synestia

And yet I get blinded every single day

Oh man I still remember the day I learned of the existence of Knaps and their shared libraries (Wrapz).

https://archive.is/20250312183235/https://www.404media.co/saudi-arabia-buys-pokemon-go-and-probably-all-of-your-location-data/

A lot of people do actually. Lots of open source projects mention a dedicated matrix room/space on their project page for example. Regarding discovery: Can we presume you have used the 'Explore rooms' functionality of your matrix client? (Element has this).

Just keep wearing that pin, speak out against hate and maybe chill the fuck out?

relevant: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/

I saw the thumbnail and thought this was a map of The Netherlands

Alpine Linux

Dorsey took care to hire on for the Bluesky staff a collection of LessWrong rationalists, neoreactionaries, VibeCamp anti-wokeist race scientists and crypto developers. And Bluesky still had to asymptotically approach a tolerable degree of moderation and — eventually, despite the CEO and several devs being followers of the test case offender — ban the Nazis.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/

Pocketbook also makes great devices, not that well known outside of EU but their software has more features than Kobo and is (as of yet) not in the book selling market so no conflict of interest (and no analytics, contrary to kobo).

Bottled water: Imagine drinking 240000 microplastic particles per bottle.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/19/health/microplastics-human-penises-study-scli-intl-scn-wellness/index.html