I think it all follows the same structure. There’s an imagined wholeness and peace that was beset by something alien, eliminating that alien threat will get us back to how things were. In case of Israel for example, things were great before October 7th and then something was introduced and we need to eliminate it. The imagined wholeness is always a fascistic nostalgia for a state that never was, and the alien threat element is a scapegoat for the problems they don’t wanna face. Genocide is the fascistic structure taken to its limit. We find this now in Trump’s rhetoric about how things were great before the alien emigrants and how getting rid of them will turn us into this imagined state of wholeness and belonging, it’s always scapegoating and focusing internal issues on one group in order to avoid facing them.

Thanks I’m already there, but haven’t been super active on Mastodon lately. I do enjoy the server though.

Bluesky is more similar to Twitter and has what most people were used to, like an algorithm, quote tweets, etc I found it extremely boring, but tbh it’s a more polished experience. One of my biggest annoyances with Mastodon is how threads and replies look weird. Sometimes I see the reply to a post before I see the post, especially in the “lists” view. Also not having an algorithm is both good and bad. It’s great because it’s organic, but it also means many posts get buried and it’s dependent on the time. As someone not living in the US and Europe, it’s tricky because sometimes you’ll post something when most people are asleep and no one will see it. I ultimately love Mastodon more because of the openness and the federation. But most people will find Bluesky more approachable

Idk it’s full of zios. I posted about Palestine and went on an argument with someone who claimed telling Israel to stop killing children is antisemitic because Hitler blamed Jews of killing children.

I went away from Twitter for a long time but I started browsing it again from time to time. I just find Mastodon too lib and too full of this fake civility. There are still good things going on on Twitter like how the truth about the story of “Amsterdam attacks” was uncovered there while all the media lied. I find that most info about Palestine is found there and most push back against the Zionists.

Wow thanks for the existential anxiety

This is not open source. In open source people contribute to the project and in return the code belongs to anyone who likes to take it and work on it. Here they are asking for contribution while fully owning the code. It’s basically free labor

Name of song?

What is the filesystem in that hard drive? I’ve used Calibre with multiple installs of different distros and never had any issues with it reading my library.

The only texts I get are from my ISP warning they’ll soon cut off the Internet if I don’t pay

Well in Linux you can use a command literally called “kill”

it happened to me before and I ordered a replacement screen and paid a guy to replace it.

I am late to the party, still on season 6 of TNG. Will start DS9 after that. better late than never, I guess. What’s your overall impression on DS9 as compared to TNG?

Arabic speaker here. This is weird because in Arabic there are two words that can both be spelled as “shahid” in English but they are pronounced differently and spelled differently in Arabic. Witness is generally spelled as شاهد which is pronounced as Shaaa-Hed. شاهد can litetally mean “to see or to watch something”. Martyr is شهيد which is pronounced like Shahiiiid.

But it’s complicated too because the plural “shohadaa” is the same for both these words so it can mean “witnesses” or “martyrs”.

The article is using two words as if they are one word used differently. They are two words that have the same plural form.

“Write… The shittiest take in the world… Or I’ll eat your soul . … And I wrote the first thing that came to my head Just so happened to be The shittiest take in the world It was the shittiest take in the world”

The existential wound of being born

It started working again after an update. I do have their own fdroid repo for faster updates so idk if it’s in thr fdroid repo yet

Omg you’re the good kind of black

To be fair I see myself back in the day and think “what was I thinking”

Still waiting for someone to create Woman