My only dismay over the “enshittening” wars is that a lot of the stuff people are mourning is the stuff that replaced the *actual* good thing, or swallowed up too much of its market to make it viable anymore.

It was the mom-and-pop (or mom-and-mom, pop-and-pop) stores that Walmart, Blockbuster replaced that we need to return to: for our own sakes, for our own mental health.

Then we can build networks between them with our technologies.

Anarcho-Syndicalism doesn’t have to look like Mad Max.

Once again I have no idea who originally created this, but I salute you.

AI

last one

more lads and lasses

Here we are now, all the lads

KOSA will be used to erase queerness off the US internet*, won't it?

*Which, of course, will affect a lot more than the US internet, one supposes.

Hey anyone who uses #etsy, they are changing their terms and conditions so you cannot participate in class action lawsuits against them. You can opt out using these steps, but you have to do it before 23rd August 2023.

It applies if you have a profile there, whether you sell or not!

I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but if anyone hasn't taken my social media usage survey yet, I'd appreciate your input! If you have taken it, please feel free to share with your own networks. https://forms.gle/KQinPovw1yZcPpxQ9

👀 Via Kyle Griffin:

Justice Elena Kagan has voiced her support for a new Supreme Court ethics code — taking a sharply different stance than Samuel Alito.

"It just can't be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances ... We're not imperial." #SCOTUS

If you're a journalist and still active on Twitter, you're helping prop up a company that hates you and everything you do. Continuing to give your time and effort to Elon Musk is a self-inflicted wound that won't stop bleeding until you tend to it. Many of your readers have already exited. You should too.

also it's horny and i think it's good when cartoons are horny because cartoons have always been horny and i'm so glad rebecca sugar carried the tradition forward from all the weird TF & brainwashing that was everywhere in 90s cartoons

Hey everyone, last year I conducted a survey about people's social media usage, and I've updated it for 2023. It's four questions and totally anonymous. Many thanks if you take it, and feel free to spread it far and wide! https://forms.gle/bENMS8zovU7yGEjU7

The secret to not being shot in the United States is:
* Be white
* Be in a big blue city

I think it's hilarious how white folk from small towns think of New York as a dangerous place.

If you visit NYC from rural America, your chances of being shot just went *down* significantly.

Facebook's Threads will straight up DOX you.
https://twitter.com/mistressmatisse/status/1676763121330028544

So I've been thinking about it in the wake of the movie's soft opening and underperforming: what I'd want out of a Flash movie. With the caveat that it can't be a Wally West story, or else the list would be all the stuff I grew up on (AKA the best stuff)

And I thought, you know what has potential as a movie? The Trial of the Flash.

#comics #theflash

We need a horror movie about an inflatable Scabby the Rat who comes to life to murder union-busters.

Ah yes. The “good guy with a gun” hypothesis. That always works.

1) Survey still open due to migraine!
2) 40,000 responses: achieved!
3) Will close the survey tomorrow and start processing everything once my eyeballs stop vibrating~

Survey: https://survey.gendercensus.com

Participation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TuWaEZsB70-w79q9IXX_vWd7cZjexgcWI5o8P9N5mBU/edit