Imagine being locked in a small cell, cut off from meaningful human contact, sunlight, even for years. This is the grim reality for at least 122,000 people each day across the U.S. in solitary confinement.
Solitary isolates individuals for up to 24 hours a day, inflicting profound harm. Recognized as a form of torture, solitary confinement remains pervasive in U.S. prisons. Here's how bad the situation is, and moreover, how we end this form of torture.
Most Americans are entirely unaware that every day the U.S. Government tortures more than 100,000 people in prison — but here's how we stop this injustice
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10K likes, 535 comments - br24 on February 3, 2025: "Nach der Messerattacke in Aschaffenburg hat der örtliche afghanische Kulturverein seine Trauer um die Opfer bekundet.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Ich würde auch lieber Prosa setzen und Kinderbücher zeichnen. Statt dessen haben es die Zeiten offensichtlich für mich bestimmt der Victor Klemperer mit den Stiften zu sein.
Many Pixelfed servers have an Instagram import feature that lets you import a certain amount of Instagram posts into Pixelfed. However, due to the unprecedented numbers of new people joining Pixelfed recently, a lot of Pixelfed servers have temporarily switched off the import feature as it uses a lot of server resources.
Keep in mind that almost all Pixelfed servers (like almost all Fediverse servers) are run by volunteers who personally pay the costs of the server, they don't run ads or sell people's data. They may simply not have enough money to enable the import feature when so many people are joining. You can help your server cope with the influx by donating to the person who runs it, you can ask your server admin how to donate.
If it's unclear when importing might be switched on, you can perhaps ask your server admin about it. This is especially easy to do on smaller servers.
Also note that if you do want to import your Instagram account, make sure you have downloaded the JSON archive from Instagram. Do NOT use the HTML archive, it won't work.
@Pixelfed Unofficial Help I know you might not have the knowledge, but have you thought making your pixelfed posts more insta-like? Like, you can create multiple pics with one sentence on each of them, and have the user swipe through them. I think it would look cleaner in a way :D
You could do something like: Pic. 1: A white background with the text having the color of your choice: Wanna import your account on Pixelfed? Then a screenshot neatly framed below the text and an arrow to the side of the screenshot pointing to the right, indicating there are multiple other pics if the user is interested.
Pic. 2: A pic with the white background and the text having the same color as on pic. 1 with the text: Step 1: do this
Pic. 3: Same as pic. 2: Step 2: do that
And so on for the next pictures, probably with some screenshots as on Pic. 1 if needed, resized and/or cropped, but in a way that the text/content is still legible to the users.
What do you think? :D
(also pinging @Fedi.Tips for visibility of my comment) :D
It's tricky because although I set up the account to help Pixelfed users, for some reason most of my followers on the account are on Mastodon 😆
So... still not sure whether to format it in an Insta kind of way, or in a more traditional social media kind of way, because the way the posts are displayed depends on where people are following me from.
This is new to me, I will try to experiment, thank you so much for the detailed suggestions 😃
Global stock markets feeling the gloom, Thanks to Trump's tariff tantrum, they swoon, Investors are wary, As markets turn scary, Uncertainty spreading, like a monsoon.
Jetzt steht auch bei Insa die 5! Rückenwind für den Wahlkampfendspurt. Und wir freuen uns über die vielen, vielen neuen Mitglieder, 11.000 Eintritte in den letzten Tagen. Die Linke hat jetzt wieder über 70.000 Mitglieder. Und wir haben noch Plätze frei: www.die-linke.de/mitmachen/mi...
Mitmachen und einmischen: Für Solidarität und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Gegen Klimawandel, für mehr Demokratie und eine gerechte Verteilung des Reichtums.
On the Danish island of Bornholm, farmer Knud Andersen have cancelled his agreement to host American cruise ship tourists on his farm, which he has been doing 15 times every year.
In a post on Facebook Mr Andersen explains that American tourists are no longer welcome, because Donald Trump's statements about Denmark are "completely unacceptable" and "we will not open our doors to that kind of an attitude."
I don’t ordinarily boost a post from someone I don’t follow and have vetted. And not thrilled with boosting into a bsky account that’s bridged to Fediverse. But I do generally take Popehat @Popehat seriously so his boost today of Nicholas Grossman post in bsky is worth a read.
Nun auch US-Zölle gegen Kanada für 30 Tage ausgesetzt
Nach Mexiko gewährt US-Präsident Trump nun auch dem Nachbarland Kanada einen 30-tägigen Aufschub bei den von ihm angedrohten Zöllen. Beide Länder signalisieren im Gegenzug eine Zusammenarbeit in Grenzfragen.
Funfact: USA beziehen eine Menge Öl und Baustoffe aller Art aus Kanada. Gar nicht gut für die US-Bauindustrie, wenn das alles schlagartig teurer wird oder Projekte deshalb gänzlich scheitern.
Am Dienstag, 4. Februar ist der Politikwissenschaflter Dirk van den Boom zu Gast beim #nachsitzen und spricht mit @SophiaKrappweis @TommyKrappweis und @HOAXILLA auf @WildMics über das Manöver von Merz. Der Stream startet um 20 Uhr.
Welcome! Do you know @FediTips ? They explain the Fediverse step by step. By the way, photos of animal are always nice and they become even nicer when they are tagged with the species name. 😀
Feel free to ask if you want help with using this place, and there is also lots of help for new people on the website at fedi.tips (especially the Quick Start section at the top).
I think c0c0bird was suggesting you could add an "alt text" description to your photo. A lot of people do that on here as it helps blind people know what is in a post. When you post a photo, there is an option for adding a description 🙂
Global stock markets come under pressure As Trump's tariffs cause quite a measure Investors in uproar As they watch their wealth soar Will the markets regain their true treasure?
Trump tariffs: what’s at stake for the UK and EU? Trade tensions are rising, it's true. Economic impacts will soar, As prices increase, hurting more. Negotiations crucial to breakthrough.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won't use an AI assistant to help write their application.
"Highlighting the change of public engagement and political interest, the reopening of borders and lifting of restrictions coincided with the lead up to the 2022 federal election and what Kelly referred to as the “great silence”
President Donald Trump is holding off on his tariff threats against Mexico and Canada for 30 days after the two U.S. neighbors agreed to boost border security efforts.
a fentanyl czar, lol. all this stuff to help trump save face and not have a toddler meltown while refusing to not ruin everyone's economy. i mean, it is the right play, the right path here. this is a real leader doing his job.
is fentanyl czar somehow an established term? I mean... when I read this, it sounded like something from the Onion. Would any serious politician actually use such a term in government communication?
Lees en deel ons nieuwe artikel op onze website. Geschreven door @vreer.
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De terugkomst van Trump als president van de VS brengt het leven en welzijn van miljoenen trans mensen, vooral jongeren, in gevaar. We zullen waarschijnlijk veel meer depressie en suïcide onder trans en genderdiverse jongeren zien. En niet alleen in de VS.
US-Präsident Trump wirft seinem Vorgänger Biden vor, die Ukraine-Hilfen nicht an Bedingungen geknüpft zu haben. Er will im Gegenzug für Hilfen wertvolle Rohstoffe aus der Ukraine.
Der Staatsstreich kommt per Kontoauszug - Elon Musk hat jetzt Zugriff auf alle Zahlungen, die das Finanzministerium auslöst - und damit auch direkte Einblicke in die Geschäfte seiner Konkurrenzunternehmen mit Regierungsverträgen. Na Prost.
Ja, die Folge war schlimm, selbst mein Mann, der nie podcasts hört, hat sich zu mir gesetzt, mitgehört und hat festgestellt, dass man im normalen Leben, also ohne assoziale Medien, das ganze Elend gar nicht mitkriegt. Die Folge sollte man vielleicht einfach mal so als Brennpunkt nach der Tagesschau senden, Bilder dazu werden sich ja leicht finden lassen.
Antitrust suits against Meta could help level the playing field so users ultimately have alternatives, EFF’s Corynne McSherry told Law.com. “Regulations that focus on fostering competition in this space—that is a thing that I think would be constitutional.” law.com/legaltechnews/2025/01/…
"The demand for more Innovation (and sometimes even the request for more research) has become a way to legitimize not doing anything. A way to say "the unpleasant solutions we have are not perfect but in the future there might be a magic solution that doesn't bother us and everyone gets a fucking unicorn"."
The headline is of course a bit of a provocation. Not all Innovation is a distraction, there are many areas in which meaningful work happens any day to generate some form of relevant new product or process or technology.
Berlin war super, und der Plenarsalbesuch war wenigstens spannend.
Als wir da waren, wurden die Abstimmungsergebnisse zum Entschließungsantrag verkündet. Das haben wir live von der Tribüne erlebt. Der Bundestag war on fire. Historisch, Gänsehaut.
Auch sonst waren wir eigentlich immer unterwegs, entweder im Museum, oder in der Stadt.
Bei dir auch gut? Deinen Post hab ich schon gesehen, tolle Aktion! 🙂
So, und jetzt schauen wir mal, ob eine Antwort von mikka.md auch auf medic.cafe ankommt. Wenn das funktioniert, dann sind wir schon einen Schritt weiter in der ganzen Sache.
#btw25 #Wahlumfrage vom 03.02.2025 zur #Bundestagswahl von INSA für BILD: CDU/CSU: 30%, AfD: 22%, SPD: 16% (−1), Grüne: 13% (+1), BSW: 5,5% (−0,5), Linke: 5% (+1), FDP: 4,5% (+0,5), Sonstige: 4% (−1).
- dawum.de/Bundestag/INSA/2025-0…
Guido Kühn
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