Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

RT @GBGundersen@twitter.com

@TheRaDR@twitter.com It’s a way to avoid responsibility for real reform needed now & for past harm. Many times when I bring up White Supremacist Catholics—the response I get is that “they’re not real Catholics.” But the truth is they r & some of the most powerful ones! Has anyone excommunicated them?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GBGundersen/status/1603608595135754240

Soybean yakuza thread!

This is a continuation of a thread I started on twitter, shifting to Mastodon for Reasons.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1603577651415101440

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Disclaimer, I'm not a historian of Japanese business practices.

That said: I think folks on tumblr may be confusing the yakuza (organized street crime) with zaibatsu (business conglomerates).

You see this vagueness in ADR titles like "Database decision". The title is not supposed to be *about* the decision; it *is* the decision.

I.e., "SQL Server adoption" is a decision, "MongoDB adoption" is a different decision, etc.

That means, each alternative is a separate decision, so "SQL Server adoption" is one decision and "MongoDB adoption" is a different decision written up in a different ADR. You decide to accept one of these and reject the other, but both are recorded.

Greetings. The term "spam" in the context of the Internet has a fascinating history. While some historians point to an email sent by a salesman for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to a then available list of ARPANET users (and yes, if you look at that email as archived, you can find my old UCLA email address on it!), the term actually comes originally from Usenet and later was adapted to its more familiar use relating to unsolicited email.

The problem was Usenet users who would "cross-post" the same messages to multiple newsgroups, causing significant irritation. The word "spam" was adopted for this annoying, repetitious behavior, drawing from a classic "Monty Python's Flying Circus" skit where a bunch of Vikings invade a cafe (that featured spam in most of their menu items) and repeatedly interrupted everyone with a loud song celebrating spam.

Many years later Python member Terry Jones told me that one of the things he was most proud of was their contribution of the word "spam" in this way to the culture of the Internet! -L

RT @albertfong@twitter.com

When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them – and that is of course because they fully accept the system and identify themselves with it.

- Thomas Merton (1967) https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1602342704402337794

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/albertfong/status/1602440085974257666

One cool thing about Mastadon is that it doesn’t fill me with murderous rage every time I open it

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

RT @longislandtonv@twitter.com

@bintalshamsa@twitter.com @TheRaDR@twitter.com Absolutely. I often remind people that there's a reason that particularly on the East Coast major cities had ethnic neighborhoods, Jewish Irish Polish etc. All of those people were not considered white until their utility was needed from WASPs in power. Only then were they White.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/longislandtonv/status/1600597865499197440

Yup.

Watch till the end.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVeMGWJ/

Man, fuck ‘grind culture’ and everybody who glamorizes it.

People need to stop putting value on working so hard they destroy their brains, their bodies, and their relationships.

Just do what you have to do to enjoy what little time you have in this world.