excited for the mastodon rise

@qkslvrwolf
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Gardening, hiking, bike riding, game playing, inactive poly, left-ish/liberal-ish/radical-ish, partisan, urbanist, separated air force, RCV

Very interested in social media and how community is built

software engineering manager by trade

use the phrase "genocide Joe" in my mentions and get instablocked

he/him

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/116305873092655616

if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.

governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.

that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.

TIL 49 US state demonyms follow some form of state-suffix convention. Only exception is Indiana whose citizens are called Hoosiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._states_and_territories
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1s7fbh5/til_49_us_state_demonyms_follow_some_form_of/

Gas skyrocketing, bombs dropping, our standing in the world in tatters, taxpayer dollars up in flames — meanwhile this oligarch dictator wanna-be brags about his new ballroom and the “Corinthian” columns How is every American not sickened by this?

To Canada's Green Party folks: the federal leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, @avilewis, is on Mastodon. A good sign that at least one federal party leader sees value in the Fediverse & a move away from the toxic oligarch stranglehold.

Here's the friendly challenge 🤳
Call on the Canada's Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, to join the migration to Mastodon.

📧 [email protected]
📞 613 996 0850 | 250 657 2000

#cdnpoli #GreenParty #GreenPartyOfCanada

General Strike, May 1st
#mono #Chicago #NoKings #NK3

The insanity but done under a normal voice

THIS, this is the ‘President’ of the #US

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @[email protected] Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

Do car-free zones hurt disable...
Do car-free zones hurt disabled people? We asked experts.

City planners and advocates are seeing "accessibility used as a political football."

Mother Jones
Madrid closed its central business district to cars for the first time during the 2018 Christmas period. The result was a 9.5% increase in retail spending on Madrid’s main shopping street, the Gran Vía. Plus there was a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @[email protected] in @[email protected]. #UrbanTruth

Closing Central Madrid To Cars...
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Forbes
Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings
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