AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org

@rato@todon.eu I thought anarchism was a naive call for a power vacuum and destroying existing institutions, unaware of the authoritarianism of the strong and abandonment of the weak that inevitably follows in the collapse of governments. No one wants to live in a Hobbesian land of feuding warlords and cartels until finally desperate people unite behind whatever strongman promises he can restore the rule of law.

So… yes, anarchists have a huge branding problem. I’d pick a different word, tbh.

@manu I was going to explain how I have much greater search ability on the vanilla Mastodon app, and how IceCubes isn’t allowing any— but upon going back, I’m now getting the same blanks on both. So whatever’s going on is a me-side problem that I’ll have to wait to hopefully resolve so I can get a fair comparison. In the meantime, I withdraw my complaint.

More commentary on the #jessesingal implosion:

Happy Pi Day!

#pi #pie #nerd #silly

@manu okay, Ice Cubes is much faster, just as advertised, and fixed all the issues I’ve been having with replies and notifications lately. So loving that. However, it doesn’t seem to have a functional search? I see only an option to search within my instance, but even that is not giving results. Do you know what I might be missing?

@WAHa_06x36 try searching for anything specific in Amazon for even wilder results.

@grapeapple seen.

@GeoffWilbourn you aren’t alone:

@andrewblasco@paquita.masto.host thank you.

@manu thank you.

#memes #silly #videogames #mario

Eye-opening WaPo gift article, detailing a lawsuit brought in #Texas seeking clarification and guidance on their #abortion statute when it puts #pregnant women in medical danger, as well as raising due process and equal protection concerns on that basis. It’s an op-ed, so the tone is far from neutral, but it is also informative and critically important. No matter where you stand on the personhood of the #unborn, the current state of the law having catastrophic effects.

https://wapo.st/3SZVJwI

Via @oneunderscore__

#lawyers #employmentlaw #twitter #ada

On my desktop, #Mastodon works smoothly, but on my phone, it’s a hassle, and started getting dramatically worse a few days ago.

So I am looking into #app choices to try, on iOS. But there’s a lot! Does anyone have any advice about which I should use or avoid? I see #ivory , #metatext , #icecubes , #mammoth , #tootle , #tooot , #mastoot , #tusker … I do NOT have the energy to try all of that, so any opinions would be useful, please.

#socialmedia #privacy #investigations #warrants #abortion #meta #facebook #google #police #userdata #pharmacies

Police getting help from social media to prosecute people seeking abortions.

https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2?utm_campaign=business-sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter