TwoTwenty @twotwenty@qoto.org

The Truth About Afghanistan’s Zero Unit Night Raids
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CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable.

A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.

#CIA #Afghanistan

https://www.propublica.org/article/afghanistan-night-raids-zero-units-lynzy-billing?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

We need to either regulate or bust up corporations (like Ticketmaster) that corner markets. But to do so, we must get big money out of politics.

When monopoly power is combined with political clout, the public gets taken for a ride. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-hurt-when-monopolies-crash-and?fbclid=IwAR27eDk6eSC2ej0egKw7h0ALjkOsBcF5OUu-H_tBDQnYmHvBXla6HAeF5ok

Chicago’s skyline takes the crown

I shot this a while back on an aerial flight. The fact that the shadows were almost perfectly perpendicular to the lakefront (part of the shoreline anyway) was pure luck. But when I flipped the photo, it turned into a much more dramatic image

#Chicago #Photogrpahy #Architecture #monochromatic #skyline #lakemichigan

Ok, it's been 3-weeks since I've joined Mastodon and here's my take away so far:

1. White folx prioritizing their fuckin feeling OVER their IMPACT of their racist behavior

2. I'm thankful that I was strategic in joining the instance I'm on because, due to their efforts, they've DEMONSTRATED their INTENT to prioritize voices like mine

3. As a Black women, there's no truly safe space for us

For comparison just @FSF thanks to #RMS 's conference in Brno, Czechia in MUNI with the help of free software advocates were able to basically replace proprietary software in education institutions state-wide and all that for next to free.

I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful instances.
Download it here

How to import

• go to settings
• click on import & export
• click on import
• under import select domain blocking list
• then select the csv file you downloaded
• click upload
  Boom a friendly mastodon & fediverse experience

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
QT: https://qoto.org/@STORM/109260056830000449

RT from PACE (@PACE_News)

“It is a very serious matter for democratic countries to spy on their politicians, or their journalists – and to do so for years. It’s a grave abuse of human rights” - rapporteur @PieterOmtzigt, opening today's PACE #spyware hearing.

Watch it again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZft_l0cWJs&feature=youtu.be

"We live in an age where all of our digital life, all of our communications are now in the cloud, and most of it is hosted overseas. I have no desire to live in a world where five giants own all the files in the world."

~ Frank Karlitschek

https://go.nextcloud.com/r/pLj

"It is time for the US government to end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets. Publishing is not a crime" | Editors and publishers of @guardian @nytimes @el_pais @derspiegel @lemondefr #FreeAssangeNOW https://t.co/JL7kVgfX2o

@twotwenty Hi I enjoyed so much reading you, Im from Argentina and I been curious about another social networks because I was bored of the usuals but I didnt considerate everythinh you re saying. Thank you, I think that too and want my friends to join this platform too 🌎

Obligatory reminder, to everyone working on #FOSS #FLOSS #opensource projects

You're making alternatives because the status quo is BAD!!!! Don't use corporate platforms to promote your "Free" projects.

You are inadvertently forcing others to also use those platforms, which we all want to escape from!

If you insist that you go where the people are, at the very least maintain a presence on the open alternatives, so we can migrate away from them.

Please and thank you!

Please Boost!!!

When I moved to Mastodon from Twitter 7 months ago, there were things that blew my mind.

You can have interesting conversations with just a few dozen followers, who actually read what you write and click links.

If you ask questions, you get answers and feedback. No need for 100K followers.

The algorithms don't bury your posts that contain links, because there are no algorithms.

#TwitterMigration #Mastodon