Jay Baker (he/they)

I love AntennaPod! I’ve relied on it for what feels like a few years (has it even been around that long?) and can’t recommend it enough. Just give it time to get used to!

It started off well enough, but then it began talking about “left-wing propaganda” being promoted by Microsoft - an inherently right-wing capitalist corporation - and instantly lost all credibility. I expected it to degenerate into Covid denialism and tinfoil hat-wearing antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes. Hardly a way to win over “normies” by sounding like an absolute freak in the first place.

Edit: Just checked and to be fair, the entire instance describes itself as “content on liberating your electronics from the tyranny of left wing Big Tech surveillance.” God that’s some mental gymnastics right there: left-wing capitalism. Please read a book.

There you go: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-to-step-down-1396554132

A Murena phone. The de-Googled e//OS system is way simpler than your average Google phone with all the crap on it.

And their CEO is a bigot.

The year of the Linux desktop! (Sorry…)

The Putin Regime is diabolical, of course. And divestments and boycotts helped bring down South Africa apartheid, so such actions they have their place. But I think what bothers a lot of people is the double standards of corporations doing business with, say, the likes of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who trample over human rights and whose brutality has created the worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen. It’s definitely worth debating the targeting and effectiveness (and consistency, or lack thereof) in such pulling of services.