Stop worshipping billionaires.

Elon Musk threw away tens of billions of dollars to buy Twitter, and has spent the last year running it into the ground.

When billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech.

It’s a win for oligarchy.

Q: Are there any Mastodon apps or clients that show something *other* than the chronological timeline?

For example:

• hiding old posts you've already read
• sorting posts other than date-based
• surfacing posts by friends who post infrequently
• surfacing trending posts, and adding them to your main feed

Thanks for any suggestions! Please share for visibility.

#MastodonApp #MastodonApps #MastodonClient #MastodonClients

Periodic reminder:

Marginalized people don't owe you shit.

Let them find joy in twerking in public at 4 am if they want to.

Let them laugh about stupid memes and spinning their skirts.

Let them post thirst traps even if you think it's kinda cringe.

Let them talk in uwu and wear fursuits.

Let them use neopronouns and have a gender that takes 2000 words to describe.

Let them wear their leather to Pride, or dress in exaggerated drag or dress in outfits that most people their age don't wear.

We're in a boiling world, in an end stage capitalist christofascist hellscape, and the forces who hate us ain't going to care how much we try to conform: they want us dead.

If you think less of someone because they're finding joy in an utterly harmless activity, that says far more about how you're a pathetic piece of shit than it does about them.

I've seen some folks scold others for saying "expand the court" because it's not a realistic immediate plan given the need to control the Senate and eliminate the filibuster to make it happen.

But I think there's value in normalizing the idea. Making it a basic, core, mainstream value. Set the table.

Apollo App for #Reddit shutting down today.

Interestingly, Reddit accused the creator of "threatening" them ("Pay me $10 million to go away quietly.")

Not only did he did no such thing, but he lives in Canada which is has one-party consent for recording phone calls. The developer recorded his calls with Reddit and they tell a far different story from what Reddit is claiming.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

This month, 10 years ago, Edward Snowden changed the world.

His revelations about mass surveillance were a wake-up call and may have bought us years in our fight for privacy and encryption. 🔒

👉 https://tutanota.com/blog/snowden-leaks-nsa-surveillance-ten-years

Here are 3 illegal NSA programs that he exposed! 👇

1/4 🧵

Let's not forget the basics.

And that #IndustrialAgriculture is damaging that topsoil and messing with the rain!

#gardening #ForestGarden #FoodForest #ClimateCrisis #farming

Yes, Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texans-pay-more-taxes-than-californians-17400644.php

#news #texas #houston #california #taxes #money