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Tuomo Valkonen @tuomov@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026
#Software has become like #bureaucracy: Nothing ever gets fixed. But new rules, new features, keep getting accumulated. Until you drown in them. That includes #FLOSS.
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Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦 @SCZoomers@mstdn.ca · Jul 21, 2026
Rome didn't fall to invaders. It fell to its own fixes. Diocletian doubled the army and bureaucracy to save the empire — and sealed its collapse. This episode traces diminishing returns from Rome to modern software, with a 2019 brain study on why simplification, not addition, is nature's real survival strategy. 🎧 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/19506038 📖 https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/diocletians-ladder 📻 https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/627187-diocletian-s-ladder #complexsocieties #josephtainter #systemscience #collapse #neuroscience #history #podcast #bureaucracy
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sasutina13a is-a small exothermic chaos @sasutina13@lgbtqia.space · Jul 19, 2026
#Caltrain continues to be difficult for autists by their vague, incomplete, incorrectly worded, inaccurate, and absent information. It is the same for disabled and wheelchair users. It is unnecessarily and unreasonably stressful. They won't change. They have made that quite clear. They have refused to provide information helpful to people. The only way to know what they won't tell you is to learn it all the hard way. Tough noogies--figure it all out by yourself. However, the conductors I have encountered on every train I was on are very helpful and friendly, and usually pretty good-natured, which does help ease the stress. #bureaucracy #PublicTransit #SFBay #trains #ActuallyAutistic #Disabled
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ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼 @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space · Jul 16, 2026
CW: Bureaucracy, discrimination, barriers faced by migrants, racism in institutions Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
A very German bureaucracy moment happened today. 🇩🇪📋 My client, a person who has been granted asylum and is still learning German, had an appointment at the vehicle registry office in Essen to exchange her foreign driving licence for a German one. I was standing by on the phone to help with translation if needed. A perfectly normal, practical solution: faster, cheaper, and honestly more sensible than sending an interpreter across town and country just to translate one or two questions. I have done this countless times before. Except this time the first thing the office did was demand that my client switch off the phone. When she explained that she might need language assistance, and I explained that all I would do was offer that assistance when needed, I was immediately told: “That is only possible in person, after legitimising yourself as a translator.” I politely pointed out that this was highly unusual and asked them to simply continue with the procedure. After all, I was not replacing the official process, I was just there as a language bridge if something became unclear. Nope. Their argument? They didn’t know whether I was “really” a translator, and they didn’t know who else might be listening. A fascinating level of suspicion. Apparently the greatest threat to German administrative order is not missing paperwork, endless waiting times, or three different forms requiring three different stamps. No. It is… a translator on speakerphone. Of course, protecting privacy is important. But there is a difference between legitimate data protection and treating every person with limited German skills as if they are trying to sneak past the system with a mysterious telephone accomplice. That said, after hearing some of the things I have heard from officials over the years, I can understand why someone might prefer not having a witness present... Integration is supposed to mean removing barriers, not creating new ones with a “please bring a human interpreter, preferably certified by the bureaucracy gods, before we allow you to understand what we are saying” policy. Sometimes German bureaucracy feels less like a service and more like an escape room where the final puzzle is finding the correct stamp. #Integration #Bureaucracy #Migration #LanguageAccess #Germany #HumanRights #KafkaIsNotAManual
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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱 @breton@climatejustice.social · Oct 19, 2025
Replying to on climatejustice.social
"The West Bank's 19 refugee camps are home to almost a million people, most of whom are the descendants of those displaced by the 1948 Palestinian Nakba and subsequent wars." "Middle East Eye gets you up to speed with an overview of what’s been happening in the West Bank": https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/west-bank-israel-palestine-whats-happened @palestine@fedibird.com #land #bureaucracy #landGrab #PalestiniansLivesMatter #violence #Palestine #israelPalestine #Zionism #FromTheRiverToTheSea #JewishSupremacy #StateRacism #apartheidIsrael #apartheid #OneState #Hebron #WestBank #OPT #occupation #settlements #settlers #Judea #terror #terrorism #impunity
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Karel 'Clock' K. @clock@net.miaumuh.ch · May 05, 2026
"browsing the internet feel like living in a dystopian hellscape, and annoying cookie banners and consent forms are right at the top of that list." -- "uBlock Origin icon and go to Settings > Filter lists > Annoyances. Enable EasyList Cookie to hide cookie banners" https://lifehacker.com/you-can-block-those-annoying-cookie-banners-on-every-we-1848936142 #bureaucracy #dystopia #nightmare #ublock #ublockorigin #eu #gdpr #eubureaucracy #consent #block #filter #www #browsing #internet #hellscape #cookies #cookiebanners
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Félicien Breton @breton@mstdn.social · Mar 30, 2023
Smadar #Lavie: "The refusal of elite #military reservists to attend to their periodic training […] is conceived as another Ashkenazi privilege. In general, being pro-Palestinian in #israel often requires contacts and funds to pay bail rather than rot in prison in case one is arrested during a solidarity visit to West Bank villages." https://www.972mag.com/smadar-lavie-israeli-protests-mizrahi/ #antiracism #nationalism #Zionism #whiteSupremacy #authority #bureaucracy #activism #debt
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