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lavaeolus.bsky.social
he/him 🏳️‍🌈 ♥️💜💙 #SmashFascism https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus Based in Berlin (Humboldt-University); doing #DigitalHumanities / #DigitalHistory things. Toots in German/English. "Sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative." Aaron Swartz 2008
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Want to see the covid.gov site before it got ... kinda weird (to put it mildly). Thanks to @safeguardingdata.bsky.social and @webrecorder.net now you can! app.browsertrix.com/explore/usgo...

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Crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress: One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #NOAA, officially. www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeck... pangaea.de This is the culmination of weeks of work 💖 #SafeguardingResearch @safeguardingdata.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Electricity is Midi-chlorians.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

according to internet bylaws, i need to post this now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

That was kinda always the point about masculinity though. No matter how childish and insecure you behave, how psychologically and socially counterproductive, you should be celebrated. Like, any Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is like that.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. SUCHO has now made publicly available the 50 TB of cultural heritage data archived from websites ranging from national archives to local museums, 3D tours of churches to children’s art centers. www.sucho.org/press-releas...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

The politician currently poised to become the next chancellor in Germany (Friedrich Merz) said today: "We won't be impressed or influenced by all the statisticians and all the skeptics and all the critics and all the critical zeitgeist." In his last speech before the election tomorrow […]

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The only thing we can do: Building communities with mutual aid & standing to fight. (yes, those are one thing, one doesn't exist without the other)

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

NEWSY: The White House confirms tonight that Elon Musk is NOT the administrator of DOGE and is not even technically part of it. He's a "senior adviser to the president" like Anita Dunn, they say. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 62 days ago • 614 comments

Screen caps of Musk’s now password-protected DEI•gov site (hosted by Automattic) that lists government waste using seemingly-LLM-generated claims and which has already had one entry debunked in replies: fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1... Smells like propaganda in waiting.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

My change-detection caught something big: dei.gov (registered ~1 week ago) Has been stale, then had this list put up & quickly password-protected. Hosted by Wordpress/Automattic cc @crampell.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

For those interested in the Data Rescue Tracker, keep in mind that we need to know/hear from you to be able to track where data is going. That's why we have a submission form. Let us know what you have and submit it! baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/dGIFuHv...

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

My change-detection caught something big: dei.gov (registered ~1 week ago) Has been stale, then had this list put up & quickly password-protected. Hosted by Wordpress/Automattic cc @crampell.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Support local libraries. We’re witnessing censorship on a massive scale. Digital scrubbing is modern day equivalent of book burning Our ability to get accurate info about public health, science, history, LGBTQ & marginalized groups is under threat Libraries will be critical part of the resistance

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

Explicit antisemitic attitudes are now much more common among young voters - 18 year old registered voters are now ~5x more likely to say that they have an unfavorable view of the Jewish people than 65 year olds.

submitted 71 days ago • 70 comments

Wenn eine trans Person sich toxisch verhält, ist deren Geschlecht nicht auf einmal anders. Nicht auf einmal "agab" oder "männlich sozialisiert" (was vor allem letzteres sehr TERF ist). Toxizität hat kein Geschlecht.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =- American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country. We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out. So we made a wiki.

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Because its like Twitter 2009. Here is a starter pack for data initiatives in the google doc. Now we eat lunch. go.bsky.app/6a2mbNf

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

👉 @datarescue2025.bsky.social (We're already in close contact <3)

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

To be crystal-clear: Topics like #TransRights #Trans #Gender #Queer are no afterthoughts, they are the foundation of the whole endeavor. #SafeguardingResearch started with me (@lavaeolus.bsky.social) cloning GitHub-repos of 'Mapping the Gay Guides' (with their consent) on January 13th. 🧵1/2

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

#ForReason I'm looking for cheap but reliable storage in the multiple TB-range (best would be HDDs) - does anyone have recommendations? (I'm based in Berlin) #fedihelp #SafeguardingResearch

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments