Notices by Peter (peter@thepit.social)

Barcelona city government is leaving X. better late than never I guess, but it's been at least a year now that you can't check the announcements if you don't have an account, so I don't understand why anyone still keeps doing their public communications there.

different angle. horrifying.

ending birthright citizenship in the US is **way** more crazy and chaotic than anyone apparently realizes. think about it.

in a civil legal system like in Latin America or Europe, you have a national registry of persons. if you are a citizen, your are added to the registry, and you get a national ID card/number. citizenship is documented and recorded.

this **does not exist** in the United States.

I kind of think AOC is the frontrunner for Democratic nominee for president in 2028 because, in addition to being a popular and effective politician, she is apparently the only one capable of rising to the challenge of the moment.

can't believe they are already doing Nazi salutes. just gaster than I expected, is all.

(fwiw I don't think American media will treat it with the outrage it requires but I bet it's on the front fuckin' page of a lot of European papers. Musk is playing with fire here, he doesn't own the EU yet.)

i love this so, so, so much. highly recommend reading all these. https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113861433599294437

these guys are like "i can't believe he did a scammy, get-rich-quick pump-and-dump rug-pull instead of adhering to the values of the blockchain" lmao buddy what did you think those values were, exactly.

it's pretty funny that the new "artificial intelligence" thinking machine we're all supposed to use **doesn't understand how numbers work** what an incredible fuck up.

the frustrating thing about the business management classes in my degree is they assume that subject matter expertise is not important, and I'm old enough to know that's not true.

hell yeah. https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/01/16/want-to-move-to-spain-in-2025-beware-of-new-property-tax-anti-tourism-protests-and-airbnb

this is pretty interesting. group of Spanish civil society orgs are all leaving X/Facebook together and moving to the fediverse. I don’t know how many **people** this really is, but. https://vamonosjuntas.org/about

at least 10,000 structures burned so far. https://apnews.com/article/southern-california-wildfires-la-e0e735996e4cf0bfa95bb12af0d54896

attention denizens of thepit.social!! we are defederating from Threads.net. if this makes you mad, tell us why and we might change our minds. but as it stands, our rationale is basically the same as Kevin's in the linked post: changes to the Threads.net moderation policy are intended to **specifically discriminate** against certain groups, and as a rule, we don't federate with instances that do that kind of thing. frankly, it is their loss, we are much cooler.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113792479397874522

the ban hammer comes down on January 15, 2025. everyone get your affairs in order.

i will accept your congratulations for this decision, but all complaints and angry letters should be sent to @ebooksyearn.

feeling pretty good about our choices at the moment. @ebooksyearn

@alrs lmao how much do you think reporters make.

i backed this thing on Kickstarter. not sure what i'm gonna do with it yet, but looks neat. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulscircuit/pilet-opensource-modular-portable-mini-computer?ref=ksr_email_backer_backer_confirmation

way back in the day, i bought one of the very first "netbooks" before they were called that. i think it ran Fedora. it was **tiny** lol. i edited a book on it. i have always loved tiny PCs, hope i can do something fun with this one.