free my girl ok she did all that but y'all are annoying about it
Oh
OH!!!
OhOhOHHhhhhhh!!!!!!!11!!eleven11!!!!!
The ✨
Fucking 😻
European Union's 🌈
Digital Service Act 🥲
Forces large social platforms 🥳
To always offer ♥️
a non-algorithmic option 🌟
To EU users 🤟
Fuck
Yeah
EU!!!!
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I see US tech jounalists on Mastodon, once again, charging against the EU for "damaging european users" by forcing companies to deliver "a subpar experience". So let me paste something I wrote over there a few weeks ago:
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I keep seeing very important US tech journalist here talking about how Threads not launching in the EU is: - somehow shameful and a sign of how "you can't innovate in the EU" - a problem for the EU, which will led us to creative interpretations of the GDPR to finally allow Meta to launch here.
And I think folks from the US tech scene really, really don't understand several things:
1) how incredibly hostile the EU (and a good chunk of the European political parties) are to "big tech". 2) how surprisingly immune to lobbying the EU Parliament appears to be. 3) how actually popular it's that the politicians take a hard stance against macrocorps. Every time the European Commission has gone against big tech most the press and the people have cheered them as our champions against evil.
And I can't even start describing how IMPORTANT for the future could be that people started being able to turn off YouTube algorithmic recommendations. I think YouTube shares with meta, pretty much 50/50, the responsibility for the global resurgence of fascism we have seen in the last decade.
The EU isn't perfect but I celebrate every time they get pissed at big tech firms for data and privacy breaches.
Or having 20000 different charger cables. 10/10 EU in this regard. Be hostile against algorithms targeting consumers.
it could be worse. i could be a sophomore in high school
if youre a sophomore in high school just know that youre literally at rock bottom right now i promise it gets better from there
Our blessed tumblr
A holy site
Nah nah nah, you ain’t hiding this in the tags
Not one of the 7 deadly sins, but a secret 8th sin
I love you ciabatta, I love you injera, I love you tortillas, I love you naan, I love you bagels, I love you pita, I love you fried dough, I love you scallion pancakes, I love you rice balls, I love you zucchini bread, I love you cinnamon buns, I love you pumpernickel & rye & sourdough, I love you biscuits, I love you english muffins, I love you french toast, I love you papad, I love you noodles, I love you dough
that specific type of gender envy where i wanna look like an analog horror character
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adhd is so funny it's like being possessed but with myself
me, desperately: can we please get something done?!
my inner demon, who is also me: IF YOU LIKE PIÑA COLADA
No, I will never get tired of getting breaking national news from a soon to be obliterated gay angel and a man who is a stoic garden hedge of compulsory heterosexuality
I forgot that she ended up choosing the worst name out of the bunch
you guys just say sentences
I mean it is sorta counter cultural to admit you're a swifty on tumblr these days
no it isn’t. hope this helps
