Meta’s track record on privacy was already spotty, but the newest web-to-app trick is particularly brazen. Here’s what to do next.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/protect-yourself-metas-latest-attack-privacy

Of course I would prefer no cars at all, but this is certainly an improvement…

It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/strategies-resisting-tech-enabled-violence-facing-transgender-people

📍 US Embassy, London, UK

Protection. #grickledoodle #books #reading #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

"Recycling plastic costs so much that recycled plastic will never compete with new plastic. The only thing it might do is deceive the public into thinking there’s no problem."

(Original title: The Myth of Plastic Recycling)

https://leftycartoons.com/2025/05/01/the-myth-of-plastic-recycling/

🎉 VICTORY! Lenovo is finally letting customers buy laptops WITHOUT Windows pre-installed in US & Canada!

Freedom to choose your OS is a fundamental digital right! This means:
💰 Lower costs
🌱 Less e-waste from unused Windows licenses
🚀 More freedom for you
💪 Linux Growth

If you're thinking of going Windows-free:
✅ Check out user-friendly distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Linux Mint
✅ Verify hardware compatibility
✅ Consider dual-booting as a transition
✅ Join communities for support

Ad blocker in a real life 🫣

People keep talking about AI and crypto coins as things that are popular and interesting. But Fentanyl is also popular and interesting, so y'all will need a better argument than that.

Today’s #Muppets GIF of the Day is…

#OtD 28 Apr 1945 Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans. His body was then hung up in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, a square in which 15 partisans had been killed and left publicly to rot the previous year https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

After selecting one of the eight, you can look at the hashtags below the images to find movies beyond the eight that are listed. Here are the images from my favorite #StudioGhibli film "My Neighbor Totoro" となりのトトロ
https://www.ghibli.jp/works/totoro/

Because hand-drawn art beats AI art any day. #StudioGhibli
https://www.openculture.com/2020/09/studio-ghibli-puts-online-400-images-from-eight-classic-films.html

In case you're feeling mildly upset by the state of the world, here's a weird dog playing with a rubber chicken. [Sound on!]

#IknowItsADonkey #donkey #humor #humour #cute #dog #dogs #asstodon

Happy perfect date day. #LightJacket

Secret Panel HERE 🐢 https://tapas.io/episode/2453447

Knowledge is power. #grickledoodle #cats #reading #books #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Happy #EarthDay! 8 years ago, as we held the largest day of science advocacy in history, I wrote in the @guardian: "Why March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only the elite benefit."

These words hold true today. When we stand up for science, we stand up for justice and equality.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/22/march-for-science-when-attacked-only-elite-benefit

Happy HIGH holiday to everyone who celebrates! #Happy420Day