Rainer @rainer@social.theliturgists.com
Joined Feb 2019
@tek hey dude, I've been off of Mastodon for a little while because the community around my instance kind of fell off a cliff and eventually moved to Discord. I would still really like to be involved with Mastodon and I think finding a new instance is necessary there. Having said that, it would be really awesome if I could create an account with freeradical.zone. I'm really into all of the things that seem to define the community like tech, privacy, leftist leaning politics, etc
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I've got three weeks to find a job before I lose my backup plan to foreclosure, and another month past that before I lose my home. I need gas money to get to job interviews. I'm eating the shipping on these bracelets to try and cover that. If you don't wear #jewelry or these aren't your style, please boost. They're anodized aluminum, brass, bronze, and stainless steel, all 7 inches, and all $15 to https://paypal.me/tarlimanjoppos or cash.app/$tarlimanjoppos #maille #art #mastoart #chainmail
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How EFF's Eva Galperin plans to destroy the stalkerware industry
https://boingboing.net/2019/04/03/the-good-fight.html
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#PSA for car drivers: if you don't know how to pass a cyclist safely who rides in the middle of the lane, just use the entire opposite lane to pass. it's not hard. most of the time lanes are marked so it is easy to find. I wish you much success.
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Border Patrol holds asylum seekers in tent under a bridge, calls it a "transitional camp" https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/border-patrol-holds-asylum-see.html
The EU broke the internet
"In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive in its entirety."
#Yikes #Article13 #CopyrightDirective
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/eus-parliament-signs-disastrous-internet-law-what-happens-next
Climage change, American politics
AOC is my hero this morning. So much respect for her.
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Key net neutrality vote Tuesday: The whole Internet is watching http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ccDBA9fEEQU/key-net-neutrality-vote-tuesda.html #boingboing ##netneutrality ##saveyourinternet
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In honor of yesterday’s Osteen ‘Taco Titles’ toot and @vishnu sharing about losing his Grammy to ChrisT; today, I give you Tomlin songs I’d like better with TACO in the title: 🌮 🌮 🌮
Good Good Taco
Taco, I Need You
Our Taco
How Great Is Our Taco
Taco of This City
I Lift My Taco
Here I Am to Taco
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God loves things by becoming them.
God loves things by uniting with them, not by excluding them.
-Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ
#rohr #cac #universalchrist
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Big Chemical says higher pollution levels are safe in West Virginia because residents don't drink water, and are so fat that poisons are diluted in their bodies http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EMv6VQ5ASEQ/corporate-murder.html #boingboing #corruption #dow_chemicals #trumpism #turkeys_voting_for_christmas #west_virginia
Crazy to think about this, but the sound of our voices are the next area of data-mining for people who want to predict know inappropriately intimate details about us
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UK Parliament votes not to leave EU without a deal http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rR3b6pnVBPA/uk-parliament-votes-not-to-lea.html #boingboing #brexit
Trump, Christianity
Thinking about it more, I'm convicted by my feelings of righteous judgement of the people who continue to prop up Donald Trump as a Christian leader in spite of bribing porn starts and signing Bibles.
Yet, even Donald Trump is loved deeply and personally by God, and his followers are just as much our brothers and sisters as anybody else.
I don't know how to reconcile these two things. Anybody have thoughts on this?
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Twitter has 320 million active monthly users
Instagram has 1 billion active monthly users
The Fediverse is too focused on a Twitter-style communications and should instead be focused on the far more successful Instagram style.
Instagram has 1 billion active monthly users
The Fediverse is too focused on a Twitter-style communications and should instead be focused on the far more successful Instagram style.
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Mural by a group of women in Syria who have created a self-sustainable women-only feminist commune outside of the structures of patriarchy and capitalism, in their village known as Jinwar meaning “women’s land” in Kurdish #womensart #IWD2019 https://t.co/ph2nHmlFqb
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Reflecting on this #InternationalWomensDay about the womens' rights progress in my lifetime and the huge amount of work that remains. #BalanceforBetter #IWD2019
Facebook sheisterism
Facebook wants to become WeChat...don't be fooled into thinking that they're ever going to become more focused on privacy. Instead, they want to continue centralizing everything they possibly can until they're the "One Stop Shop" for every aspect of your life.
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A technology expert gives four suggestions on how to rein in algorithms https://t.co/YDjjDORJvY https://t.co/pQSdNYbm2c
#thevergebot
Joined Feb 2019
