Spent so much time and 'political capital' convincing my wife and some friends to use signal instead of...instagram chat or some crap. Now i gotta tell em to get on Simplex ..this is gonna suck hahah

Is anyone really surprised a company like Apple, which has an iron grip on its product (talking about you, the consumer, not their hardware/software) is having issues allowing freedom tech on its ecosystem ?

Avatar 2 is such a faking boring movie.

Im from the government and im here to start a project with your money, then completely abandon it once it is not in the news 😔 Five years ago, Multnomah County pitched an idea to help tackle homelessness — building tiny houses in homeowners' backyards.

The Portland backyard tiny home project that quietly disappeared | kgw.com

Using iris android app instead of amethyst now. Its pretty good, not as good but 👍

One of the promises of the digital era was that information, knowledge would live forever. But it is dawning on me that we could lose vast swaths of knowledge if servers were destroyed or censored. Makes me appreciate how easy to distribute and resist censorship a book is.

Its not uncommon in the friend circles that I have for us to be discussing a societal woe and the blame inevitably falls onto 'Capitalism'. But when you drill down into their issue, its not with capitalism but with some perversion of capitalism secured by the state. The problem is, the state.