already, keeping track of the regime's bad acts. The UI could use a few improvement, and I'd urge several more categories (or emphasis of sub-categories), but I'm blown away now. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info
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Charlie McHenry @charliemchenry.connectop.us.ap.brid.gy · 21h
FBI shuts down #corruption group, fires agents after they monitored #gop lawmakers https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/fbi-kash-patel-agents-fired #uspol
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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817

Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry.

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

THANK YOU […]
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23h
I see so much gaslighting of people who are struggling to find jobs at junior and mid-level cybersecurity by folks who got their last job or first job before 2023. It's unreal and uncalled for. The market and the automation in the hiring processes have gone to hell […]
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Newsmast Foundation @newsmast.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
October is Black History Month in the UK 🤎 🖤

Black history is woven into the identity of the UK. The theme this year is 'Standing Firm in Power and Pride', focusing on the power of individuals in history who exercised courage, vision, and agency.

You can […]

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/logitech-will-brick-its-100-pop-smart-home-buttons-on-october-15

if you're gonna do the smart home thing or get into home automation, dont use anything cloud based.

home assistant has an entire community surrounding de-clouding stuff and using brands […]
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
We are in a nascent civil war in the United States, with a President who consistently acts unconstitutionally calling for the jailing of a governor and mayor in a state where the President has unlawfully deployed troops […]
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Rowland Mosbergen @rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
The University of Newcastle and Western Sydney University are being sued in the Supreme Court for failing to accredit their degrees.

Students say they have racked up HECS debts of around $50,000 for courses that leave them unable to pursue their dreams in health and engineering […]
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 2d
It's not that our politicians don't know what's needed to slow #climatechange. It's that they don't care.

Their two priorities are

1. winning the next election, under the UK's absurdly dysfunctional, archaic and undemocratic system;

2. pleasing the big donors, who include the #fossilfuel […]
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Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Protest the billionaires profiting from Home Office refugee housing contracts, not the refugees. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r5m74de8o
Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of "terrible" conditions as accommodation provider makes millions.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Sample of text extracted from PDF using PyMuPDF, using default settings. The text includes a lot of white space and it's difficult to make out the rows.
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The Bird @aaidanbird.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
If we want Black Mastodon here and thriving, we must reckon with the #racism here. Also, Mastodon in particular does not have good #moderation tools.

However, it's not the only client. Sharkey has better moderation tools as does a few other clients. But they could be better.

So folks of color […]
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Philip C James @philipcjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Good Morning, all,

Just finished listening to the audiobook version of Adam Becker's 'More Everything Forever.' It's a revelation; the world we're bing herded into is not inevitable and there is a deceptively simple solution: tax #billionaires out of existence.

No individual needs or, for the […]
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Rowland Mosbergen @rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
I don't think it is a good sign that I'm using Adagio for Strings as my background music...
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Today in my #slvresidency, I'm going to have a look at the Sands & Macdougall directories: https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=61SLV_INST:SLV&collectionId=81213035910007636 I've previously converted NSW & TAS directories to full-text searchable databases, so I'm […]
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
The first question is whether the text in the PDFs is worth saving, or whether I should re-OCR. The PDFs contain good bitonal images, so OCRing them should be pretty easy. That's what I did for the Tas directories: https://glam-workbench.net/libraries-tasmania/
Libraries Tasmania - GLAM Workbench
This repository provides a collection of tools and examples for working with data from Libraries Tasmania.
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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d
"Let me say this clearly: nobody in this country is safe."

"Federal agents detained American citizens without individualized probable cause this week. They handcuffed children. They sorted people by race. They treated an American city like occupied territory."

"This happened. In Chicago. In […]
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]
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Piggleston Pecanpants @lilpecan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this.
What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]
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Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧 @peter-link.expressional.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
**HAPPENING NEXT SUNDAY ACROSS#AUSTRALIA - Nationwide March for #palestine**

Just saw this in another post (https://syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115321940674775806)

#news #politics #protest #genocide
#gaza
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Poster for a protest in Australia in black, red and white. Background is pattern from a black and white keffiyeh At top left side - NATIONWIDE MARCH FOR PALESTINE At top right side - SUN 12 OCT 3 columns of locations below: MELBOURNE 12PM STATE LIBRARY PERTH 12PM FORREST PLACE ARMIDALE 1PM CENTRAL PARK SYDNEY 1PM HYDE PARK ALBANY 11AM ALBANY PEACE PARK TOWNSVILLE 2:45PM ROSSITER PARK ADELAIDE 2PM TARTANYANGOA GEELONG 11AM TRANSVAAL SQ CENTRAL COAST 11AM ENTRANCE WATERFRONT BRISBANE 1PM QUEENS GARDENS BEGA 11AM LITTLETON GARDENS CANBERRA 12PM CIVIC SQUARE ROCKHAMPTON 9AM KINGEL PARK BROOME 10AM BEDFORD PARK DARWIN 4:30PM NIGHTCLIFF FORESHORE CAIRNS 11AM 141 ABBOTT STREET MARGARET RIVER 12PM REUTHER PARK At bottom, red print over black box TWO YEARS OF GENOCIDE
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