Mastodawn

It's quite funny to me that since moving social media it's evident my lived experience is off with some people I've known my whole life. Saw a friend I haven't seen in ages recently who was excitedly telling me he's bought an electric car. Realising what was about to happen, I asked what, thinking - don'tsayitdon'tsayitdon'tsayit - of course it is a Tesla. And I saw another friend for the first time in years recently who kept going on about how terrific ChatGPT is and that she uses it for literally everything (she's the HR Director for one of the largest companies in the world). I wonder, sitting in those situations, if I come across to them as some utter loon. A modern day hippy. Like someone who might turn up at a restaurant with no shoes or socks on and refuse to sit on a chair made of wood because a tree were harmed in the making of it.

Marquise de What 🇨🇦18m ago

Auschwitz Memorial 36m ago

13 July 1942 | A transport of 1,005 Jewish men, women, and children deported from Berlin arrived at Auschwitz.

No one from this transport was registered in the camp. Most probably everyone was murdered in a gas chamber.

Marquise de What 🇨🇦18m ago

Raphael Albert Jul 4

If you know anyone in the European Union who is seriously considering buying Meta's spyglasses, please remind them that using those privacy nightmares would make them a controller according to the GDPR. They'd be responsible for ensuring full compliance with our privacy laws, which - surprise, surprise - will be impossible.

Please tell them to save themselves and everyone around them the trouble and give the money to any NGO instead.
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #Meta #BanRayBan

Marquise de What 🇨🇦19m ago

UFW 1d ago

"Raul" is a tomato dumper. He stands on the back of the trailer lifts and dumps over 1,500 buckets daily - each weighing around 25 pounds. It’s nonstop, punishing work on the body, especially the shoulders, back, and arms. #WeFeedYou

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Marquise de What 🇨🇦15h ago

@cmccullough I ditched it in January, not missing it yet! #fuckamazon #fuckbezos

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Chad McCullough

1d ago

This was in the latest bookshop.org newsletter:

"Where You Shop Matters
Amazon doesn’t care about books. They don’t care about maintaining a healthy literary ecosystem where new voices are discovered and important ideas are shared. They don’t care about sponsoring your local little league team or hosting a summer reading challenge designed to keep children learning. They want you to purchase things (so. many. things.) and they don’t care when you return it and it becomes trash.

Independent bookstores aren’t just bookstores. They are pillars of their communities and supporting them means supporting all of the incredible work they do beyond selling books.

They’re invaluable. Amazon is not."

Amen to all of this. If you have an Amazon account, end it, and support your local independent book shop instead.

#supportlocal #fuckamazon

Marquise de What 🇨🇦22h ago

Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽22h ago

So my kid and buddy were chatting about how much hate there is at the catholic school compared to the public school. Even the kids even see the christofascism the adults deny, and are concerned enough to talk about it without prompts. The correlation between religion and hate is causal.

#hate #religion #PublicSchool

Marquise de What 🇨🇦1d ago

Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦2d ago

Elbows up yours. You might say. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-us-canada-imports-35-tariff-trade-war-mark-carney-rcna218182

Trump says he will hit Canadian imports with a 35% tariff in major escalation of trade war

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that the U.S. would apply a 35% tariff to all imports from Canada beginning next month, reviving tensions with a major trade partner that had largely dissipated in recent weeks."Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs," Trump wrote in the letter shared on Truth Social.

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