Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements.

My milkshake brings the boys to the yard. My fries attract women to my veranda. Sometimes I forget to put the twist thingy on the bread and get ants on the counter.

Hey fellow queers, kinks, and poly peeps in Washington state: my BFF @jonobie is accepting new clients at her therapy practice.

If you or someone you know in WA is looking for a therapist I encourage you to check her out. She *gets* us because she's one of us. And if she's not a good fit for you she may be able to point you to someone else.

She's also one of the very best people I know.

https://social.coop/@jonobie/113476660541942012

#counseling #therapy #mentalHealth #seattle

I salute our eepy heroes 🫡

A lot of people are suddenly realizing that their orgs or communities need digital security and privacy training. If you are a person with a technical or teaching background and you think you might be the right person to give such a training, you should check out the Security Education Companion for teaching materials and tips: https://www.securityeducationcompanion.org/

#Shitpost #MemeAtMeBro

#Pic #pictures #picture #pics
#bird #birdsofmastodon #birds #funny #humor

#FuckCapitalism #Mood

Just your friendly reminder that anything created or owned by a corporation will eventually consume everything its users love—and eventually itself—in the name of "growth".

Nothing, and no one, is safe from the cancerous embrace of late-stage capitalism.

However, there is hope...if we act.

The Fediverse is proof we don't need to accept the enshittification of our social media.

Open access and open source communities are proof we can stand on each other's shoulders to build a better solution.

These are a great start, but we need to treat capitalism like the disease it is, and actively fight it off.

So...block those ads, circumvent those paywalls, pirate that shit, pollute your data, and cut out whatever rotten tendrils of corporate greed you can from your life.

Capitalism can't survive if we stop feeding it.

We'll need to support each other when it lashes out—and it'll scream, and thrash, and try to take us down with it, but that's the desperation of a dying system.

If you're wondering where to start, aim for the data.

If we make it cost more to process our garbage data than companies can get from selling it, then we win that fight. And, given corporate reliance on data-brokering as a revenue stream, that's a *big* fight.

#Capitalism #Corporations #Data #Privacy #PeopleNotProfit

I think I'm officially old - my daughter is dressing as me/my sister in high school, for Halloween. 😅😅😅

#halloween #old #the90s #funny

Punch Nazis.

Been away for a while but maybe gonna try to give mastodon a fair shake again. So uh... here's some recent illustration work as an ice re-breaker....

#illustration #art #drawing #procreate #europe

Howard Zinn:
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. 1/3

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory." 3/3 From "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress," p. 270

I finally left Musk's platform for good. Here is a very short post about why I was still there and why I won't be there anymore:
https://blogs.fediscience.org/academic-borderlands/2024/11/10/finally-leaving-musks-platform/

@academicchatter

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Picard coping tip: There is no strict timetable for dealing with loss. Everyone must find their way through grief in their own time.

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore." - AR Moxon

Me trying to enter the BIOS.

TONIGHT! We're screening 'S/he Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary' (2024, d. David Charles Rodrigues), as part of our Sunday Night Movie series at Monty Hall in Jersey City. This authorized but extremely raw and personal documentary documents the final year of the life of Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and more) as they grapple with mortality.

#WFMU DJ Mona will host a Q+A with director David Charles Rodrigues following the screening. 6:30pm doors, screening begins at 7pm. Monty Hall is at 43 Montgomery St. in Jersey City, NJ.

Advance tickets and more info at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/she-is-still-here-the-official-genesis-p-orridge-documentary-tickets-1051932557597

All proceeds help support WFMU.

My Fediverse Advice:

* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.