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There’s something very odd about gruber’s constant EU bashing for actually doing a good job at protecting its citizens. Meta is a privacy nightmare, the opposite of Apple, and all of the sudden now it’s cool to use their twitter clone and the EU is missing out?

—@tclementdev

Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands

—@kittywifclaws

“Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning”

This is increasingly how it feels, when streaming shows disappear for tax reasons and things you “own” digitally become inaccessible.

Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.

—@gamesbymanuel

Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.

Mastodon: You actually don’t need a billionaire at all.

Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that’s true.

—@lowqualityfacts

That feeling when a tech dude simultaneously comes out against any attempt to regulate how US tech cos handle privacy, and uses the word “library” as a pejorative.

I mean… asshole jock vibes much?

—@baldur

@Tirial @stavvers Relativistic dickfarts will likely affect the launchperineum like a SpaceX superheavy test in a Texan nature reserve. Also, at relativistic speeds it’s going to compress the air in front of it so much in the first millimetre or two that it’ll induce fusion reactions between oxygen and nitrogen nuclei, never mind hydrogen (according to XKCD, who Know These Things).

Could be new underwear time!

—@cstross

I have finally read Justice Sotomayor’s powerful dissent in 303 Creative. In the end, she reaches for our better angels. “But that does not mean that we are powerless in the fact of the decision. The meaning of our Constitution is found not in any law volume, but in the spirit of the people who live under it.”

I do not have Justice Sotomayor’s optimism right now.

#SCOTUS #equality #fedilaw #law #LGBTQ

—@jackiegardina

New social corporate media apps will continue until morale improves

—@esther

@stavvers So, I did some rough math based off the initial post mentioning a 4000 mile fart-powered dick travel distance.

A projectile travelling 4000 miles on a ballistic curve with no additional propulsion needs to be launched at a velocity of 198 miles/s, or 318.6km/s.

Assuming the dick is erect (makes for a more optimal projectile), an average human penis length of 13.2cm and average circumference of 11.66cm (source: wikipedia) we can calculate the weight of the dick by using the average density of the human body (0.98g/cm3) to get the a mass of 139.9g.

An object with a mass of 139.9g travelling at 318600m/s has a kinetic energy of roughly 7.12GJ, which (again according to wikipedia) is somewhere between a Boeing 767 and and Airbus A380 at cruising speed.

It is therefore safe to say that any animal impacted by the dick shortly after launch, would suffer complete destruction.

—@esther

I just want to say for my first post to the #Fediverse that I’ve already seen more #alttext in the last couple of days than I’ve literally seen in my entire life. I don’t know what it is, but as a blind user it’s making me emotional to be able to actually interact with content. Think I’ll write an introduction soon.
#accessibility #Mastodon #redditMigration

—@ontheotherside