So you’re saying they should polish their text to make it more coherent? Huh.

Here! -> !firesidefedi@tubefree.org

I don’t want to use anything Google if I can help it, so I’m using the FOTO keyboard which has its own swipe engine.

It’s… Work in progress. But the keyboard overall is pretty good.

But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.

Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.

This guy couldn’t sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.

I had no idea - that’s really cool!

Germans also seem to be privacy oriented people, I can imagine this combined with recent developments could have a real impact.

0 to 1 percent: 22 years
1 to 2 percent: 8 years
2 to 3 percent: 2 years
3 to 4 percent: more unstable, but between 1 and 3 years

I would say it’s an encouraging trend.

When I started using Linux in 2009 it had around 0.6 percent market share on desktop. Windows had 95%.

Today Windows is measured below 68%, and Linux has been measured above 4% by statcounter.com.

These things move faster the more people make the change. Linux only reached 1% in 2013, 2% in 2021, 3% in 2023, and 4% was somehow first measured already in 2024. For every single person making the switch it becomes easier for others to do the same, and companies consider Linux support to be a little bit more important. One can only wonder at which percentage of market share it will be offered as a mainstream alternative when buying a new computer, but it seems pretty clear that we’re getting there.

I guess my point is that we all won when you ditched Windows. Thanks for that.

Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts

Interesting contrast to the church itself, which has the capacity of turning people into passive consumers of thoughts that have been painstakingly processed for centuries.

I’m using Busuu, originally Spanish but hq in London. They have implemented some AI stuff recently though. :/

Arte is great if you speak French or German. A lot of European countries have similar things. BBC iPlayer with a VPN is also amazing.

For sure.

It really sucks having to admit that the French were right all along, though.

I’d say he didn’t predict it, he just observed it. It’s been happening for ages, most of us were just to dull and complacant to care.

True, there’s a lot of good research being produced as well. There’s just an insane amount of academic work being produced in general, both good and bad.

The same is predictably true in research, meaning a lot of academic research being produced at the moment is complete crap. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08825

There’s not one mastodon instance for EU stuff, but rather they divide it alongside the division of powers. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/ is only for the European Commission and its related initiatives and officials, while https://curia.social-network.europa.eu/ is for the Court of Justice of the EU.

To my knowledge there’s no official instance for the European Parliament or its members.

Personally I really hope the X exodus will not be caused by new venture capitalist platform taking over, even though it might seem increasingly inevitable at this point.

I have extremely little faith in W social—they didn’t even manage to set up their temporary landing page properly, indicating strongly that this is run by capitalists rather than talented and ideologically motivated people. Apparently it’s a Bluesky fork, so I guess it will have a perceived success by running on ATProto no matter how it goes down.

Yet 58% of MEPs are still on X.

https://leavex.eu/ is a useful resource for those who want to call them out on it - find the representatives from your country and parties you care for still on X, let them know what exactly they are supporting by staying there, and maybe nudge them towards something like https://eupolicy.social/ as a more reasonable alternative.

Remember to be polite - many of them/(the ones we care to convince) are good people who are just doing what they have been told they need to do in order to communicate with their base. They just need to realize the world has changed.

I find I mildly interesting that X is still launching new features that are technically unrelated to declaring itself to be mechahitler and generating non-consensual pornography of unknowing women and children.

The hitlerjugend fetish starter pack is gonna be a hit. Those guys must be in disbelief of how lucky they have gotten with recent social media developments.