Why was LA chosen as ground zero of the federal invasion? Who knows, but it’s hard to ignore that the federal security agencies already had carte blanche to operate here thanks to the NSSE designation. If you’re in LA, that means you should mentally prepare for not just 30 or 60 days, but 4 years.

So please, when you see video of masked people in regular clothes jumping out of regular cars to snatch people off the sidewalk, don’t assume they’re bounty hunters. They are far more likely to be federal agents of the United States of America.

You may not be seeing protests or hearing about big raids anymore. That’s because the feds are now doing smaller operations & getting fewer people. Every action we’ve done in LA, from blocking freeways to tailing vehicles, is making them spend time & energy on US & not on kidnapping our neighbors.

At this point, the feds are quite literally snatching people off of the street where convenient: usually, where people are outside together, like street vendors. It’s a quick hit—a couple of cars, several agents, & over in 20 minutes or less. Rapid response is now hyper-local.

Right? Bold of them to believe in Hell...

When I was a Christian my Savior was Jesus: the guy who said that it's nearly impossible for rich people to get into heaven, that we should share and be compassionate, that we should love our neighbors. Idk what Savior the regime is talking about, but it's certainly not him

"These people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain. Their teachings are rules made by men." Jesus⬇️

U.S. deported Jesus. Turns out he’s not a white American republican after all.

Out of touch rich people, that's who

Now this spiel was very clearly instructions from corporate to deflect. And so I started asking:

"Is it Visa policy for customer support to lie to its customers?"

"Why is Visa engaging in censorship of legal games, which isn't a high risk industry, and then lying about it?"

This is abhorrent. It’s time we leverage our spending power to make change. Please like and repost.

5. Confronted with an argument that this allows students to bully cis students by misgendering them as well, the judges said that such conduct would be barred. Misgendering cisgender students would be "ridiculing their physical characteristics." But apparently not when its done to trans students.

Right now the one benefit ATProto theoretically has over Mastodon is post migration. But there are fediverse softwares other than Mastodon (that communicate with masto ofc) that have that, so fedi as a whole is already more decentralized, and Mastodon might implement post migration soon, so... Yeah

It's also showing anyone who's actually interested in Bluesky as a Fediverse that the CEOs have a kill switch which essentially defeats the purpose.

It's just twitter. Bsky is just twitter. Everyone was put off by the actually decentralized platforms and went to Twitter 2 instead. And now Twitter 2 is rapidly collapsing into Twitter 1 and we're all gonna act surprised even though it was literally made by the same people.

It really makes me wonder what the value proposition of ATProto even is, if federation is more fragmented than Mastodon in practice, harder to set up than Mastodon, and if Bluesky the company is going to run the main instance as unprofessionally as a Mastodon instance owner on a power trip.