Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

i realize that online communities operate in dog years but also seeing 2008 referred to as ancient history is making me feel ready to dissolve into dust

yay my doggo is feeling much better

favoring one of her back legs just a little still, but not putting no weight on it/etc., and very happily bouncing around

i guess my anxious little dog had to come get my spoonie issues too huh lmfao

listen i don't agree with cringe culture as a concept, but also - why is everyone for 'finding cringe' focusing on teenage girls n shit

i mean have you ever seen the profile of your typical social media anime-girl-avatar bigot

if you converted the cringe into power you'd solve the energy crisis then and there!!!

ah fuck that was a definite MOMENT of my soul being yote slightly out of my body by the muscle relaxer

ahha aa i'm goin to mars for as ec yall want anything

...yeah that's pretty accurate

i did scroll back a bit so it wasn't just oxbox however

what can i say, im eating dinner,

well, if you're wondering how i'm doing today:

i just realized that today is tuesday and not wednesday and am elated

of course i'm sure that in two months everyone will have changed their avatars and usernames and i'll be Completely Lost again but *until then*

kind of like, y'know, jogging. i have no interest in jogging and so on but it's always lovely to see a neighbor out and about doing his regular jog.

community! or... something!

the fedi timeline is feeling less like a bunch of strangers and more like people i've seen around. just kinda how you're like "oh yeah, there's somebody who goes to walk his yorkie in the afternoons, i know him."

things like... oh hey, there's the solarpunk person whose pronouns idk yet with truly magnificent hair. oh hey, there's the fella with the clown fighting game. do i like clown fighting games? well no, but i support his follow-through of artistic vision dangit! and it's good to see.

anyway it's taken months but i do feel like i'm settling into mastodon a bit.

i definitely miss my community friend-group on tumblr, a lot. i might pop my head in and see if there are any discords to scoop me up in. it's natural; most of those people i've known for... jesus, 8 years at least, maybe 10. we all landed on tumblr after being ousted from fucking foopets lmfao.

but it's nice to like... know the neighborhood a little more, and feel comfortable in it.

this is it, this is my telltale heart, it's just me howling as i roll around in anguish about how purism is not only shit at being ethical, but shit at doing a software, and also really shit at doing a capitalism

THESE PEOPLE CAN'T EVEN BE MONEY-GRUBBING EVIL RIGHT

i mean like. come the fuck on. if you're abandoning morality for money, at least actually do it in the way that gets you money, not the ways that are just going to be doomed i mean jfc it's so stupid my head hurts

(i mean, idk if their encryption works like that. i'm a bio/english major ok? i took one semester of java for non cs majors for my math requirement. but i'm just sayin', if a company like purism sells stuff with "you're safe with us, pinky promise we swear!" and then pulls these boneheaded stunts that show their definition of "ethics" is bass-ackwards, i would not trust that pinky promise very much.)

honestly reading the ad copy, it feels like the market for these services are "people who know just enough that privacy is good, but not more." they're aiming to be the America Online of internet privacy, all made easy.

...but declaring you're letting bigotry happen because you get money for it is not good ethics.

with that obvious, i don't think any of their other claims - not accessing data, etc. - can really be trusted.

so - it's a dangerous product, and warnings should go out accordingly.

honestly, with @brainblasted talking to the admins and the admins making it clear their stance is pro-bigotry in the "well mneh mneh we just luv freeze peach too much so we can't do anything to stooop that" way, i'd urge everyone to be really vocal that #purism / #libremone are now selling dangerous products

the some products might even be good! but paying for the security of a gated community means nothing when the guard knows your roommate's a serial killer, and does nothing about it.