Pablo SB @iPabloSB@qoto.org

The UK Government is over-ruling the Scottish Parliament on a matter of human rights. This is an outrage and a dark day for democracy in the UK.

People in the top 1% of the consumption distribution bear a disproporionate responsibility for CO2 emissions and thus for climate change. And aviation is a major part of this. (Source:@zoe_institute) 5/

Doesn't it bother anyone that the winning #podcasts of the recently announced #Signal Awards feature some illustrious names such as JJ Abrams, HBO Max, Trevor Noah, Netflix, Viola Davis, Al Jazeera, and ABC News?

What exactly are these awards celebrating? Big budgets?

Can we at least have a #category for truly independent #podcasters working on shoe-string budgets? Or is #podcasting also doomed to be overrun by the mainstream?

Every person I've ever met with an anti-immigration stance...

It never ceases to amaze me that you can be stuck on a problem for 2 days, say “screw it I’m going for a walk around town” and then solve it fifteen minutes into the walk.

#boost si ves esta imagen y automáticamente suena la música en tu cabeza.

How it started how it's going

From now on when I read or watch news pieces and pundit discussions about “the economy” I’ll think of this…

Global tiger numbers rise to 4,500 in last 7 years, another positive news story that you are unlikely to see on the news.

from 3,200 in 2015 to 4,500 in 2022.

🔁 - share good news using #goodnews so more people find it.

#tiger #tigers #WWF #wildlife #nature

I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!

✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.

✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.

✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default

✔️ I want the country to own it.

Facts are facts.

It was a delight to hear @gruber and @glennf talk about iCloud Keychain on the latest The Talk Show. Glenn mentioned a really cool trick I want to repeat: in Safari, if you right-click or tap-and-hold on a TOTP setup QR code, you’ll get an option to set up a code generator. :)

I'm more or less part of the fediverse since 2017, but I still can't get over the fact that you people are describing images, very often making me almost content with not being able to see them at all. I've never seen so many people taking time to write meaningful descriptions on this level anywhere else.

It really, really means a lot! Thank you for making it awesome for everyone! Keep 'em coming! ☺️

whoa and also thanks Stuff for making knotwords their mobile game of the year ! holy moly

https://www.stuff.tv/award/the-stuff-gadget-awards-2022-mobile-app-and-game-of-the-year/

#unionize

Actual conversation I had…

Me: Billionaire philanthropy is nothing more than PR. Tax billionaires.
Troll: Lol you trust the Govt to spend our money?
Me: Yes, the Govt is elected by We the People, and therefore is accountable to us and can be voted out.
Troll: Govt is bought.
Me: Bought by who?
Troll: By billionai—...😳
Me: ...🤔
Troll: Ok, Tax billionaires.

I really struggled with the icing for my gingerbread barn and it accidentally became a gingerbread slaughterhouse.

No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/#free-as-in-puppies

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