If you’re wondering what to do right now, give. Help people around you because a lot of folks are hurting.

Look up #mutualaid and help where you can. There’s a ton of work that still needs to be done and we can start by meeting people’s needs today.

The fedi raised millions for Harris.

Imagine if we put that same effort into satisfying immediate needs right now.

That would be a massive step forward and a good way to start building our collective capacity outside of politics.

We can do that right now.

It's time for my periodic reminder that VPNs do not magically increase security or privacy.

They take your network traffic and deliver it to someone else on your behalf, then deliver the responses back to you. That is all they do. That's what a VPN is.

The only time this helps with privacy is when you don't want your ISP to know where the traffic is going or you don't want the website to know where the traffic is coming from, *but you're okay with the VPN operator knowing*. If your use case does not fit into that very specific description, including the caveat, a VPN will not help you with privacy.

(Inspired by a friend asking me VPN questions this morning, because "everyone was talking about VPNs so I assumed that's a thing we're supposed to be doing now".)

Another one of fan artist Blatherskite's awesome ASL character posters to distract you in these troubled times! This time it's the remarkable and fascinating T'Lyn!
#StarTrek #ASL #FanArt

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I’ve said for a long time the greatest threat to the US is white Americans and they proved that yet again by coming out in force for a charlatan that repeats the lies they want to hear.

Personally, I don’t feel much about it because my existence has always been an uphill struggle. Hell, if you’ve been following me for awhile, you know how contentious the environment has been on the fedi and my fight to push this place past its racist inclinations.

I get how people feel pretty down at the moment. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself.

But as a person that has been fighting for a long time, don’t dwell in the despair. Don’t let the doom consume you. This is just a moment in time and it will pass.

And it’s a great opportunity to decouple your idea of progress from the state that has proven time and time again it does not give a fuck about your wellbeing.

Now is the time for ideas. Now is the time to create.

We are far from helpless.

The good news: he can't run again.

The bad news: he won't need.

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so when we we think all of the anti trust suits get dropped for big tech companies?

I say February

This is the most unhinged thing I’ll see today.

California voted to keep slavery in their prisons. In 2024. This happened.

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Hey würde jemand Lust verspüren sich beim Betrieb eines deutschen #panoramax Servers einzubringen? Streetview Photos unter CC und für OSM
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Hoy @elmundotoday está que lo tira!

Desokupa se ofrece a desahuciar a Joe Biden de la Casa Blanca

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Desokupa se ofrece a desahuciar a Joe Biden de la Casa Blanca

Daniel Esteve, responsable de Desokupa, ha celebrado hoy la victoria de Donald Trump y ha anunciado que se desplazará mañana mismo a Estados Unidos para poner a disposición del partido republicano los servicios de su empresa, que tiene «mucha experie…

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Wenn ich den Verlauf von Mails anzeigen lassen möchte, also alle in einem Verlauf, dann möchte zumindest ich die neueste ganz oben haben und nicht ganz unten!
Aber auch hier gilt wie fast immer, ihr gebt den Leuten keine Möglichkeit das in den Einstellungen anzupassen…
Und die Aktualisierung der Android App hat mal eben einen Teil meiner Einstellungen überschrieben.
Das ist übergriffig! Ein absolutes "No Go"!!

Everyone processes grief differently.

One of the reasons people break up and families fall apart during times of grief is because the stages of their processing and healing don't line up. All of us need different things to heal, and none if us will be healed in one day.

So let people rant online if it helps them, let them make jokes or make light of the situation, let them cry and feel despair. All of those feelings are correct and "normal" right now. Go ahead and feel your feelings however you need to.

And thus, my friends, the $44 billion for Twitter weren’t lost at all but rather invested into bringing United States’ wannabe-dictator back into power. Now that this goal has been accomplished, Elon can expect to be richly rewarded.

Oh, you are still on Xitter? Driving a Tesla? I hope you are happy with what you’ve helped achieve.

(A number of other US tech billionaires are guilty as well, but that’s the one who didn’t even make it a secret that he is there for fascism.)

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If you were eligible to vote and did not vote in this election, I have to ask: why? And, was it worth it?

I'm genuinely asking those questions.

Survive, dammit.

Your only job, every day, is to wake up the next day. Everything else is secondary.

Second time this year I'm taking time offline, second time this year the world is on fire when I get back online.

I only see one solution. I need to go offline forever.

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