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Take 1 pill in the morning and 1 pill at night. Side effect: slow heart rate, short term memory loss, (if dose too high) heart failure. 💔

Take 1 pill in the morning, at least 2 hours before any other medication and at least 4 hours before a meal. Side effect: (if dose is too low) fatigue, (if dose is too high) heart attack. 🆘️

Take 2 pills at night before bed. Do not take on an empty stomach. Side effect: extreme drowsiness (effect exacerbated by Narcolepsy), (if dose too high) coma, cardiac arrest, severe respiratory depression (O.D. is treatment resistant) ⚠️

Take 1 pill, as needed. Take with food and 8 oz of water. Side effect: dizziness, drowsiness.

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They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.

Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.

You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.

This article specifically notes:

For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.

Other important quotes:

What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.

Two things back that up:

There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

Spectacled Owls (Pulsatrix perspicillata), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Costa Rica