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Katy ElphinstoneKatyElphinstone@mas.to
2025-05-30
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel

You have to ask yourself: if our economic system actively destroys the biosphere *and* fails to meet most people's basic needs then what is actually the point?
Puppy Cuirpupcuir
2025-05-29

I never realized how influential Belgium music producers were during the 90's club song era!

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2025-05-27

Don’t do this, and don’t use a google voice number (which totally works) or other disposable mobile-style number or your email-for-spammers email address at this link:

events.america250.org/events/2

And don’t encourage others to do it too.

#USpol

screenshot of a post by Ryan @mediumboi@threads.net: 

Definitely don't RSVP for 2 free spots at Trump's military birthday parade and not show up. 
Link is pinned for you to go and not do that. 

May 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Democrats Abroaddemocratsabroad
2025-05-23

Here’s what Republicans want to do: cutting your Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts for the ultra rich and the oligarchs.

A graph. The vertical axis is billions of dollars. There are two bars. The one on the left is in red and shows $1100B tax cuts for those making over $500K. The right on shows $715B in cuts to Medicaid in blue and $300B in cuts to SNAP in green, stacked to make $1015B in total.
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2025-05-23

Announcing: justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

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JA WestenbergDaojoan
2025-05-01

If it manipulates your hunger, unfollow.
If it rewards outrage and punishes thought, unfollow.
If it makes you compare your life to a fiction, unfollow.
Your peace is non-negotiable.

If it manipulates your hunger, unfollow.
If it rewards outrage and punishes thought, unfollow.
If it makes you compare your life to a fiction, unfollow.
Your peace is non-negotiable.
If it monetizes your anxiety, unfollow.
If it fragments your focus into worthless bytes, unfollow.
If it reduces your humanity to metrics, unfollow.
Real life happens beyond the screen.
If it promises connection but breeds isolation, unfollow.
If it transforms your time into someone's profit, unfollow.
If it makes you feel worse with every scroll, unfollow.
You were whole before they made you doubt it.
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2025-05-01

How to win my instant support as a customer:

"We have decided not to focus on generative AI features, and instead reinvest heavily in quality assurance for our core products through hiring, training, and process development."

Puppy Cuirpupcuir
2025-05-01
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2025-05-01

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. 👏

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/

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Charlotte Clymercharlotteclymer
2025-04-13

I've had folks ask me if they should still shop at Target.

You gotta do what's right for you. I haven't shopped at Target in well over a year, ever since they removed Pride merch.

Folks may call that a boycott if they wish. I call it giving my money only to businesses who value me as a customer.

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Jef Poskanzerjef
2025-04-13

At today's Berkeley , via reddit:

a "Spirit Halloween" sign in front of the Tesla showroom
Puppy Cuirpupcuir
2025-04-12

After this week in the news, I'm trying to recenter and wrap my brain around the events, and try to make sense of it all.

I don't think it is possible, since none of it makes any sense.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽georgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-03-25

“I love poorly uneducated.” — Donald Trump

The image is a screenshot of a post on X by the account Robert Reich (@RBReich
). The post reads: "Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny."
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Steve Ragan (SteveD3) :verified:SteveD3@infosec.exchange
2025-03-25

When you get invited to the NatSec group chat....

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia:moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-03-25

found elsewhere

an orange tabby cat in camoflauge and a with a nametag reading "mittens" surrounded by army people, captioned "When you're invited to the war planning group chat by mistake, but you don't realise, so you act all serious like you belong there."
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Deborah Harmesdebdiscourse
2025-03-25

Group chat, eh?

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Frederic Jacobsfj
2025-03-25

When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...

The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.

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Mark Jardine :misc_mtb:mark@tapbots.social
2025-03-22
Elon’s dumb face wearing a dumb hat on the top photo and the scene from Severance with Helley R saying “God, you’re fucking weird.” on the bottom photo.
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Violet Bluevioletblue
2025-03-22

Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs.

Law enforcement requests for user data from Apple, Google, and Meta mean Big tech can decide whether US authorities have access to your personal info, like location data.

Meanwhile, Europeans are starting to see US data services as “no longer safe”

Here's a resource collection of non-US services, and more:

wired.com/story/trump-era-digi

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