People think the #Matrix was about robots. It wasn't. It was about operating systems.

#Windows is the blue pill.

You take it, and everything stays comfortable. Pretty icons. Friendly sounds. A setup wizard asking if you want to save your soul to the #cloud. Updates appear at the worst possible moment like a Marvel post-credit scene nobody asked for. Your #PC reboots. You cry. #Microsoft thanks you for improving your experience.

#Linux is the red pill.

You wake up. You see how deep the #RabbitHole goes.

At first, it is terrifying. The #terminal stares at you like Darth Vader asking if you know the power of the #CommandLine. You type one wrong character and feel like you accidentally launched nuclear missiles.

But then something changes. You realize your #computer actually belongs to you.

No ads in the Start Menu. No #AI assistant spying harder than a reality TV producer.

No mysterious background process eating half your #RAM like Pac-Man after three energy drinks.

You choose what gets installed. You choose when #updates happen. You choose what your #desktop looks like.

You are Neo.

Windows #users are still sitting in their pods, downloading the latest mandatory #update called KB-Whatever-Again, wondering why their printer suddenly speaks ancient Sumerian.

Linux is not perfect. Sometimes Wi-Fi drivers behave like a side quest in Dark Souls.

Sometimes you spend two hours fixing a problem just to feel smarter than everyone else.

But that is the point. The red pill was never about comfort. It was about #freedom.

And freedom means occasionally reading a forum post written by a Finnish guy in 2007 who solved your #problem and vanished forever like a #Jedi master.

Welcome to Linux. There is no spoon. Only #sudo.

#meme #choice #os #software #foss #floss #opensource #gnu #gpl #computer #user #nerd #just4fun #system

Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/6/23/aje-onl-nf_israels-targeting-of-palestinian-children-230626?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

EDIT to add: It's been pointed out by alarmed parties that this was likely generated BY AI, which I sort of find hilarious... someone hated AI data centers so much that they used one to generate anti-AI propaganda.

That's... poetry.

I'd normally delete it, but it's not like deleting it is going to magically put those 1s and 0s back into the data center, so think of this as... quasi-ethical upcycling? Using all the parts of the slop.

Also also, while I'm doing edits, it's been pointed out that bamboo is ACTUALLY super invasive and might be damaging to what's left of the actual surrounding wildlife that have not already succumbed to the data center itself,

so I guess... be sure to get with your local wildlife experts in your area to find out what bamboo-equivalent plants you can safely not plant near the data center in order to cause them the least amount of inconvenience or damage WINK WINK

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Charities in England and Wales 'donate £28m to Israeli illegal settlements' | The National (2026-06-10)

https://www.thenational.scot/news/26183648.charities-england-wales-donate-28m-israeli-settlements/

(Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/10/charities-in-england-and-wales-donate-millions-to-israeli-settlements
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>> [Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy Labour MP] Melanie Ward has said she has submitted a formal complaint to the Charity Commission after she came across evidence that illegal Israeli settlements have been receiving donations from the UK.

>> … also claimed that if gift aid were claimed against the donations in the usual way, £5.6m worth of taxpayers' money could have gone towards the settlements.

>> Ward said she found “at least” 32 charities that have sent £28m to settlements in recent years while she was working with Israeli human researchers.

#MelanieWard #WestBank #palestine #EndOccupation
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