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Hello #Europe 🇪🇺 before you start clutching your pearls how about paying attention to 🚩who you have been voting lately and where are their funds coming from 🚩who are controlling European media 🚩who have a leadership seat at the European Commission

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

I've taken the paywall off this in case anybody fancies a read. I promise it's worth it. I mean, I would say that, wouldn't I, but I do promise it is. tomcox.substack.com/p/31-notes-i...

10M downloads after a launch 2 months ago, with a user base on Meta of 3Bn MAU? Safe to say, nobody gives a shit about the cuddly surveillance bot from Zuck.

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me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

This explains 1/4th of my diet over the last five years

Just learned potatoes have benzodiazepines in them and suddenly a lot of things make sense

Egypt has constructed a flagpole standing more than 200 meters tall. it's the world's tallest. unfortunately, it can't fly a flag. the winds are too strong up there, you see. i think a lot of people are going to make fun of this. but not me. i think it is an important monument to hubris.

Current journalism on electronics manufacturing and AI, in a nutshell

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

Once again we are arriving at that time of year when robins absolutely do not give a fuck about any of your opinions.

Escala de indignación.

It would be lovely if the video games industry would let the people who make the games buy food

And it is increasingly clear the later doesn't socialize with the former and that is something I never ever forget about them.

You quit coffee to try bringing your adrenaline and cortisol down to humanly reasonable levels and then the universe throws a whole ass PHPmageddon with certificate toppings at you

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

i personally don't believe you have to smile to look stylish. for instance: IG charlie_the_griffon

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

I have now collected, in one post, pretty much ALL the paintings my dad has done of his and my mum's cat Bridget travelling through time. Even if you think you've seen them all, I promise you have not, and I promise you will not be disappointed... tomcox.substack.com/p/the-cat-wh...

There is a persistent headspace here in Norway that we'll only benefit from the warming of the planet......it is not true

Don't get me wrong: it's very bad that a centuries old town hall caught fire, but a society that thinks this is worth getting preoccupied about and doesn't seem to much care about people losing hands and eyes and life is a society that needs a serious rethink of priorities

many on the Irish far right tweeting shit like "how will France ever come back from this?" how will France ever come back from riots? France? The Fifth French Republic?

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

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if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

we saw a majestic bird land and were filming from a distance in case they did anything beautiful 🥲🥲 (saturation turned up so you can spot them in the trees better)

Howard Zinn was really one of the greatest writers.

girls only want one thing and it is a single aspect of human life that has not been intentionally made worse in the interest of chasing limitless profit

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

The shopping cart theory is proven once again

"Hi my name is Scamly Emailtwat. I'm reaching out to you about your book to tell you why it's unique using a composite of comments already made online about it. I am definitely real & not a tumble dryer and have not already emailed this to 65 million other authors today. I AM LONELY PLEASE LOVE ME."

When done right, a #gamedev adaptation becomes the vanguard and leads the IP and narrative across media channels, which means anyone employed as a narrative designer or game writer should be hotter property than a screenwriter with no experience of the industry or the game itself. Know your worth.

For the love of Kirby please do not listen to anyone who says you should be doing two finished pages of comic book art a day. It is a recipe for burnout, misery, and eventually, the destruction of your career. Industry standard is one a day, five a week. Period. Got it?

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.