Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

YouGov poll finds most Americans, including most independents, believe that that ICE was NOT JUSTIFIED in shooting Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.

See the underlying data for yourself: https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ICE_Policies_and_Practices_poll_results.pdf#page=42

"ICE needs training"

Imma stop you right there. Jonathan Ross, the man who murdered Renee Good by shooting her in the face three times and then calling her a "fucking bitch" while fleeing the scene, is a 10 year DHS vet and a firearms instructor. He's who they get training FROM.

This can't be fixed with training. This gets fixed with lasting and severe consequences.

JUST IN: Skye — U.S. Marine veteran in MN — says she was assaulted by ICE agents while documenting their actions.💥

ICE stopped in the road, tried to ram our car, smashed my window, yanked me out by my neck, threw me to the ground, stomped on me, pushed my face into pavement, called me slurs, tried to twist & break my ankle.

She says one agent told her: “Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch.”

“This isn’t Germany — they’re Nazis, they’re Gestapo — they don’t care.”

I was thinking this morning, there should be more things like Goodwill, more thrift stores like that everywhere, for even LESS things going to landfills. Just people getting together, even as a trade or barter system, things like flea markets or garage sales-- people do some of this already.

Reusing things is so important, and repair, when possible-- I've been seeing some cool self-repair fix-it meetups on here, too.

As I was talking to my wife about it, and I remembered this screenshot (I think about it a lot) that's attached below, that I saved from a Wired piece (right after the death of Twitter: https://archive.ph/YSCR9) about billionaires not knowing how to 'monetize' smaller groups of happier people, as we keep our tech, some try to fix their own stuff, etc. About how it's not enough to 'build a town square' on. Which is hilarious and ironic.

Billionaires don't give a FUCK about creating a 'town square'. They don't care about people, about us, about the rest of the 99%. They want to extract value until they can't, at whatever cost.

So reuse, keep things, fix things, as much as possible. That's the way of the future. Not these fuckin billionaires and their shitty corporations.

#repair #SelfRepair #RightToRepair #reuse #FixIt #DIY #DIYRepair #thrift #ThriftStores #FuckBillionaires