Acid Burn @Acid_Burn@octodon.social

Now you can use Q-tips to:

- attach eyebrow
- do computer code
- chasten baby
- locate bathtubs

https://anticapitalist.party/media/c6o6ncWH8Pe32YHRTXs

Given what just happened in France--all of it--I'm thinking it wsn't so much that "America had a grassroots revolution" last November as it was "America's entire election/political system got pwned."

Benny wishes you a good night from the mayor's couch. https://kitty.town/media/aHvPQ6krvh0IDe1Vc4Q

takeaways on how to defeat fascist populist movements from macron's election win:
* galvanize grassroots support
* if a member of the political establishment, reinvent yourself to be an outsider
* de-emphasise partisan politics & emphasise unity in the hopes of winning people from across the political spectrum

But again... I love that with Linuxes you can debug most of the things—even a slow booting process. ❤

After the DNC and Macron hacks, people seem surprised that the level of security in the political technology world is so low.

As someone who works in poli-tech, I will just say that I am not surprised. AT ALL.

My (US) congressman says and does unnecessarily hard-right things, agreeing with Trump almost desperately, sometimes almost saying the dog-whistle GOP positions out loud. He is also low on the GOP totem pole.

Naturally.

Low-status members of social groups infer unwritten group norms, then bang their drum longer, harder, and faster than anyone else. They one-up each other in hyper-conformity. High-status members don't need to do this.

He looks like an ideologue but he's really just a climber.

Google is listening to me at all times. just this morning I was talking about how the new guardians movie is out and all of a sudden my phone is telling me when the next showing are at the theater! I really stuck it to google by going to see the furious movie instead...

Ｇｏｏｄｄｏｇｇｏ making frens with Ｓｑｕａｒｅｄｏｇｇｏ(who is also vv good)
https://witches.town/media/97QDn71JQElMXeGG1D4

The new meme is being nice to random people on the timeline spread the word

please use your OS's package manager to install our language's package manager to install our package manager

I just read that "rape as preexisting condition" means that you will not only not get treated for any injuries caused by it - which is horrible by itself - but might also lose your insurence completely (or have to pay more) because of that "preexisting condition".
Americans, please tell me that is NOT true. Please. Really. Please.

I see a lot of French on the local timeline, no idea if that's France or Québec or elsewhere, but if you can vote in France... for the love of everything good, vote for Macron. Don't make our mistake, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the acceptable, don't let Le Pen win. Trump and his fascists are fucking us over. Don't let them do the same to you.

Merci.

The "power light" used to be such a useful and consistent user experience pattern. Light on => oh it's on.

Now the light is on when a device is off, or it might blink when turning on (or off), sometimes it changes colors from orange to white, who even knows anymore.

the US House of Representatives are fuckers but the bill still needs to pass the Senate. Call the senators

Windows 10 S will only allow you to run apps from the Microsoft Store, which means you can't run iTunes or Chrome, unless you pay US$49 to upgrade it into an actual Windows.

I'm fairly sure RMS warned us around 20 years ago that this kind of stuff was coming, and people laughed and said 'that's paranoia, they'll never lock the desktop down that far'.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-10-s-microsoft-faster-pc-comparison