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There is a kind of harm that leaves no bruises and no headlines.

It happens slowly, politely and with paperwork.

It happens when institutions treat human beings as interchangeable parts, when loyalty is praised but never returned, and when vulnerability is quietly punished.

I grew up learning that love could disappear without explanation. As an adult I discovered that many modern systems operate the same way. Employers speak the language of care, values, and community, but behave according to disposability. When someone becomes inconvenient, injured, burned out, or simply no longer profitable, they are removed. No closure. No accountability. Just silence.

What makes this especially damaging is not job loss alone. It is the erosion of dignity.

Dignity is what allows a person to believe they matter even when they struggle. When systems strip that away repeatedly the damage compounds. People begin to internalize abandonment as identity. They start to believe they are the common denominator. They are not.

We rarely talk about the long-term psychological cost of being discarded by institutions that claim to care. We talk about resilience, grit and personal responsibility. We do not talk about how many people are quietly hollowed out by systems that reward emotional detachment and punish humanity.

This is not a story about only one company or only one bad actor per se. It is instead about a culture that normalizes disposability and then acts surprised when people feel broken by it.

I am writing this because silence protects the system not the people inside it.

If you have ever felt erased rather than fired, managed rather than valued, or replaced rather than understood, you are not alone. And you are not defective.

The problem is not that you needed dignity.

The problem is that the system did not have any to give.

When she is not ministering, a 71-year-old pastor and grandmother spends her time in her car following and monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in New Orleans to keep her community informed.

“I have to act,” the Rev. Jane Mauldin, a minister affiliated with the North Shore Unitarian Universalists, based in Lacombe, La., told MS NOW in an interview posted on Wednesday, Dec. 10. “I can’t sit at home with my puppy dogs and my hobbies because I believe our democracy is threatened.”

Described by the outlet as an ICE verifier, Mauldin is part of Facebook and WhatsApp groups that respond to witness reports about ICE or Department of Homeland Security (DHS) activity in the community in real time.

After arriving at the scene, they take pictures and videos of what they believe to be immigration law enforcement vehicles, then they share that information with social media groups to inform the community about federal agents' presence in the area — and to let government agents know they are being monitored.

“I’ve seen a number of DHS or ICE vehicles in the last week or so,” Mauldin told the outlet during one of her patrols as she pointed to one suspected vehicle on a property. “They’re large, dark SUVs or white SUVs with fully dark tinted windows, out of state license plates, often one or two individuals in the front seat, and they’re not where they are supposed to be."

Asked about why she patrols, Mauldin told MS Now, "I have to act out of love, which is the core of my faith."

“I have to act. I want to go to bed at night knowing that I have made a difference for my community, for people I care about, and for my country,” she continued.

The decision is a significant step towards using the cash to aid Ukraine’s defence – but Moscow is threatening to retaliate

The EU has agreed to indefinitely freeze Russia’s sovereign assets in the bloc, as Moscow stepped up its threats to retaliate against Euroclear, the keeper of most of the Kremlin’s immobilised money.

The decision by the EU to use emergency powers to immobilise €210bn (£185bn) of Russia’s central bank’s assets marks a significant step towards using the cash to aid Ukraine’s defence.

European Council president António Costa confirmed on Friday that EU leaders had delivered on a commitment, made in October, to “keep Russian assets immobilised until Russia ends its war of aggression against Ukraine and compensates for the damage caused”.

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Given the US recently made a bid to fast-track multiple censorship bills, KOSA included, which could pose an existential threat to Fediverse instances hosted over the clearnet, how feasible would it be to host said instances over Tor/I2P?

Evening 'hosters,

I have been banging my head against my desk all day and could use some help. I seem to be the only one with this issue, so I'll lay it out: I have a Pangolin instance hosted on a remote VPS with a Newt tunnel installed via Docker in a Debian 13 VM on my NAS. Within Docker, I have Plex, Jellyfin, and Overseerr (just for testing currently). All services are accessible via the LAN IP of the VM and their respective ports.

(Yes I know Plex is stinky, but my mom's gotta watch her shows.)

I have three resources set up in Pangolin for each service, pointed at the LAN IP of the VM, the port, and the correct Newt tunnel, with a corresponding https://service.domain.tld/ record in Pangolin. Overseerr works flawlessly, without any additional input. Plex and Jellyfin, however, does not work. The resource monitoring module on Pangolin remains "unhealthy," and neither service can be accessed remotely.

Here is how the Pangolin resource is configured:

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After doing tons of searching and reading, the general consensus for configuring Plex is to add https://service.domain.tld/ (noting the :443 at the end), disabling Remote Access from the menu, and disabling the Plex Relay setting. I've tried just about every combination of these settings, and none of these seems to bring the Pangolin resource online (which I figure I need to do to access it remotely).

Here is my compose.yml for Plex:

services:  
  plex:  
    container_name: plex  
    image: plexinc/pms-docker  
    restart: unless-stopped  
    ports:  
      - 32400:32400/tcp  
      - 8324:8324/tcp  
      - 32469:32469/tcp  
      - 1900:1900/udp  
      - 32410:32410/udp  
      - 32412:32412/udp  
      - 32413:32413/udp  
      - 32414:32414/udp  
    environment:  
      - TZ=America_New_York  
    network_mode: host  

(Pretend there are volumes mounted in there, I removed them here for brevity)

I know setting network_mode= host and defining the ports is redundant, I was playing around with Bridge mode in some helpless attempt to get this thing working. I mentioned Jellyfin in the title because in an effort to see if it was just Plex being annoying, I spun up a Jellyfin container, only to find that Jellyfin also doesn't work.

Any ideas? I'm offering 10,000 years of incredible luck to anyone that can help me out...

tl;dr I cannot for the life of me get Plex (or Jellyfin) to work via a Pangolin Newt tunnel. All other services served the same way appear to work great.

Edit: So, I figure this has got to be something between Plex, one or more Docker bridge networks, and the Newt Tunnel network (newtwork? nah...). I should have mentioned earlier but I am pretty green with all of this, but I really did want to get my hands dirty. I really only have a surface level understanding of these virtual bridge networks that Docker uses...

I'm realizing in doing some digging with docker network inspect, even Overseerr creates a bridge network. I thought I tried using Plex in bridge mode, but that didn't seem to work.

Edit Edit: Solved! I looked to Plex's logs and found that it was rejecting (401) requests from the Newt container bridge. All I had to do was go to Plex's network settings and allow that subnet, like so:

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My https://plex.domain.tld/ worked instantly. Shoutout to ineedmana for telling me to look in the logs. Always read the logs!

One image released Friday shows what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face; the bowl has a sign saying, “Trump condom $4.50,” and each condom bears an image of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!”

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It’s been 50 years since Godfrey Wade arrived to the United States from Jamaica at the age of 15 with his mother, moving to New York with a green card that granted him permanent residency.

The Black man enlisted in the U.S. Army a few years later, spending eight years in the service, where he was primarily stationed in Germany before he received an honorable discharge. He then began a civilian life in Georgia while raising a family, working as a fashion designer, master tailor, tennis coach and chef over the years while staying out of trouble.

That is, until September, when he was pulled over in Conyers, Georgia, for failing to use a turn signal, which was when police discovered he was driving without a license and arrested him.

. . . He has been incarcerated in overcrowded ICE detention centers since the arrest, a three-month ordeal where he was forced to sleep on a makeshift bed on the ground for the first 12 days, according to 11 Alive News.

In a telephone interview with local media from the Stewart Detention Center in Stewart County, Georgia, Wade said there are only two working urinals for an entire pod of 80 people.

“We don’t have any bunk space,” he told the news station. “We’re given what we call boats, and those are placed on the floor with a two-inch mat.”

“There’s sewage water flowing on the ground,” he said. 

11 Alive News also reported that it had obtained records of the Office of Detention Oversight, a unit within U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that oversees the federal detention centers, which revealed 12 deficiencies within the Stewart Detention Center related to health and safety, food service, phone access, use of force, and more. 

“The agency also noted violations of the required 12-to-1 detainee-to-toilet ratio,” 11 Alive News reported, adding that the private for-profit company that runs the detention center, CoreCivic, has ignored various inquires by reporters seeking comment.

But the Trump administration has repeatedly demonstrated it believes it is above the law and the Constitution.