Charles β says trans rightsBluesky users: For a mere $30million USD, we can distribute Bluesky to one other node
Fedi users: I put an instance on my car!
Krafter
meow@celesteh instance running on a router in a plastic bag outside your window
Michael π 
Hadley T. Canine (fox)@theverygaming @celesteh Oh thank god, I'm not the only person who has put network equipment on a stick and extended it outside of a window.
That deployment was temporary though, and done in (british) summer on a dry day, but also the stick was very long to help clear the building and get better signal.
Guill.Jones, Honorary Canadian@celesteh
Fedi Users: I can put an instance in my cat! π₯₯
Fedi Users: I can put an instance in my cat! π₯₯
/mΙrΛkjΚriΙl/@Guillotine_Jones @celesteh π¨ I mean don't people put microchips in cats to locate them?
Put a little bit more hardware in, maybe a charging port... it could work...
Put a little bit more hardware in, maybe a charging port... it could work...
@writeblankspace
I would say that I like the way you think, WriteBlankSpace, but I don't want to suggest cruelty to cats, but I like the way you think.
Anyway, THIS happened:
https://youtu.be/sfFVt6VD5cM
The guy said his cat had been hit by a car.
I would say that I like the way you think, WriteBlankSpace, but I don't want to suggest cruelty to cats, but I like the way you think.
Anyway, THIS happened:
https://youtu.be/sfFVt6VD5cM
The guy said his cat had been hit by a car.
He turned his dead cat into a drone
@Guillotine_Jones oh my god that is disturbing
taxidermies sound horrible enough... I'd rather make a replica of the cat in its memory and use that....
taxidermies sound horrible enough... I'd rather make a replica of the cat in its memory and use that....
Davey
steppl
Paistetta Pakaroille
Emma (IPG)@celesteh someone's running a bluesky pds off a PS4
halva@ipg @celesteh https://bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3lbn6f2cdgk2m i donβt think anybodyβs ever beating this
CarlOS HR Β©
Koldinium@carloshr @ipg @celesteh the most expensive bit is the relay, and it's expensive enough that it's out of reach for the average joe but affordable for a mid-sized organization. Below is a snippet from the white paper.
That's not even counting projects like cerulea, which is an alternative relay that doesn't index the main Bluesky PDSs.
That's not even counting projects like cerulea, which is an alternative relay that doesn't index the main Bluesky PDSs.
haui
Adam Bell 
Mik3y
My camera shoots fascistsThankfully I had just finished swallowing the last bite of dinner when I read that ππ
MateRhyu
The Doctor
Jons Mostovojs
Preston Maness β
Scott Williams π§@aspensmonster @jonn @celesteh Y'all, please untag me if you're going to have this discussion. I am not a communist. I have no interest beyond the specific OP and am not endorsing anything here.
This went into my filtered notifications (along with a very large number of notifications) and so I've just seen this. I'm sorry for not removing you from tags sooner.
davel π«@aspensmonster A 
really seems to be haunting him more that anyone Iβve come across in the fediverse:
βββIf you use tools made by genocide-apologists, you are a genocide-apologist.
#lemmy users aren't welcome here.βββ
100 GORILLION DEAD NO IPHONE
wraptile@aspensmonster ofc it's a fat white dude from Texas who's pushing the glory of Soviet empire lmao
You can't make this up π
@wraptile Do you have any other questions or comments for the fat Texan commie that recognizes the contribution of the Red Army in defeating fascism?
@aspensmonster nah dude but try to enjoy your fan fiction in your own room π
Ramin HonarySoviet swastikas XD If it werenβt for the Red Army youβd still be living under the banners of actual swastikas.
@aspensmonster you mean βin spite of the Red Armyβs best efforts,β because we are absolutely living under the hidden banners of swastikas. Well, mostly hidden, until Trump was first elected. The CIA imported actual Nazi officers to help fight against the USSR just as soon as World War 2 ended (see βOperation Sunriseβ, and βOperation Paperclipβ). The US government has, in effect, been run by Nazis ever since. We were taught in schools that American defeated the Third Reich, in actual fact, we assimilated it.
@aspensmonster @jonn @vwbusguy
Antisemitism is not an essential feature of communism. Stalin was just a bigot and I'm not endorsing or defending him by using a symbol also used by ancoms.
When the Unicode consortium includes the flag of the Jewish Labour Bund, I'll switch to that. If the complainer is Jewish or GRT: sheesh.
But if they're not, they can fuck all the way off. Honestly, offensive.
You are endorsing soviet union by using soviet swastika, my dude.
I have a low degree of compassion for clueless westerners who never lived in that country, so I appreciate to a low degree that you aren't a fan of stalin. Buuuuut it's not like he invented soviet concentration camps. Gulag programme is known to have started by early 20s.
It's cute that you're willing to drop the swastika some time soon! But if you care about antisemitism, please study antisemitism in ussr. It's not "just stalin"!
In the old country we had quotas for Jews enrolling into unis, and special ghetto universities for overeager Jewish people. Also, there was an attempt at an actual dedicated ghetto called Yevreyskaya autonomnaya oblast (created after 1924, but, you know, it still exists).
But most importantly β throughout the entirety of the history of the country which flag you proudly fly, there was systemic oppression of common folk of different countries russians have colonised by forced displacement, which was also quota'd!
Displacement was organised in cargo trains (even though it was supposed to be passenger trains by decree, but that's another russian trick β "tzar is kind, it's the vassals who are the problem") and mortality rates on these trains was tens of percents. Displaced people were replaced by russians.
I think, if you have some empathy, you can understand why I call your fave Unicode codepoint "a soviet swastika" now? π€
@jonn I'm Jewish, you tedious twit. Fuck off
@celesteh me too. Did you also live in soviet union?
Dominik@jonn @celesteh It's pointless. The "communists" literally murdered people here as an official business (in addition to all the frequent accidents) and even our country has plenty people who would welcome them back.
I can only imagine that people who safely watch that across the ocean are even easier to fool with selective half-truths and propaganda.
@aspensmonster @vwbusguy @celesteh I hope that one day you will live in an equivalent of soviet union (your country is well on its way). When you do, please report back on how easy or hard will it be to procure insulin! π
@aspensmonster I'm with you! But don't have to be a communist to be anti-capitalist!
You may argue that being anti-capitalist automatically makes you an intersectional communist, then sign me up, but marxism-lenibism is like... Demonstrably hateful ideology which converges to authoritarianism isomorphic to fascism.
And the problem is in the communist manifesto itself. If you don't set precise and concrete parameters for distinguishing bourgeois from proletariat and call for violence *not against the property* even, but against human beings, then your criteria degrade and the guy with the rifle becomes the proletarian and everyone without a rifle becomes a bourgeois.
@jonn You can call yourself anti-capitalist if you like. Rejecting the only forms of anti-capitalism that have ever worked as "actually that's just authoritarianism which is the same as fascism" is a choice that you are not alone in making at least. Marxists however will continue to deal with reality as it presents itself and work within it to build socialism.
@aspensmonster Preston "Citation Needed" Maness.
Btw, I was responding to your america-centric take! Actually, procuring insulin is trivial in like... Normal countries. πͺπΊ
@jonn >Btw, I was responding to your america-centric take! Actually, procuring insulin is trivial in like... Normal countries. πͺπΊ
As if procuring insulin is only difficult in the United States.
@aspensmonster you will be surprised.
https://www.insulin100.eu/country-profiles-latvia/
Here is what, to quote your silly toot, "the poorest countries have managed to achieve". π
@jonn you have a lot of national chauvinism for someone concerned about colonialism :(
Caoilte O'ConnorBeing anti-capitalist doesn't automatically give you the tools to effectively oppose or replace capitalism. A good intentioned hatred of USSR/Communism/capitalism etc would only prepare any anti-capitalist leader for repeating Soviet mistakes in the face of inevitable capitalist assault.
Where does the Communist Manifesto call for violence against human beings? I can't find any reference. Any document can be willfully mis-read to suit any agenda.
@caoilte I wouldn't dare to read it today, but you're kind of saying the same as I, except I claim that the document is willfully non-specific (probably some sort of extremism rules existed then), and you claim that I'm misreading it.
I distinctly recall that they were referring to French revolution as an example of a revolution, which clearly and irrefutably defines a possible scope of what they had in mind.
The document has many problems and is riddled in non-sequitur and straw-man, but most importantly, it fails to distinguish the classes in any meaningful way.
Also, what I will never forget is them explicitly saying that it's ok for peasants to have a house and a field (their rationale was idiotic, sadly I can't reproduce it because I find it difficult to memorise idiotic things), but apparently it's okay only until the "State" runs out of the collective "money" and needs some kolhozes (see collectivisation in ussr). π
I would prefer to end this conversation at that, if it's okay β€οΈ
(Feel free to respond, but it's very likely that I shan't).
@jonn [1/2] Since you want to end this conversation, I'll skate the details and focus on thoughts for growth.
You're a product of indoctrination, but that's okay - we all are. A challenge in life is to recognise the inconsistencies in our self identity and to understand when it expresses itself as hypocrisy. For example: calling @aspensmonster Preston "Citation Needed" Maness, without ever feeling the need to check whether a book you're trying to summarize says what you think it does.
@jonn @aspensmonster [2/2] You made a statement in error and I corrected it. Rather than engaging responsibly with the subject you re-imagined your position, tried to change the subject and then shutdown the conversation. I think subconsciously you know you are wrong (repeatedly admitting you don't want to re-read a document is a tell).
Self examination is a long road, I suggest avoiding complaining about things like the hammer and sickle until you're ready to engage with the subject.
@caoilte ah, quite provocative! I'll take some time to demonstrate logically (in abstract terms) and historically (in concrete terms) that the manifesto says what I think it says by the end of the year.
Please understand that reading this stuff is kind of like reading English propaganda from the years of the Troubles for you (based on your surname, if I'm wrong, I'm sorry. If I'm right β Erin go Bragh)
@jonn I don't doubt that Marx can be interpreted to say what you intend. And I'm sure that the USSR also interpreted it to suit their policies. Hell, generally every book gets reinterpreted by the next generation. It's good to recognise such biases and to study texts as products of a particular time and place rather than as some eternal totemic shibboleth. Regardless, i hope you enjoy the process of ordering your thoughts.
> a book you're trying to summarise
I am certain that you are confusing communist manifesto with das kapital! In the country where I was born which no longer exists, people had to read both. (I did)
@aspensmonster this comment was mostly to demonstrate that if you answer with some substance like @celesteh did, you get a response with some substance and empathy. If you just talk shit, you only get best wishes.
It's also quite hilarious how clueless westerners are! My entire fucking family was killing nazis and facilitating killing nazis. Did we get weapons from the reds? Yes. Did the reds make the weapons from American metals? Also yes. Did they give us weapons because they wanted to have the way cleared and enslave the rest? You fucking betcha.
Next time you wonder "why do Polish people not like me" (I'm not Polish, but it's not like you are likely to know the difference), look up Warsaw uprising and look up how soviets were involved with it. And where their army was as they were waiting for Poles and germans to cancel out.
P. S.
You are a clown β€οΈ
@aspensmonster @celesteh please think about how colonial your response is and how hateful the idea that working class people have less just because they are at a doorstep of one country or the other. Realise that you're a bad communist and, you know... Do the other thing people who dislike each other online tell each other to do π