When I used to go out and walk home at night and some lady walking the same way, I’d make sure to walk a little louder and just one step slower than her so the distance was slowly increasing. If she looked anxious I’d even whistle a merry tune or something else ridiculous so she could more easily approximate the distance without having to look around.

My idea was to signal that I am harmless, have no intent of interaction, and finally that there is somebody else around that diminishes the risks of her being jumped by some hidden assailant.

If there was a dude ahead of me that looked nervous or did the stiff muscle up walking I’d happily do the same.

I’ve always looked a little burly and rarely felt afraid for myself so I’m glad if I can share my privilege.

The fuck are you on about? On the traditional left-right axis liberals are placed in the center, though that is a simplification. The ideals align with plenty of leftists but the economy is waaay right.

What is this? The new anti vax movement?

We need no enemies with allies like that

The Swedish prime minister kept repeating the word “övning” (“exercise”, as in training) in interviews yesterday.

But is ok. It is called diplomacy. Everybody knows exactly what all of this is and why.

It is difficult and fucking weird that we have to deploy troops to defend our allies from our other supposed allies.

What sizes are they in?

If you have control of the national uplinks to the rest of the world, it’s quite the simple affair to turn off traffic for ISPs. If you are a telecom provider and you are visited by military with authority to shoot you on the spot, you are quite inclined to obey and shut down the network as it will happen regardless you are alive or not.

Whatever wired local city networks may still function or not, depending on circumstances and the phase of the moon. Likely they will not be able to communicate with anybody else though.

Then there is nothing much to do for any opposition but to use covert satellite communications and those are much too important and slow and expensive for sharing with memes and porn.

This makes me heart smile

Your grandparents nude and getting at it might do the trick.

Visualize this. Where did your mum and dad originate?

Psst. Nearly every human child and adult are the result of a hot stonking genitalia involving mess.

I agree that moderators need to keep American politics out of unrelated communities, seeing how it takes over all of Reddit if allowed. There are plenty of appropriate places on the Fediverse for trump talk, no need for anyone to whine about censorship.

Fuck it, I’m going to order me a Hawaii today. I don’t think I’ve had one for twenty odd years.

Flashbacks of flipping around a 5¼" floppy disks that were actually floppy and manually spinning the cassette tape wheels while something is loading.

I’m saying that they marketed themselves as a new exciting Swedish tech disruptor while doing funding rounds here in Sweden. Then swiftly left anything Sweden behind and avoiding taxes doing it.

It does seem Swedish press and even tech press still think they are Swedish though.

Here in Sweden they started with fishing for funding and making press about being a Swedish company. It worked and they got hype. Then they moved to some UK tax haven and now they are apparently based on London.

I’m not very supportive of Nothing.

A long time ago someone was arguing that you only do what you do if it brings in the money to support yourself. I told her that most artists regardless of their career can not support themselves solely on making art. She maintained her position.

I know she’s had a very successful career and she loves what she is doing. I wish everybody could support themselves on what they love doing. Or find something to support themselves that they love doing.

No, but you are attempting to critique it as if it was.

Being transgender is not an ideology, dude.

Ask mum if she’d prefer to drown or survive but you drown while saving her.