@Pathetica

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Old woman playing with new stuff. Because nobody can get too excited about Pathetica following them. “We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.” ― A.A. Milne
“I never thought he’d lie on my network,” sobs network that already aired years of his lies.
Historic Cat Photos on International Cat Day

Fashions and technologies may change over time, but cats never go out of style.

The Atlantic
New Jersey State Police are investigating after reports that a 20-year veteran officer has a large Nazi "Blood & Honor" tattoo on his neck. For those unfamiliar, I present to you the New Jersey State Police uniform.
If this child was strong enough to survive colonization, land theft and reservation internment — then white kids should be strong enough to learn about it in school. #nativeamerican #NativeNations
White supremacy is having empathy for the insurrectionist white woman killed by police for trying to overthrow the government but having scorn for the innocent Black man beat to death by police as he called for his mom while just trying to get home.
#tyrenichols #blackmastadon

Ultimately, it will prove impossible to beat Elon Musk by remaining on the platform he controls.

He and his goons control the most powerful aspects of the site. They can, and will, use it to empower authoritarianism, hate, misinformation and white supremacy.

They are just getting started. By continuing to operate within the framework they control, you will be at a disadvantage. More at FrameLab:

https://framelab.substack.com/p/with-trump-returing-to-musks-twitter

With Trump returing to Musk's Twitter, it's time to get strategic

Whether you exit the bird app, or stay and resist, things are about to worsen

FrameLab

Wow. To be a fly on Pence’s head right now.

I’ll just leave this here…

Cannot reiterate this enough:

PLEASE don’t request refunds from Apple for any unused time on your Twitterrific or Tweetbot subscriptions.

It could literally bankrupt small shops like these.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/twitterrific-end-of-an-era/

Twitterrific: End of an Era • The Breakroom

Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s […]

Iconfactory Blog

This makes me very angry.

These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.

The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.

A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.

Be a designer, not a decorator.

Maggie Haberman comes up in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony. Trump lawyer: "Maggie's friendly to us. We'll be fine."