While it’s difficult to avoid the asshats* (and “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” notwithstanding), given Amazon Ireland has launched this week, just remember that every euro you pay them goes toward fucking billionaire Jeff Bezos who is helping Trump dismantle democracy in the US and elsewhere. So please do your best to shop locally – or with smaller EU shops – and avoid Amazon as much as you can.

* I really need to get the media for my Mastodon server off of AWS. Another bloody hassle I don’t need right now. *smdh*

Let this very stupid move be the death knell for Amazon

Amazon Is Ending an Important Privacy Feature for Alexa Echo Devices By the End of the Month
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/amazon-echo-ends-do-not-send-voice-recordings-option/488677

LOLOL. Of course he does!!!!

Trump Praises Bezos’ Makeover of the Washington Post
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-praises-jeff-bezos-makeover-of-the-washington-post/

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI https://www.byteseu.com/835795/ #AlphabetInc #ArtificialIntelligence #BillGates #BreakingNews:Technology #BusinessNews #China #environment #GenerativeAI #JeffBezos #MicrosoftCorp #Nuclear #NuclearPower #SamAltman #Science #Technology #UnitedStates #VideoFirst

#JeffBezos just gave #DonaldTrump a massive payout that no one is talking about. This is not the first time that Bezos has done something to curry favor with Trump he's also been doing as much as he can to make #TheWashingtonPost a right-wing media operation #MoneyLaundering youtu.be/5yjiKJ2LUro?...

Jeff Bezos CAUGHT BRIBING TRUM...

#FirstAmendment, #1A, #FreeSpeech, #FreedomOfSpeech, #FreePress, #FreedomOfThePress, #Bezos, #JeffBezos, #Amazon, #WashingtonPost, #MarkZuckerberg, #Zuckerberg, #Meta, #Musk, #ElonMusk, #X, #PoliticalCartoon, #EditorialCartoon, @Rattoons1776

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/abridge-too-far?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=100119

Free Thought Purge at Washington Post Continues After More Censorship

The reputation of the Washington Post continues to get buried 6 feet under after another columnist quits following censorship.

https://www.freezenet.ca/free-thought-purge-at-washington-post-continues-after-more-censorship/

Immer dran denken: #freespeech gilt immer nur, solange es #elonmusk , #markzuckerberg und #jeffbezos in den Kram passt. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-meta-sheryl-sandberg

Why Ruth Marcus Left the Washington Post https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post

[The New Yorker]: Why I Left the Washington Post.

Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided to quit. By Ruth Marcus, Wednesday, March 12, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/why-ruth-marcus-left-the-washington-post

"#Boycott and resist institutions/companies that have continually aligned with the interests of #Trump:

- Get off #Twitter/X and find different EV cars. If you want an electric car, buy something else. Elon #Musk is wreaking havoc.
- Don’t buy from #Amazon and unsubscribe from The #WashingtonPost. #JeffBezos owns both The Washington Post and much of Amazon. He dictates WAPO editorial content in favor of the oligarchy and funds Trump interests.
- Boycott #AirBnB! #JoeGebbia, co-founder of Air B&B, has joined #DOGE.
- Unsubscribe from the #LATimes! #PatrickSoon-Shiong owns the LA Times, and dictates editorial decisions that support the slide to fascism.
...(1/2)

#oligarchs #elonmusk #jeffbezos #markzuckerberg #sundarpichai #uspol #uspoli

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This is pretty rich coming from a US company at a time like this... at least they spelled favourite correctly

Free Speech
Freedom selon Jeff Bezos
Liquider les journalistes qui ne lui conviennent pas, censurer les articles qui ne sont pas à sa dévotion
Il n'y aura bientôt plus que des Larbins au Washington Post.
#JeffBezos #BoycottAmazon #BoycottUSA #BoycottAmerica
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/10/washington-post-ruth-marcus-resigns

In a thorough confirmation of #TimothySnyder's argument that #WashingtonPost's new "personal liberties & free market" editorial policy is fundamentally dehumanizing because of how it subjugates humans to fictional notions, #WaPo calls the Trump stock market crash "sustained heavy losses" — words usually used to describe casualties of #war. On behalf of everyone who was killed by #Russia in #Ukraine, fuck you #JeffBezos.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/unfreedom-at-the-washington-post