Side note: Bluesky's character limit is hostile to autists.

No, Boomer, we were GIVEN no direction, our ambition isn't money, and the skills we have are SURVIVAL skills. Sorry if that's not earning enough to pay your SSI, Mildred.

Faith in nothing and no 1 because nothing and no 1 ever believed in us. Nihilism? Fact-based reasoning and resilience.

GenX got the same treatment. I don't know how many times I heard "Generation X will be the first generation in American history to be less successful than their parents" and "Generation X is, by and large, a group of nihilistic slackers with no ambition, no direction, and no skills".

Morgue is fun on YouTube. Some of his theories are out there and an obvious side effect of his Xtian upbringing and his unresolved anger about it, but he's got some interesting takes.

bsky.app/profile/arok...

If you follow me on BlueSky, follow me on my #WAFRN account (also...WAFRN is a FANTASTIC alternative to Tumblr without the Mattitude--federates with Mastodon AND BlueSky).

Today's a good day to donate to Signal: signal.org/donate/

Elon would *hate* it if you do

The Morrigan Calls (a poem) Arise! Arise! Arise! She is calling On ravens wing In flooding streams In earth and stone Arise! Arise! Arise! She is calling In blade's sting In furious screams In blood and bone Arise! Arise! Arise! She is calling Chanting, singing Weaving dreams Strange yet known Arise, She is calling - Morgan Daimler 2015

Mark Rosewater speaking up today. What a respectful king!

#mtg #commander

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#Bookwyrm is a federated, open source answer to GoodReads and Story graph, and it integrates beautifully with Mastodon, PixelFed, and Loops.

some america first beers spotted in denmark:

Whelp, it looks like I'll be moving my blog to Drupal. Fuck.

Why have all the tech bros turned to blatant fascism?

Just...fucking stop.

#fediverse #decentralizetheweb

WordPress tweet: “We stand ready to serve.” quoting Matt Mullenweg: “The new WhiteHouse.gov looks to be powered by WordPress, and is very trim and fast. They're using it to blog/publish all of the actions today. I believe hosted by FedRAMP-certified @WordPressVIP, with perfect uptime and security. Website transitions used to take months.”

Only just became aware of this, should've predicted it really

Well, That Didn't Go As Planned: Social Media Fallout, Part I - Arokk.NET As I wrote, it became abundantly clear that the subject was too lengthy and complicated to be contained in one posting, so I made the decision to separate it up into a series of several posts.

arokk.net/2025/01/26/w...

Pixelfed & Loops: Authentic Sharing, Reimagined Beautiful sharing platforms that puts you first. No ads, no algorithms, no tracking – just pure photography and authentic connections.

The Pixelfed + Loops Kickstarter is live!

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A person's gender is not ammunition for berating them. Notice: that doesn't include an "unless". There's no "unless they are conservative", no "unless they disagree with me". A person's gender is their gender, and the rest of us don't get to comment on it. Do better. Roast them for other shit.

I wish I couldn't say I saw this coming, but...I saw this coming. I think I even told you that this kind of thing would happen if Trump "saved" TikTok.

Timeliness is next to Godliness, or whatever the bible thumpers say.

This Photo-Sharing App Feels Like a Return to Instagram’s Glory Days If you're searching for an alternative to Instagram, Pixelfed is a decentralized, ad-free alternative for iOS and Android that does what Insta used to do best: Allow you to share photos without all th...

Remember when Instagram was actually an app for sharing photos? lifehacker.com/tech/pixelfe...

Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure Decentralized social network organization Mastodon said Monday that it is planning to create a new non-profit organization in Europe and hand over ownership of entities responsible for key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components. This means one person…

Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure

The character limit has to go. It's ridiculous.

Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem A cadre of celebrities and former Twitter users are trying to create a vast social network that is freed from profit motive. This would take the form of various apps on top of Bluesky’s pre-existing p...

Uh...guys...that already exists. It's called the Fediverse, and it includes Mastodon, PixelFed, Loops, etc. Everything that the current "leading sites" (including BlueSky) can do, the Fediverse can do, and in most cases...do it better, and in a more integrated, less divisive/abusive/manipulative way

Oh, and Mastodon and other ActivityPub site have and will have ZERO ads while the for-profit Bluesky is looking for ways to bring ads into the mix here. Ain't capitalism grand? 4/4

Bluesky can and likely will go the way of Twitter as soon as some ego-maniacal jackass with more money than brains offers to write a big enough check to the current owners...maybe ol' Zuck himself. 3/

Mastodon and other ActivityPub apps are FULLY decentralized, FULLY developed (there are alternatives to Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and you can even use your WordPress blog as a personal instance without even having a Mastodon account), and FULLY federated. 2/

As they should. The problem is that Bluesky is an American based product owned by an American, privately owned FOR PROFIT corporation that reinvents the wheel. Decentralized social media has been around since 2016, with Mastodon and the ActivityPub protocol. 1/

Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram on the rise after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark

Well well well...