Can you pick up some frozen peas?

I think a story about an evil man who suddenly went sane is really interesting

Just because it uses a different mechanism to achieve federation you’re going to say that it doesn’t count as federation? That’s wild.

No. I’m going to say it doesn’t count as federation because it doesn’t achieve federation.

Actually, we need some new language to describe what Bluesky is. Federations are geopolitical alliances between equals. But Bluesky instances are centralised, with one relay acting as a truth source for many PDS servers. So to extend the analogy with a hierarchical geopolitical alliance… well that’s an empire. Bluesky is an empire. Bluesky is designed with an imperial mechanism. Bluesky is imperialised. That’s the new word for what Bluesky is.

Ulfric Stormcloak is a Thalmor agent!

Uhhhh, I mean, Donald Trump is a KGB agent!

So Bluesky doesn’t have any federated servers, and couldn’t federate with itself even if there were other servers.

It’s not fediverse.

Okay. I’ll apply. Is the modlog really that full?

Power corrupts. I wouldn’t want to be the reason a responsible mod starts making bad decisions.

I still think it’s bad to give more power to the powerful.

Can two relays communicate with each other?

Office supply shops and universities often have printing services available to the public.

Yes. The first chicken egg was laid by a non-chicken reptilian ancestor. And the cycle of violence between Israel and Palestine began with the 1948 Nakba, the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing operation which ended with 78% of Palestine’s land occupied by Israel.

Give it back. There are people alive today who remember being forced to flee from their homes by Israeli soldiers during the Nakba. Let them go home.

Israel and its puppets: Genocide is a core part of Jewish identity. You can’t stop genocide without exterminating all Jews.

Hamas: Okay we believe you. Guess we’ll have to exterminate all Jews, then.

Israel: See? SEE? They’re antisemites! Now we have an excuse to exterminate all Palestinians.

(This post is not intended to condone Hamas’ hatred of Jews. Most Jews are good people, being unfairly slandered by Israel.)

Get a folding table and print a hundred pamphlets. Make sure they have a call to action on them. It can be a representative’s email address, a link to join a local org, or just the word “vote”.

Make signs so people can tell who you are at a glance. Come up with a catchy name for your movement.

Look up the protest laws in New York. Try to stay on public property or on private property where you’ve been allowed. Be polite to the cops. Don’t give them a reason to think you’re performing violent speech.

The two examples look the same to me

Why favour mods of the existing community? Won’t that centralise power and make it harder for this space to forge its own unique identity?

Israel is dropping bombs on Gaza and telling the civilians whose families are murdered that it’s in the name of Jewish sovereignty. No wonder some Palestinians hate Jews. Israel is telling them to.

Stop killing their babies and their mothers, and they’ll stop joining Hamas.

Maps are a social construct. Let’s cross Israel off the map and write Palestine there instead. A Palestine where Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and people of every race and religion can live together in peace as equals.

You can spin up your own Bluesky instance

…which is still managed by the Bluesky central server and can’t connect to peer instances without that server.

They’re also used to describe some enbies