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Literally the *only* story I'm going to share about the goddamn Olympics:

U.S. Rugby player Ariana Ramsey found out athletes get free healthcare in the Olympic Village and immediately booked a bunch of appointments for routine services many Americans living under our dystopian private healthcare regime simply can't afford:

https://www.si.com/olympics/american-athletes-taking-full-advantage-of-free-healthcare-olympic-village-france

"Like, what?” she said in a post on TikTok describing her new discovery: The Olympic Village offers free healthcare.

The United States, of course, does not. So in the days following her victory, Ramsey made appointments with the Village gynecologist, dentist and ophthalmologist. According to the Paris 2024 organizing committee, the Village also offers cardiology, orthopedics, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry and, of course, sports medicine—all at no cost to the athletes. (Paralympic athletes will also have access to dermatology.)"

The best part of the story is that Ramsey not only convinced a bunch of other U.S. Athletes to take advantage of the program, but after realizing how beneficial having access to free healthcare is, she's decided to become an advocate for Universal Healthcare in America.

On a personal level and as someone who has spent time in multiple countries that offer free healthcare to their citizens, I honestly cannot stress how much it improves not only health outcomes, but also quality of life for labor class people; from increasing your lifespan, to freeing workers from dependence on bad employers just to keep their health insurance, this is one social policy that has ripples throughout almost every aspect of the lives of everyday people. And it says a LOT about the priorities of the American ruling class that they'd do almost anything to keep you from having access to universal healthcare.

#UniversalHealthcare #USPol #Capitalism #Olympics

petition to rename "width" to "widgth" for monospace consistency with "height" and "length"

Het zou goed zijn als we in Nederland stoppen met het vreemde idee dat OV tarieven kostendekkend moeten zijn, zeker als je OV wilt ontwikkelen en meer mensen die kant op wil krijgen. Net terug uit Zuid-Korea, geweldig OV maar absoluut geen kosten dekkende tarieven is mijn indruk. We hadden die bedrijven nooit moeten privatiseren.
#openbaarvervoer #bekostiging #politiek

EDIT: Update, I believe he went with hernia repair. Thanks all for the thoughts! For this specific instance, no further need for ideas or boosts, but if the thoughts in the thread can benefit you, a friend, or loved one, excellent!

#Trans guys and transmasc folk of fedi: a friend is getting a hysterectomy soon. He's going to be out for the usual amount of time, and people at that workplace are very much in the know with each other's stuff. He is *not* out as trans to most of his coworkers (as far as they know he's just another cis dude) and prefers to keep it that way.

He's aware that legally the employer doesn't have to know, but because of the workplace dynamics he wants to be able to give coworkers something more than a vague "surgery". So: what would you offer as a plausible alternative that doesn't raise more concerns (e.g. it isn't cancer, long-term whatever, just a common benign medical need type deal).

I suggested making this post and he was all for it. Send your ideas please!

Purple Rain ☄️✨

#Furryart

Fuck RIGHT OFF that Nvidia are using `yt-dlp` to scrape for AI training while the rest of us got DMCAed or whatever.

It seems that even those who are not interested in sports and do not follow the Olympic Games have already read about the "50-year-old Turkish man who showed up at the competition in a wrinkled T-shirt, without special equipment, and took the Olympic silver without even taking his hand out of his pocket."

"Surely, Turkey sent some kind of hitman to Paris!" social media marvels.

In the blink of an eye, Yusuf Dikec, a previously unknown figure outside professional circles, a retired gendarmerie officer and professional shooter, became a global internet meme and sensation.

Everything is great! The moral of this story could be: no matter how old you are, keep doing what you love, and your best achievements may still lie ahead, even if you are an athlete over 50!

But another nuance caught my attention.

The fact is, Yusuf Dikec did not win the Olympic silver alone. It was a team event. Shooting alongside him was his colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose, and also with minimal equipment.

The only difference is that he is 51, and she is 24. He began professional shooting around the time she was born.

Dikec is an excellent shooter with a plethora of medals from prestigious competitions, but he had never made it to the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and competed with him on the same team.

If we look at the individual performances of these shooters in the same discipline where they took silver as a team, we will see that Tarhan finished 7th, while Dikec only came in 13th.

Now let's trace how mass consciousness works: we simply do not notice the woman standing next to him. It does not matter who she is, how she is dressed, how she shoots, or how unique her achievement is. We only see the man in the "wrinkled T-shirt," deliberately nonchalant, and create a romantic image of a "hitman." We spread a photograph in which he is shooting alone, and the result of this shooting is 13th place! Yet, we declare that he won "silver."

Why does the logic of mass culture work this way? After all, patriarchy has long ceased to exist, feminism is unnecessary, equality has been achieved, at least in Paris 2024 for sure!

This is how patriarchal myths about great male victories are born before our eyes. These images are entrenched in culture and shape our thinking. Meanwhile, women's contributions and achievements are simply erased from history. It was like this before. Unfortunately, it still happens today.

#Paris2024 #YusufDikec #SevvalTarhan #Olympics

Translated text. Original text from Maya Guseynova

What people on the internet think French and Québec people are like: *hears an English word* *hisses like a vampire presented with a garlic-festooned crucifix*

What French and Québec people are actually like: “Je finish le dispatching du management et on se retrouve près du pick-up dans le parking pour préparer notre week-end au trekking, all right? Cheers!”

Meanwhile, the Académie Française and the Office québécois de la langue française: *hisses like a vampire presented with a garlic-festooned crucifix*

in britain they listen to crisptune

average person uses 3 floppy disks a year factoid actualy just statistical error. average person uses 0 floppy disks per year. @foone, who lives in California & and uses over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

The Phenod fox inflatables are very soft and make for a great ride!

#SarahCatSunday #Fursuit #Inflatable #Furry #Photography

Today in Bristol, a lynch mob of far right scum bags targeted a hotel housing refugees. It was not the police who prevented them from reaching the building and unleashing violence/attempting to murder them, but a large group of antifascists. The videos look very intense, there was a lot of fighting as the small number of police present stood by and watched. Folks on the ground reported that police on horses didn’t arrive until the far right was roughly 15 feet away from the front entrance.

The antifascists held their ground and bravely put their bodies on the line to protect the people inside. Aside from their often thankless bravery, this kind of work is extremely scary and causes trauma that remains with you for a lifetime. But it is *the* only way to get rid of fascists. I know it’s not for everyone, it shouldn’t be, but it’s necessary work. Scary times, but folks like these always give me hope.

Paris Olympics have:
•Russian athletes competing despite Russia invading Ukraine
•Israeli athletes competing despite Israel committing genocide of Palestinians
•A Dutch athlete competing despite being a literal child rapist

But the most hate by far is reserved for an Algerian Muslim woman because she committed the crime of being good at boxing 😐

This is kind of depressing, but probably true.

I fucked up my repo so bad

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.

All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.

#crowdstrike

#mastodon social removed a post today.

It was a map showing the drastic shrinking of Palestinian territory since 1946.

I challenged it - and mastodon social agreed they were in error.

It seems some bad actor is going around taking down anything that highlights Israel's crimes - 75 years of crimes.

To that bad actor I say -- "The world is waking up to what Israel is, you can't stop that."

Here's the map again because the post was not restored.

#freepalestine, #BDS end the #genocide