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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
@potterybyosa incredible piece. the time, focus, and mastery is evident.

@spaf

we can make it completely socially unacceptable to use generative “AI”. don’t be afraid to call out your hypnotized peers….

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

@igd_news
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

yet mainstream journalists continue to credulously publish ICE's copaganda.

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

@theintercept liberals who "can't believe" the daily expressions of fascism in the US because "this isn't who we are" will be the end of us.

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

@paulos the CEO told users to leave if they didn't like her trolling trans people, ignoring that the entire bsky user base is comprised of people who aren't afraid to leave a social network if the CEO sucks.