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a human being on earth 🌍 anarchistic, academish, sharpening my scalpels 🔪
Take some time this weekend to get caught up in our #OptOutOctober series, where we’re providing daily tips to reclaim your privacy, one small task at a time. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/opt-out-october-daily-tips-protect-your-privacy-and-security
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy much easier. This month we’re going to do just that.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

at this point in the US, complacency = complicity. edit your relationships accordingly.

"In the median experience of tyranny, life is largely unchanged. Even the median experience of those being tyrannized can be free of intolerable forms of oppression. If we wait until the abuses become severe and widespread enough to register in our standard analytic tools, it will be too late."

https://www.offmessage.net/p/the-median-experience-of-tyranny

by @brianbeutler

liberal performative ignorance is exhausting. this is america, a country founded on slavery and genocide. you've ignored the warnings and evidence for decades, and "can't believe this is happening here"? miss me with your disbelief.

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/08/white-peoples-performative-ignorance-is-exhausting-opinion/

by @AngryBlackLady

don't just blame tariffs - it's largely amazon's fault that everything is so fucking expensive!

feeling this one hard as someone who just furnished an apartment from scratch, which cost twice as much as 4 years ago.

capitalism functioning as intended...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

by @pluralistic