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Hello! Here you can expect occasional posts regarding technology and its impacts, more on the sides of security and web technologies, as well as personal grievances. I also post some projects I feel like sharing for any to see, as well as other posts that may not fit into any particular category. Also includes some attempt at some professionality.^[[B# Do not let the occasional reblogs of Popplio, Brionne, Primarina, and some other Pokémon offset you.

[quiche-draws]

Pokedexy Challenge 2026 Day 22: Favorite Single Stage Pokemon

Before: Mawile After: Hawlucha

I'm not usually into single stage Pokemon in general but after much thought, I realized I had a much bigger soft spot for Hawlucha (even more so with its new Mega Evolution)

[batshaped]

fighting spirit

bsky mirror

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

daily Pokèmon #0701: Hawlucha

[alieninvasion64]

Drawing every Kalos Pokémon daily, until Legends Z-A releases

Day 52: Hawlucha

[3liza]

cancel your mullvad subscription

tech news today is that Mullvad VPN has gone mask-off about being the major funding source for the Swedish Orebro party, who are racist nationalists. unfortunately all discussion of this is occurring on fucking Mastodon instances i can barely load

if you are a mullvad customer (as i am) and want to get out, here is guidance from this guy

If you don't want your Mullvad fees going to fund neo-Nazis - or @mozilla VPN fees, which is rebranded Mullvad - cancel and get a refund immediately that's whose "free speech" the official account is talking about here, and that's where your fees go to EDIT: Mullvad has a 14 day refund policy. But the message below is a direct call to ask for a refund if you don't want to give money to Nazis. If Mullvad refuse a refund, call your consumer protection agency. And reverse credit card charges on the basis of deceptive refund policy representations. It's not like you ever want to be a Mullvad customer again. archive copy of Mullvad statement: https://web.archive.org/web/2026062717

[antifainternational]

[mortalityplays]

some people have reported being refused refunds that fall outside their 14-day refund window. my sub was 60 days past the payment date, but fwiw I emailed support with my account number and a screenshot of the above mastodon post and explicitly said "In line with your official account's statement, I'd like to request an immediate cancellation and refund on the grounds that I don't share the values of Mullvad or any other company that knowingly profits Nazis. If you're unwilling to issue this refund, please let me know and I'll be happy to escalate the matter to consumer protection." and they issued my refund without a fuss.

[cosmicdogmoon]

[sudaca-swag]

[sudaca-swag]

Visas being denied to players and their families

Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv

Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs

Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

And all this just in the first week....

[ghostonthestars]

If I may, I want to add the issues MEXICO is having. At least some of them.

México City was "modernized" to be appealing to tourists, not functional to people living on it. We have a housing crisis, gentrification issues, several problems with public transportation, and the government has tiptoed around those to prioritize appearances.

Madres Buscadoras, groups of mothers that search for their missing family members, have been ignored and criminalized by the president, attacked by cops guarding the stadium, alongside other protesters like farmers, teachers and students. Students and reporters were arrested without explanation, threatened with violence (women with sexual violence) and then released.

Adding to this, the number of missing people in the country is 133,000. Twice the capacity of the Azteca Stadium. Families tried to raise awareness by pasting posters with the faces of their missing people around the stadium. The governor of Ciudad de México sent workers to take them down.

To avoid "showing a bad picture of the country" streets around the stadium are being closed, hours before the games, in order to deter protestors. People living in this area (like myself) are unable to move freely.

Our president, Claudia Sheimbaum, on one of the morning reports, said México is happiness, said we don't have issues, criminalized the protestors and said they want to show a bad picture of México. Avatar fans actually compared the report to this same scene, the "There's no war in Ba Sing Se" scene.

The World Cup, FIFA, and the government are trying to silence our struggles. Don't stop talking about the issues with the World Cup and the way the countries (at least USA and México) are dealing with it. Please.

[deerlytoasty]

Fun fact, I LOVE HAWLUCHA

[deerlytoasty]

Me sitting here with my Hawluchas. Sigh... My Hawluchas

[noelle-ism]

That's Not What Unc Means

You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

Really good write-up on the origin of "Unc" as a term used in AAVE, and how it's been turned into a generic disparaging term when it didn't even have negative connotations to begin with.

[circuitdigest]

A simple demo of Smart Traffic Management System Using IoT. Powered by ESP32 and IR sensors, to detect vehicle density across four lanes. The setup automatically adjusts the traffic lights based on real-time conditions, making it a useful concept for smart city and automation projects.

If you’d like to see the full circuit, code, and project explanation, you can check out the detailed guide here 👇 Build a Smart Traffic Management System Using IoT

Useful for learners exploring IoT, or hands-on electronics projects.

[mock-arts]

Hawlucha,based on that one pic of the stellar eagles kicking each other from the comedy wildlife awards

[hawlucha]

guys. holy fuck

[hawlucha]

im not just OP im actually the hawlucha in the picture. místico later put me in a pokeball but we dont gotta get into that

[zinaanqar16]

Please, read this before you scroll away.

I have decided to leave Gaza. Today, I am not asking for your donations — I don’t want food, a home, or medical aid. All I want is to escape to safety and stability, far from the war in Gaza.

[zinaanqar16]

The Rafah crossing has not opened, and it has been almost two months since the ceasefire agreement with no progress. The only remaining solution is to obtain a travel visa from any embassy in the world, so that the Israeli occupation will allow us to leave the Gaza Strip.

[zinaanqar16]

So please, with all the mercy in your hearts, I need your help in obtaining a travel visa for me and my family so we can escape to a safe and bright future. We want to live in peace and security — we do not want to die here. Please, do something for us.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Oh my god Hawlucha vs Machamp themed luchadors it's not fucking fair man I should have been there

[casper-ghostly]

Anyway, daily reminder from a culturally isolated Romani person.

Gypsy does not mean wanderer.

It literally means ‘people from egypt’ or similar, as europeans believed Romani people were from Egypt. It has become known similar to nomad due to how our ancestors have been forced to be nomadic due to racism and ostracization, but it is a SLUR.

Romani people are STILL being forcibly sterilized.

Romani people are STILL being forced into ghettos.

Romani people are still facing violence and danger in countless European countries- and recently, I’ve seen the beginnings of the extremes in the United States.

Have a little fucking respect and DON’T USE A SLUR THAT’S BEEN USED FOR CENTURIES AGAINST US.

And for the love of whatever’s up there, ESPECIALLY do not use it to describe your witchcraft. It is playing on the ‘magic gypsy’ trope, and is EXTREMELY insulting.

non romani people, please reblog this.

[mevil]

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾