Basically I would prefer not to buy a pixel, but if graphene is that much better than the other OS’s I would consider it

Approaching the point where I need a new phone. Curious what would be better. A fairphone 6 with calyx or /e/ os. Or a new pixel with graphene. I’ve heard graphene is the best but the fairphone is very tempting

Wasn’t old enough to have any opinion of him but I just asked my dad who’s been living here since '89 and he thinks our current mayor is worse lmao

Elections are this November. A ton of seats up. Shitty center right mayor. Shitty right wing city attorney. Shitty right wing city council president, among others.

The current city attorney was voted in 4 years ago in 2021

I mean if you really think the right wing accurately portrayed a nuanced issue that’s certainly a take

Except that’s not really true. She didn’t run on that at all. It was a tweet from long before the election that the right wing used to tarnish her

Friendly reminder that Seattle’s current city attorney is a trump backing Republican who was elected all because Seattle at the time was too scared of a candidate who once talked about abolishing the police.

The author here is running for the position and if you’re in Seattle I highly encourage supporting him. We have a chance to drastically shift the center right city government that has plagued our city these last few years

The people showing up to defend trees at the city council these days are nimbys who don’t want higher density. They fail to see that adding more housing in Seattle will prevent hundreds of trees not being cut down in the new suburbs being built in our forested areas

I use this and love it

https://buynothingproject.org/

I’ll have to point out your disrespect too towards LeBron.

It’s fine if you don’t think he beats Jordan but to say he’s not even in the conversation is silly

This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever read

Yeah I’ve also been really frustrated by this attitude. My advice is to look for local groups of activists and see what you can do to help. Being part of a local coalition can be a very motivating thing and even just being in their discord or matrix servers or whatever can be a good way to get information. I found a local trans activist group that has a user providing daily political bulletins on what kind of stuff is going on around the city. Talking with these people and seeing what is going on feels a lot more optimistic and tangible than the stuff I see posted here

Oh for sure, and I do. I’m a big proponent of voting your heart in a primary

I am aware some states are adopting it. But until it is a common thing nationwide it doesn’t really remedy the situation. Yet.

Wake me up when we have a voting system that allows for more than 2 parties. Until then, I will try and push Dems left

Bluesky ain’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination… But I’m happy there are more alternatives. Despite some weirdness with moderation I have enjoyed my time in Bluesky so far. And the fact that more apps can be made on the AT protocol definitely makes it seem more legitimate in my eyes. Cool project imo

They do have an app but it’s only good for loading it. Their only currently supported way of a having a digital card is Google wallet (oddly not even apple wallet is supported yet)

Perhaps that’ll change someday

Unfortunately my transit system’s digital pass is not a pkpass afaik. It only works on Google wallet :/

If I can ever get a wallet app that I can put my transit card onto I’ll switch to graphene

I don’t think blueskys that bad. At least not yet. I’d prefer a fully featured federated thing but the fact is mastodon just doesn’t appeal to most people.

Blueskys moderation capabilities at least are quite nice atm