People get big mad when you question why they make such a big deal of their American identity.

@hellomiakoda
One of the dudes behind Pixelfed is making a federated TikTok alternative, basically.

Did y'all know that the #Loops TOS are super predatory? And that—as they are written—they also seem like they would affect not just Loops users but all Fedi users federated with Loops?

This is absolutely antithetical to everything Fedi should be.

https://bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-terms/

People who were in favor of banning TikTok freaking out that people are heading to Chinese apps because of Chinese censorship can hear themselves, right?

I'm not saying it's okay that China's government tries to suppress certain kinds of speech and information. I'm just saying, it's literally US censorship causing people to switch. The US government also does censorship.

How dare anyone who wanted to ban TikTok pretend that China is the only one doing censorship?

It sure is fucking strange to me that Meta decided to announce their horrific new policies right as the TikTok ban was about to come into effect instead of waiting until *after* a bunch of people moved to Instagram.

You need the users already locked in. Announcing something that's going to make a lot of people avoid you like the plague right when a bunch of people are looking for a new social media platform doesn't make much sense to me.

@PhoenixSerenity
The only thing social media helps with for staying connected this is that, if you're friends with someone, you could hypothetically message them through the app. Mostly I don't think people do. It's just the comfort of knowing that you *could*. The "connection" is almost entirely fictional.

@PhoenixSerenity
From what I have seen whenever I have logged on to Facebook in the past 5 years is that you mostly don't see posts by the real people you are friends with in your Facebook feed, so unless people are visiting their friends' individual timelines to see what they post, it's not like they are even seeing pictures of people's families or whatever

All I ever see is ads and "x friend liked this meme stolen from Twitter posted on some random FB page you don't give 2 shits about"

You know, it would have been nice if a proper setup for Anthony Mackie's Captain America had happened in the Captain America films and not in one of the many extra-homework Marvel shows.

Tbh, I have no interest (yet) in Falcon/New Cap because the character was a total nothing in the movies... It's so easy to forget he exists.

I don't really know what their plan is to get people who didn't watch the shows excited to go see a totally new Captain America who, again—if you didn't do extra-curricular work—has been basically a non-character up to this point.

Are people who didn't watch Falcon and the Winter Soldier excited for this and I'm just being a wet blanket?

In general I just feel like the MCU is asking me to care about a lot of characters they aren't willing to give me *reasons* to care about.

I'm not being a die-hard "it's Chris Evans or no one!" person over here or anything. Chris Evans' Cap was...fine. I enjoyed the character okay. I'm not about to say that I don't think anyone else could be Cap or something silly like that.

I'm just curious if I'm supposed to be excited for this movie as the continuation of something I already liked, because it doesn't seem to be that, but I also haven't seen anything that would make me interested in this story as a stand-alone.

I guess my real question is...are MCU movies *supposed* to be just for people who watch the shows?

Do they just not care whether people who don't watch the shows watch the movies? Because it is bizarrely starting to feel that way...which doesn't seem to make sense for them financially.

This headline has been stuck in my head for nearly 8 years now.

Sometimes you just hit a wall in a conversation because you realize that you can't argue someone into this.

I think something we need to watch out for in the coming year is government at various levels trying to take credit for the disaster relief work being done by mutual aid groups.

Do you think that if Mask Bloc LA gives the City of LA masks, that city officials are going to praise them and talk them up when the disaster starts to clear up? No, of course not. They will not be openly praising anarchist collectives and anarchist praxis.

So bear witness. Pay attention to who is doing what, and don't let them lie.

You know it's sort of funny to me that Libertarianism can be a gateway for some out of Conservatism but it's also where the Conservatives who want to be really mean and selfish go.

I got really into Ron Paul back in the day, which nowadays is generally really embarrassing, but the thing I learned through that phase that changed everything was the relentless evil of America's "foreign policy". I learned about the war machine that was never going to stop.

@mekkaokereke
I am angry every day that the Europeans showed up to this continent and were like "look at this totally untouched, pristine wilderness!" when they were in fact looking at the most beautifully maintained giant garden the world has ever seen.

@ATLeagle @Brad_Rosenheim
The planet is burning, our water is poisoned, we've killed off countless different species of living things... We're on the verge of ecological collapse.

Anyone who is still wringing their hands over completely non-destructive and symbolic protests needs to get some perspective. NOW.

@selzero @Black_Flag @Lydie
There were a lot of Bible passages that I was told were "difficult" to interpret when I was a Christian.

Once I got a chance to give it a critical look, it turned out they aren't hard to understand unless you are committed to never condemning the wealthy. They are only "difficult" because the people reading them point-blank refuse to understand the plain meaning of the texts.

Sitting here in the Great Lakes area trying to figure out what we'll do when all the rich people show up because it's soon going to be one of the most habitable places in North America (thanks to our lakes whose effects on the local climate kind of shield us from a lot—they're pretty great).

Anyway, gonna have to figure out how to keep the parasites out of the habitable places we have left. They burned the world, let them at least live in what they burned.

But seriously, if rich people take refuge from climate change in your area, it's probably (definitely) a good idea to make their lives miserable and their "property" insecure if at all possible.