I honestly would’ve thought that an orifice to release waste products came first, but I’m not an evo-devo-nist.

Ah, now that’s the spirit! Then I recommend forming networks with a general strike in mind - the only thing the billionaire class understand in getting socker-kicked right inna wallet.

Jesus Christ, I’d rather be sterilized with a blunt wooden spoon. Fuck off back to the US where you belong!

Yeah, it’s a plan. You asked, I delivered.

Don’t put your words in my mouth. You wanna network? Great idea, go right ahead. Makes the inevitable violence more effective if nothing else, workouts won’t be a bad idea either. Having friends is nice. Having muscular friends is even nicer.

When they come for you at 3am and black-bag you in front of your wife and kids for opposing the regime and take you for a ride in the party v&n while your neighbors are covering behind their curtains just don’t complain to me.

The plan is, of course, the same as it ever was: Find fascism and punch it it in its ugly skank piggy face as it so rightfully deserves. If the fascism in question is wearing a full helmet, use a bat (aluminum). Or fill a steel pipe with lead ball bearings with both ends capped. Remember: Kevlar ain’t no good against blunt force trauma. Stomping boots helps too.

For further instruction, I refer you to track 11 on Propagandhi’s second album “Less Talk, More Rock”.

Ah, I know this one: It’s because they’re idiots.

Where Have You Been?

Managing, same as everybody else worth a damn.

How’s Life in Dystopia?

Same as it ever was. I’m an old-school punk, so none of this is a surprise.

Preparing for Escalation

Oh, you bet.

Yup, glad to be here. The deliberate technological constraints imposed by the smolweb can also help, albeit in a different way - it’s difficult to enshittify something that just doesn’t have the ability to be crap in the first place. And on that note, I think I’ll spin up Lagrange and check what’s up in Geminispace.

Since it’s not, aha, rocket science, I would have thought Elon could grasp that the easiest way to not have something end up on social media would be to not do it in public in front of a forest of cameras broadcasting live, but alas: Once again he’s failed to meet my rock-bottom expectations.

Well, quite a few of us reacted by moving here, and I like to think actions speak louder than words. Thank you for having us - we appreciate the political asylum.

It’s bittersweet that I once thought the same about Reddit in the wake of the Digg Exodus, only to spend the next years watching Reddit doing the exact same gradual downslope Digg had followed, with no apparent awareness that history was repeating. I took it to signal an early loss of institutional knowledge, since Reddit was pretty much build on Digg’s broken back. Yes sir, that shit wouldn’t have flown under Aaron Swartz’s aegis.

Fuck Spez.

Dane here. Now that’s what I like to see!

I suspect the wanna-be autocrats in the country where nothing can seemingly get the populace off the couch might be projecting a little bit.

Oh, piss off - we’re not the ones doing it; call your buddy Trump and tell him how you feel.

Also: Italy, could you please clean your fucking shit up?

Yet another turd on the pile of things “AI” does to ruin life in the 21st century.

Oh? Have the Russians learned to make their own ball bearings without Germany assistance yet? How about CNC machines, laser cutters, plasma drilling, advanced robotics, ASML EUV litography machines…?

Have Russian developers been allowed write access to the Linux kernel source tree again?

No, no. I’m sure you’re right - they’re doing fine on their own. Vacuum tubes are very versatile in the right hands.

Where “War Fever” should be read as “Self-defense Desire”. I think the EU has long since proven beyond any shadow of doubt that they’d much, much rather spend their money on other things.

Da de lovede mig “radikale pandekager”, var det her ikke hvad jeg havde i tankerne. Jeg troede at der ville være krymmel, sprut eller måske endda guldfolie.

…Rather them than me.

Thank you for taking the time to provide the rest of us with an insightful local perspective on things. I try to keep appraised, but I think you’ll agree that there’s a lot going on all over the place at the moment. That just makes this kind of summary by a local all the more valuable.

Regardless, know that a lot of us hope that things turn out for the best for Romania. And by best, I naturally mean you guys being successful in resisting and rejecting the usual tiresomely predictable Russian manipulations. There’s no viable future to be found in that sphere of influence, such as it is.

While we’re on that subject, how are things going in Romania at the moment what with the election annulment and all?