Mastodawn

Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.

Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.

* No age or ID verification

* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run

* No third party accounts

GRASSY KNOWLES 17h ago

Neil Brown 23h ago

The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.

GRASSY KNOWLES 17h ago

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱1d ago

It's so telling that all our social narratives say that "do what you gotta do to survive" means some kind of violence or psychic damage against someone when what it's really "have some joy, get out in the garden, laugh with a friend"

GRASSY KNOWLES 17h ago

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦17h ago

🇺🇦🇩🇪🤔 When I brought up the drones that Ukraine has used so effectively against Russian tanks, the company’s chairman and CEO, Armin Papperger, was withering in his dismissal. “This is how to play with Legos,”, - The Atlantic

“What is the innovation of Ukraine?”. “They don’t have some technological breakthrough. They make innovations with their small drones, and they say, ‘Wow!’ And that’s great. Whatever. But this is not the technology of Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, or Rheinmetall.”

GRASSY KNOWLES 17h ago

RE: https://mas.to/@dmacphee/116306646314578724

#boycottusa
Boycott
with extreme prejudice

GRASSY KNOWLES 1d ago

Show thread

Crystal_Fish_Caves 1d ago

@newsguyusa wow. FBI director getting hacked? That's as crazy as having a antivaxer head the health department.
Season 2 sucks
no stars

GRASSY KNOWLES 1d ago

Jeff Jarvis 1d ago

Some hero renamed the White House on Google Maps as Epstein Island. Bless you, whoever you are.
Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2026/03/27/white-house-google-database-epstein/

Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed ‘Epstein Island.’

Washington Post journalists who called the White House switchboard using Google Pixel Android phones saw “Epstein Island” on their screens Thursday.

The Washington Post

GRASSY KNOWLES 2d ago

Lady Laura

2d ago

#FunFact

GRASSY KNOWLES Mar 20

Pillar of maga American hubris, Chuck Norris, is dead.
EID MUBARAK!

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7136043

#blockgps
#boycottusa
#eidmubarak

GRASSY KNOWLES Mar 16

b9AcE Mar 16

"El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States, Human Rights Watch said today, one year after some of the men were sent to El Salvador.

The detained people are among more than 9,000 Salvadorans deported by the United States since the start of 2025. Some of them were deported on March 15, 2025, alongside the Venezuelans who were tortured and, in some cases, sexually abused in the Center for Terrorism Confinement (Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, CECOT) mega prison."
More: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/16/us/el-salvador-deportees-forcibly-disappeared

US/El Salvador: Deportees Forcibly Disappeared

El Salvador is forcibly disappearing and arbitrarily detaining Salvadorans deported from the United States.

Human Rights Watch

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