one of the biggest problems in getting anyone to understand anything technical is the fact that jargon *compounds* - individual New Words are fine, but enough New Words in a row, in the same sentence, in the same paragraph, and you're shaving off potential understanding. analogy and imagery help.

i regret falling off on blogging every day on my website. im gonna try blogging there more nickyflowers.com

bros made a moderation system that fails if someone blocks the moderation account and are talking about blocking that account as users "entrapping themselves" - all the while all of their docs talk about the Power of Decentralized-Composable Moderation

the most accurate part of Death Stranding is having people cry every time they Log On

linux heads were always right. time to sit my dumbass down and learn

[linux voice] do you guys like free stuff?

revealing thing about all the people who are now "very sorry" that they didn't realize this was fascism beforehand is that they never go "and because of these missteps i'm going to take a back seat for a while and try to let those who better understood what was happening take the stage"

its always "you leave no room for debate" said by people who are just as steadfast and stubborn about their beliefs as the people they are disagreeing with and yet their own stubbornness is never a sign that *they* are the ones leaving no room for debate

yesterday I bought a carrot so large the cashier asked what vegetable it was

"He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" and I said, "zines." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and gave me the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, 'til I said, "And creating a nuisance," and they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench

If all the leftists voting third party is seriously enough to get the Republicans elected then it's also a serious reason for the Dems to actually appeal to that cohort of voters. Either the left matters or it doesn't – you can't have it both ways.

I can only hope every university that embraces this software is saddled with years of fixing the failures this will bring

genuinely, you have to stop relying on corporations to build and maintain your connections to others. if you want it to last, you're going to have to build it yourself, with others.

I self-host a matrix server for my friends and you can too. if you have no technical experience and don't want to deal with self hosting, you can make an account with matrix.org via their client, Element. but there are other great clients like FluffyChat if you want help self-hosting, message me~

"A bizarre remark by Virilio puts us on the trail: in fascism, the State is far less totalitarian than it is suicidal. [...] Suicide is presented not as a punishment but as the crowning glory of the death of others."

"cops need more training" implies that things are Not Going According To Plan, its an attempt to capture dissent by categorizing The Horrors as aberrations. cops dont need training, communities need more training to protect themselves, notably from cops.

I'm getting flashbacks

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime. With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone. www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

keep it silly, folks

unshot bullets as evidence is really funny

it starts getting easier to believe the people like ezra klein say this shit when you stop believing that democrats, as a party, are interested in protecting your rights. YOU have to force them to protect your rights, YOU have to make them believe there is no other path to power.

they want to turn the internet into a playground for LLMs and advertisers to profit off of their constant surveillance of you. it doesn't have to be this way. we can build something better.

hearing the complaint that leftists "choose doomed causes" really sabotages my empathy for those who disagree with me on those 'doomed causes'. it makes me believe that they choose their political beliefs based on a desire for power more than a desire to do the right thing. i hate believing that.

crazy that this supposed "decentralized" service can roll out targeted,ncentralized changes like this. i wonder what thats about 🤔🤔🤔

just watched southland tales and it's astonishing how much it predicted

Something the Skrmetti decision drives home: "Puberty blockers" should be abandoned as a goal; the goal should be HRT for any minor that wants it; puberty blockers should be a tool for minors who choose themselves they need more time to decide and *nothing else*. Compromising achieved nothing, here

this book simultaneously felt like putting into words thoughts i could never express and also opened up entirely new modes of thinking for me. i will forever be indebted to it.

“...much more than by its army, its administration, its institutions, and its police, society is held together with spells.” ―Antonin Artaud

ground news be like "arent you tired of all media being biased? arent you tired of a few profit-focused entities determining what you should believe about the world? with our revolutionary product now you can pay us to determine what you should believe!"

i had an eye exam today and the doctor was looking at the blood vessels from the high-res image they took of each of my eyes and was like "hey do you have anxiety? yeah i thought so, that's what these blood vessels say"

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. Learn more: boltsmag.org/how-vol...

"We are statistically or molarly heterosexual, but personally homosexual, without knowing it or being fully aware of it, and finally we are transsexual in an elemental, molecular sense..." -Deleuze and Guattari

guy rode by on his motorcycle standing while standing up on his seat and the weed shop security guard asked me when i was gonna do that

i post criticism of bsky and then bsky becomes completely unusable for an hour? coincidence?? i think not!!!

so long as bsky controls who the centralized relay (firesky.tv) talks to, the third party apps won't be able to circumvent this kind of government censorship

this is what slave labor camps look like

this is a pro-loitering account

sooooo who's the dyke and who's the sunflower in your relationship

van hollen immediately elevated himself to Presidential contender and all it took was being willing to fly to El Salvador, elected Democrats be advised if one of you works up the guts to throw a punch who knows where you'll go

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bsky advocated itself as a federated platform while maximizing its own centralized control over the network itself. months ago i tried to warn about what that would mean for people who thought this place was on its way towards being 'decentralized.' now bsky marches in lockstep with right wing govs

me, anytime anyone is talking to me about anything ever: "this is just like that one thing deleuze said where..."

if you are a trans person it is vitally important that you stop letting news stories and internet discourses dictate how you think the people around you think about you. there are methods of self-preservation and self-defense. this is not one of them. it will only make you suffer.

Basically it's become very clear what a lot of leftists were trying to tell people for a long time - legal institutions, police, law enforcement, intelligence and security are weaponized to protect the interests of fascism and capital. They will be used to settle personal grudges.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

the ADL thinks cops should be allowed to beat you if you wear a surgical mask