doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

Something I keep thinking about:

The excessive heat warnings across the country today, and the people relying on Twitter to get information cooling centers, free water, etc.

If you run a social media account for an elected/agency, please bring up to your bosses that now is the time to start building up your platforms outside of Twitter too.

breaking: twitter accidentally first tech megacorp to introduce actual digital wellness features

Did you know that the law banning homosexuality in Germany that the Nazis used to start their persecution of queers was founded in 1532, under the Holy Roman Empire, as described in the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina.

Did you know that law stayed on the books til 1994?

80 years ago today, Willem Arondeus was executed by Nazis after he bravely bombed a building to destroy 800,000 identity cards.

He was an openly-gay Dutch artist who forged documents for Jewish people.

His last words were "Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards."

I must not engage with the discourse
Discourse is the time-killer
Discourse is the little error that leads to table-flipping
I will ignore the discourse
I will permit it to pass through me and over me
When it has gone past, I will turn to my timeline and see no posts
Where the discourse was, there will be nothing
Only cat pics will remain

i don't want Another Twitter i want digital infrastructure that i know will still be around in 15 years

And one more time for those in the back re the #Kolektiva controversy.

The fedi (and online in any way unless you PERSONALLY know the people you’re engaged with and can trust them with your life, you are *only* using E2EE and not on surface web, etc) is NOT a place for actions or serious plans for them beyond those that have legal safe harbor for now (e.g. electioneering/voting/running for office, planned peaceful protest, boycotts, complaints, lawsuits, nonviolent strikes/labor organizing, malicious compliance, and the like)

And if those particular ones are criminalized - shut up about them too.

Online is a place for words, theories, being your full self, exposing harm being done - lots of things in our lives, but not for getting other people in trouble because you want to be both the mouth and the hand.

it's cool to see twitter breaking a major function of cross-platform info sharing by killing off-site embeds in exactly the same way google did by killing reader, the same way apple did by killing flash

the enemy of all infrastructural stability online is the corporation's irrational hunger for profit at all costs. just because the head of today's dragon is a fucking court jester doesn't change the fact that this will only keep happening as long as the web is a playground for venture capital

My greatest advice to those concerned: Start archiving. If you come across something you believe is valuable: make a copy.

If you follow a guide on how to install and configure software and you found it helpful: make a copy.

If you come across a video you really enjoy and find yourself coming back to again and again: make a copy.

If it means anything to you: make a copy, or you'll wish you did.

It's not just about the basic opsec of "don't say you did anything illegal or know who did" on an electronic device, it's also about mapping people's social ties

The only healthy assumption to make is that any information you transmit to a third party will become public at some point, possibly in a courtroom

"War is armed combat between organised political entities; civil war is armed combat within an organised unit."