GalacticGrapefruit

"They're giving transgender surgeries to illegal immigrants in prison."

*Medicaid

It was a spelling goof, it's all good. Still reading you loud and clear.

Ooh! Thanks!

Star Wars: A New Hope. C-3PO.

I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can't be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn't mine.

Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being 'Amen' spam. Bots on top of bots. It's just fucking dystopian.

Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.

I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It's just more natural. Instead of a feed, it's a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.

And if I don't like a server, I can just... leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.

😓 Please don't give the fash a blueberry fetish. That's the last thing the internet needs.

The science we need. Truly, I hope that this saves millions of lives.

This is true. While I appreciate Al Jazeera's coverage of Gaza, at the end of the day, they're a mouthpiece for an autocracy. And their primary media contrast is, well, other mouthpieces for other autocracies.

I hate watching the news. It's terrorist empires and wannabe empires having pissing contests with each other.

Remember when Bruce Wayne was a millionaire?

And then a multimillionaire?

And then a billionaire?

Yeah. It means they'll try to keep us down even more by making us poorer and poorer, self-defeating tactic that it is. Eventually, it'll be like a bolt of lightning or an earthquake; the imbalance of power will hit a breaking point and it will equalize. Quickly and violently.