I know it's a bit obnoxious to post about other apps, but Threads is strugglin'. It's exhausting trying to build a community online only to have cluessless tech bros break it with shitty features and/or outright political bias. We need to build a social media commune with co-op ownership.
We had a good ten years where a bunch of nobodies like us could report on power centers and structural inequality and abuses of power and citizens from government, employers and their surrogates. The end of Twitter as that vehicle really was the end of that, which was obviously the point.
You may have seen a viral internet thing saying that ship’s cats used to have passports. I’m sorry to say that the passport thing is a myth, but many of them DID have tiny hammocks! 1956. 🧵 https://www.facebook.com/iwm.north/photos/a.10151016188983948/10151016193728948/?type=3
I know we are all so very tired, but: read the indictment. get pissed off all over again. don't make that gen-x cool detached apathy mistake again. this shit is as serious as cancer.
The indictment makes clear that Donald Trump and his accomplices planned to seize power by force and then maintain that power through the mass murder of American citizens by their own military
if a vampire's fangs are their reproductive organs (they are) are these vampire contraceptives (they are)
A lot of people have been like "Haha, he's such a goofy billionaire that makes bad decisions" and "He doesn't know what he's doing" but I can't help but feel like limiting our access to one of the most important communication tools on the planet as fascism rises- is intentional. It has to be.