Bluesky isn’t federated (another privately owned monolith that’s promised it’s coming Soon™) and recently got funding from a company with “blockchain” in its name (and there’s already rumors that despite claims otherwise, ads will be showing up in the next year or so)

that being said, Bluesky does offer much better blocking, muting, and moderation options than Mastodon (Mastodon devs have been digging in their heels) as well as better on-boarding and curated follow lists

• Bluesky and Enshittification
• It’s Bluesky. The Nazi Bar is Bluesky.

• “This one doesn’t even have a Xitter account.”
• “That one gets the first dose!”

I’m not placing trust in anyone who sold us out to corporations and fascists a second time

(forgot to mention how many of them were willing to sell us out to corporations)

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States (1980, 2009)

they just need a cough drop

Starcraft: Ghost

and converting them to modern languages: Basic Computer Games

Vegans in the US just have to worry about E.coli contamination

the guy responsible for the death of 83 Samoans has more health advice …

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

“trust thermocline”

(from a recent discussion on Mastodon – absolutely DO NOT touch anything that isn’t local storage only)

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

from Mastodon:

The EU president isn’t attending.
The US president isn’t.
China’s president isn’t.
India’s president isn’t.
France’s president isn’t.
Germany’s chancellor isn’t.
Brazil’s president isn’t.
Russia’s president isn’t.
South Africa’s president isn’t.
Canada’s PM isn’t.
Japan’s PM isn’t.
Australia’s PM isn’t.
The Netherlands PM isn’t.
But hundreds of oil company lobbyists are attending
and plenty of representatives from fossil fuel investment firms.

’cept Elon would cheap out any chance he could – his recent tech show proved he couldn’t handle anything more complex than animatronics puppeted by underpaid interns

nothing says safety like a Sony rootkit

I’m sure he has lots more candy in the back of his van

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.”

—Buenaventura Durruti, Van Paassen interview (1936)

Utilities Have Been Lying to Us About Gas Stoves Since the 1970s

aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”