Jovian D. Ragon @joviandragon@librem.one

I have the spoons to give you all one or two right now. Americans:

You need to make a risk decision right now about whether to leave the country (particularly if you or family are in a vulnerable group).

Some people do not have the luxury and I deeply respect those who stay to protect them. If you do have the capability to move, there are options, from skills and even apprenticeship visas, to digital nomad, to heritage visas. You have -options. Tons of people have been forced to immigrate for a better life, we have just been privileged to not typically have to. You can sell stuff. It’s just stuff. There are companies who can help you with that. Visas are arcane, but there’s help. Look for the helpers.

It’s expensive, and it takes time and you need to make a plan right now, today. Not three months. Not six months.

Our federal government and judiciary is done for our lifetime. Period. You have to gauge how much your community and state can protect you from the worst harm, and how self sustaining you can be.

if you are #trans in the USA, and reading this. GET A PASSPORT
#TransRights
#transrightsarehumanrights

I am not hopeful. I am quite sad.

Elon Musk essentially bought the election when he bought Twitter.

Journalists could have left Twitter, and had it go the way of MySpace. Instead, they continued to legitimize it, thereby giving it life.

For the next four years, decentralized social media will be needed – if only as an alternative to the faux-progressive media that seek to control the public square.

The world is becoming more and more authoritarian, and we need an antidote.

Hey everyone! A couple good things to remember:

Signal is your friend! https://signal.org/
Be careful about what you post on corporate and federated social media. You don't need to self censor but you should take extra spicy discussions to something like Signal!

Try to withhold my spiritual and astrological beliefs on social media because people don't respect it. But I wanna post this on social media so I can say later "I told you so".

I have a much longer explanation but in short:

It is obvious (even non-astrologically, just politically) we will not have a clear winner on November 5th. In fact we won't know for a while. President and Vice President 🅰️ will announce their victory. President and Vice President 🅱️ will have a major investigation into their money. There will be accusations of paying people for political gain. This will not result in major consequences for them.

But, this will resolve. Eventually, President B is announced as the winner and will sit Jan 6th. Whoever sits Jan 6th will hold that entire presidency. Vice President B will have significant emotional turmoil with the change. President B will bring a consensus in late February, and by the 28th there will be a new way and attitude in the country.

The stars outline a painful, extreme period in the US until we finally have our president. The country will not agree, but by the end of February, the new phase will be in, forever changing the country. 2028 will see some of the same players, but not all of them will be there. One will be gone.

November 5th is a high energy day in the US's chart, but that's not the day we'll be talking about in history books.

I'll reference this post Jan 6th.

** I practice Western Hellenistic Astrology in the Tropical Zodiac with Whole Sign Houses. I do not care when your birthday is; the month and day you were born dictates your "sun sign" that you think of as "typical" astrology.

This is not the astrology I practice. It's all about the rising sign in whole sign houses. Cusps are not real, and your sun sign is a neat fact, not your chart.

If you're the praying type, pray for us.

If you are gonna comment on how astrology is bullshit, I'll question why you even bothered opening the content warning and why you're here in the first place.

It blows my mind that some people believe humans can control the weather and cause hurricanes, but climate change isn't real.

Apparently Democrats are water benders, but it's impossible that all these greenhouse gases we're pumping into the sky can't be at fault...

Rome was only good for the Romans.

⚠️ HEADS UP ⚠️

I am just today noticing several instances of:

- low- or zero-follower accounts
- who’ve posted nothing but 1-2 trollish replies
- in response to posts criticizing Trump
- whose content is some “but Harris” whine
- whose clear intent is to de-motivate anti-fascist voters.

This is at best assholery that does not deserve a response, and more likely is a coordinated attempt at election manipulation. Whoever's doing it, it's right out Russia’s 2016 playbook.

Do not engage. Block.

If this campaign were directed by the Russian or Iranian governments instead of a Musk-funded super PAC, it would be outed as disinformation by the US intelligence community, possibly disrupted by IC, indicted by DOJ. But it's American, so it's legal.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/10/pro-trump-dark-money-network-tied-to-elon-musk-behind-fake-pro-harris-campaign-scheme

I’m never going to forgive people who bought a new Tesla in the past year.

@jerry please Jerry, one really scary thing at a time.

Everybody keeps talking about post quantum encryption. We should also be talking about post AI web browsing.

In all my years doing social media, I've *never* seen something happen so fast like the rate of sign ups and followers on Bluesky. It's ridiculous.

My starter packs are doing amazingly well for getting people following me, other people and actually signing up.

If you want to try out #Bluesky I have multiple starter packs for you to follow, like this one for game dev studios: https://go.bsky.app/VZ374ep

Well that was a very eventful COSMIC stream, the desktop file icons are very alpha causing what seems to be some sort of memory leak or memory leak like situation, where my system was using over 70GB of RAM + Swap, and I still don't have any ability to type in English

Check out Doom Infinite, a Doom-based FPS roguelike mod for GZDoom https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/check-out-doom-infinite-a-doom-based-fps-roguelike-mod-for-gzdoom/

#FPS #DOOM #Retro

Farlight 84 players reporting bans on Steam Deck / Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/farlight-84-players-reporting-bans-on-steam-deck-linux/

#SteamDeck #Linux #Farlight84