The Galactic Janitor

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@heathen_cat @evacide

Agreed. It was always aspirational - no disagreement there. But people visiting the US from abroad in the 1980s and 1990s would never have thought to themselves: "They might detain me for something that I wrote that disparages Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, so I better hide that." You can add Ford and Carter to that list as well. Hell, even George W. Bush wouldn't have done that.

That just wasn't a concern.

@evacide There was a time, growing up, that the USA was called "The Land of the Free"....

What is happening now is so ludicrously insane that words fail me.

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/journalist-security-checklist-preparing-devices-travel-through-us-border
A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border

We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting materials or source contact information. It’s important to think about your strategy in advance, and begin planning which options in this checklist make sense for you.

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The Interminably Obscene Timelines of Social Media

@xenodium You're welcome. Sorry that I'm so late writing it up.
Getting Journelly to Sync in France

You don't know how old you really are, until you see something like this:

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5669426/cursive-handwriting-school-controversy

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdoptableDogsTexas/s/sEamUsCtzm

If anyone is local to Texas, these little dogs don't have long before they are put down.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic Cory Doctorow has a wonderful piece out today called Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) in which he talks about RSS feeds. RSS, for those who don't know, is one of the best things ever created. I'll let you read the piece to to find out why...

https://somethingwonderful.eu/rss-reduce-enshittification.html

Cory Doctorow (@[email protected])

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https://somethingwonderful.eu/early-sunday-morning-cleaning.html

1. Getting up too early

One of the things which I changed in my life is my schedule. I used to go to bed after dawn on most days. I liked the quiet time of the night. But then, I'd wake up around noon and felt like the entire day had gone by...

Early Sunday Morning Cleaning