time to learn to do things in your day without your phone, folks

this while thread, but this part in particular

imagine not deriving a sense of joy and creative thrill from collaborating with someone on something. imagine wanting to replace that human connection with an ai.

This is the energy we need from everyone

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This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Google’s latest update has led to blocking Palestinian phone numbers, especially those from Gaza. This is serious because it means: No ability to create new Gmail accounts. Difficulty recovering old accounts. Losing access to essential services linked to Gmail.

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

It's called lichen because when there's rain it sucks in all the water and says "I'm lichen than rain yum yum!"

The disappearance of Third Spaces that aren't hyperextractive is not an accident.

The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years

Mohammad is an amazing farmer, able to grow crops like magic in the midst of tents and rubble, and his story is devastating. Please read his words about the importance of the land and donate to him. He supports 13 people on donations alone.

We’ve been screaming from the rooftops about the threat of this tech and how it would be used to control & oppress us. But it’s not too late to fight back! At least 23 states have now passed/expanded laws to restrict biometric scanning. www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

and so many examples of authoritarian violence before this! Over and over.

Add consumer AR glasses (Meta, Snap) and security cameras like Ring etc which will for sure share their video data streams - and you have a recipe for a modern dystopian surveillance capitalist state.

Hey y'all, this interview is a really important look at what trans protesters are facing, especially when the cops haul them off to jail on allegations like...writing "trans rights are human rights" in chalk.

"[T]he Army Reserves quietly swore in top officials from Meta, Palantir, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines Lab as lieutenant colonels ... It signals a dangerous step towards the institutional embrace of private surveillance tech giants whose products have facilitated repression and genocide."

The article talks about opening up central California to oil and gas development.. Looking at Bureau of Ocean Energy Management maps, this could include a large swath of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including the Bodega and Año Nuevo basins, and Partington basin off Big Sur.

this is really really bad!!

the reason trans ppl will beat the evangelical right coming for them is because gay shit is more powerful than god

I am here for the new Arts and Crafts

hexbear.net is a leftist platform and reddit-like that is run almost entirely by trans people. it also has a distributed architecture & org structure that is outside of the US. :)

what were you doing in 2005? Compared to then, there are almost 75% fewer insects in this remote Colorado study site today. Imagine how much worse this loss is in places with pesticides!

Our favorite farmer has a personal account again ✌️🙂 ✍️: Good morning / How are you I have returned after the ban / almost the twentieth time / Please my brothers helped to spread the account and donate if you can / young pumpkins appear again chuffed.org/project/help...

evade that fare, steal company time, share your hormones, scam the government, do fraud, be a fag, have fun

'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!' You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:

I honestly think the majority of cis people are upset by trans existence, especially nonbinary existence, because as children we were all told there were things we weren't allowed to do or be or feel or say because we were a girl, or because we were a boy. I honestly think that's unhealed trauma. 🧵

"chat control" could come into effect as early as October cointelegraph.com/news/eu-chat...

I just can't get over this guy farming in almost pure sand. Really it's nothing short of amazing. I've been farming for closing in on 20 years now and this is near wizardry

I also wish ill on J. K. Rowling

The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.

attacking heterosexualism as the institution to constrain sexuality that requires the commodification of woman (labour-utility as social-reproductive worker and sex object to the family and the state) and thus treats queer sexuality as deviant fixes this impasse believe it or not

Hard to say whether a card or a payment processor pulled the trigger on Steam. I rec pressuring PayPal, MasterCard, Vice, AND Stripe regardless Payment processors like PayPal and Stripe have a long history of censorious behavior — and we know MasterCard and Visa do too www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-r...

making me get somewhere on time is a hate crime

aaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

*natasha leone voice* “I’m a transsexual!”

Also, follow NE Ohio Regional Sewer District for gems like this!

“While the work of fucking, birthing, and caring are not counted in the production of GDP, value can only be produced when people fuck, birth, and care. Sex always produces value in some way or another.” Post Colonial Astrology Alice Sparkly Cat

Ok so sex worker activists are often forced to explain exactly what is and isn’t human trafficking, and how laws about sex work and,gasp, borders, don’t help. ICE is actually a human trafficking organization, and it is used as a threat by others to force labor. Forced labor is human trafficking.

The rate at which so many US liberals unquestioningly adopted Ring and other surveillance tech always confounded me. Why would you *pay Big Brother* to be in your home? If you own Ring devices, throw them away and try to delete any data/accounts online.

there are parts of you that they will always be able to kill you have the option of growing parts that they can't I don't know why you would pass that up

I know there is some anxiety around how to protect yourself in light of Muskrat and his herd of shitler youth getting their hands on all our personal information so here are the steps you can take to protect yourself. I’ve seen these in various threads but thought it worth putting them together🧵 1/?

It occurs to me a bunch of people are about to be new to poverty. I have some advice, if you want it. 1. This will be counterintuitive: Spend it while you've got it. Some money comes in, one way or another? Buy food. Buy tp, soap, shampoo, toothpaste. Socks, underwear. You'll thank yourself.

Just going to drop this here. deflock.me