that’s horrible for queer or disabled kids who need to connect to online communities of peers who are going through the same struggles they face.

most kids rely on their parents to go places and if they’re in a conservative area, online spaces are their only reprieve from their alienating local community. think only Black kid in a sundown town, only trans girl in a red town, only wheelchair user in a rural community

based on past versions, is this one gonna be 1TB? /j

if I had to guess, anything that doesn’t treat women as inferior is a tabloid

Valve could literally ban gambling on all Steam games if they wanted to. stop playing devil’s advocate for billionaires, Gaben already has enough yachts already

you just described the same exact reason why I’m on signal. it’s friendly to normies and most other options aren’t even though they should be

after looking further into it, he might’ve also been involved in the MobileCoin pump and dump

Moxie works for MobileCoin and implemented a crypto wallet for it inside of Signal which could be an attempt to sneakily monetize the Signal userbase

sure, proving to the audience that you can kick yourself in the nuts over and over while maintaining the privacy of your testicle’s innards is impressive from a biological standpoint but it still looks stupid to a normal person. I don’t hate signal, I will continue using it but this and their crypto scam makes me doubt some of their choices and how they’ll operate in the future

Signal is definitely part of the fun internet, they just decided to rely on AWS due to techbro culture I assume?

they don’t prevent it, they make it less likely. which is still good obviously, but long covid for vaccinated people is a massive issue. vaccinated individuals are more likely to believe the vaccine makes them immune and therefore don’t need to mask.

in case you’re not trolling:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074761322005581

https://biologyinsights.com/what-is-a-sterilizing-covid-vaccine-and-is-one-possible/

there is no herd immunity against covid without a sterilizing vaccine

To receive the money collected through fundraisers, Palestinians need to work with a “receiver”, someone outside of Gaza who sets up the campaign and collects the money on their behalf and wires the money through their banks. That’s because the platforms use payment processors that do not operate in Gaza.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/08/palestinians-gaza-bluesky-spam

Most of the people I come across are real, they only appear like scams because we still can’t come to terms with the fact that all Gazans are starving therefore they all have to pick up this full time job of fundraising from strangers.

Most of the money that gets pocketed goes to the western NGOs because their bureaucracy kills people through incompetence and racism. Donating to individuals and mutual aid orgs on the ground will always be more effective than relying on “respectability creds”.

If you’re looking for better places to donate to, here’s a list: https://itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-on-how-to-support-mutual-aid-groups-in-palestine-as-humanitarian-crisis-deepens/

anyone who willingly reposts LLM slop is a scab in my eyes

what is it with tankies that has them always forming red-brown alliances instead of supporting trans leftists?

yeah, you got me. not liking liberals makes me a trump supporter. the overton window always ends at being a “progressive” slightly to the left of Ronald Reagan and anything beyond that is just the ice wall keeping us from finding out that the earth is flat

not surprising at all that you chose to go the blue MAGA “enjoy your camps, then” route instead of taking a step back. the only smug person here was you not realizing you’re way out of your depth

i hate to inform you that these lobbying groups are acting exactly like a state would, actually. maybe don’t lecture to trans people and tell us how the state works, we interact with the state way more than you will ever have to 💋

what are you going to do against oligopolistic payment processors taking away your rights?

idk, what are YOU gonna do? are cis people gonna finally fight for trans autonomy or are they gonna act like us having autonomy is too insane?

are you gonna finally listen to us like when trans sex workers told you a decade ago that banks, the police and payment processors are policing our money or are you gonna let the issue fester because you don’t want your family to know you stand with trannies and whores?

gotcha, my whole issue was with the whole state surveillance of “dangerous” part of it, because trans people are gonna end up on that list just for existing

hot take: people ought to start forming morals outside of legal morality. a Lotta freaks are gonna end up illegal otherwise and the freak factor certainly includes some thing you do that your prudish neighbor doesn’t like