Yeah

Yes. People doubling down on proving their own points is a normal thing.

Yeah having it as well is good. Using only it is inhumane and barbaric.

I like immigrants. They’re so much more interesting than most people.

You shouldn’t have to apply to be a citizen of somewhere you’ve lived your whole life. If your parents were immigrants and you’re not, you should have dual citizenship from birth.

Also, citizenship shouldn’t exist, but if it has to, it should be permissive enough that someone could never be refused citizenship of the only country they’ve ever lived in.

tbh I had no idea Europe was so racist. Citizenship based on “blood” sounds like something out of the middle ages.

Have a counterargument to give him. He’s the product, and his service is giving fascist trolls someone to argue with, and fellow “leftists” someone to come to X to see. He’s encouraging other people to use the site, and they’re watching ads and buying checkmarks.

Also he’s encouraging governments and politicians to stay, and letting the media be controlled by a fascist.

It would be a lot less profitable if the site was only bots. He’s subsidizing the bots.

2024 Twitter screenshot, ew.

Petition for the mods to ban X screenshots

Dual ctizenship. Have both. Let the kid be of two nations.

Because their family has lived in Germany for a hundred years and they have no link to another place in living memory?

Wasn’t it designed by a paediatric psychologist to quantify children’s academic performance?

Just because it uses a different mechanism to achieve federation you’re going to say that it doesn’t count as federation? That’s wild.

No. I’m going to say it doesn’t count as federation because it doesn’t achieve federation.

Actually, we need some new language to describe what Bluesky is. Federations are geopolitical alliances between equals. But Bluesky instances are centralised, with one relay acting as a truth source for many PDS servers. So to extend the analogy with a hierarchical geopolitical alliance… well that’s an empire. Bluesky is an empire. Bluesky is designed with an imperial mechanism. Bluesky is imperialised. That’s the new word for what Bluesky is.

So Bluesky doesn’t have any federated servers, and couldn’t federate with itself even if there were other servers.

It’s not fediverse.

Can two relays communicate with each other?

Yes. The first chicken egg was laid by a non-chicken reptilian ancestor. And the cycle of violence between Israel and Palestine began with the 1948 Nakba, the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing operation which ended with 78% of Palestine’s land occupied by Israel.

Give it back. There are people alive today who remember being forced to flee from their homes by Israeli soldiers during the Nakba. Let them go home.

Get a folding table and print a hundred pamphlets. Make sure they have a call to action on them. It can be a representative’s email address, a link to join a local org, or just the word “vote”.

Make signs so people can tell who you are at a glance. Come up with a catchy name for your movement.

Look up the protest laws in New York. Try to stay on public property or on private property where you’ve been allowed. Be polite to the cops. Don’t give them a reason to think you’re performing violent speech.

The two examples look the same to me

Israel is dropping bombs on Gaza and telling the civilians whose families are murdered that it’s in the name of Jewish sovereignty. No wonder some Palestinians hate Jews. Israel is telling them to.

Stop killing their babies and their mothers, and they’ll stop joining Hamas.

Maps are a social construct. Let’s cross Israel off the map and write Palestine there instead. A Palestine where Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and people of every race and religion can live together in peace as equals.

You can spin up your own Bluesky instance

…which is still managed by the Bluesky central server and can’t connect to peer instances without that server.