Geoff Gimse
@geoff.textandhubris.com
Former academic, now in the professional space.
My interests focus on tech, digital culture and its publics, and online speech with random bursts of TTRPG and art content.
Posts are my own and represent no one else.
More at: www.textandhubris.com
My interests focus on tech, digital culture and its publics, and online speech with random bursts of TTRPG and art content.
Posts are my own and represent no one else.
More at: www.textandhubris.com
Reposted by Geoff Gimse
Remember: Everything they are doing to sex workers and queers— the special designations, the censorship, the taxes, the attacks, the restrictions, the surveillance — they can and will do to you.
"Protect the children" gives broad cover for crackdowns on political dissent.
"Protect the children" gives broad cover for crackdowns on political dissent.
Russia outlaws ‘international LGBT public movement’ as extremist
Human rights activists say supreme court’s vague wording provides wide scope for persecution
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Remember: Everything they are doing to sex workers and queers— the special designations, the censorship, the taxes, the attacks, the restrictions, the surveillance — they can and will do to you.
"Protect the children" gives broad cover for crackdowns on political dissent.
"Protect the children" gives broad cover for crackdowns on political dissent.
Reposted by Geoff Gimse
I’m also convinced that anybody who says this is “just like the dot com bubble” has not actually read about the dot com bubble. Fiber optic companies weren’t holding up the stock market! Corning and JDS Uniphase were about .7% of the S&P500 at their height and had much smaller revenues than NVIDIA.
January 14, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I’m also convinced that anybody who says this is “just like the dot com bubble” has not actually read about the dot com bubble. Fiber optic companies weren’t holding up the stock market! Corning and JDS Uniphase were about .7% of the S&P500 at their height and had much smaller revenues than NVIDIA.