First off... I just wanted to again say thank you to everyone who responded to the help post that I recently made. The outpouring of support was genuinely kind of insane and I never expected it. I'm going to make a different post elsewhere on that but like... I cannot thank you enough.

But for the post itself, this is in reference to this post that I made on September 17th about Jordan Lund's behavior as a lead moderator on Lemmy.World. His behavior beyond the realm of questionable and into active hostility and misinformation. A user commented on that post and @'d Ruud, the head admin of Lemmy.World.

Which, you know, totally fair and valid. Who would want that person reflecting the instance? Especially when a term was used about the Canadian government that Jordan wasn't aware of and instead of asking for clarification, or doing a simple google, he just banned Canadians and doubled down repeatedly. But in that same thread, another Admin clarified they had talked to Jordan about this specific thing and told him it was unacceptable.

Yet 3 and a half hours later, Jordan reaffirms his stance and insists that his half-baked understanding of Canadian politics is correct. For the comment and then an immediate explanation of how he is both an idiot and a liar, check here.

This all happened nearly 10 days ago. The head Admin saying that he publicly doesn't want Jordan to be the face of the instance, another Admin saying his behavior is unacceptable. What has happened? From a public perspective? Effectively nothing. The only thing that has changed is Jordan is down two communities under his moderation belt. One of those was a dead community that was never used and the other was the Community Spotlight team.

Now there's a thousand reasons to dislike Jordans behavior but as a Canadian? His stubborn refusal of acceptance that he doesn't know a thing and stubborn refusal to even acknowledge when someone has proven him wrong has pushed me over the edge. As far as I'm concerned, the United States declared war on Canada when it threatened to use economic force to coerce us into becoming a part of that country. So the idea of an American in control of World News who seems to subscribe to this type of American Exceptionalism? Or at least is too narcissistic to admit fault? I can't stomach it.

But for the Admins to publicly say that they've told him his behavior is unacceptable but then refuse to enforce that? Even when Jordan is flaunting it in the exact same thread and ignoring everything the admins said? Either no one ever talked to Jordan to say that it was unacceptable or someone did talk to Jordan but he just doesn't care. Evidently neither do the admins to enforce their own position on the matter. It has been nearly 10 days and if anything is being done then the movement is a breakneck glacial pace.

I can't in good conscience ever give another second of traffic to Lemmy.World. I moved over from Startrek.Website because of a particular person way back when. One admin on the team who was a friend of mine and had encouraged me to join there when I was looking for another instance. He doesn't even have any involvement in LW anymore and neither do pretty much anyone that I originally knew from the team. It isn't the same site that I started on. Maybe I never paid enough attention when signing up to make a better and more informed decision, who knows.

What I do know is I've moved to Dbzer0. Db0 has been offering a spot on the instance for over a year at this point and after careful consideration of a variety of instances... Dbzer0 is also the one that I would probably fit best with. So if there's anyone out there who hates me and had @Stamets@lemmy.world blocked, here's your cue to block this account now too. Because with a new account comes a very small number of posts. That @Stamets@lemmy.world is #44 on the amount of posts made by any Lemmy account.

I've got some catching up to do.

To all my friends on the LW team, I love you and support you. To the admins who had a say in this? I'm just deeply disappointed. I've seen the speed moved on certain things. A week and a half when y'all admitted you were talking about him before I even made that post? Come on.

Adding to the above, Sex Matters (the anti-trans-rights organization) sees this as an opportunity to out all trans people, and given how often the EHRC listens to them, and how the government accepts the EHRC's guidance, there is real chance that this is very dangerous.

If you are a UK resident and are against the introduction of Digital ID, a petition is available to vote against it's introduction. So far it has gained over 1.7 million signatures. Only yesterday it was at just under a million.

Slovakia’s parliament on Friday passed an amendment to the constitution that recognizes only two sexes, along with other measures that critics say might breach the country’s international obligations and undermine the protection of human rights.

The amended constitution now recognizes only two sexes, male and female, and states that Slovakia retains sovereignty in matters of “national identity,” which is not specifically defined, especially in “fundamental cultural-ethical questions.”

The amendment also makes it almost impossible for anyone other than married couples to adopt children. The constitution had already defined marriage as “a unique union between a man and a woman.”

Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.

Wikimedia, one of the world’s leading champions of free knowledge and open access, has signed the Statement on the Four Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, joining a growing number of organizations worldwide that are calling for the legal rights needed to preserve and provide access to knowledge in the digital age.

By signing the Statement, Wikimedia reinforces the growing international movement that calls for legal reform on four essential rights that ensure long-term preservation and access:

1. Right to Collect
2. Right to Preserve
3. Right to Lend
4. Right to Cooperate

These rights are not abstract. They underpin the ability of institutions to continue their public mission: collecting digital materials, preserving them for future generations, lending them fairly, and cooperating across borders to make knowledge accessible to all.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36516995

Pay. announces today having successfully completed its first Wero transaction with a test merchant.

In the end of 2025, Wero will be available via Pay. in Germany, followed by Belgium in H1 2026. The rollout in the Netherlands will start beginning of H2 2026, in line with iDEAL’s migration to Wero.

יש כאן דוברי עברית? בעיקרון r/Israel_bm וסרוגים הן שתי הקהילות הכי גדולות אז הייתי מניחה שגם פה יהיו

(Or maybe Israeli/Palestinian Arabic?)

Assata Shakur was one of the most well known members of the Black Panther Party, the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist political movement, and that of the Black Liberation Army. She passed on 25-09-2025 at the age of 78 in Cuba. You survived America. If only the rest of the party had your luck and foresight.

Rest in power and know that your revolutionary work continues.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/305662

AtCastrol, we're breaking boundaries and moving forwards on a pathway of change. Embracing the new to accelerate progress.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.europe.pub/post/44236

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned Russia's leadership to end the war or face becoming a target of Ukrainian drones and missiles.

For legal purposes this is a badpost, I clean my butt multiple times a day I am not a monster

So Ohio Trump soy boys are whining that Trump is giving billions to the failing mini-trump Milei after they just took their soy sales to China.

books, websites, video tutorials, some guy who met Jim West one time, whatever reference you use

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Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna died in Russian captivity on 19 September 2024. It was previously known that the woman was being illegally held in a pre-trial detention centre in Taganrog. However, journalists from Slidstvo.Info learned that eight days before her death, Roshchyna was transferred to detention centre No. 3 in the city of Kizel in the Perm region. It was in this place of captivity that the journalist died — journalists learned from closed Russian bases that her death certificate was issued in Perm.

Slidstvo.Info spoke to a soldier who had been released from captivity and who had seen Viktoriia Roshchyna in Kizel and travelled there with her on the same train. In addition, journalists identified the heads of the detention centre who may have been involved in Roshchyna’s death.

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For over a year, her family and friends waited for Viktoriia to be exchanged and return home. However, in October 2024, her father received a letter from the Russians stating that Viktoriia had died in captivity. All this time, she had been held in various prisons: in the occupied territories and in Taganrog pre-trial detention Centre No. 2. It was in Taganrog that Viktoriia first crossed paths with soldier Danylo, with whom journalists from Slidstvo.Info managed to speak to. He was returned to Ukraine during an exchange in April 2025.

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“They beat me constantly for an hour or two. They gave me a minute to catch my breath and then started beating me again. I lost consciousness twice during the ‘reception’. The women had their heads shaved, and I could hear them crying,” says Danylo.

“They beat everyone very badly, wherever they could. They could hit you and just knock out an organ,” said another soldier released from captivity, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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“You stand there in one place. All day long, you have your imaginary square where you stand. That is, you are not allowed to move around the cell, you cannot sit down. Talking to each other is also prohibited, because the camera sees everything. They can also open the windows. And, excuse me, Kizel, it’s very cold there. I think there’s even snow there in the summer. I remember once it was about 30 degrees below zero,” says 22-year-old Danylo Murashkin, who was returned to Ukraine in July 2025 after 3.5 years in captivity.

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The fact that Viktoriia died on 19 September was confirmed to Slidstvo.Info by the Office of the Prosecutor General. It happened right in the detention centre.

‘She had been there for less than two weeks, and that is where she died. It was in the pre-trial detention centre in Kizel. Viktoriia’s body was transferred to Ukraine in such a condition that it was not possible to conduct a full forensic examination, the results of which would have provided us with information about the cause of Viktoriia’s death,’ said Taras Semkiv, head of the Second Directorate for Procedural Guidance and Public Prosecution of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in Conditions of Armed Conflict of the Prosecutor General’s Office.

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Journalists managed to obtain a list of employees of pre-trial detention centre No. 3 in Kizel from their sources. Slidstvo.Info verified it and found that in September 2024, 39-year-old Vitaly Spirin was acting as the head of the facility. Spirin’s social media accounts reveal that he is married and has two children. In 2023, Spirin earned 1 million 49 thousand Russian rubles at the detention centre. This is approximately 450 thousand hryvnias.

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“It is obvious that in a place of confinement such as Kizel, such actions cannot take place without the knowledge of the head of the facility. These are systematic manifestations of cruel treatment of Ukrainians in places of confinement. They definitely take place with the connivance and instructions of the management of the detention centre,” says Taras Semkiv, head of the Office of the Prosecutor General.

The deceased Viktoriia Roshchyna may also have been in contact with the head of the security department, Yevgeniy Trofimov, the deputy head of personnel and educational work, Konstantin Chekalov, and the deputy head of logistics, Alexei Dorodnov.

All employees of the Kizel detention centre, except for Dorodnov, continue to work there.