Tomasz Oryński

This is Anna Bryłka, a Polish right wing MEP. She voted against Erasmus+ program. Because she was already on Erasmus in Italy when she was at the uni, so we don't need it anymore. Seriously tho, she claims it's because Erasmus is tied to the Green Energy projects somehow, and that's bad apparently

She got into a spat with another Polish politician on Twitter about it. Her defenders flocked in. I like this one the most. He suggests she doesn't bother. "Even Solomon would not pour INTO empty" he says. Weird, I made myself a tea earlier today and I poured it into empty mug no problem :)

Seem this storm in the UK is not a joke: Wellington's cone is gone!

Meanwhile in Poland, two news items across two days. 1. On All Saint Days Poles go to cemeteries en masse. In my hometown of Wrocław one of cemeteries is next to the military unit. The army organizes a makeshift car park there. But chinese cars are not allowed, because they are spying on us.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

Meanwhile I coined a new term. Unfortunately it does not work as well in English as it does in Polish. In Polish, the community is "społeczność" and making it an adjective to describe social media results in the term "Media Społecznościowe"

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

The other problem is that most of us here, on Bsky and Mastodon, left Twitter, all the politicians and journalists are still there. Their world views is shaped by the alghoritms tweaked by a neo nazi sociopath. We should challenge them on that.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

or fall for blaming migrants, trans people or whoever they decide to send us after tommorow, their billions are safe from us. I am retreating to Mastodon. It's a small social media platform. Not many people. But being there, I got the feeling of space, of new horizons.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

Whenever I come back from Instagram or Twitter (or even, to some extent, Bluesky) back to Mastodon, which is my main social media platform now, I feel like I need a hot shower and a proper scrub. But the social media used to be different.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

I try to avoid mainstream social media now. It only makes you angry. Everyone on it seems to be angry all the time. Even the allies - when I mentioned to a guy that I support that he posted an AI picture instead of an original one, he started aggressively abusing and offending me.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

But also: my instagram feed is now 90% Israeli settler violence and gaza genocide. And despite the fact that it is, basically, an instagram account where I post pictures of my cats and mostly follow instagram accounts where my friends post pictures of their pets. Like a dozen or so.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

On my main account I followed students who protest agains Helsinki University's ties to Israel. My feed is full of Israeli war crimes. My feed there is full of israeli crimes and settler violence now.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?

I did an experiment recently. I set up a brand new social media account and only gave it one prompt, putting "funny" into the search bar then started scrolling. There was one funny sketch done by a trans woman, which I copied link to to send to my friends.

I had to block another friend on Facebook today after observing how he got radicalised in express pace by the content from social media he consumes. (a thread) It's amazing how quickly people become radicalized nowadays. Is it a shot-off of the social media alghoritms set to promote engagement?