Happened to come to #Paris today, landing in a warzone. Of course I had to get myself right in the middle of the late action 😅 Felt a bit nervous at Place de la Republique, since the police seemed to start to circle it, clocking exits, and it was getting somewhat heavy in tear gas. Managed to exit the way I came thankfully.

Also had my first "run from a #police charge" moment, as the crowd on a street suddenly started to run towards me, from the dropping tear has and police charge.

Photos in the thread.

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RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/117457925467251228

Meta messing with Indivisible just as No Kings begins. SpaceX shutting down Starlink right when the Russians launch a deadly attack on Ukraine. Meta censoring Lula and promoting Bolsonaro days before the Brazilian election.

This is the future that big tech has given us. This is where we are today...

@kagyu_midtsveen thank you!

@justine 😄😂

The idea that you can develop software or policy with the help of LLMs *and* have anything worth hearing to say about the gratis software ecosystem is laughable.

Should we get our thought leadership on climate change from the CEO of BP? Maybe he can fly in on his private jet to lecture us about how fossil-fuel-producing algae are the future of energy. Maybe I can get a T-shirt as swag! They've got polyester!

As little sand grains of useful antifascist resistance, I think it's our social obligation to tune these clowns out, deride the very idea of their authority, and warn each other about the controlled opposition that's expecting us to show up as an audience. Sorry if any of these men (and it's always men) were heroes of yours when you knew less about them. But here we are now. No credibility, no quarter, show them the door.

Le pouvoir ne détruit pas toujours les humains par la violence, il l’est détruit aussi et souvent par l’attente.

Faire attendre quelqu’un, c’est lui rappeler que sa vie ne dépend pas de lui, mais de la décision d’un autre.

C’est ce que la Justice fait du haut de son piédestal.

🔗 https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/10/17/fa79e

We can all be different and not care about it. Our friends understood that a long time ago.

There's a dust-up over an AI ad from Bookshop.org. But they didn't use AI; Meta's ad platform automatically created an AI "variation" of the original, non-AI content.

I went to disable this crap in our Shiraki Press ad account, and got served a popup *demanding a reason why*.

Fuck Meta for this. Consent matters. We've just pulled all paid advertising from their platforms.

@faraiwe

To their crecdit they were very early to adopt the open social web for that very reason:

@indivisibleteam

@godber

https://about.iftas.org/library/url-domain-and-ip-reputation-resources/

and consider the waitlist for bot manager app #Fediponics https://fediponics.com/

@Linkshaender true! Have a great Sunday!

@demofox Well said, I made a simlair take here; https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/117457925467251228

cc: @indivisibleteam

So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.

So... here's the thing:

DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.

The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.