Egg :fediverso:

Pragmatically optimistic. Strong believer in human equity. Care for people above wealth, land, business, and government.

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2024-10-02 21:28:11 UTC

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feels like Netanyahu himself is going to kick off a century's worth of antisemitic conspiracies and dogwhistles based on his damn policies alone. And I'm pretty sure he knows so, too. But he can; like plenty of other people who have accrued enough power, they can kick aside anybody else in any minority, including their own..

2024-09-29 22:13:10 UTC

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does this mean that for any protest that occurs in Los Angeles, the group with the most outside agitators will most likely be the police?

2024-09-24 22:30:07 UTC

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Sun Microsystems turned into Oracle, an absolute monster of a company in more ways than one... It would be nice if, for a change, history textbooks would make the past look worse

2024-09-24 21:59:19 UTC

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Wikipedia tells me
> [Jack] was Chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE) between 1981 and 2001.
I found out about Jack from Ed Zitron, who himself referenced Behind the Bastards... I don't think there could be a capitalist more evil than him in the modern era, based on it.
(At least, if it's true that up through the 1970s the economy was actually capable of growing, and then around the 1980s things stagnated while CEOs refused to accept reality... I'm trying to figure out what degrowth is right now)

2024-09-24 17:27:17 UTC

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does this book get up to Jack Welch or is this earlier than that?

2024-09-23 16:16:36 UTC

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Republicans are turning the dial that says "Nazism" and looking back to gauge the audience reaction

2024-09-14 19:57:57 UTC

The amount of #hatespeech being pushed against the #Republican party by #Haitians is barbaric. JD Vance is harkening back to centuries-old tropes about voodoo and other bullshit.
Posting pictures of chickens on a grill and pretending they're cats. Disgusting.
#bigotry #Haiti #JDVance
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2024-09-11 21:57:34 UTC

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The best way to understand Republicans is that:
They hate you,
They want you dead,
They have nothing but contempt for you,
And they hate you

2024-09-11 13:32:00 UTC

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lest we forget...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/20/tech/elon-musk-sexual-harassment-denies-allegations/index.html

2024-09-10 22:30:43 UTC

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I'd only be upset if it don't live up to my expectations for what I wanted from a console. Besides the keyboard, I also crave games that run on Windows, not on the PlayStation. Small games, indie games. GZDoom games...
But I hear that there's plenty of really good games for the PlayStation now, including one that dropped around the same time as Concord.

2024-09-10 22:16:49 UTC

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is this some kind of gaming system? I can only be excited by computers, personally, because I prefer the digital control of the keyboard over the analog of the joystick, but that's just me
Now if you have a $700 4K gaming PC, I would be racing to get there... I mean, my computer is fine, but it would be impossible to pass up that kind of an upgrade.

2024-09-09 00:00:49 UTC

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You might be talking about two different things: Mastodon the Platform vs Mastodon the Company and Website
The problem is the latter two mostly dictate the shape of the former one: If Eugen the Benevolent Dictator wills something on the Mastodon platform, he can mostly get his way.
He's not as bad as other corporations (or other German dictators), but let not the relative non-badness fool you

2024-09-08 23:55:46 UTC

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Depends if they support Ukraine because of "Rah rah America" or "bombing civilians is bad"
If they say #2 but believe #1, frustration will be infinite

2024-09-08 23:41:38 UTC

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It would already be ridiculous to treat "both sides" of a genocide as equivalent, but to side with the genociders is the kind of trash that history will not look kindly upon.

2024-09-08 23:22:53 UTC

All this talk about #antisemitism but strangely much, much less about #Islamophobia.
Major instances, like mastodon.social and newsie.social, are safe havens for #Islamophobes who advocate for the total destruction of Gaza and no sympathy for the victims.
The fact that #Mastodon is supposed to be progressive, but harbors the rot of bigotry unchecked, is gross.
Normalize calling out hate speech again.

2024-09-08 23:22:36 UTC

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unfortunately, prosecutors can't choose the people they prosecute, especially when they are no longer prosecutors

2024-09-08 23:15:24 UTC

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never mind putting him on the ballot, it's going to be a nail biter of an election between him and somebody with a history of putting people like him and his pedophile friends behind bars.

2024-09-06 20:16:58 UTC

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yeah, I think the bigger the instance is, the more significant the reason needs to be for blocking somebody. Especially because at that point, the administrator can decide for hundreds if not thousands of people whether or not they see content that might be unobjectionable.

2024-09-06 20:01:01 UTC

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this is just the way of people in general. Heck knows I'm often guilty of it

2024-09-06 19:02:53 UTC

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If somebody doesn't like you, the easiest way to validate that is by making up a story about how you are immoral in some way, true or not.
That way, interacting with you is inherently dangerous, so blocking you is only reasonable

2024-09-05 18:46:11 UTC

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I, for one, fully endorse the idea of falling behind a German man that has already been described as a benevolent dictator. Nothing bad ever happens when you do that.

2024-09-05 18:31:55 UTC

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can vouch for number one but support number three coming back into Vogue

2024-09-04 22:04:34 UTC

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is the leftmost portal supposed to be like that? It looks like they made it right next to the cube on purpose, because it's also huge...

2024-09-04 17:21:58 UTC

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are these the same Russian spies that are sinking the boats of patriotic American capitalists 🙄

2024-09-04 14:02:32 UTC

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Nice to see Greta Thunberg being based, at least. And that God has finally taken the correct position on Italy.

2024-09-03 13:26:44 UTC

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it was going to happen no matter what.

2024-09-03 05:00:12 UTC

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I'm on a safe server now... but only after my account got suspended on a different one. I've done my damnedest to reach out to the mods on mstdn.social.... for naught.
Now all I can do is warn people :/

2024-09-03 04:54:32 UTC

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If we could crowdrund buying all these clowns at $5k a pop and put them in a small room, that'd be money well spent

2024-09-03 04:49:45 UTC

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All so AI can drink water and blast carbon to make a few pennies*
*making pennies not guaranteed

2024-09-03 04:03:22 UTC

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For the record, Louis the abuser is lying about the "collective responsibility" thing and INVERTING it: Jeremy believes Jews should NOT be held to responsibility for the war crimes of Israel.
If Louis succeeds at his harassment and manages to get the content removed, here is a record:
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/071/631/752/163/040/original/0fc81446c2bc3dce.png

2024-09-03 03:53:33 UTC

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It is also clear that "JustCare" -- Louis@IndieWeb.social -- is getting arguments with people and then abusing the "#FediAntisemitism" tag to try to get people banned.
For example, [@jeremy_pm](https://mastodon.nz/@jeremy_pm ) you are being targeted right here:
https://indieweb.social/@louis/113056901286922276
#FreePalestine #8124 #LouisIndieWeb
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2024-09-03 03:50:42 UTC

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Beware, 8124@mastodon.social also uses a careful, abusive tactic to erase context from posts:
Instead of archiving a full post along with its context, they ONLY archive a link where they manually add "/embed", which strips all context and all replies. The abusers are trying to isolate context and support, to get their victims alone.
https://mastodon.social/@8124/113070856927184916
@npub1z40…s3fq I hope you are aware you are being targeted for mass reporting and harassment by these abusers.

2024-09-02 23:59:55 UTC

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What does Louis@IndieWeb.social believe is valid criticism of #Israel without reaching into #FediAntisemitism territory? SILENCE.
To Louis, you cannot say Israel has done ANYTHING bad. You may weep about vague badness, and act confused, but you MUST NOT criticize Israel... or you will be put in his crosshairs and called an #antisemite.
#antisemitism #FreePalestine
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2024-09-02 23:55:39 UTC

A handful of accounts are misrepresenting criticism of #Israel with #antisemitism. The "#FediAntisemitism" is being abused, full stop.
For example, if you correctly call the #genocide in #Gaza a genocide, they will accuse you of being an antisemite.
Example 1: Louis@IndieWeb.social attacks a POC who rightly the Gaza genocide as a genocide, months before the United Nations concurs and declares #Israel guilty of extermination.
Apparently criticizing Israel at all is a crime to Louis.
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2024-09-02 20:15:59 UTC

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OneDrive is "One" of the first things I turn off when I install windows

2024-09-01 03:04:01 UTC

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how about some Minecraft managed democracy?

2024-08-31 23:35:19 UTC

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transmeds need to be called out. They are ceding ground to the Right of they aren't on it already. They are regressives to a person.
Transgender issues have succeeded in the public eye. There is no reason to cede ground on them. And, thanks to the Biden administration ceding ground on immigration issues, we can see that doing this only makes the situation worse.

2024-08-30 20:53:14 UTC

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at least on Mastodon, there are a whole lot more people who fight for the users!
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/052/953/472/950/915/original/67ba2c7b46d7bb48.mp4

2024-08-30 18:58:47 UTC

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Will you take my two cents to give your two cents?

2024-08-29 20:12:26 UTC

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Darn, I understand the frustration... And you're using one of the most central instances, which supports full text search, so I'd figure you would be in the position to get the best algorithmic results, outside of going directly to Mastodon.social 😢

2024-08-29 19:47:55 UTC

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hashtags are such a lifesaver. You can follow a hashtag like an individual, just by searching for (or clicking on) it, getting those posts in your home feed even from people you don't follow.
And using the hashtags is really beneficial too, as long as you have the post set to global, anyway