I can vouch for bookshop.org — a fully workable and easy-on-the-conscience alternative for books, directly supporting indy shops in your home town.

REI, though, has been disappointingly anti-union and done recent layoffs, so they’re dead to me. And Instacart doesn’t belong on any good guys list.

I don’t want to throw stones, and fuck all we need a genuine resistance organization, but … yeah, it’s put together by one well-connected guy who brags that’s he’s “provided strategic communications counsel to a broad range of clients, including the U.S. Department of Defense, HSBC, the Yacht Club de Monaco, and the California Federal Public Defender’s Office.”

Good. It’s unimportant.

La Bamba in Madison? The burritos are yummy, but it’s a lie — not as big as my head, either.

It’s not about making a pass, but the corollary is all the cops claiming “excited delirium” is what kills their victims.

I am not annoyed by Lemmy’s constant glitches. It adds to the charm of the place.

Lemmy is a volunteer effort. You want everything to run corporate-smooth, that’s ‘X’ and TikTok and Reddit.

Firefox, or Mozilla, continues to be the only browser (at least among the biggies) that’s for the users, not the trackers and marketers.

Hadn’t thought of that, and it makes sense. Thanks.

I can’t even get past the user interface at Discord. Rarely have I felt so uninvited to participate, even as the site aggressively invites me to participate.

When it works?