I need Facebook for my volunteering gig, sadly. I disabled my own profile over 2 years ago now and made a fake profile which only follows the information I need on there and nothing else. I only use it in one specific browser with an extremely good Facebook specific ad blocker.

People caught on that girls and women can have it too and that they can be better at masking than anticipated. Nobody bothered to check me when I had all the symptoms for all my childhood and adolescence. It took me connecting the dots after age 30 to get the diagnosis.

My current cats are pretty different: 1 tux and 1 brown tabby. However in the past we’ve had another 2 tuxes. Those are usually where the mixups happen, between the 3 tux cats. But even those tend to work out most of the time.

Sounds like something an addict would say.

Joke’s aside though I’m happy with my meta-free life after leaving it all behind shortly after the last election results and it being clear that robot boy was (pretending to be) a fan of the orange man.

Only thing I can’t leave yet is WhatsApp because my volunteering group won’t switch. They are mostly boomers so it’s really difficult to get them to move.

Depends on how sophisticated it is. My iPhone has been able to correctly identify and tell apart different cats for about 3 years now and gets it right 90% of the time.

And before I get the comments: yes, I’m about to fully leave the Apple ecosystem.

I used to get overstimulated a lot at office jobs. Turns out I can prevent it just fine from home. For my own mental and physical health I’ll pick working from home any day of the week. Some meetings are more useful in person though, so I do go to the office for those.

David Copperfield (the magician)

You’ve been working on a curtain with a 1mm for 2 years for a friend? Must be quite the friendship! I hope they cherish it

Ooooh… do you know where you’ll hang it up? This is stunning!

Literally just a few seconds ago she was informing me that breakfast is late. She then proceeded to chuck my wireless mouse off my desk.

When our smart cat is particularly annoyed at us she’ll run through the house chucking things off of other things just to watch them fall

That can be self care too, you know

If you can’t do the long term stuff others have been mentioning here is a bit more short term stuff:

• Make sure you have bottled water. Ideally a few weeks worth per person in your household. Remember that cooking uses water too.
• Medication for as long a period as you can reasonably cover for the people in your household
• potassium iodine tablets to protect the thyroid in case of nuclear fallout
• Canned food
• remember your pets need stuff too if you have them
• in case there is an infant involved baby formula, diapers and other baby needs

More long term:

• look into MeshCore or meshtastic for communication
• radio with a hand crank + spare batteries
• medkit with bandages, tourniquet, etc. Also learn how to use it.
• we have 3 ways of heating our house: fireplace, electric and gas. I’m sure that won’t be possible for everyone but the point is diversification where possible.

Yep and that sucks. A lot of people have been working very long to fill the top ranks in the US exclusively with people who are at the very least on board with this kind of behaviour or willing to go along with just about anything blindly, most of which were replaced very recently.

In Europe we seemingly still have enough people left that we’re not compromised. At least enough that they don’t dare to give people a free-pass publicly yet. We’ll see if anyone actually gets punished though or if it’s just for show.

I was tempted to do that with our tabby’s markings… until I figured that they kind of look very suggestive in a labial sort of way, lol. To each their own, just not the kind of tattoo I personally was looking for

Sure, musk also had Canadian citizenship and also eventually US citizenship after 2002.

People were sending their condolences to Epstein upon the death of Stephen Hawking because they “knew they were so close”. Also Hawking was directly accused by Virginia Giuffre of attending one of the same orgies as Bill Clinton.

The Norwegian crown princess appears in the files over 1000 times and had close email contact for years and stayed at his house 5 years after his conviction. Her emails were in part referencing her son in relation to naked women. The same son is currently on trial for sex crimes.

Obviously not everyone in the files will be a pedophile. Some people will simply be pedophile supporters, ridiculously gullible, motivated by money, simply victims or just existing in the same circles, but the same counts for the people from the US that are mentioned. You were the one claiming that this was a US operation. I have given you many, many counter examples with you giving 0 examples of your own. I’m done wasting my time on this.

We also need to consider the media bias though. Most outlets I have seen that are reporting on the files are US based. They will likely recognize well known US names easily and so will their audience. It’s logical to report on those first.

Also just to add more names to the non-US pile:

• Ghislaine Maxwell - born in France to a French mother and British father
• (Former prince) Andrew in the UK
• Sarah Ferguson (former Duchess of York, UK)
• Richard Branson, UK billionaire
• Elon Musk (South Africa)
• Stephen Hawking (UK)
• Mette-Marit, the crown princess of Norway
• Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister
• Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Willing to bet there’s countless more high ranking politicians and royals worldwide involved. We’ll get more names in time I am sure.

Sure there were Americans involved, but it was arguably a worldwide operation. Plenty of ties to the UK, EU, Russia, Israel and various middle eastern countries. I’m happy to talk crap about the US (amongst other countries) but I prefer to stick to facts when doing so.

So this week Slovakia’s national security advisor resigned and so did Lord Mandelson from the Labour Party in the UK. Both happened shortly after the latest file release because they are indeed very much in the files.

Also as a European we are so very much financing Israel’s genocide. Not sure what sources you are using that say we aren’t. Type in any EU country in any search engine of your choice. Add in “money Israel” or “weapons Israel”. Sure plenty of countries are also condemning Israel’s actions while also simultaneously paying for those actions.

As long as all parties involved are consenting adults it’s none of my business what they are up to. Except that prostitution should be legalized in a way in which they get equal rights and protections to other professions. The only reason it’s illegal in many countries in the first place is likely based on religious Puritanism, which I do not think laws should ever be based on.