Many thanks to @bedtimedrillsgt for being such an excellent host to me these past 769 days, wherever you go next will be lucky to have you.

Thanks, too, to everyone I've engaged with here since I joined in December 2022, because this instance will soon disappear from Mastodon so, too shall I.

Wow, the hatred of the EU and love of the CCP is truly unhinged. Go to fucking China and say things you're free to say in the EU. Uyghur concentration camps. Taiwan. Free Tibet. Tiananmen Square. See what your precious CCP does to you then.

Fucking idiots.

I'm not one for confrontation and the person here I'm about to mention doesn't even follow me (nor me them) and so I don't think this is a sub-toot, but they've just posted about how they work for Meta, how we should all be aware of how bad policies are rapidly being introduced there, and how they will negatively affect anyone still using Meta.

Why, then, are they still working at Meta? If it's really that evil (it is), then why not get a job elsewhere? The writing's been on the wall for a long time, why continue contributing to ruining peoples' lives?

I work in an industry where jobs are scarce. When a company I worked for began treating people shittily I did all I could to get out of there. It took time, but I got out. Why isn't the same true of this person in the tech sector? Once again it's tech people being hypocritical and fucking up the world.

In case you still thought that the BBC was a serious news organisation, here it is downplaying yesterday's Nazi salute by claiming that only "Several users on X" described it as such: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cpdxzjw9p47o

The BBC ignores complaints, but you can nevertheless try here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint #uspol