Andrea Bianchi
Merry ChristmasPay attention.
Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)@lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy Paying attention. What should I be doing about it? I do not have a rival bid.
RantingCanuck@tokyo_0 @lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy
Minimize your usage of their products / services:
- Mastodon is a great start
- Look at other news sources but always check their ownership. Independent Media > Independent State owned Media
- Switch from propriety software to open source whenever possible
List of Independent Media to get you started:
https://www.trustworthymedia.org/list-of-independent-media/
@RantingCanuck Thanks. I already do most of those things... individual action does have meaning, but personally I don't think it'll be enough to counteract systematic issues like the hollowing out of American newsrooms over the past few decades or the new ownership of CNN. I'd like to be wrong about that, so will keep paying attention 🙏
@lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy
@lyndamerry484 @freequaybuoy
yunchtime
Jonas 🇩🇰 🇬🇱@lyndamerry484 Very scary.
xs4me2
M Schommer@lyndamerry484 @Natasha_Jay
Pay attention? Tad bit late, isn't it?
Maybe 2013 was the right time to pay attention, after the #Snowden relevations.
Pay attention? Tad bit late, isn't it?
Maybe 2013 was the right time to pay attention, after the #Snowden relevations.
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission
Clinton Anderson SwordForHire@collectifission @musevg @lyndamerry484 @Natasha_Jay
But it's harder and harder to do the longer one waits.
We are at the point where it's going to take a large scale and furious exchange of hot lead to accomplish anything effective.
And none of the people who need it most will be on the receiving end.
Unfortunately.
Petra van Cronenburg
OCRbot@NatureMC
a Melanie D‘Arrigo @
A i @DarrigoMelanie
Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN,
Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post —
plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100
markets.
They also control X, Facebook, Instagram,
Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and
Twitch.
They control the Al you're integrating into
your lives, the algorithms feeding you
content, and your personal data you've
given up for access.
This is all by design to manipulate and
surveil us, and we’re not talking enough
about it.
Pay attention.
Flash Mob Of One@lyndamerry484 Also why you won't find me anywhere but the Fediverse.
Superstars of the ApocalypseBluesky, too. Any social media site run by a billionaire will always default to fascism.
The mods have already been suspending people for anti-Israel or anti-ICE comments
@CosmickTrigger @lyndamerry484 Came here to say this. Bluesky is paid by crypto VC money, with faux federation that is actually controlled completely by Bluesky. It is very much part of the problem.
@collectifission @lyndamerry484
One thing you will notice is that many of the most famous leftwing accounts stayed on X to absolutely call out both liberals and MAGA. I asked why this is, and the answer is that leftists have been operating in openly hostile environments for years. I think they're doing the lord's work while liberals all flocked to Bluesky because they're fucking cowards.
But the left is making sure they're having a bad time there now too, and it's a delight to see 🤣
@collectifission @lyndamerry484
To clarify - leftists are hated by both liberals and conservatives because both ideologies are right wing. So they're used to taking all kinds of shit and have been for years now. We need people who will endure abuse to call out injustice.
Libs probably thought that leaving Twitter would bankrupt it and that it would go away, which is patently ridiculous.
Liberals want an echo chamber that will reinforce their delusions, but leftists refuse to give it to them
@CosmickTrigger as a communist myself, I get it. I've been on X until recently with the same stance. Eventually I did quit posting there though. I won't delete the account, but keep it dormant. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.
I still maintain a Facebook account (I use the Facebook Purity extension which zaps all ads, reels, suggestions, etc) and almost all the perfect and suck burns by leftists are on X. They're on Bluesky, too, but I commend the leftists who have stuck it out because the screenshots are awesome.
🦩 Plastic Garden Fauna 🦩@CosmickTrigger @ElyseMGrasso @lyndamerry484
Up untill the 80s or so you could look up the definition of corporatisim and see that it referenced Fascisim as practiced in Europe leading up to WWII. Every day since the defeat of the WWII axis has been seen an intergenerational plot advanced by the intergenerationally wealthy. Their grandchildren and great grandchildren are the ones buying up media outlets and spending hundreds of millions on dark-money politics.
This is a retaliation 75 years in preperation.
@OvertonDoors @ElyseMGrasso @lyndamerry484
I know. But your comment was needed in the thread for those who don't.
Also, it was Mussolini who said, pretty much verbatim “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
@lyndamerry484 Would've loved to share this. Won't.
bbbhltz@lyndamerry484 and Spotify
Drey@lyndamerry484 - Absolutely 100%
Alt text please
Carlos SolísPeople aren't talking about it, because the takeover was organized in such a way that the average person was unaware of it happening in the first place. The slip of the population into compliance has been carefully planned for years
Coleen Walter@lyndamerry484 Reading books and visiting our public libraries seems almost subversive these days in the US. Hold on to and cherish our books and keep supporting our libraries.
Inc Hulk 🧪@lyndamerry484 They learned from Orban, Hungarian advisers helped the US oligarchs implement the plans. The upcoming elections in Hungary are the first in very many years when Orban is at serious risk of losing.
CM Thiede@lyndamerry484 To beat China the US must be China. Bye-bye freedom.
Kenneth Bousquet@lyndamerry484 That is Full Control Of the Narrative.
Where's the truth now?
Where's the truth now?
Moisés Pinto Muyal
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Icanbob@fname @lyndamerry484 The only real choice we have is to not give them our eyes and ears. Without eyes and ears there can be no ad revenue. Without ad revenue the media businesses are not viable. We just need to collectively stop watching and listening.
Irene, antifascist@lyndamerry484 there is a giant urgency to replace our money-driven societies world-wide with value-driven societies. Money is an ideologie, that is, when applied as a mean to organise, classify the society, in stead of a simple mean to swap goods. Money has become THE political power which is idiotic and truely fascist. Better criteria are wisdom, a sense of fairness, granting the diggers of raw materials full autonomy and paying them for the actual value of the mined goods.
lukalobster 🇪🇺@lyndamerry484 can this people stop using X to complain about X ?
kolya@lyndamerry484 American billionaires control Tiktok? This is news to me.
Graeme 🏴@lyndamerry484 Well, I don't use or watch any of those....
Eva
Ooze 𓁟@Hiltibrant @lyndamerry484 Looking at you Linux Australia.
@Ooze @lyndamerry484 I am looking at you too! Greetings from Germany!
Leon@Hiltibrant @lyndamerry484 The real problem is that it is nearly impossible to completely leave Apple and Google. Our whole infrastructure is build on everyone havong an iPhone or Android.
@Iksbat @lyndamerry484 I am writing this message from an open source phone using an open source android on an open source platform. You are the infrastructure! All of us! Just take it off and resist against these structures of power. Those corporations are designed to make you feel and think there are no alternatives by manipulating your reward system in such a manner you can't even noticed. Here below a few recommendations made by tutamail. If I can help you to switch, just let me know.
RealGene ☣️
J. David Eisenberg
ΞVΞ🦋Also, pay attention to the fact that so-called Democrats just sat by and did nothing but lip-service and played “the high road” while he did all of it.
SueDiOh@lyndamerry484 I I do not subscribe to nor will I click on or boost stories from CNN, Fox, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post. (sometimes I mess up if the headline is compelling.)
I do not have a presence on X, Facebook, Insta, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth or Twitch.
It's so easy, folks. Take back your lives.
I do not have a presence on X, Facebook, Insta, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth or Twitch.
It's so easy, folks. Take back your lives.
Michael Dexter@lyndamerry484 An attempt at Soviet-style central propaganda in the place that invented the Internet and most alternative communication media. Some will fall for it but many simply route around it.
Such a waste of money that will leave empty husks of formerly-OK properties.
Scale Theory@lyndamerry484
No Kings March 28th at DC, Capital, White House, SCOTUS, DOJ AG, all of them HAVE TO GO!
No Kings March 28th at DC, Capital, White House, SCOTUS, DOJ AG, all of them HAVE TO GO!
Toni@lyndamerry484
1984 was thought as dystrophy. Reality overtook it.
1984 was thought as dystrophy. Reality overtook it.
Anders Lund@lyndamerry484 Anyone can abandon those platforms. There are alternatives.
Victoria🏳️⚧️@lyndamerry484 Dear Americans, time to pay attention was in 2024 before presidential elections. Many Americans failed to realise that elections aren't about picking perfect candidate and so just stayed in their homes.
Trump got less votes in 2024 than in 2020, when he lost. What that means is that you Americans fucked it up big time and now everyone have to deal with Orange Mussolini thanks to you.
horstworst@lyndamerry484
pay attention to not forget alt-text is also important to leave no one behind
pay attention to not forget alt-text is also important to leave no one behind
God Emperor of Mastodon@lyndamerry484 note that they now own significant ngt networks outside of us. TVN (biggest station in Poland) was bough by Paramount as part of the deal.
Jyrgen N@lyndamerry484 @cstross Good I don't use/read/watch any of these. Granted, it is easier in Europe (or any country except the USA).
staringatcloudsMelanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie
Trump's billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post + 185+ local tv stations & news in 100 markets
They control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth & Twitch
They control the Al you're integrating into your lives, the algorithms feeding you content & the personal data you've given up for access
This is all by design to manipulate & surveil us & we're not talking enough about it
Pay attention
Very Human Robot@lyndamerry484
Okay. I paid attention. Now what?
Okay. I paid attention. Now what?
Nomdeb@lyndamerry484 And unsubscribe. Find other ways to communicate and receive information. We have some control over this also. We don't have to be passive victims.
Olivier Roux (moose)@lyndamerry484 @cstross and they will continue screaming they’re cancelled by the left wing media.
tyilPay attention
Posted on TwitterYou can't make this shit up
Posted on TwitterYou can't make this shit up
Squozen 🇪🇺@lyndamerry484 narrator: they did not pay attention.