Paul H is a user on social.device5.co.uk. You can follow them or interact with them if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse.

Paul H @paul@social.device5.co.uk

Are you the sort of person who is worried about standing up for yourself? Don't want to complain about being mistreated?

Here's the weird thing, you CAN do it, and once you ARE doing it, no-one will ever tell you that you can't.

No-one will turn around and say "You aren't the sort of person who does this, go away". People only ever deal with the situation you present to them.

Once you're doing it you ARE that sort of person and people accept it immediately no questions.

Paul H boosted

Worker co-op idea, take it or leave it Show more

The idea of the FBI investigating alien stuff and other unusual activity.

How did the X-Files ever get away with such rubbish?

If it was real life they would be investigating hacktivists in a slightly incompetent way, but then having their arses saved by NSA data which they then have to pretend came from "real" investigations

Paul H boosted

Ahem. I’m a classical liberal. *eats actual poop*

Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism

"Fascism doesn’t arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate."

irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-

Paul H boosted

500px is shutting down access to their #CreativeCommons images! Use this VM to backup the data before the capitalists destroy it. archiveteam.org/index.php?titl

#FreeCulture #Boost #ArmchairActivism

Paul H boosted

Twitter was not bad because "hashtags this" or "trends that". Twitter was bad because:

1. Centralized.
2. They forced you to ID yourself with a phone number.
3. They hand your data to third party companies.
4. Most governments were using it to ID people saying bad things about them.
5. Ads and corporative campaigns.

"Trotters up"

Phrase of the year

Lots and lots of people see nothing wrong with blind military worship.

Lots of unquestioning "keeping us safe" rhetoric too.

puke.

On birdsite, trending in UK: "ArmedForcesDay2018".

Ew.

Paul H boosted

Libcom: **Grenfell Tower – the smoke & the mirrors**

"There is an ever-growing stream of media commentary on the Grenfell fire, increasing daily as the public enquiry unfolds. There are some elements in the media with the goal of obscuring or excusing the plain facts as part of a pre-emptive defence manoeuvre to protect those most implicated in what caused the fir…"

libcom.org/blog/grenfell-tower

#anarchism #bot

Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR

Good article. Also details how this law was passed so fast and got round the huge lobbying dollars of Facebook, Google etc.

theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/c

Paul H boosted

America has an unhealthy obsession with acronyms.

Change ICE to something less cool sounding like LICE. Then all the bullys that join up thinking they're cool as ICE are instead as annoying as LICE.

The NSA are installing new equipment in Comcast network

Transform and roll out