Lauren🌱

calls for age verification, online IDs, facial recognition, and bans on VPNs are attempts to silence political dissent, make it harder for the common person to communicate and organize, further isolate already marginalized groups, invasive tracking and spying, and mass censorship.

Bluesky's gonna really take off once people discover joking

I’m on a dating timeout so Venus retrograde doesn’t make me any never mind, but when MARS was retrograde in CANCER? Oh, I was on my last leg

Apparently I have to pretend to eat before my dog or she’s gonna keep trying me bc she thinks she’s the pack leader…

I spent 20-odd years saying I would never teach only to discover that my dumb ass loves teaching

Honestly my timeline is of my own making. Most of my silly faves are still on that other app

The problem with Bluesky is that I only follow the smart thoughtful people who keep me informed. I need some jokes and mess.

I really love my dog 🥰

You're nuts if you're questioning the wisdom and leadership of the Democratic Party right now. They're not the problem. The problem is the voters. What we need to do is replace 300 million voters

Shooters shoot

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.

Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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The way I'm about to be hiking this Spring/Summer. >

DARK SIDED

This is the difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. First time around, all his cronies were named stuff like Joey Macaroni and wanted to commit tax fraud and go on Dancing With The Stars. This time, they have names like John Hitlerfuhrer and have spent the last 15 years blogging about phrenology.

Which was read from, live on tv, every single night of the DNC, by the way.

Yahoo doesn’t block one single bit of spam. I have got to let that account go.

#AddtoBlackSky

They don’t even yap on YouTube shorts. GIVE ME OG TIKTOK BACK

Some people really don’t listen to understand or even respond. They just assume that you’re wrong and then you have to have the whole conversation in reverse

I need to get up but it’s cold outside, my dog is snuggling with me, and my morning scroll has been thoroughly depressing

Trump on Gaza: "It's a phenomenal location ... on the sea, the best weather, some beautiful things could be done with it. Some fantastic things could be done with Gaza."

TikTok coming back with that fuckass message is definitely a scheme that Todd set up.

The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

I know this sounds really unreasonable, but maybe congress could pass a real data privacy law and then it would be safe to use apps even if their owners were maybe a little malicious.

They keep changing the message

might be good to remember that banning TikTok was Trump's idea in the first place

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