If you see the AGPL licenses on my free and open source work and you think “damn you, I can’t use this to enrich myself or my corporation without sharing back what I’ve built on top of what you’ve freely shared and thus contribute to cultivating a healthy commons where others might enjoy the same benefits from my work that I want to obtain from yours” (a) you really have long-winded thoughts and (b) well, you already see the flaw in your reasoning.
I think that the worst and most dangerous misconception #people have about #fascism is that it's this sort of turbocharged "Beast Mode" that #countries can go into to increase their production, win wars, and make the trains run on time, and that the primary objections to it centre on whether the "obvious" increase in efficiency that fascism offers is worth the loss of #freedom and lives. But in reality #fascist regimes like to put up a façade of strength and efficiency, even as they practice #corruption on a scale unimaginable in #democracies and even as the public interest is hollowed out by parasitical #opportunists. There is no trade-off; fascism is a #grift all the way down.
What happens when you're so upset at all the anti-Biden signs in Wickenberg, AZ you put up your own quite graphic anti-Trump signs? Trumpers get upset and call the police and they come a knockin', but if you're @Yoshi you know your rights, don't back down & then one day a reporter comes knocking and your story gets out there for everybody to see.
Watch (and share) because there are more Democrats in Arizona than you might know.
#ClimateDiary Note to #Freedom lovers: stop shouting about climate laws restricting your driving or flying. It’s nothing compared to the loss of freedom #Heatwaves and #Floods bring
‘She says being kept indoors by the prolonged extreme temperatures feels reminiscent of the early days of the pandemic. “It’s like being in lockdown again. It brings back the old feeling of staying out as little as possible.”’
Taiwan is the only "open" country in Asia, based on a report by Civicus. Japan and South Korea are categorized as "narrowed." As expected, Afghanistan, China and North Korea are "closed."
NARROWED: Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Timor Leste
OBSTRUCTED: Indonesia, Malaysia
REPRESSED: Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, India
CLOSED: HK, Vietnam, Laos, China, Myanmar, North Korea
"Ukrainian of Jewish faith and ancestry with a moving Christmas message. Standing before the great cathedral of the Kievan Rus, a state that flourished to grandeur unknown in the European world while Moscow remained an empty forest, where the darkness waited to rise."
President #Zelenskyy:
The nights before Christmas are the longest of the year. However, the day has already begun to lengthen and the light has begun to prevail. The light grows stronger. Day by day and step by step, the darkness retreats. Darkness will eventually lose. Evil will be defeated. Today, this is our common goal, our common wish, and what we pray for. For our #freedom. For our #victory. For our #Ukraine.
“What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?'
No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.”
― Emma Goldman #Anarchism#Freedom#EmmaGoldman#FuckCapitalism#CapitalismKills
The trees tower above you, leaves glowing red and orange. The sky, a brilliant blue, peaks through the above their tops. All around you is a feeling of freedom, happiness and joy. The sense that anything is possible and all is well pervades your thoughts.
Summer on the beach: it's a time to walk and think and dream, to dabble in the surf, stroll barefoot in the sand, and then stop and look out, out, out into the vast expanse of the ocean's majesty. There are no walls or limitations. Is this what freedom looks like?
NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent there. NPR cited Twitter's decision to first label the network "state-affiliated media", the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China & other autocratic countries
Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.
Dolphin-Assisted Therapy is bad for dolphins and bad for #patients. It is a #scam that brings in huge amounts of money; it is bad for dolphins that are confined to #captivity separated from their #freedom and their loved ones, and it is bad for patients and their families who are getting soaked in more ways than one.
Please join us in asking #Congress to please end all Dolphin-Assisted Therapy programs.
"April 15th, 2024, in the Top 10 Most Secure Mobile Phones to Buy in 2024, the cybersecurity-focused firm Efani, has ranked Purism Librem 5 as as the #1 most secure phone for the year 2024."
And yes, I have a #Librem5#Linux phone. I'm using it as my daily phone for nearly two years. It is great to be totally in control of your phone, and to have total #freedom to use your phone the way you like.
Did you know Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony – and the Ode to Joy therein – was picked as our anthem in 1985?
As we celebrate his birthday today, we pay tribute to this brilliant European whose music evokes the noble aspirations of a Europe of #freedom, unity, and solidarity.
There's no reason/excuse to use proprietary spyware like google forms when we can use alternative, #freedom respecting platforms .
Do yourself and your friends a favor and use @liberaforms :anarchoheart2: #Liberaforms 👇 https://liberaforms.org/en