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Add Casual Geographic to this list for zefrank fans

Founder Jack Dorsey has abandoned Bluesky citing a lack of continued faith in the project and current CEO Jay Graber has primarily worked with cryptocurrency. My hopes are not high. Besides which, even if they do everything right and gain a huge following, Musk or Zuckerberg will just want to buy them out and our current government will allow them to do that.

Not being literal Nazis is definitely a mark in their favor, but the whole point of this argument in the first place is that free, open source, self hosted federated software is RIGHT HERE. We're on it RIGHT NOW. With everyone abandoning major platforms because they're full of Nazis, this is perhaps the single best opportunity we're ever going to have to retake the internet for ourselves en masse. Which everyone is totally ignoring in favor of hopping onto the next corponet.

I'm not excusing Musk for shit, and I'm not accusing Bluesky of being as bad or worse than Nazis. That's silly. I'd rather see users move to Bluesky than stay on X. But I'd much rather see them move to Mastodon. Corporations at large, especially social media corps have proven time and again that they can't be trusted, so... don't. Take back your own internet. The options are here already.

You are on the Fediverse, a community centered primarily around free, open source, federated software watching every normie on the internet abandon one corpo playpen for another corpo playpen. Of course we're upset about it.

I think Bluesky is currently better than twitter, I have absolutely no faith that it will remain that way.

Nah that's not true.

Except that voter sexism isn't what kept her out of the office. She won the popular vote by 3 million. That means people voted for her. The electoral college is at fault here.

I bought a 2 year old refurbished Z Fold 2 two years ago and it's still going strong. If you treat your device with respect you'll have no trouble.

Nice.

I came in here to post about having a copy of Titus Burkhardt's Alchemy tome and DKMU Assault On Reality but I think yours might take the cake instead, as well as possibly including both of those texts.

This also may explain why Nintendo can't implement competent networking features to save their lives.

Literally any other politician I could believe would be stupid enough to rile everyone up about tariffs but still be hesitant to pull the trigger on it out of fear of the economic repercussions.

Trump straight up doesn't understand the repercussions, will fire anyone who tries to explain them to him, and has no reservations whatsoever about pulling any triggers that he can get his lil fingies around.

You mean the free trade agreement that Trump is currently trying to tear down?

Hell, he'll probably ask y'all to pay taxes on transport, even for things you aren't selling here.

You forgot the most important step: lie your ass off constantly faster than the truth can catch up to you

The "mandate", for instance, is horseshit. There is no mandate. Trump won by one of the smallest margins in American history and immediate turned around to cry, "The people love me! They voted for me overwhelmingly! Best most fairest election of all time!"

This is true. However, some context:

• When Dubya opened Gitmo, it contained around 800 prisoners.

• When Obama left office, that number was down to 40.

• Trump deleted the government office that works to release Gitmo prisoners and ignored it for his entire first term.

• On Biden's entry, he re-opened that office and by the end of his term, the total number of Gitmo prisoners has been reduced down to 15.

• Trump has now ordered Gitmo to reopen for an additional 30,000 prisoners and will likely again kill the organization responsible for appropriately dealing with those prisoners.

I agree with you that this place should never have existed. I agree that we should destroy it. I only ask,as with most things today, that people pay attention to who has been trying to destroy it and who has been celebrating it.