Nikola Dj.

RE: @thecasualcritic@writing.exchange

It's funny how it all comes to down to rent seeking and all the talk of innovation and growth is really just set dressing.

I'd really love to see some actual evidence for point 3.

If you're just coming out of the new year stupor, know that World War III has started today. What a time!

I hardly think this needs saying but engagement baiters, who profit off of posting incendiary tweets that make people angry or distressed, will all go to Hell.

RE: @euronews@flipboard.com

As they say in my country: језиво.

And what do I do, if I'm an average person, when I switch to one of these, and realize none of my friends, family, and coworkers are using them?

Literally every part of your 10-day challenge is more realistic than what you start with on day 1. Changing messsaging apps to open source alternatives is completely unworkable for 99% of people and you shouldn't even entertain it as a serious option.

I grew up in the early 00s and late 90s just after a war so I suppose I always naively expected that over time the world would get less cruel. How wrong I was, compared to what’s going on now, my childhood was a picnic.

#Blogging is ridiculously fragmented in 2026. A WriteFreely blog is incompatible with Substack is incompatible with Ghost is incompatible with Squarespace.

Back in 2009, whether you used Blogger or LiveJournal or whatever else you could easily follow posts with RSS and comment anywhere though OpenID. Now both OpenID and RSS are practically dead so that we can have these walled gardens and silos.

The ideology of "comfy" has been a disaster for the The Left. #TheLeft #communism

An utterly bizarre piece in Politico about evil rightwingers turning Christmas into a Christian holiday. Not that it ever had much credibility but it's egregious even by the low standards of American leftist rags.