@cstross One wonders at the people who looked at that and determined that yes, THAT is the image we want representing us.

@AlexGallagher @cstross Mr. Goodwin, Margaret Atwood is on line 2…

From a Reddit post:

Doggo just wanted a chance to compete in the Winter Olympics.

#Olympics
#mastodogs
#DogsOfMastodon
#Dogs

*PLEASE BOOST*

All right, let me try this again with more detail that may help clarify things:

In the spirit of encouraging digital sovereignty, I’m trying to use more Canadian digital services.

I’ve long used BitWarden as a password manager. It’s open source, which I try to support, but is American.

A quick bit of password manager research suggests KeePass (open source) would be over my head technically speaking, and 1Password is the third of those highest rated password managers. It’s Canadian, but is closed source.

So when it comes down to the binary choice of supporting open source or supporting digital sovereignty, which do you think takes precedence?

@rayckeith @falcennial This is one of those things that many, MANY Americans will always be against, despite it benefiting the working class directly, entirely because the term “socialism” has been so vigorously demonized there.

@StevenLawsonPhotography @Tattooed_Mummy That was going to be a follow-up question.

I’m in!

@StevenLawsonPhotography @Tattooed_Mummy I certainly can’t do every photo in black and white — I’m lucky enough to be in an area where we sometimes get gorgeous sunrises, and my photogenic kid’s hair is a riot of colour these days, for starters — but I’m all for joining in and posting whatever decent black and white shots I get, if that’s perhaps in the scope of the plan?