🧵 …oh, who would have thought that? Who in the Fediverse is surprised by this now? Seriously, that was clearly to be foreseen, because their financiers are very alarming. (It was predictable, see Toots above)

»Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality:
Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independen«

🦋 https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys

#bluesky #central #fake #banning #nosurprise #independence

🧵 …oh, who would have thought that? Who in the Fediverse is surprised by this now? Seriously, that was clearly to be foreseen, because their financiers are very alarming. (It was predictable, see Toots above)

»Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality:
Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independen«

🦋 https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys

#bluesky #central #fake #banning #nosurprise #independence

Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns, Saying Company Has Been ‘Silenced’

Jerry Greenfield said that the ice cream company, known for its #activism, had been muzzled by Unilever, its parent company.

One of Ben & Jerry’s founders, Jerry Greenfield, has resigned from the ice cream company, saying that the company’s #independence had been lost & its social activism “silenced” under the control of its parent company, #Unilever.

#BenAndJerrys
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/ben-and-jerrys-cofounder-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Under the acquisition deal, #Unilever agreed to let #BenAndJerrys maintain an #independent board to oversee the brand, allowing Ben & Jerry’s to place “guardrails” around its social #activism & giving its founders continued control of the company.

For over 20 years, the company was able to speak out on issues it cared about, Mr. Greenfield wrote. But, he added, “It’s profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that #independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone.”

Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns, Saying Company Has Been ‘Silenced’

Jerry Greenfield said that the ice cream company, known for its #activism, had been muzzled by Unilever, its parent company.

One of Ben & Jerry’s founders, Jerry Greenfield, has resigned from the ice cream company, saying that the company’s #independence had been lost & its social activism “silenced” under the control of its parent company, #Unilever.

#BenAndJerrys
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/ben-and-jerrys-cofounder-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s Resigns, Saying Company Has Been ‘Silenced’

Jerry Greenfield said that the ice cream company, known for its #activism, had been muzzled by Unilever, its parent company.

One of Ben & Jerry’s founders, Jerry Greenfield, has resigned from the ice cream company, saying that the company’s #independence had been lost & its social activism “silenced” under the control of its parent company, #Unilever.

#BenAndJerrys
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/ben-and-jerrys-cofounder-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Ukraine’s parliament approved #legislation Thurs restoring the #independence of the country’s 2 main government anti-corruption bodies—a move demanded by Kyiv’s international partners as well as tens of thousands of Ukrainians who protested on the streets of the capital & other cities.
The legislation passed by a comfortable margin, with 331 deputies voting in favor; a majority of 226 was needed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/31/ukraine-anticorruption-law-zelensky-protests/

Ukraine’s parliament approved #legislation Thurs restoring the #independence of the country’s 2 main government anti-corruption bodies—a move demanded by Kyiv’s international partners as well as tens of thousands of Ukrainians who protested on the streets of the capital & other cities.
The legislation passed by a comfortable margin, with 331 deputies voting in favor; a majority of 226 was needed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/31/ukraine-anticorruption-law-zelensky-protests/

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#FourthOfJuly
I don't talk much about the damage the #Colonization of North America and the subsequent #Independence of the #UnitedStates has done to my personal family. And I probably never will, but it has been substantial, even to this very day.

Certainly I confront what the land and resources theft, what the genocide and enslavement of millions of people has done to my people more than my mother or grandmother, who were much more shell shocked than I am.
#Native#Indigenous

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#FourthOfJuly
I don't talk much about the damage the #Colonization of North America and the subsequent #Independence of the #UnitedStates has done to my personal family. And I probably never will, but it has been substantial, even to this very day.

Certainly I confront what the land and resources theft, what the genocide and enslavement of millions of people has done to my people more than my mother or grandmother, who were much more shell shocked than I am.
#Native#Indigenous

A fantastic video which explains why #Europe must stop relying on #America. We #European s need a strategic #independence. We shall buy from our own companies and we shall not feed the people of the #USA. #UnitedEurope now. #FederalEurope now. #EuropeanArmy now.

#Trump ’s administration made it clear with #signalGate and new #tariffs that they hate us. Simple as that. We must jump off the american truck and find our own path. Our common path.

#ViveLaEurope #politics

https://youtu.be/pYFpiwyTXcU?si=tBq7eEJwT70kol3v