Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I hate how many of the disabled folks that are reporting on the mask bans are entirely missing the anti-Palestinian component of the mask ban.

There is a reason why one of the mask ban bills I saw had an exception for COVID, religion, disability, etc. And that was because if you had actually read the bill in full, the PRIMARY intent of that bill to ban Palestinian protestors and the keffiyeh as a facial covering.

And I just hate that fucking one dimensional analysis that will make shit worse, not better.

It's also something I have been getting increasingly silently pissed at after reading Project 2025. That fucking long ass bigoted as fuck document. "Oh well that's a distraction"- No that was in Parts 1, 2, and 4 of the fucking document if you would have even skimmed it. That is a CORE part of the plan. ALL of the shit folks have called a "distraction" (trans rights, mass firing of government workers, widespread disinformation, pushing as much shit through as possible and knowing that it is illegal and try to negotiate to make some parts legal) ARE FUCKING CORE COMPONENTS OF PROJECT 2025.

Fucking tired of this god damn ignorance and shit and it's not even been 2 months since he's been in office.

Concept: A computer whose first loyalty is to me, the user, and not the corporation that built it

@joepie91 it's also called "appeasement". You know, something that worked out very well in Europe in the years of 1933 to 1940 /s

the main reason I use Linux despite how frustrating and headachy it constantly is is that I'm allergic to the feeling that some corporation is shaping what I do with my computer and how. I found Windows 95 and the first OSX to be so condescending and constraining as to be intolerable, and both only got worse with time. I hate Linux and the STEM-poisoned culture surrounding it, but there's no alternative.

however so much of computing now is web or mobile, and as years pass more and more migrates to it. and then when I'm using stuff that's garden-walled in other people's servers or that's only available in "no root in your own device: the OS" Android, I have to swallow the same sensation I've been working hard to escape all my life: that a USA corporation put a straightjacket on me.

it's ridiculous how it's now normal that computers are adversarial to their owners and using a computer now means to be working around constantly hostility of software designed specifically to not help you, and this is accepted enough that for young people that's their whole idea of what a computer is, a sort of scammy robot always trying to pull one over you

@joepie91 There's genuinely no outcome where Trump hadn't thrown a fit and pulled support