I used to work in local television news production and one of the most common occurrences was something not working, someone calling engineering, and then it starting to work when the engineer walked in the room.

If you’re not on a list of people to harass, terrorize, abuse, or possibly deport in the Trump administration, make sure you are are on one of those by signing this public petition! /s

I’m actually joking, because letting that kind of fear stop us is how they’ve won so far and how they’ll win in the future, unless we stop being afraid of the consequences of living in a corrupt USA and speaking truth to power.

Just ask Fred Hampton.

I’m sure continuing to make demands while not doing anything yourself will work out just swimmingly.

They already owe their livelihoods to Blockchain Capital, and venture capital firm of crypto-bros.

The bait is out and the switch is coming.

People forget that Biden wrote the PATRIOT Act. Which opened the door to unprecedented spying on US citizens.

“It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.”

How will it handle the surge?

By enshittifying to make those venture capital bucks back.

Well yeah, let’s get the Mastodon devs a cool $15 million so they can hire more devs and compete. /s

You fail to understand open source. You want it better? Get fucking involved and stop asking people who are coding for free to compete with the code of an organization that has millions in dollars backing them and a team of professional developers.

Either get involved or start dumping money into the Mastodon devs patreon accounts.

Whichever you do is way more constructive than bitching about an open source program made by volunteers and comparing it to a slick corporate product with literally millions backing it and it’s development. That’s just sucking corporate dick by any other name.

Further, pretty sure block lists were and are available on Mastodon.

No wonder Trump won, everyone wants to suck at the teat of the rich instead of saying “we don’t need you.”

Dang majority ruining it for the majority

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital

In other words, the enshittification is coming. Because Bluesky is backed by crypto-bro venture capital.

A lot of hay is being made about Bluesky but despite literal oligarchs taking over the country, I guess rich people dictating how our systems work is what people want because apparently Mastodon is too much to ask of individuals.

We can talk about Bluesky and how great their tech is all we want, but unless we address the elephant in the room, venture capital that wants a return on their investment, we’re just spiraling the same stupid fucking drain we’ve been down with every social media preceding it.

We’re really awake, and it’s really a horror-show. We’re learning in real-time how absolutely fucked we are as a species, and we were already in a pretty precariously fucked position already.

The amount of immediate sucking up that is happening is disgusting, but America was always willing to sell its soul for the dollar.

Strap in, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.

Do: Admit, through the use of a racial slur, that you were glad Williamsburg hipsters were mostly white. (revealing early on how much of a piece of shit he was)

Don’t: Shove a dildo up your ass to prove you’re not homophobic. (because no, just no)

It’s more that the system itself just leaves more and more children behind, as passing kids who aren’t actually making the grade has become the norm because parents are abusive and more apt to harass/harangue and schools are pressured with funding to make sure enough kids are graduating. Teachers themselves are left with few options and there’s still bright kids, they’re just waaaaay in the minority compared to the apparently teeming masses of absolute fuckwits.

Also, I’m in my 40’s and when I think of the quality and intelligence of the people I graduated with? Well, maybe it hasn’t gotten that much worse, actually. Because I remember thinking everyone around me was a fucking idiot, tempering that thought as I got older, but now I’ve come back full fucking circle to these people are fucking idiots, raising other idiots.

If kids are dumb today, millennials are on the hook for it, boomers didn’t do this one.

Not just control, but Christianity specifically (as well as a few others) is really good because it promises a paradise after you die.

You can get idiot plebes to spend their whole lives dreaming about it all being better after they die, because they were pious and accepted abuse during life.

So, control through fear and hope.

EDIT: Also Christianity is inherently misogynistic and that’s very appealing to disaffected young men who hate that women won’t fuck them. Angry young men with no direction or group to belong to are one of the most dangerous and destabilizing groups a country can have.

They also successfully killed public education, so literally the citizens are too stupid to understand they’re being conned.

I remember telling friends that it was so wild because, like… I absolutely believe in pedophiles in positions of high power and others using that as blackmail to get what they want… but when it veers into “Satanic Cult Conspiracy” that is firmly where you lost me.

But it’s clear they either don’t understand or never actually cared about such issues.

They were super busy investigatating black lives matters protestors for example… While they also readily admit nazis are a bigger problem.

Like all cops they prefer low hanging fruit that doesn’t fight back, and a lot of them simply agree with the racists.

ACAB includes the FBI that investigated and murdered Fred Hampton.

Obligatory FUCK OPRAH WINFREY.

We elected a fox to guard the hen house and he is predictably hiring weasels to protect the chickens.

*Yawn

It would be more scary if it wasn’t so fucking predictable and boring. A boring dystopia, indeed.

Is this the banality of evil?