@eff so your advice to avoid Meta collecting your data is to... [reads article] ...ask them nicely not to do it?

That's rather naïve don't you think? Shouldn't we be talking about how to delete your account, file a GDPR request, and switch to better alternatives?

@amici if you're looking for suggestions:

https://www.tumblr.com/the-lemonaut/710271433164668928/thats-why-im-looking-into-solarpunk-and-am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twGcjDnOb_U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nil

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-year-without-sunshine/

I just joined a #union!

Volunteering with Greens here in Cambridge, I've discovered that my having worked with Greens in Canada and having met Elizabeth May lends me some street cred :-)

We were just talking about how amazing she is, and someone here called her "fierce". I can think of no better adjective.

#cdnpoli #greens

@selzero where can I find these? They might be a fun present 🙂

"Labour has pledged to increase deportations, and since taking office, has removed more than 10,000 people"

Ah yes, that well-established left-wing platform of deportation quotas.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/09/husband-and-wife-to-be-forced-apart-by-home-office-deportation-flight

#ukpolitics #uklabour

@patrickcmiller I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I predicted back in 2018 and even wrote a Free software project to fight it: https://danielquinn.github.io/aletheia/

Too bad it never caught on.

@soller @thestrangelet @lucasmz I can sympathise with that, but the sticking point for @aral I think is that this isn't just unfinished work lacking a few features, but rather unfinished work that's remained unfinished for so long *while still being used as the default* for years. This decision, that an unfinished product lacking fundamental #a11y functionality was "good enough to ship" is an ableist one.

I tried Minecraft for the first time today. Fell down a hole and spent 15min trying to dig myself out by hand before I gave up. I don't understand the appeal.

Hooray! Duolingo says I'm a "Galactic Legend"!

That's it, today I'm finally leaving #Shell (formerly Limejump). I am relieved to no longer be part of the problem.

I've written something to outline the flawed reasoning I used to get in, along with a breakdown of the depth of my naïvety:

https://danielquinn.org/blog/getting-out-of-shell/

#JustStopOil #fossilfuels #climatechange