• Twin Peaks
• The X-Files
• Dark
• Chernobyl
• Happy Valley
• Line of Duty
• Luther
• Spaced
• Wolf Hall
• True Detective S1, S4

I find posts/headlines like these genuinely bizarre. “Now be plainly said”? “hard to picture the specifics”? “Less hypothetical by the week”? I’m not American, I don’t live there but even I can see - and have always been able to see - that its been on his agenda since day 1, that he doesn’t care - and never did care - about how it looks or how it works, that its never, ever been hypothetical.

I don’t make any claim to a superior level of intelligence, I’m not intimately familiar with the inner workings of the US political system but surely this has been utterly obvious to literally everyone since 2016. How many times does this man need to subvert political processes - which has also been happening since 2016 - before US citizens realise that democracy there is gone as a political system? All the various points along the last 10 years I’ve heard US citizens say “well, OK, thats bad, but at least he can’t do this thing” - and then he does it and they say “wow yeah, thats terrible but at least he’s not done the other thing.” repeat unto infinity.

He doesn’t care about head-shaking sombre articles from left-leaning media, he doesn’t care about No Kings marches. He doesn’t care that judges rule against him, he doesn’t care about violating your constitution. What he cares about is beefing up the military, turning the area around the Whitehouse into a heavily armoured, protected zone and creating distraction after distraction after distraction for US left wing political podcasters to froth about in Instagram Reels. Whilst you’re all laughing at his propensity to shit his pants and fall asleep and make rambling speeches, he’s preparing his likely combat zones and mass detention centres/camps.

Yes the US army historically has performed superbly against countries they deemed small easily beaten opponents.

Phone, no. Second hand Kobo + calibre, yes.

Much as I love physical books, I’ve now reached an age where having the ability to increase font size, adjust margins, kerning and leading is invaluable.

I’m sure they’ll get right on that, given how law-abiding they are.

I am also a Satanist and they have no direct affect on me either. That doesn’t change the fact that what they do and how they use their power, including how they treat members and ex-members, is, in my opinion badly wrong.

From what I can see the claim they fight for religious pluralism is very ambiguous. They’ve certainly lost a lot of court cases but I’m not sure how that’s helped anyone.

That’s totally your call but for, its always been my opinion that the ends rarely justify the means. Especially these means.

I can;t vouch for the temple watch site itself as I don’t know who is behind it (and is seems dead on the live web) but it is heavily referenced and they seem like pretty good sources to me.

It literally is a cult of personality. The two of them own and control all aspects of it.

They own and control the organisation so its not really possible to separate them. Its up to you if you’re happy about supporting them - there are plenty of other orgs you could choose to support though. Some mentioned in the first of those links.

TST are not the ‘good guys’.

The two owners of TST are:

• Lucien Greaves - long, text piece.
• Malcolm Jarry - text piece.

Content warning: quotes contain discussions of racism, ablism, eugenics, fascism.

Or if you prefer video, DeadDomain has some of the same receipts

https://filen.io/

Not pricey, e2ee clients, open source, servers in Germany, 10gb free tier to try them out. Been using them for a few years now. The clients used to be a bit crap but they’re very good now.

Sorry for the self promotion, but I’m part of a group of atheistic Satanists who operate a podcast about books and reading called The Devil’s Library - its literally 4 friends talking each month about a particular book we agreed to read - bit like a book club I guess. It does skew horror/fantasy/scifi heavy I guess.

They’re not what they seem.

We’re about a week away from him adopting the title Emperor.

According to a two year old post Voyager can’t create Communities. You can get around this by visiting your instance (lemmy.world) and logging in via a web browser.

Could you DM me a link too please? I’ve got no issues paying for something that makes my life easier!

Yeah, things going wrong is a concern. From the very brief look I’ve had at the repo, it looks like PHP and a standard MySQL/Maria DB runs Castopod so I’m hoping that side of things would be minimal and similar to self-hosting a WP instance.

The VPS side, I’m reasonably OK with. I’ve been running static sites for a few years with zero issues so far but I am less familiar with this side of things.

In terms of bandwidth, based on (basic) stats up until now I would guestimate we have about 100 downloads per month and each episode is approx 90-100mb in size so the package I have my eye on, which offers 24TB bandwidth per month should easily cope with that.

Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

Lack of audit is not great I agree. I can see from a basic web search that security is an issue but I’m not sure ‘nightmare’ is warranted. The lack of audit seems to be main focus of concern and I’d say thats a judgement call for each person depending on threat model. I was hoping for something more conclusive than that. Its certainly adequate for a more privacy-centric way of communicating than an app that doesn’t cater for Apple users at all.

Could you link me some resources for that? I may need something to demonstrate that to others.