Larger orgs probably have their own website, and could put it there and/or make an RSS feed. That’s old tech, and probably not as popular because it can’t be monetized like twitter/facebook/etc.

There’s also email, which is typically free. It’s less fancy, but it’s also very open. You don’t get good discoverability, though. Some bands I like send out newsletters and that’s how I keep up with them.

Lastly, the fediverse exists. It has some of the problems of social media, but at least it’s not owned by a handful of rich assholes.

a local “didn’t want the bench near their house,”

Fuck that local

I don’t use reddit aside from reading search results. I never post and never explicitly seek it out.

I deleted Twitter years ago. I never used Facebook or Instagram or tiktok. That shit’s bad for you.

It’s annoying that some places will make announcements only on shitty platforms. None of my friends are this “hardcore” , so sometimes I find out about stuff like a concert or protest or whatever because one of them sees it on Instagram

I feel like at some point people will get fed up with not being heard when they use their words, and they’ll use something else.

Hopefully non violent protest first, but I’m not going to be mad if whatever equipment is used to clear cut the woods gets broken.

Man, I’d love to play more WoD. One time I got a game going and it was a lot of fun. The other times I’ve tried, there was always at least one player who didn’t read the books or pay attention to the explanations, and dragged the game down with “wait, who are they? Why are they doing that? What do I roll?”

Not everyone needs to be an expert on all the minutia, but sometimes it’s just a mood killer to have to keep explaining the basics.

Impeach Johnson, too. Throw them all out via the 14th amendment. I’m so tired of the republicans being consistently the worst people on earth.

I was burgled. The cops came and looked around. Looked for finger prints. Didn’t get anything. The guys who came were polite, at least.

They supposedly caught the guy because he left his wallet at another place he broke into.

I didn’t get my stuff back. They didn’t even try to help me get my stuff back.

Overall a 3/10 experience.

Conservatives don’t want to solve real problems. They’re like toddlers that are angry without understanding anything, but they want to scream and throw things. Broken people.

I know a public defender who’s pretty good.

At one of my past jobs I wanted to institute a “put a dollar in the jar” rule every time someone made a useless bug report.

“The site is down” -> dollar in the jar.

“I’m trying to access the site via the public internet in firefox 136.0.3, and I’m getting a 500 on [request], and then the whole page is blank. Here’s a screenshot.” -> good

Sometimes people don’t know. Sometimes they don’t care. But if there’s no consequences, people aren’t going to change. And if they’re not going to change, at least we can do a team lunch every week with the jar full of money.

We should name them in ways that lay the blame on the rich and polluting. “Exxon’s Disgrace”, “Elon’s Deceit”, whatever.

And when I expand the attached image and read the tiny print, I see you already went down this road. Well done.

Unless Israel is going to be a new borough of new york city, I don’t see why it should be a top concern for the mayor.

“Do we have bike lanes?”, contrary wise, would be.

Sadly, they make a ton of money from AWS (amazon web services). A large portion of the internet relies on it. It’s difficult or impossible to avoid using any amazon services. Like, you use a website and their backend uses s3 and rds. No way for you to know, much of the time.

I avoid shopping on amazon anyway, but the problem is wider spread.

For the techbrodude shills: this is called “allegory”. Maybe you can ask ChatGPT to explain it to you.)

This made me deeply sad that so many people are not literate enough to follow metaphor and allegory.

It’s just emotions. No facts or consistency. Don’t like thing? Call it bad-name-thing. All that word means is it’s bad.

They are like toddlers.

This is a good one for Garfield minus Garfield.

CrossCode has such charm. The puzzles are good, but I find myself tired after playing it in a way other games don’t give me. I should finish it.

Shadowrun for Genesis was amazing! Ahead of its time. The way it semi randomly generated jobs for you to do was pretty unique. Like Bethesda radiant quests, but decades earlier and better. I really enjoyed rising up from the weakest street runner to someone with enough reputation to skip the line at the expensive club.

The leveling system was also pretty advanced for Genesis.

Also the cyberspace hacking was wacky and fun.

• Mods
• fan patches
• backwards compatibility stretching back ~50 years
• indie games aren’t always on consoles
• fewer subscription fees
• hardware can be cheaper over time depending on details
• games, especially older games, can go on sale for deep discounts
• piracy
• can avoid supporting megacorps like Microsoft and Sony

Just off the top of my head

That could be true in some cases. Not so much when it’s the middle of the day, in rich suburbia, with your family, and there’s a lot of other people around.