Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

If someone's definition of ethics is "I should have full unequivocal access to all you create"
Then they will never, ever, respect boundaries or social contracts.

me irl

you can just walk out of facebook!
Rohingya genocide
Covid denial
Anti-vax
Chemtrails
White supremacy
Posting pictures of women for men to rate if your quick

If it sucks, hit da bricks

real winners quit facebook

Another take on AI that (at least for now) kinda nails it.

"The Mayor & City Council cutting $23 million from LA fire dept to give LAPD a $138 million raise is Class War!"

Graffiti in downtown Los Angeles

I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”

I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.

Hey remember how for years anyone interested in or working on decentralization was told "yeah but it's not moderatable, you need centralization for that"?

Isn't it funny how the two big centralized social media websites are now both "neo-nazis-are-cool-here" websites

Isn't it just a whole barrel of laughs

Imagine a world where those fighting for software and hardware freedoms aren't constantly bending the knee to corporations at the expense of public good.

Imagine a world where the fight for software and hardware freedoms, and the rights to online privacy and safety are not determined by what the EFF, FSF, GNU Project, and OSI find convenient.

Imagine a world where the labor of developers, the right to repair for end users, and the rights of privacy and safety for all, are held in higher regard than the "rights" of corporations.

Imagine a world where the gatekeepers of public discourse on these topics are cast out for betraying the spirit of the beliefs they claim to uphold, and for betraying the public trust in the name of upholding the letter of the law.

“Only old and vulnerable people have to worry about bird flu!”

“Hey didn’t you recently get sick from simply going to the beach a couple of weeks ago? And weren’t you sick with something else just before that? And you had whooping cough 6 months ago too! Wow, you get sick a lot. Anyway, what were you saying?”

Billboard in #InlandEmpire, #California.

#Snapdragon X: best in class battery life so you can lie in bed and do furry RP without that pesky cable in the way

Mexico lost over 55% of its territory to the US in the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, following the Mexican-American war, which the US incited to preserve slavery in Texas.

Agreed that Meta's changes are troubling and concerning. So I would strongly urge you and any instance admin exposing their users to the harassment there to reconsider their alignment with Threads and defederate now .

That's expecially for you and mastodon.social. Think about the message that you're sending: "Instead of proactively protecting people on this instance, we'll wait for you to be harassed and then take action on individual harassers. And, we'll make that the default for new Mastodon users!"

There's a huge opportunity for Mastodon here if you take a courageous position. So please do!

@Gargron

#NHS

Posted anonymously by an A&E doctor:

Im writing this because I’m angry. Actually more than that, I’m 🤬 livid.

I’m an A&E reg with 9+ years experience in A&E both here and overseas. This morning was the first time EVER that I cried 😢 in my car after a shift.

I was on nights over this New Years period, but New Year was not the issue, every shift is like this now. (1/11)

After close consideration we have come to the decision to block Threads.net instance wide on all related instances

(mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, pixey.org, gram.social)

The new Meta policy goes against much we stand for and we will not allow to let it spill over to the Fediverse

I just checked the numbers and it seems Threads is the biggest 'loser' here

On all instances combined we lose just under 100 followers spread across all instances

Threads will lose over 13K total