Brutkey

Daniël Franke :panheart:
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu
Daniël Franke :panheart:
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu

I am however a cat person, and this is a great idea!

https://aus.social/@biggie/114980136559616283

Daniël Franke :panheart:
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu

If your open source project uses Discord or Slack as it's main communications channel, be assured, I am quietly judging you.

Daniël Franke :panheart:
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu

One of the nice things about open platforms is that nobody is stopping you from using a command line fedi client because it won't show ads...

Daniël Franke :panheart:
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu

A thing that many people don't realise,is that if you get neoliberals in your government, they will actively work on making your government work worse.

Neoliberals want services, like transit, healthcare, etc, to be privatised because their friends can make profit off of running these thing. People will not want these services to be privatised if they run well.

The classic playbook, and this playbook has been running for about as long as I've lived, is to starve government services from money, while also making them more bureaucratic than they need to be. This makes these services inefficient, insufficient, and over time, unpopular.

When the quality of these services becomes bad enough, and the reputation of these services bad enough, the neoliberals in government will start saying that privatisation is the only way to improve these services (for example in the case of healthcare), or that people just prefer to use a private alternative (for example driving in the case of rail). Of course, they purposely ignore that these options only seem better because they've been ruining the governmental services themselves.

In short, governmental services don't need to be bureaucratic and shit, we can choose to make them at least, if not more so, as good as the private options.

Daniël Franke :panheart:
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu

As I like to go walking, and I tend to take a photos while I do, I'm going to start a #photography thread.

I will limit it to 4 photos per post, as #mastodon just hides anything over and what's the use of federation if most people only see partial posts.

Here's the first set, all taken in #Berlin

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A deserted street lit from the left by a low hanging song, there's a "Mc Donut" car on the left, casting a long shadow. A sidewalk, covered in brown leaves, trees line the left of the sidewalk, cars line the right. There is a scooter and a bicycle in the distance. In the foreground is a street sign saying "Reichweindamm". A small structure stands in a wooded area, the structure has a round bench at the bottom, with the middle leading up to a much bigger pointed roof. The roof is held up by big wooden boards. A lot of trees with platforms hanging in them, the platforms have ropes and bridges between them.