I just earned my long service leave this year and I am fucking stoked.

My team moved to fully remote a month ago. I’m loving it so far.

Getting to see my little girl throughout my day makes me feel like I’m not missing out on watching her grow up.

The emotional reaction I get to these stories is hard to put into words. It’s a mix of deep sadness and incandescent rage. I just can’t imagine being in that position and not wanting to firebomb a politician’s house.

My little girl had a very high fever the other night and we were really worried about her, so we called the nurse on call hotline who advised us to wait and go to the urgent care centre in the morning unless she got suddenly worse overnight, then to head to emergency. It was all stressful enough just worrying about how sick she was. I can’t imagine how much worse it would be having to worry about paying for any of those services on top of that.

I think American’s call them OtterPops? We call them icy poles. Wherever you are in the world, those things.

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Mmmmm nice to know the AI got halfway through the article before giving up.

• https://www.iww.org/
• https://www.iwa-ait.org/
• https://www.ituc-csi.org/
• https://www.foodnotbombs.net/
• https://linktr.ee/radicalaidforce
• https://riseup4rojava.org/

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Lived through peak TV… Why dOn’T x-FiLEs bE tV aS GoOD?

We all know where this ends up. Remove all regulation and corporations are free to create their own conditions of employment. We’ve been here before. When there was no mandatory minimum leave, people worked every day till they died. When there was no universal healthcare people died because they couldn’t afford treatment. When there was no operational health and safety people died in excruciating pain as their lungs consumed themselves from the inside out because PPE was expensive and their labour wasn’t. When there was no minimum wage people were paid in company scrip, not cash. When there was no minimum working age, children lost limbs in doing dangerous work because they had to support their families. When there was no child protection agencies families sold their kids to farmers, pimps and bandits to pay for tomorrow’s meals. When there was no food safety standards, bread was adulterated with sawdust to make up the weight. Government regulations are written in a history of blood and suffering due to the greed of capitalists. Anyone who wants to return to the 1800s deserves the social upheaval that comes with it.

Remember the partition of India? Remember the Nakba?

Telling 1 million people that they no longer have a home never ends well.

It’s literally how he makes his money.

Make huge unbelievable claims -> Claims get circulated by media -> Media gets recirculated by investors -> Stock is pumped up and sold -> Repeat

You guys remember the old internet? Filled with Usenet trolls? Somethingawful doxxes? The bullying of Star Wars kid? Alana’s Involuntary Celibacy Project? I don’t know if it’s human nature but the outrage is in the bones of the internet.

Welcome to the party pal

I don’t know, I kind of like that it’s something new to get your head around. It’s a pretty fundamentally different type of internet than what we have now. It reminds me of what it was like back in dial up days.

But small instances are very low cost to run, so much so that a few donations from their users is usually enough to cover the costs and upkeep.

Sorry ‘dumb’ might have been a bit harsh.

Honestly going for the ‘largest’ instance is kind of dumb naive. Smaller, faster instances provide a much better experience. Bigger is not better in the fediverse.

The whole point is to decentralise power away from a single instance, CEO or monopoly. If you’re on a small instance you can still see all the content you want from all the other instances and you might even get a meaningful say in how your experience develops.

We don’t want to build another Reddit we want to build an alternative that is better structured.

It’s so good to have diverse voices to hear from.

Never had a letter from my ISP and I’ve been torrenting for 20 years.