🚨 UK: The govt wants to ban VPNs, social media & AI chatbots in various contexts. Your silence is a yes.

Make your voice heard before May 26. Fill out the survey and let them know your views: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

In the shadow of media coverage about Trump's Greenland BS, ever growing ICE violence or the brave counter-protests,
the Trump regime is quietly busy rigging the next elections against demographic groups less inclined to vote for Trumpists.

US voters, please read and share this!
Your prep for the #Midterms should start NOW.

https://wendy664.substack.com/p/republicans-will-detonate-their-secret

(@stux @Nonilex
Hat tip to @why_not )

This is absolutely awesome! The @leavex campaign now has their website up an running, so we can see exactly which members of the EU parliament still support Musk's disinformation platform X, and avoid voting for them.

I hope @leavex expands to add every national parliament — the disinformation has to end.

Se their excellent overview here:
https://leavex.eu/politicians/

Please boost this to support the campaign.

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.