Some of us just don’t like being touched & that’s ok.

Sound advice here about how to interact with cats. Coincidentally this is Exactly the approach needed by #ActuallyAutistic people like me. And, in my experience, by kids.

I wonder, how is this not obvious to everyone? The answer, I think, is that so many of us learn when we’re young that we’re not entitled to have boundaries. Not entitled to be safe.

Cats can teach us So Much about #consent. We are all entitled to be safe. @actuallyautistic

‘She treats everyone with a deep growl’: can you train an angry cat to be more sociable? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/30/she-treats-everyone-with-a-deep-growl-can-you-train-an-angry-cat-to-be-more-sociable?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://www.europesays.com/1942226/ Israel-Hamas 2025 Symposium – Humanitarian Relief as a Bargaining Chip #ApI #ApIi #ceasefire #civilians #Conflicts #consent #Gaza #GazaStrip #GenevaConventions #Hamas #HumanitarianAid #HumanitarianRelief #icc #idf #Israel #MilitaryNecessity #RosaLenaLauterbach #siege #starvation

Veteran UK anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony #Greenstein, eviscerates the BBCs coverage of the Gaza genocide in his most recent blogpost!

https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-1930s-bbc-appeased-and-even_20.html?m=1

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4

“In the 1930s the BBC Appeased and Even Attempted to Justify the Nazi Regime’s Anti-Semitism – Today It Loves Israel and Zionism - Has Anything Changed?”

#Press #UK #BBC #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Bias #Misinformation #Disinformation #Management #Consent #RaffiBerg #InformationWarfare #Propaganda #StateBroadcaster

every new technology is ultimately created because porn. change my mind.
https://www.404media.co/chinese-ai-video-generators-unleash-a-flood-of-new-nonconsensual-porn-3/
#AI #consent #tech #humanity

“We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers”

by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack

“Your abusers are not some far away nation your own government doesn’t like, nor are they some marginalized group your government doesn’t care about. Your abusers are your government itself, and all its allies and assets around the world”

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/we-are-duped-into-blaming-our-problems?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #Propaganda #Manufacture #Consent #Oligarch #Empire #Managers #Blame #MSM

Canada: #NuclearWaste Petition Tabled in Parliament

Ottawa – "A petition calling on the Government to provide oversight of a controversial nuclear waste burial project has been tabled in the federal House of Commons, with a response required within 45 calendar days.

"Created by #Northwatch project coordinator Brennain Lloyd and sponsored by Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota, the petition gained the signatures of 3,327 Canadians who joined the call on the federal government to require the #NuclearWasteManagementOrganization (#NWMO) to demonstrate that it has the #consent of residents and communities, including #FirstNations and Treaty Organizations, along the transportation route and in the region of and downstream of the candidate repository site(s) before selecting a site.

"'Canadians expect a fair and accountable process when it comes to projects of this size, risk and long-term consequence', said petition organizer Brennain Lloyd, coordinator with Northwatch and an organizer with the Northern Ontario alliance #WeTheNuclearFreeNorth."

Read more:
https://nuclear-news.net/2024/05/11/1-b1-canada-nuclear-waste-petition-tabled-in-parliament/

#NoConsent #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart #RenewablesNow

I used to trust #Microsoft more than other #bigtech platforms, mostly because I used #Excel a lot in my work.

I switched from #Chrome to #EdgeBrowser a long time ago for work (and use #Vivaldi for private stuff).

However I just had to set up my work profile in Edge again today, and Microsoft's #consent for #tracking has really gone to shit.

Look what they consider to now be 'Always Active' (i.e. not requiring consent):

[picture]Thread 1/3

#surveillancecapitalism #surveillanceadvertising

Children are considered incapable of giving #consent because they cannot fully understand #contracts presented to them.

If an advanced degree is required to read a #TOS contract, ( https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwbg7j/online-contract-terms-of-service-are-incomprehensible-to-adults-study-finds ) then only people with advanced degrees can be considered to have consented.

Perhaps this is so obvious that it isn't: it is not possible to trick, punish, or exhaust people into giving consent. They might give something, but it cannot be consent.

It's more about #consent than #consensus, isn't it?