Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University. My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://aoir.social/@rwg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzlx6crfezd2Just watched @avilewis get into an impromptu debate with Finance Minister Champagne -- thank you for calling out the tax breaks for large corporations. So much money left on the table that could go to healthcare and, as you point out, government-run grocery stores.05 Nov 2026 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlx6crfezd2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzlidoq4uap2what's the date today? I can't remember05 Nov 2026 18:22 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzlidoq4uap2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzkzpdsd6kh2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] In 2014 and 2015, #gamergate trended on Twitter, as misogynistic video gamers harassed and threatened progressive, genderqueer, and female journalists and video gamers.... https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11756419174824046005 Nov 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzkzpdsd6kh2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzjb7anonti2[KDE (Linux desktop) help request] I love KDE. I've used with Arch, Debian/Ubuntu, and Fedora underneath. But Discover, the graphical software installer, is terrible. It crashes constantly, updates take forever to load, and now I'm watching it freeze up as it creates a bug report. I tend to […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11756021633241307004 Nov 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzjb7anonti2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mziwy6sjb5r2I heard you, my friends, when you said you were tired of these scorpions stinging you, and you wanted me to stop the scorpion stings. I am humbled by the trust you are placing in me. I am now taking the mandate you have given me to work with the scorpions to find common solutions, with the hopes […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11755949716008811604 Nov 2026 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mziwy6sjb5r2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzijaddumww2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] Recall the arguments against instance blocklists: the dogmatic free speech argument, the open federation argument, the grudgelist argument, and the admin responsibility argument. As far as Ro and Oliphant are concerned […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11755852943918076304 Nov 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzijaddumww2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzihlg3sgg52I'm not hungover. I'm exhausted from being up all night surfing a blue wave04 Nov 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzihlg3sgg52https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzhmkrnu5xy2[uspol] Susan Collins's concession speech: "I am concerned that Troy Jackson got more votes than me."04 Nov 2026 05:26 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhmkrnu5xy2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzhmhkvixvk2[uspol, Michigan Senate] Apparently most uncounted votes in Michigan are in Wayne County, Kent County, and Kalamazoo County. I imagine those will go heavily to El-Sayed.04 Nov 2026 05:25 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhmhkvixvk2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzhmb7i4cjs2[uspol] Mark Zuckerberg right now: "Where did I put that mask?!?"04 Nov 2026 05:21 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhmb7i4cjs2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzhklqokjb72[uspol] Was the Democrats' win tonight so convincing that Trump... will accept the results? Wow04 Nov 2026 04:51 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhklqokjb72https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzhiynia5kb2Ok, c'mon, Michigan. Don't let me down.04 Nov 2026 04:23 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzhiynia5kb2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzfyr7lz6qb2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] But the fediverse wasn’t always loving Playvicious.social back. In 2018, Ro wrote about “harassing dickheads” he had been staving off.... https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com #MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot03 Nov 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzfyr7lz6qb2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzfxf4tir4h2Welp, my partner and I sent in ballots from Canada to Michigan and they're still not received. Mine was sent three weeks ago, hers 11 days ago (and we paid a lot of money to send it faster). They still count if they arrive by the 9th, but starting to think they got 'lost' by the USPS.03 Nov 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzfxf4tir4h2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzfvnnkehjh2Good luck out there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWwHjQZcZ_0&list=RDaWwHjQZcZ_0&start_radio=103 Nov 2026 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzfvnnkehjh2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzdicj3ql3a2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] Thinking about these complicated histories, I had to ask Ro: if something like The Bad Space and instance blocklist importing were available during Playvicious’s run, would Playvicious still be online? “That’s a big […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11754720476451021402 Nov 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzdicj3ql3a2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mzaxti5xtua2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] I joined Mastodon in 2017 because of this longstanding research interest in alternative social media. Founded in 2016, Mastodon is a free and open source software (FOSS) microblogging site […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11754154246257485801 Nov 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzaxti5xtua2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mz6dzidy5cm2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] The dogmatic free speech argument: This argument holds that blocking people preemptively violates the principle of free speech.... https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com #MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot31 Oct 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz6dzidy5cm2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mz3zkcg7b6l2Why oh why is Prince's "1999" looping in my mind30 Oct 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz3zkcg7b6l2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mz3tk7rfmka2[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon] However, while Playvious.social is no more, its influence echoes across the fediverse. These echoes can be seen to this day in two key places: fediblock, one of the most important hashtags on the fediverse, was co-created […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11752998195892687530 Oct 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz3tk7rfmka2https://bsky.app/profile/rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mz2nlahrlxs2So... Protonmail is using AI code and people are like, move. But where? Seriously... name a service I can use that won't have this problem. Even if I self-host email (which I'm not going to do) any FOSS software I use to do so is probably going to be touched by LLM code. AIF […] https://aoir.social/@rwg/11752731008765111830 Oct 2026 01:40 +0000at://did:plc:o7oniuuol23faearwamgtwmg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz2nlahrlxs2