John Ribbon @johnribbon@mastodon.social
A work of fiction. A refugee from the world of twitter.
A believer in the value of honest debate, privacy and liberalism.
Dublin via London and Waterford 🇮
Going to take a break from Twitter and give this a go. Interests: #philosophy #sociology #software #writing #privacy #security #coffee #liberalism #freespeech #sciencefiction #davidlynch #blackmirror #Ireland #Waterford #hurling #London
The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown
Occupied, spoiler (kind of) Show more
#occuppied spoiler Show more
Flavours of #Fingal 🇮🇪 county show. Epic weather.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Trump administration scrambles as outrage grows over border separations
Evil.
twin peaks s3 spoilers Show more
Ran this route in Howth, just outside of Dublin, Ireland. Cliffside portion to the left/east is beautiful
Career sabotage Show more
To ditch Ireland’s Wild West tag we must stop acting like cowboys (via @IrishTimes) https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/to-ditch-ireland-s-wild-west-tag-we-must-stop-acting-like-cowboys-1.3530567
Karl Marx: Against the collective power of the propertied classes, the working class cannot act as a class except by constituting itself into a political party distinct from, and opposed to, all old parties formed from the propertied classes.
via Geert Lovink... "Alternatives to Google Products–The Complete List. Spread it widely, there's no excuse anymore. Goodbye Google!" #Fuckoffgoogle https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/
via @jeangleur@twitter.com
Google sends employees into our courtyards to film our apartments. The pressure around the Google Campus in #Berlin is increasing, fights emerge on the streets. My flatmate was threatened. @GoogleDE, when are you gonna back the fuck off?
If Trump wants to blow up the world order, who will stop him?
Very interesting analysis of how Trumpenomics is working, and possibly winning.
RT @kurtiskemple@twitter.com: I would love for the term "soft skills" to die in a fire 🔥
If you don't have good social skills it's a serious problem.
Most #development jobs require you to not only work closely with a team, but also with other teams. None of which give a 💩 if you're a "rockstar" developer.
Love Island’s brutal dating game shows us men are vulnerable too
Good article. But the fact that feminists have gotten used to thinking of men as toxic, cold and abusive, despite the everyday evidence of their own eyes, is pretty disappointing. Especially, since we've had an education in objectification for a while now.
This sculpture just hit me in the stomach. Anyone knows where it is? So perfect..
Local, Waterford 🇮🇪 Show more
This github fiasco makes me glad I host my projects by printing out all the code on paper and pinning the pages to a bulletin board in the basement of an abandoned warehouse.
