𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

Over 90% of people detained by ICE are being held in private prisons.

No one should be lining their pockets off of people's detainment.

all you people who told us to calm down can go fuck yourselves

I understand that ChatGPT is down and fortunately this is not a problem for me as I have spent considerable time developing a local language model that I am able to run autonomously, fueled by Coke Zero and snacks

They win when you:

- lose hope
- give up
- become cynical and withdraw
- keep silent to stay off their radar

Don't let them win.

Between Xiaohongshu, Pixelfed and Bluesky, I am finally free of meta and muskrat

I might keep instagram to troll meta

Yeah, it's depressing to hear stories about looters, arsonists, and those politicizing the fires.

There are also stories about people donating to recovery efforts, opening their homes to strangers, businesses & communities banding together.

Don't let the evildoers dampen your faith in humanity.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us"

- J.R.R Tolkien

Sistine Chatpel

Remember that libraries are proof that not every goddamned thing needs to be “for profit.”

I finished The Memory Police by Yōko Ogowa last night.

If you would like to fan the flames of your dystopian existential crisis, look no further

5 stars

Has a decision been reached about the #bluesky noun/verb to describe posting?

Twitter had "tweet" & "tweeted"
X had "xhit" & "xhitted"

"Skied?" "Blued?" "I saw a smoke signal on bluesky the other day?" What are we saying

Watching cabinet appointments getting announced like…

Watching Steins;Gate has sent me down yet another determinism rabbithole which was, of course, preordained.

Everyone on this site has a library card

I'll probably only post when I'm really upset about something outside of my control and will regret it later

Looking forward to it

There's a reason democracies don't let people who tried coups back into power.