“Antifascism is protecting people from individuals with structural power. Right now that is Putin. If you are protecting his hegemony over his vast and increasing empire, if you are What Abouting into helplessness, you are part of the aggressor.”

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/04/fuck-leftist-westplaining/

@bit_tyrant_resistor Thank goodness we have an Australian to tell those poor, simple Eastern Europeans what to think.

“You, the Westerners, will never get it. Partially because most of yous have a completely different experience of history, and it is that of living your life in a dominating country. Partially because you can’t be arsed to listen, and you never were.”

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/03/04/fuck-leftist-westplaining/

@lerk You assume the pilots will be getting more pay. This is not the way of O’Leary (who is definitely not a cunt).

So Twitter has suspended me for calling Michael O’Leary (Ryanair) a cunt for profiteering from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

I’ve had to delete my tweet in order to be let back in.

I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise. Michael O’Leary is not a cunt. I was wrong to call Michael O’Leary a cunt. Please do not call Michael O’Leary a cunt.

To make amends, I will post “Michael O’Leary is not a cunt” every day for the next 100 days.

#MichaelOLearyIsNotACunt

Then again, mind you, likely a moot point as elementary OS doesn’t seem able to print either.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://github.com/elementary/switchboard-plug-printers/issues

Ah, I remember the days you could just plug in a printer to your computer and print from it… those were the days!

Today I learned VSCode cannot print.

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/5953

@dvn @clacke @brie They’re backtracking slightly for optics (see the Feb 24th version: “Stop Putin’s invasion. Stop NATO escalation.” https://web.archive.org/web/20220224163502/https://diem25.org/stop-the-war-ukraine/) but see Yanis’s tweets and the tweets from Razem members for more details.

@cjd Yep, that’s Trump and his lot.

It’s appalling how some of the discourse on the left currently boils down to “if you only do as he says, he won’t have to harm you.”

Can you people even hear yourselves right now?

@Gargron I can confirm that there is no pro-Russia content on my instance ;)

@drq So, a couple of things:

I hope no one on your fediverse servers thinks they have any privacy whatsoever. I know you know this but I hope they do as well. If they’re posting anything sensitive, they’re putting themselves and others in danger.

Secondly, is there anything I can do from here to make sure that your servers can continue to function if/when this goes ahead?

Hey isn’t Orban the dickhead who proudly doesn’t recognise EU law?

How about we don’t give a shit what that fascist asshole thinks on this for a change?

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1497504901466832899?s=20&t=MkIJQQl5rC7tHPp-bpvz3g

Hungary has reportedly relented on cutting Russia off from SWIFT.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1497544729545920513

@harald Regulations, standards bodies, the state… dude, what are you, a communist?

;)

(I don’t even know where to start with these people these days. Not sure if it’s possible to cleanse the US of right libertarianism at this point. Heck, don’t know how fact the infection goes in Europe, even.)

Almost as if temporary high-growth baby corporations obsessed with their exit aren’t the best vehicles for guaranteeing the long-term welfare of the species or something.

🤷♂️

#startups #theSiliconValleyModel

“But, hey, if you don’t like it, just use a different bionic eye company!”

Maybe “voting with your wallet” isn’t the all-encompassing answer some folks seem to think it is… 🤔

https://mstdn.io/@deutrino/107813074882437085

NFTs: the grift that never stops shilling.

https://twitter.com/crypto/status/1494032040316088326

Hey, maybe startups aren’t the wisest way for society to fund critical technology… 🤔

https://mstdn.io/@deutrino/107813074882437085