Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Friendly reminder that you should consider everything you say on the Fediverse to be publicly available and archived by your adversaries, who can and will use it against you.

"Quiet public" isn't saving you from that. "Followers-only" isn't saving you from that. Don't assume your DMs are private either.

Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

π day blood moon.

There was light cloud and the camera seemed to be fighting me a bit, so this is short on detail; taken as the thicker clouds started to roll in; the moon was gone like 45 seconds after this shot. 300mm, 𝑓6.3, ISO 10000.

#photography #bloodmoon

I'm really getting sick of having to keep turning off Apple Intelligence every time one of my devices updates, which they do fairly frequently. Apple needs to respect their customers' choices and stop this crap now.

uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution.

@ublockorigin

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18

#infosec #opsec #ublockorigin #privacy #environment

"They only think about one thing, and it's disgusting."

I'm not talking about sex. I'm talking about rent. And the people who see the world through the rent-seeking lens.

Someone, ideally everyone needs to pay tithes to them, they reason. And not for some ongoing service. Not because of any value they create, but because of value they hold. Value that can never be bought and paid off in full. A nation or king might collect tax, why not me they reason.