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Yesterday, 10th August was International World Day Against Witch Hunts.

Hammer of Witches, published in 1486 by the German Dominican, theologian and inquisitor Heinrich Kramer (1), states:

“…in various ways midwife sorceresses kill the fetuses in the womb and cause miscarriages, and when they do not do this, they offer the new-borns to demons” (page 211)

and

“‘No one harms the Catholic faith more than do midwives.’ In instances where they do not kill children, they take the baby out of the room as if to do something, and raising them up in the air they offer them to the demons.” (page 212)

And here we are nearly 600 years later still fighting the accusations of witchcraft and using religion as justification to prevent women accessing abortion.

Judge Alito in the US Supreme Court cited (2) Sir Matthew Hale (3), the English 17th Century Witch Trial judge who sentenced numerous ‘witches’ to death and who is responsible for the school of thought that women cannot be raped by their husbands (an idea not completely overthrown in the US legal system until 1981) in support of his legal justification for overturning Roe vs Wade. Hale was also anti-abortion in all circumstances, because of course he was and Alito cited the misogynistic Hale on these grounds, describing Hale as ‘great’ and ’eminent’. High praise for a man who clearly hated women and who presided over the witch trial which later inspired the more famous Salem Witch trials.

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You might've noticed no posts by the bot today. The log did record an error and it seems that because lemmy.world has had no choice to go behind cloudflare until the script kiddies get bored with their ddos attack on the database, the bot isn't making it past the cloudflare challenge, which is not surprising.

I'll leave it up and running and hopefully .world can ease back as and when the ddos attacks retreat. Hopefully at that point the bot will resume normal activity.

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A couple of days ago I set up a bot account on lemm.ee using the Lemmy Mega Bot code. This bot grabs an RSS feed and posts new items from it lemmy.world/c/metal - there's never more than 2 a day.

Today it failed to post anything at all. I checked the logs and there was an error I didn't fully understand so I talked to the author of the script. They suggested that this could be happening if .world had set up a Cloudflare challenge script (due to the ddos attacks), so I'd just like to confirm if that is the case and .world is using a Cloudflare challenge?

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I was thinking of creating a bot that took the RSS feed of album reviews from the Angry Metal Guy site and posted new album reviews to this Community. The site seems to post one or two a day on average.

But obviously, I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this idea. Not everyone loves bots so I'd like to gauge community reaction before I just go ahead on do it.

EDIT: Upvotes and favourable comments are a good sign so I've created it. I did a dry run to store all the historical reviews so everything the bot posts now should be brand new. This also means you might not see a new post for the next 24hrs depending on when AMG next update.

If it misbehaves let me know! And if it's awful or annoying I can easily disable it.

Dymna Lotva are a Belarusian band who had to flee their homeland following persecution from the pro-Putin gvmt. They're currently based in Poland. Their music is about the attacks on their homeland by extremists.

Off their just announced new album 'This Heathen Land' out in October.

Newark Local Council (Newark is in Nottinghamshire) has been a Tory stronghold for a long time and the local council meetings there were always started with a christian prayer, despite not all the councillors and certainly not all their constituents, or even a majority of them, being christian.

In the recent local elections, in Newark as in most of the UK, the Tories got absolutely rinsed and dropped from holding 29 out of 39 seats to 14.

In a mark of progress and recognition that the majority of people in the UK are not christians and holding prayers before meetings designed to serve the public is, at best, unrepresentative, the new majority leaders have scrapped the prayer requirement, saying:

“...[C]ouncillors will now be asked to spend a moment before the full council meetings in contemplation of the business of the meeting, or other matters from the wider community which may impact on our residents. It is felt that this being a replacement for pre-meeting prayers demonstrates the way in which the council wishes to work to be inclusive of, and truly representative of, all our communities.”

Newark are now the third Council to do this, along with the Isle Of Wight Council and Congleton Town Council.

This is a good step forward and I hope more Councils start being reflective of the communities they've been elected to serve.

Bonden the champion pugilist? Davies who once beat up a bear? Padeen who breaks limbs for fun?