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I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

Lovely fucking neighborhood walk.

They want to tell you the boycotts don’t work…except Target has already lost over 16 billion since they trashed DEI. Walmart stores are empty & while I can’t find figures on losses…truth will out eventually. And Tesla alone has lost over 750 Billion.
People aren’t flying to US.
Keep up the good work people. You may not see the results published and they may say it doesn’t work, but it clearly does.
#resist #resistance #boycott

X Tree

They are taking away the right to protest.

They are taking away the right to express political opinions.

They are taking away the right to protect your health.

These are all fundamental human rights.

Do not be silent about losing them.

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

A mythical spike in organized retail theft led states to OK a taxpayer-funded police shopping spree for electronic surveillance technology - mission creep at its worst, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told The Appeal. https://theappeal.org/shoplifting-panic-police-military-gear-license-plate-readers-facial-recognition/

My favorite conservative pastime is when they accidentally describe utopia while trying to scare people about socialism

RFK Jr. announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services would cut 10,000 employees.

If you have been impacted by the layoffs, our reporters want to hear from you. You can reach out to us on Signal at 917-512-0201 or by going to https://www.propublica.org/tips/.

Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.

How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?

The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.

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Mastodon is my online echo chamber of people who give a crap about what happens to other people.

My long inaccessible FB account was my glimpse closer to reality of a world where people DGAF about other people. Endless posts about beach vacations, lunch, new purchases.

I had to leave FB because it got too much. I preferred to believe that more people were like me. But this is also an illusion.

I finally understand how concentration camps came to be and how life carried on despite it. My own sibling in the US has told me that things are "pretty normal" where he is.

I don't see how people around you getting arrested, your government literally building a concentration camp and flying people to foreign lands can be classified as "normal". But he just goes about his business.

All he cared about was paying less taxes and making money. He will soon discover the cost of 'normal' was having scientists keep track of diseases and prevent their outbreaks, educators toiling to maintain an educated workforce, air traffic controllers keeping planes from falling out of the sky.

All he ever saw were the dollars that things cost him, not the benefits, direct or indirect.

As things falls apart, he won't care until it affects him personally. It will be too late. As long as he can keep doing his work, running his business, selling his stuff... it's all "normal"

But he is a better reflection of "normal" than I am. The army of people who care here are outside the norms.

And it's the inertia of not caring that allows horrors to go on. The gatekeepers of media will make sure the population continues to care as little as possible. They will keep showing us beach photos and handbag purchases.

Distributed information sharing like Mastodon will be important in any kind of resistance efforts as the information will still be visible.

Then the next challenge is getting people who don't think any of this is important to care. You don't need everyone, but enough people. You need people who just want to get to work and do their thing to think that the lives of other people are worthy of caring about.

This Is the Land of Wolves Now

Masked agents snatching people off the street. Govt ofcls using caged prisoners for propaganda videos. We are the villains.

“They have clearly been posed by the jailers, forced to hold position so that they can be useful props for the American woman so that she can manufacture #propaganda for her regime.

“We have seen this kind of thing before. Just not from America.”

#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #DueProcess #HumanRights
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-the-land-of-wolves-now?triedRedirect=true

Could we please take a moment to think about a subject no one likes?

The US is in a race war.
Conservatives, White Supremacists are controlling the country.
People are disappearing.

Canadian conservatives, the CPC are mimicking their US counterparts.
Do you get it now?

I don't want a White Canada and I am sure you feel the same.

Let's help everyone get to the polls.

Vote for a diverse country not a divided Canada

#Cdnpoli #Canpoli
#Vote #Equality

The abandoned Church of the Transfiguration - one of my favorite places, now long gone. Check out the gallery and find out the odd story of its demise which, oddly enough, involved Anne Hathaway's (now ex) boyfriend: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/church-of-transfiguration