quacky

my sole purpose in life is to prove being a smartass doesn't contradict being a dumbass. my grilled cheese sandwiches are also better than gordon ramsay's.

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

you see right, this is a writer account.

and these are the accounts I write for:
https://t.co/JbUOtJATgw

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@ukrainianviking also black panther. yknow, the guy that literally throws an egyptian deity at you?

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Today is a dark day for freedom and democracy in Europe. General chat surveillance has been implemented in Brussels. A disgrace.

The so-called Chat Control 1.0 cleared a crucial hurdle in the European Parliament today. This means platforms may once again be allowed to scan private messages, officially on a “voluntary” basis, but in practice this marks the return of indiscriminate monitoring of private communication.

What makes this especially bitter is that a majority of the MEPs who voted were reportedly against it. According to Patrick Breyer, 314 MEPs voted against the regulation, 276 voted in favor and 17 abstained. And yet the rejection failed because it was not enough to have a simple majority of those voting. An absolute majority of all MEPs would have been required.

That is the democratic scandal.

When a majority of those present votes against a proposal and it still passes because a formal threshold is not reached, it does not feel like democratic decision-making to many citizens. It feels like a procedural trick.

And it becomes even more problematic when you look at the context: Chat Control had already been rejected before. Yet the issue was put back on the agenda shortly before the summer break, through an urgent procedure, at a time when absences could become decisive.

This is not just some technical regulation. It goes to the very core of private communication. It is about whether digital messages remain fundamentally private or whether platforms may systematically scan content again, without concrete suspicion, without a court order and without any individual cause.

A free society must not turn private communication into a potential surveillance zone. Anyone who takes digital fundamental rights seriously cannot accept millions of innocent people being placed under general suspicion.

Today, a dangerous signal was sent: fundamental rights can be hollowed out through procedural logic, timing and political tricks. Not through an open, clear and honest majority, but through a system in which absence effectively helps the supporters.

This is a dark day for Europe.

Not because the fight is over, but because today showed how easily digital fundamental rights come under pressure when surveillance logic, symbolic politics and institutional tricks come together.

Anyone who wants a free internet, anyone who wants to protect private communication and anyone who takes democracy seriously should talk about this.

Share this issue. Inform yourself. Look at who voted how. And never forget: freedom rarely disappears all at once. It disappears step by step, often in technical details, often in complicated procedures and often exactly when too few people are watching.

[JEN ☆ 🔰 @akio7asakura]

flip

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@ukrainianviking YOU'RE AN ALL-STAR

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@MetalChibi

[The Burd @The_MemEmperor]

Fuck

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Fun fact: It's NOT possible for the earth to be flat because if it was, capitalism would have exploited it by now. The “ends of the earth” would be tourist destinations with theme parks and hotels and a damn swing set that would let you swing over the edge.

[The Tuchelvision 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦉 @JailTheEnglish]

😐

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@TiredViking no fuck you pay up

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@TiredViking its already been 3 years, too

there was only 2 years between pop/stars and all out

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@TiredViking heartsteel is probably gonna get the exact same treatment, too

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@TiredViking they really did them dirty

i thought giants was pretty fucking good, too

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

@TiredViking it do be like that

[MoshiMoshiMoan @MoshiMoshiMoan]

It's 2029
You just bought a PS6
It cost 1200 dollars
All games are digital
They each cost 80 dollars
You have 4 in your library
Yesterday it was 5 but Sony removed one
They offered no refund, its just gone
You'd strangle yourself with the controller cord but its wireless

[quacky @TheQu4ckness]

unfortunately a lot of the world was not designed for 6'3 men sooooo

[Quick Thoughts @lthlnkso]

130 is two standard deviations above average. It's like a man who is 6'3" complaining he is too tall for the world.

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

Only time this can be posted

[Matu 🇪🇺 @mat1_u]

Nvm third day in a row lmao

Germany broke temperature records in
1983
2015
2019
2026
2026
2026

Yep, very normal