Notices by Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE (sb@fed.sbcloud.cc)

@darnell @randahl Alright dude. Good luck being on that side of history. You should know better.

@darnell @randahl
Those are NOT facts, they are ill-informed conjecture.

What "fact" leads you to believe that the victims of systemic oppression are "like the kkk"? Was MLK comparable to the KKK? Gimme a break man!

@darnell @randahl
Dude, you are SO misinformed.

We're so focused on the finish line that we've forgotten the path in front of us. Like the sci-fi trope warning technology does not solve social problems, and social problems are what doom us NOW.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a46663798/nuclear-fusion-era/

#JustStopOil #BuildAllTheWindNOW #NoOil #NoGas #NoBillionaires #NoOligarchs

@jon
In Canada, we're literally beholden to tax preparation companies. They built an entire economy around this unnecessary work, and now the government maintains the redundancy at everyone's expense & annoyance.

@richlitt
The main and probably easiest to transition to would be #Ghost. You can move to ghost.org, or another 3rd-party host, or host it yourself!

Migration guide: https://ghost.org/docs/migration/substack/

Official site: https://ghost.org/

There is also #Buttondown which I haven't checked out myself yet, but it's the next most popular alternative.

Migration guide: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-migrate-newsletter-substack-to-buttondown/

Official site: https://buttondown.email/

If you're not too concerned with the monetization aspects and into something clean & barebones, you could also consider #writeFreely (I use this myself).

https://writefreely.org/

#Wordpress is also an option, but I'm hesitant to recommend it, as #wp is a whole thing in it's own.

I hope that helps!

@rooftopjaxx @aral
I'd say make an appeal to your followers, members, etc. Spell out why you don't want your organisation to be affiliated with or support muskcorp. Make them feel it. Give them a better place to go - pick a server and explain how to get there.

Better still run your own server for them! If you feel the need to sweeten the pot a bit, point out that their handles will be @whomever@myclub.com. That's way cooler than just a generic twitter url.

Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!

We can help you transition away from:

- Substack
- Twitter
- Facebook/Instagram
- Dropbox, iCloud, etc
- Amazon/Audible
- Google
- Almost anything else!

You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!

Let us help empower you *and* your community!

#fediHelp #cutTheCord #deCorporatise

#Nature pulling *no* punches here, recommending we all do more #directAction, learning from and extending on the #nonviolent tactics that worked for #civilRights and other movements to achieve traction in the fight against #climateDestruction.

> [...] The general public is usually marginal to the policymaking process. In practice, that process is typically dominated by powerful industries and state institutions that exercise preponderant influence over both government and media. This asymmetry is especially well documented in the case of the United States but is also true, to varying extents, of all capitalist societies.

I LOVE that phrase: "preponderant influence". Well said.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02507-y

Via https://social.rebellion.global/@ExtinctionR/111712007125987653

@Mary625
We're being pushed back to piracy, and fast.

I'm several decades familiar with many, many programming languages, but have about a half-dozen that I'd consider *daily driver* languages. #python is not one of them.

I'm writing a lil' thing in #py, and have to keep looking up what modules to include for basic things... and every single time, the answer is exactly what I would have intuited.

"What would I call my datetime module if I were me? I'd call it *datetime*." It's *datetime*.

"If I wanted today's date, I'd want 'date.today()'". Yup.

I guess that's why it's so widely recommended as a starter language. Not starter because it's lacks advanced features, but because it lacks unnecessary confusion!

#pennyForMyThoughts

How about if these business owners remember that these "homeless" ARE THEM! It's their former neighbours, grocers, teachers, children - and their current community members and fellow human beings.

Homeless people are fucking people! They need somewhere to not freeze to death, just like you demand, in your vacant hotel.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/homeless-shelter-court-injunction-1.7046551

#nb #NewBrunswick #compassion #miramichi #housingFirst #harmReduction #haveAHeart #wearAMask

@pentney It's the age of the MVP (minimum viable product).

I got carried away creating #mastodon #bots to fill in the missed presence of our municipal and provincial services which still post to Twitter like it's 2009, but aren't on the #fediverse.

After 5, I decided to make a quick tool to rapidly spin up bots based on a template and create a systemd service/timer to run it.

I wrote a little tutorial to go along with the code, in case anyone else is looking for a speedy way to generate basic bots quickly w/ PHP.

https://seanboyer.uk/sbjournal/mastodon-bot-generator