TomMasz

Move over, Cybermen, Tiremen are the new Dr. Who villains.

Not wrong. But also wrong.

I would give my life for Santiago.

All the gay people I know eat the same kinds of foods I do. Uh oh.

Late 60s. Came here on the heels of the death of Apollo and the Reddit API fiasco.

25% of CEOs know they’re throwing money away, but can’t stop because 100% of CEOs are throwing money away.

The purpose of the news isn’t to make you feel good, it’s to inform you of what’s happening outside your front door. But there’s neither time nor space to tell you everything, so some editorial work is required to distill it down to something you can reasonably absorb. Every news source has a different policy around how that is done, obviously. Good news has its audience, but it’s smaller than the one for other kinds of news. And since news costs money to gather, news outlets rely on advertising as a primary source of income. A bigger audience brings in more advertisers and more money, ergo, bad news is the way to go.

It’s not just age, it’s when you’re living. Someone growing up in the '50s probably had more trust in the government than someone growing up in the '60s, for instance. But it really feels like overall trust has dropped significantly since then and probably won’t recover. Part of the reason is we simply know more about what’s going on. There are still secrets, but not like there were in WWII and the decade after.

I basically did that for a while. I’ve never had much of a following, and since it’s a hobby, not something I monetized, it was an easy thing to do. Eventually, though, I stopped posting on Insta entirely and went to Pixelfed exclusively. I kept my account, since like you, I have friends and family who are there and will never move away from it.

Turning this into a mass movement won’t be simple. Most people don’t think all that deeply about the implications of using a Meta product. They go where their friends or favorite celebrities are. If you could get someone with a huge following to make the switch, you might see some momentum.

This was everything I hoped it would be.

I never thought about this before, but it’s true in my experience.

It has a mane, ergo it’s a horse.

Had that happen this morning. Fucking infuriating. And don’t get me started on what happens with a new box of tissues.

When I was a kid in the '60s, Japanese anime was shown on TV dubbed into English. It was just cartoons to us, it wasn’t until much later that the term “anime” was attached to them.

Sure, they can request 1.21GW, but the answer’s always “no”.