"We're banning social media for people under 16. They'll be free from bullying and predatory practices designed to harm them to socialise in the real world."

So you're going to build more parks and other third spaces for them to hang out in instead?

"Well, no, bu--"

Oh, so you're going to provide more funding to school counselors and anti-bullying programmes so they don't face the harms they faced online in the building they are mandated by law to go to?

"..."

Please tell me you're at least using the funds you think this will save you to hire more staff for handling child abuse cases and improving care conditions if the parents are so abusive as to be unfit parents now that those children don't have an escape from it.

"Parents rights?"

Fuck it, doing a poll because this is bothering me.

Your current keyboard shits the bed and your only purchase options involve one of these design choices. Which do you pick?

Boosts appreciated for a higher sample size.

It's looking like I'm getting closer to the point where I can finally start posting about projects I'd be neglecting in order to get healthcare issues sorted, so I'm on the lookout for a PeerTube instance that would be good for hosting video essays, gamedev progress videos, and maybe some music whenever I can get to that. I'm content with all three of those being separate instances. I'd also be willing to look at general purpose instances depending on where they're hosted, how big they are, and how resilient their infrastructure is.

I'm not at a place where I can self-host. I wouldn't be asking for other instances if I could self-host.

Any recommendations?

#PeerTube #AskFedi

I propose the following hypothesis:

Imagine, if you will, the entirety of the landmass and water engulfed in the Strait of Hormuz is perfectly encapsulated in a box. Now also imagine the current Ayatollah, Bibi, and Herr TACO and all their respective military's assets are also in the box. We must assume until the box is opened to observe the contents that the Strait of Hormuz is affixed in a superposition of being simultaneously open and closed.

NOW can we stop spamming captchas at every person who isn't running Chrome on default settings without a VPN?! This fucking shit would be a lot less effective if captchas weren't fucking everywhere.

@deviantollam https://defcon.social/@deviantollam/116416495125470235

Given recent events I guess I have to make it even more explicit.

Because Epstein, whether you think he killed himself or was killed, I don't fucking care anymore, died by hanging, a miscarriage of justice took place. Not just because it made it harder to get to the bottom of things, but because such a vile shitstain with less value than a singular earthworm was denied the suffering he deserved for what he did. Were it not for the fact that I'm unsure if calling for violence if a dead person *was* alive violates the rules of this instance, I would gleefully recount the ways I wish I could personally make a monster I would value less than inanimate objects suffer given tbe opportunity.

So I'm sorry if I got a little bit emotional at even the implication that I was somehow defending a corpse that is further beneath me than the mud on my boots for whom Hel itself is too great a mercy. I'm sorry if I refuse to let a vitriol so great it's taken all my willpower not to destroy the phone I'm using to type this in pure rage splash back onto the hunan shields the "people" also at fault for this placed in front of them.

Kindly choke on the shit you spew if that makes me a heretic. We all have bigger fucking fish to fry than your bitch ass.