In my day job I work for an Australian IT company.
I come from a LAN down under.
Huge respect for the EU Commission, @EUCommission, who have updated their webpage with a new follow button — X is out, Mastodon is in!
Remember to reward them with a follow! ♥️🇪🇺
Seen here: https://commission.europa.eu/index_en
Morning, fuckers.
Forty-eight years ago the proto-Internet (ARPAnet at the time) experienced their date which will live in infamy: a DEC employee sent the first spam email. What's worse, he lived after that. (The glorified salesman who ordered it, I mean: somehow I'm inclined to leniency in the case of the engineer.)
As you may have noticed advertising on the Internet, evolved out of all recognition since these days, has brought nothing but prosperity and a higher standard of living for everyone.
Enjoy the fruit of the poisoned tree.
I am writing this on Tusky, which is free software that someone had to write. It is running on an older Android phone, which someone had to assemble from components that other people had to make from raw materials that still other people had to produce.
You are reading this because it was transmitted via a sophisticated international communications system which someone had to design and someone else had to make from raw materials that someone else had to produce.
The electricity also had to be produced by someone, using machinery made by someone else.
Happy May Day, y'all. The world is nothing without our labour. Our masters know this; we should too.
RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116488569241651946
In green, the normal ones.
And then there's the weirdos.