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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • On the top, a bright, clear sunny day, a few picturesque clouds in the sky.

    At the bottom, a river, once clean, where corporate logos such as Google and Microsoft sit, partially submerged, stains spreading into the waters around them.

    In the middle, a bridge: well constructed across and overtop the river, across which various Fediverse logos are crossing

    I dunno, I’m not a graphic designer











  • It’s not just “they make products and services that people buy”, it’s that “they maximize their personal profit at the expense of people and the environment”.

    It’s easy but reductive to blame consumers for consuming, when it’s worth noting that biodegradable packaging costs more than plastics that will never break down, so corporations will choose cheap plastic over environmentally friendly packaging 99.9% of the time.

    The incentives are wrong. Instead of maximizing profit we need to ensure that profit is not maximized at the expense of sustainability, at the expense of pollution, and at the expense of the entire future of our planet.