knightly the Sneptaur @ knightly @pawb.social

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Right?

You'd think the party would have learned its lesson after the disaster in 2016 but then 2024 comes around and they do it again, appealing to "centrists" like the mythical moderate Republican and pushing their own voters out of the conversation so they could keep the AIPAC cash flowing.

We wouldn't have to be this way if the Democrats hadn't shown their whole ass to put us here:

https://people.com/celebrity/debbie-wasserman-schultz-resigns-following-bernie-sanders-comments/

Are you kidding? The only chance Harris has to win the primary is if the party pulls another Debbie Wasserman Schultz and destroys their chances in the general again.

Where else do you imagine dividends come from?

Employees and customers, just like every corporation ever.

It's not for the communities, it's for the shareholders-to-come.

It's not really for communities either, it's for locking communities into a corporate platform.

When accused of crimes, deflect by admitting to even bigger crimes.

The UK made an invisible weapon?

Y'all aren't getting it.

That's not discouraging, it's radicalizing. We must be realistic and demand the impossible. There is no other way.

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.

Guess which third

Never.

Vermin Supreme comes close to treating the corporate state with the respect it deserves, but there's no leadership under all that absurdity.

Kinda embarassing, for my parents.

I was a precocious kid, read my way through libraries before we got online. By the time my parents got around to giving me the talk I had already started puberty, gave the talk to one of my friends who hit puberty early, and gone through a gender crisis to figure out I was enby.

I never tried changing the gender marker on my documentation because that always seemed like too much risk for so little gain for an enby like me. My government name only gets used at work anyway, and I'm content to let straight people assume I'm one of them so long as I set off every gaydar and transciever in range.

I just hate when the universe justifies my cynicism, it makes me feel like the stereotypical old anarchist.

I'm just counting the days 'til they declare trans people like me not just unpersons but actively illegal, and hoping the passport I requested actually shows up..

I did, I do, and I'm calling this article bullshit for not pointing out that while the protocol might be open-source, they have yet to share the server software that's required to operate it.

BlueSky "lets" people host their own profile data because it reduces how much data they have to host. It does not allow them to login and browse the network without going through their centralized servers to do so.

So, it's not really decentralized, not really open source, and remains under corporate control until such time as they decide to let anyone compete with them on their own network.

Especially for the helicopter tours, which aren't allowed over land in NYC.

Oof. There are some feels there.

My 19yo self would be very excited to see the enby hottie I've become, wholly unsurprised to learn that I'm still with the partners I was at the time, and very worried about what could have happened to destroy my faith in singularitarianism.

I'd have to go back to 10yo me to find an egg. Parents divorced the year before, and I was still devouring the local library for fun because we didn't have internet yet. Little-Me would have incessant questions I wouldn't be able to answer without violating the trans prime directive, but I do deeply wish I could have had just one enby role model back then so I wouldn't have had to spend my first puberty in denial instead of on puberty blockers.

I took one of those tours when I spent a week in NYC. Definitely wouldn't do the same now.