LuckingFurker

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that you recognise it would be a struggle should honestly spur you on even more to do it. People got by for a long time without the Internet and even though now the same infrastructure they’d have used is at best a shell of its former self if not gone entirely it would still be possible. We don’t have to stop entirely but if a bunch of sites suddenly find their traffic is way down they’d start to put pressure on about getting rid of ID checks and we might finally see some movement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I know there are easy ways around it but I’m not going to use them, and I wish more people could take this attitude - if everyone cut down their Internet usage in response to this ID stuff things would quickly start to turn around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plot twist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would watch the shit out of a movie about a time traveling T. Rex with force lightning powers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then the right followed us and we ceded that to them too. We have a long, horrible uphill struggle before us

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s certainly a tricky one, I feel like a lot of us have some trauma still from covid anyway, and the world is just acting like it has gone away. At least in the real world there are spaces outside that can’t be controlled that easily. I feel you on the meetup groups too, I’d love some local queer friends but I don’t know where the local queer people are meeting up. But the Internet is becoming the ultimate hostile space very quickly and sadly we need to either accept it or try and pull away now before it’s too late

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say not to use it at all, I said to use it less. If you genuinely are unable to connect to other people without the Internet then I am truly sorry about your situation, but if it’s at all remotely possible that you could connect with people offline - even if you first meet them online - then I really urge you to figure out a way to do it because that’s how we break the power of these ghouls, we stop using “their” stuff for our needs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t say “Internet bad” and I didn’t say not to use it at all. I said to use it less, with the implication being to cultivate a life outside of it too, too many people just use the Internet as much as possible and they put up with whatever shit gets thrown at them to keep using it. Like, I’m in the UK so I’m getting hit full-force with this ID shit and I’ve just decided that - as far as I possibly can - if a site needs to see my ID to access it maybe I just don’t need that site. I’m not showing my ID, I’m not using any of the clever tricks people have come up with to get around it, I’m not using a VPN to get around it, I just won’t use that site, and if that leads me to spending less time online then so be it. And if we could all make that decision then things might pick up a lot faster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sincerely: use the Internet less. It’s better for you anyway, but in general we’re seeing a real crackdown from corporations and governments. In response if we all just stop using it so much because it’s becoming unpleasant anyway they won’t know what to do. And maybe a happy side effect if everyone starts to kick the Internet habit is the population becoming generally more sane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How is it that the weirdest dudes keep ending up with so much power and influence. Like, this is just bigoted shit obviously, but it’s weird bigoted shit. What is it about people that makes them look at a weirdo freak (derogatory) like this and think “this is a man I need to have direct the entirety of my belief system going forward”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a knobhead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sbren sbeve

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got any grapes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hunter2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nowadays he’d just whine on social media about how he was “cancelled” and become a darling of the right for a few weeks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idioms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’d had a million guesses I wouldn’t have guessed that and yet it makes perfect sense, thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idioms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely need context for “grandma’s sitting has ended”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fetching bleach after this one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not like it =(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nuked from orbit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there any opinions you have that aren’t garbage?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good old fashioned British conspiracy theories, none of this foreign muck - luv me reptilian royal family, 'ate the deep state, simple as

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, although I take some slight comfort that the whole “deep state” thing doesn’t seem to have found much of a foothold here (yet?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for Europe proper (relatively sane Europe), here in the UK I fully expect most of that same kind of behaviour. Probably not to the same extent as the US but it’ll be bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: ‘We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus’⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, what even is the fucking point of reporting it anymore? We saw what ended up happening with covid, where even otherwise right-minded people started having tantrums about masks and vaccines. The vast majority of people are not going to take precautions with a new pandemic, I half expect the right wingers to start deliberately sneezing in each others faces and asking if we’re triggered by it. We’re screwed if another pandemic happens, and reporting on it won’t even remotely change that, as a species overall we just be too stupid to survive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky: eXodus continues as TERFS lose their brain-rotted minds⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to make FARTs - Feminism Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes - stick instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whether you've got big plans for your Sunday or are just going to relax, Putin could change your plans, end your life, kill all of your family, and incinerate everything you own.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And if he does, so what? There’s nothing I can do about that so why should I worry?