It did originate from Twitter. Somehow Twitter at the time considered it wise to split it into a separate entity, and Dorsey was fine with not controlling it. And then Twitter was sold, and Dorsey and Bluesky grew apart from each other.

They did! Thank you so much - I tried to Google, but all the pictures were awful. Love yours!

Case in point.

non-sectarian "left-unity"

Lol. I'm a social democrat. They'd send me to a camp if they had the chance to.

Then again, when put in charge of things they sent each other to camps as well, so maybe this is what tankie unity looks like.

I often see people say that pointing new users towards instances with a lax attitude to defederation is a good idea. I kind of understand the rationale, but I'm not sure I agree. Pointing new users to an instance federated with Hexbear seems to me to be a terrible idea.

Most that is released is mass produced trash, sequel or not. But for sure there's a bunch of sleazy suits trying to make a buck off nostalgia and name recognition, there's no disputing that.

Counterargument: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is fantastic.

Sure... Until it isn't.

But for a brief moment they will thrive while the world around them burns, and I guess that's what they live for.

Have you considered leaving yourself as well? What are your personal push/pull factors?

It's been argued that brain drain was a big part of how Orban managed to push through constitutional reform, as he barely had the majority to do so and made it very hard for expats to vote. Heading the clever people leave also significantly weakened the opposition at home.

Meanwhile foreign capital is pouring in, as why wouldn't you invest in a EU country.

(See: The European Union's authoritarian equilibrium by @rdanielkelemen@eupolicy.social)

I guess hieroglyphics were to the priesthood of the time what Latin is to the Catholic church today. A dead language that you artificially keep alive in order to situate yourself in some sort of historical legacy.

It's a pretty bold move to launch an open source service like this, especially one that is as complex as a video sharing site. One would think a gradual increase of user base would be easier to handle than a sudden influx of people at a moment when one has been scrambling to meet a deadline.

Good thing they/he is not afraid of postponing the release and making sure it's ready. And if it works well it will be one hell of a release. Fingers crossed. :)

I think this makes a lot of sense. We don't want the instance hosting, say, football communities to be defederated anywhere on account of its users behaving poorly. In general there's just no reasons to have the users in the same place as the community.

What an action shot! The wingspan is incredible.

Sadly I'm not sure it's obvious to everyone. But I'm happy you agree. :)

No. Palestinians and Israel's other neighbours should be able to live in peace, just like the Israelites. And Netanyahu and his thugs should be allowed to peacefully rot in prison. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.

It's not realistic. But nobody should consider perpetual war an attractive scenario.

They created this militia by invading and mobilising resistance. Now they are doing the exact same thing. The only way I can see them exterminating Hezbolla this way is if they extend their genocide to Lebanon, and are successful at it. If not, all they achieve is to fill the next generations with hate just as they have done in the past.

If Israel backed off, recognized Palestine and Palestinian territory, ended illegal settlements and began complying with international law, sent Netanyahu to the Hague, apologized, recognized the equal human rights of Arabs, and promised to help rebuild infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank and to help Palestine gain safety of water and electricity independent of Israel, and then committed to this agenda, they would achieve peace in a heartbeat.

But that's unreasonable, right? But what exactly about it is unreasonable? Complying with international law? Recognizing Arabs as humans?

This would be the only way Israel could, in fact, defend itself. In fact, simply stopping the genocide would probably go a long way. But that's still unthinkable for Netanyahu.

This notion of defence by bombing everyone around you is not sustainable when you need to defend yourself because everyone around you hates you. This is not the wars of the 19th century. Netanyahu is doing absolutely nothing to make Israel safer.

And worse still, he knows that. He never wanted to make Israel safe. Removing people is the point, no matter the cost. His project is to clean the land of Arabs. No matter the cost.

That's an interesting take. I think you should ideally be invited before your military march into a foreign country and start bombing in order to claim it's not an invasion. It's not one of those things you can assume you have permission to do until the country you're invading starts fighting back.

Lebanon is not Hezbolla. But the bombs are falling in Lebanon, and it is Lebanese civilians that are being killed and displaced. They are invading Lebanon,.

That Lebanon hardly has a government to speak of and is doing awfully already does not mean you can just rightfully bomb it. What the fuck.

This is my favourite places. I used to live in Treptower for a few months and would go there pretty frequently.

It's a war cemetery, marking the final resting place of more than 7000 Red Army soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin. More than 80 000 Soviet soldiers fell in the battle in total.

The monument is much bigger than this statue. in the middle of the park of the monument there are these gigantic stone flags, hanging to each side. Directly across from the soldier is a large, but significantly smaller, statue of a woman kneeling in respect for the soldier. Then there's all these huge square stones depicting scenes from the war, with quotes by Stalin written in gold in Russian and German on the side.

What I love about it, in addition to the symmetry and the somewhat over the top nature of it all, is that it's positioned exactly where two traumatic pasts meet. It is in part a sacred space; in part a painful memory. Some will criticize it for glorifying Stalin and the GDR; others have labelled it the "Tomb of the Unknown Rapist", in reference to the not always excellent conduct of the Red Army. But despite everything­—and there is a lot—one can't help but feel an immense gratitude to the 7 000 lying there. It's a place where history and ideas collide, and one is struck by the complexity maybe more than the beauty.

Shoot, you're right. I've seen so many stupid takes in this conflict it has made me dumb.