Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

Anarchism! Anarchism! My kingdom for an anarchism! 🐴

There's nothing less collaborative or helpful than showing up here and immediately painting the whole network with undescribed, inactionable first- and second-order sociopolitical conclusions when the fact is we need to either work together in earnest to accomplish literally anything here, or turn cold shoulders at each other like children and scuttle the promise of this space. I'm fully aware that some folks out there really suck, but *what* are they doing and how do you propose we resolve it?

@meph STACKABLE, DIN-RACKABLE, and UNHACKABLE

Had-to-be-there moment for anyone who just fought with six people for a parking spot

Just marching into Costco with a dense crowd, this woman asked a man beside her, arrestingly, "But why are we really here?" and after a beat, me and them and like three strangers all looked at each other and burst out laughing

After severely damaging my eyes with phone use this year, I'm going to be transitioning to mostly using a smartwatch and a laptop instead, and I would encourage you to do the same. Phones are so perfectly designed for eye strain that may not alarm you until you're seeing double. Don't just put up with it until it's too late and you're forced to swear off screens for a month like I did. There's a reason for the massive increase in youth nearsightedness in recent decades.

LB: Government agencies should run their own Mastodon instances so we can block them specifically, otherwise we will simply block the instances who make the mistake of hosting them. That an "infosec"-focused instance would welcome the Department of Homeland Security is truly ludicrous.

Apple's "commitment to privacy" can be earnestly held as long as one's commitments are built on exceptional ethics entirely devoid of self-suspicion, which is an absurd prospect when the 'self' at issue is a corporation, especially one that finds itself compelled to negotiate and collaborate with authoritarian regimes like the United States and China.

My temptation to use screenshots to replace QRT functionality here is almost certainly already shared and acted upon broadly, and the resulting accessibllity problems alone may be sufficient to break the argument over whether to include the functionality or not. Otherwise, Mastodon is already socially doing better than Twitter for people with visual and other impairments, at least per anecdotes of many observing alt-text adoption here.

LB: Seriously, why tf is anybody still using Chrome? Firefox is right there.

Demand Firefox support from every public-facing web resource.

I don't understand the broad acquiescence by precisely those who should know better, like developers and tech activists concerned with privacy.

I don't even open Chrome for select websites, and I haven't missed out on anything meaningful.