I'm laughing at memes about billionaires who can't pull themselves up to the surface by their own bootstraps, but in reality I'm furious.

I'm furious I was accused of human smuggling by FRONTEX (European border agency) for being part of a sea rescue operation that saved 1000+ lives of refugees fleeing war & terrorism.

I'm furious at the money & international effort being spent to rescue these billionaires when operations like ours cost so little and save so many lives, but are punished.

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As the world turns its attention to the missing Titanic submersible, don't look away from the crisis off the Greek coast.

More than 500 refugees are presumed to have drowned, in what is likely one of the worst refugee and migrant shipwrecks on record. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/21/titanic-submersible-greece-migrant-ship-pakistan/

We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)

There is over a decade of precedent that Facebook will not have users' best interests as their guiding principle but rather profit margins, if it joins the Fediverse.

We at tech.lgbt have long held the belief that corporation owned instances are a threat to the core of the Fediverse: freedom for users to be themselves and to be a part of their communities. The 2010s saw the loss of online freedom when the majority of the Web was consolidated into a few destinations, and Facebook entering here could lead us back to centralization. Furthermore, NDAs for server admins will constrain our sovereignty online by binding us legally from disrupting their business.

We are not products. We are people, and we do not welcome Facebook in this space.

#meta #FediPact #facebook #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin

Cool moment I came across in Tolstoy's novel, Resurrection (1899), where he basically advocates / explains Land Back. Of course, he is talking about Russian peasants, but the similarity between Land Back for 19th Century peasants and the demand for Land Back on Turtle Island are stunning! It's all about the land!!

Thanks to Standard Ebooks for their beautiful copy of the book. (https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/leo-tolstoy/resurrection/louise-maude)

#LandBack #Tolstoy #Literature #RussianLiterature #Anarchism #Feudalism #SettlerColonialism

Me: The internet is so shitty I refuse to use it without adblocker.

Suit1: Fuck you. Fine, we'll make it even SHITTIER.

*repeat until everything breaks