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  • Watch Pierre Poilievre lose his seat, live

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  • 4:40 AM EST 260/266 polls reporting (98%)

    Poilievre trails by 3695 votes.

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  • Long wait for this report!

    4:20 AM EST 257/266 polls reporting (97%)

    Poilievre trails by 3649 votes.

  • Watch Pierre Poilievre lose his seat, live

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  • 3:20 AM EST 256/266 polls reporting (96%)

    Poilievre trails by 3076 votes.

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  • Gonna try to pick up where merc left off, thanks for the work. Never used this much Markdown before, so cross your fingers.

    3:10 AM EST 255/266 polls reporting (96%)

    Poilievre trails by 3062 votes.

  • Watch Pierre Poilievre lose his seat, live

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  • And boom goes the dynamite.

  • CNN data chief Harry Enten exposes Trump's 'horrible' new poll

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  • Jeffrey Toobin was pretty good at it.

  • Good manners are priceless.

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  • Polluting the atmosphere to own the cons.

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  • It's a very weird case. ABC Australia had an article on her hospital stay as it was ongoing which raised some questions without definitively answering them.

    While Giuffre had posted about going into kidney failure, ABC reported:

    The family of Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, says she remains in a "serious condition while receiving medical care" after a bus crash in Western Australia.

    But the Perth hospital where she's staying denies that characterisation, as police maintain the crash was "minor".

    Giuffre was later discharged from hospital after treatment. Reading between the lines, it seems that she wasn't going into kidney failure when she posted to Instagram about it.

    Whether that means she was incorrectly informed that she was dying, or was confused due to sedation, or was suffering from poor mental health, etc. is not reported.

    If she has now committed suicide, that would seem to make it more likely that mental health had a role in the initial post about her physical health.

    In addition to any ongoing trauma relating to her abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, Giuffre no doubt had additional strain due to her recent separation from her husband and estrangement from their three teenage children.

  • Florida Senate's Democratic leader says the state party is dead and he's leaving it

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  • He plans to run for governor of Florida (against Ron DeSantis). The article also quotes Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried, who gave her reading of the reason he left:

    “Jason’s failure to build support within our party for a gubernatorial run has led to this final embarrassing temper tantrum. I’d be lying if I said I’m sad to see him go, but I wish him the best of luck in the political wilderness he’s created for himself,” Fried said. “The Florida Democratic Party is more united without him."

    I don't know these people, no idea whether either of them is trustworthy. Funny burn, though.

  • are there bots that downvote every comment users have?

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  • Nice, I'll look forward to reading that, thanks!

    Your point re: the illusion of privacy makes sense. Most Lemmy/other threadiverse users are probably used to platforms where that data is not public and I don't think any of the softwares really highlight that it's different here. It's easy to get a false impression of privacy.

  • are there bots that downvote every comment users have?

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  • Now, this is interesting. As far as I know, all of the public threadiverse softwares specifically hide this info (especially downvotes), while acknowledging that the way ActivityPub works, the information is public anyway and you're really just making it slightly less accessible. An open service like this essentially removes all of the supposed barriers (e.g. "Most users don't know how to set up their own instance in order to see downvotes.") which are claimed to keep this info private.

    What kind of effect does knowing exactly which people downvoted you have on a platform? Is there a chilling effect on downvotes, is there revenge downvoting? I guess we'll find out. It's less easy to see the upsides of knowing this info, beyond being able to confirm whether or not you're being stalked by persistent downvoters.

    @lena@gregtech.eu Did you have any particular thoughts around the ethics of this tool when you decided to make and share it? Not trying to call you out in any way, just interested to hear how you feel about it. Ultimately, if it wasn't you it would be somebody else, so the direct impact is probably negligible.

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  • Good news but also butterfly meme.

  • Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says

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  • Lemmy.World specifically forbids any sort of discrimination against queer groups on this site.

    You're in violation of the terms of your instance, I guess we'll see how that goes.

  • Any fediverse like discord clones?

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  • That document seems to use communities in the normal English sense and spaces in the "collection of Matrix rooms" sense. I would say spaces are what they're called and a community is just an informal group of like-minded people who can be better-organized using spaces.

  • ‘F-CK YOU’: NANCY MACE LOSES IT IN PUBLIC ARGUMENT WITH CONSTITUENT

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  • That or she only reads the ones with the blue checkmarks.

  • ‘F-CK YOU’: NANCY MACE LOSES IT IN PUBLIC ARGUMENT WITH CONSTITUENT

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  • DOGE goon accused of screaming at workers on 36-hour shift

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  • Did somebody say "DOGOON"?

    (Violence Fight, Taito, 1989, arcade.)

  • Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure - Turkish Minute

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  • It's no contest

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  • Series 3, episode 4, "The Speech". Sadly, it's also the episode where they convince Jen a box with a flashing red light is the Internet, but it has a subplot where Reynholm un-knowingly dates a trans woman. He finds her stereotypically masculine behavior attractive until he finds out she is transgender and a physical fight erupts between them.

    It's not even on the upper end of offensive comedy about trans people, but when the episode was criticized, Linehan doubled down and has kept doubling down harder for 20 straight years, to the point where he now spends all of his time harassing, dead naming and doxing trans women on Twitter. His wife left him, writing jobs dried up, he's just a miserable has-been Twitter checkmark asshole now.