Personally, I’m excited there’s a decentralized option that’s super popular. Yes, relatively very few run their own PDS, but if the main bsky instance becomes a problem for anyone, people can easily migrate.

It’s not just data ownership either; The AT protocol supports community-built algorithms, relays, and app views.

I’m running my own PDS on the AT Protocol 🤷‍♂️

Two words: Nomadic identity

This. People have been given an alternate reality to live in, so complex and all-encompassing that—unless they’ve grown up to have an appreciation for critical thinking—all the thinking’s been done for them.

You could use those as single panes, and add two below them:

1 - Employee not getting jailed while boss is 2 - Employee not owning any product

I thought the “inalienability” history lesson (~9min in) was interesting: that it began under the idea that you are responsible for your own beliefs, and cannot blame the priests who gave them to you (“inalienability of conscience”).

Longest running meme in history

As doctors continue to flee the state

S

Jimmy Swaggart Ministries

The cellular-bananular phone changed my life. I still sing it to this day

Modern astrophysics exists because a house fell on a teenage orphan.

Who as a result got adopted by a prince.

He got access to a royal lab for glassmaking.

Then he tried fixing color aberration in his microscope lenses.

Then he noticed the rainbow had holes in it. Huh.

Then he died. Glassmaking and tuberculosis are fast friends.

Then Bunsen invented his burner, which made spectra that matched the rainbow holes. Huh.

Now we know what stars and planetary atmospheres are made of!

Especially with Project 2025 (day one after the election of the next GOP candidate). The executive branch will no longer be controllable by the other two branches. Also, Schedule F will allow all “policy-related” government workers to be rescheduled as fireable employees, allowing the Prez to install loyalists throughout the entire government. It’s definitely time to freak the fuck out.

And for trying to pull the group along, as futile as it may be.

I respect it. We need more of this.

srsly what the fuck

I think they might mean independently 🤷‍♂️ Otherwise, the answer to your question would be “The United States.”

So night is just really weak day

yes yes

all of them