#HotTake: Every #human should be entitled by international #law to free, unseizeable #ID documents in the form of a travel #passport to evidence their #identity and have #FreedomOfMovement as well as a chance to #flee.

• It should also be illegal to demand #biometrics like #Fingerprints which are trivial to forge [ftp.ccc.de] anyway!

Why?

• Because in past [mastodon.social] and in present [infosec.exchange] day [mstdn.games] denying the issue and/or confiscation of #passports has been used and abused [www.federalregister.gov] solely to commit #democide, #genocide and #hatecrime both #opposition groups and #minorities.

#hottake

Telus shouldn’t be in the business of healthcare in Canada.

Yes, virtual appointments are incredibly convenient and accessible, and I use them when I’m unable to physically sit in a walk-in clinic for half an afternoon.

BUT - having a telecommunications company involved in Canadian healthcare is bad any way you slice it.

Vancouver Island had better snow removal than Edmonton.

Yeah, I said it. #HotTake

(Also in before anyone says VanIsle doesn’t get snow - yes, we very much got snow. Especially at elevation.)

They’ve been plowing for days now to remove a shit ton of ice on the roads where we live … if it had been properly maintained all winter, they wouldn’t need to do this right now - yet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I create a dozen examples of #HotTake #PosterArt every day.

Sometimes, I post ones that resonate more than others via @inaniludibrio.com.

Thinking I should just curate and share out a newsletter.

Would you be interested?

Hot take:

Solarpunk doesn't need any more short stories. It needs generational telenovelas set in a climate-affected future.

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Imagine replacing "how can I fit all the world context in 10 pages" with the depth of a lived-in experience of the different members of the household, who survived different "eras" of #cimateChange . Imagine them being human, with relatable human problems, but painted against the changing world.

People are captivated by the #hottake, the #callout, the #clapback, the immediate verdict. But responsible political judgment requires reflection, and reflection takes time. https://buff.ly/3DJgxEW #politics #groupthink

Maybe somewhat #HotTake: If we got rid of #PDF s for #accessibility and replaced them with semantic #HTML, we would see one of, if not the, largest curb-cut moment in the history of computing.

EVERYONE would benefit, even people who want to print them, because you can change text-size relative to paper when printing HTML.

The only technical thing that is kinda missing to make this viable is a proper standardized container-format that can store things like images in the same file. (Yes, data-URLs are a thing and nice for small stuff, but utterly inefficient for anything large.) Maybe we should start looking into that.

This #Cishet #guy’s take on why #heterosexuality doesn’t #makesense is hitting home on #TikTok

While #straightness is seen as #society’s #default #sexuality, #LGBTQ+ #folks’ are constantly worried that their #love #lives will be up for #debate. But one straight guy on TikTok thinks the #opposite should be true, and he took to TikTok to share his #hottake with the world.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SexualOrientation #Sexuality #Representation #Culture

https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/obsessed/this-straight-guys-take-on-why-heterosexuality-doesnt-make-sense-is-hitting-home-on-tiktok/

I want to take a second & add to all the #HotTake posts for a special "fuck you" to #JoeManchin for his inane, backward, evil (and i mean that) "contribution" to the discussion about why #Democrats performed so poorly. If you missed his interview on @npr he basically said that Democrats lost working people because our various welfare is too generous.

That's right. #CoalBaron #Manchin thinks that we need to kick more moms off welfare and make more kids hungry to appeal to the voters we lost.