Nice work! (Though you may want to change the top line to “Fascists’ hearts are cold”)
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Are Jobserve and Jobsite still around in the UK?
Best of luck! You won’t find LA weather, but London is pretty vibrant and cosmopolitan, and hopefully a good redoubt.
The eventual peace dividend will include repurposing this into a T-shirt cannon
He’s now in Aussie Crook Valhalla, enjoying endless succulent Chinese meals with Ned Kelly and Chopper Read.
BlueSky has already received funding from venture capital, and so will need to find a way to monetise its user base. Once enough people depend on the site for their social connections and friend circles, the promise of decentralisation will be quietly removed, APIs will be restricted (as on Reddit/Xitter), terms of service updated to ban circumvention, and the user-controlled algorithms modified to deliver your eyeballs to the advertisers and your data to data brokers, and before long, it’ll be an Instagram-style slot machine, where you mostly see ads and AI pink-slime, but keep pulling the lever in case there’s another update you care about in there somewhere.
They want a government small enough to fit in everyone’s bedroom
You know that Musk will do his best to get AfD in
Their US and Australian divisions are solid. The UK one varies, and has some decent people, but also has a persistent infestation of TERF/SWERFs. A few high-profile ones have left after their comments became irreconcilable with the paper’s ostensibly liberal/progressive line, but you still get regular Observer opinion columns about pronoun-mongers sexualising our children or other scare campaigns. There’s a rumour that the editor, Kath Viner, is herself a TERF and personally protecting them, though I haven’t seen any evidence one way or the other.
They could spin up a Mastodon instance, but given how lousy their UK editorial department is with TERFs, it would be justifiably blocked for transphobia.
The Japanese would be viable vendors, were it not for the WW2 connotations of Japanese submarines being politically unpalatable to the kinds of hypernationalists who care about these things.
Apparently Germany and Sweden also build decent submarines.
By electing a Dutton-led right-wing government to better keep pace, right?
If they do so, they should before the German elections. Musk has shown an affinity for the far-right party AfD, and it’s not unlikely that he’d use his site to get them into power.