This may be the best introduction to Mastodon I’ve seen. Really good clear explanations for all of the things that might seem scary to beginners: The Mastodon’s Guide to the Fediverse (starting with Mastodon step-by-step!)
Thank you. Been ready to ditch Twitter for a while now.
I still have to get accustomed to the sign in.
re: #2 PhillyPretzel
I still have to get accustomed to the sign in.
I get an email notification every time I sign in because my IP keeps changing.
“I didn’t say what you recorded me saying.”
Him: “I didn’t say it”
Also him: “transgenderism must be eradicated” https://t.co/FrAORIbOMl pic.twitter.com/BNkN1PVOZa— Tyler Mcdonald (@TylerMc115) March 5, 2023
We had a visit from Secret Santa a few days ago (a bit late, I know) and they dropped off an ad-free subscription for … let me check the random user barrel … Eclectic Cyborg. Enjoy!
re: #5 Charles Johnson
We had a visit from Secret Santa a few days ago (a bit late, I know) and they dropped off an ad-free subscription for … let me check the random user barrel … Eclectic Cyborg. Enjoy!
Wow! Lucky break for me today!
Thanks, whoever you were. ❤️😎
Just found the Caturday hashtag. They are sooo cute.
Oh I will never forget what you did to Social Security when you put your stooge in to run it, Tangsnorter.
Your stooge Raggedy Andy Saul shut down teleworking, allowed staffing to deteriorate, harassed disability examiners and judges to deny benefits, rigged a contract bidding to give control of the 800# to Verizon which has completely failed to live up to the contract specifications. Oh and Raggedy Andy was rather late imposing controls on the spread of the coronavirus.
At CPAC, Trump bashes Rs discussing raising SS retirement age to 70 as @semafor reported:
“We’re not going back to people who want to destroy our great Social Security even in our own party.. that want to raise the minimum age of Social Security to 70”
pic.twitter.com/T3uBcCAT9h— Joseph Zeballos-Roig (@josephzeballos) March 4, 2023
From downstairs in response to a Pie Overlord post:
Good Shabbas? All the kids and grandkids are OK?
I’m going to a dear friends 50th birthday party tomorrow. He runs a business here in Austin called The Soup Peddler. He started out making soup for folks in the neighborhood, putting it in two quart containers and putting it in ice-cooled containers you left on your porch. He literally delivered it by bicycle. With a dog riding shotgun.
And he wrote a book:
We are, of course, characters in the book. All of the original customers are. The Solstice Party scene is actually pretty close to factual.
It is now a City-wide business with pick-up locations all over town. And he still delivers (in trucks).
Total Copay for next set of refills is $10 when it used to be almost $400.
Joe Biden, I love you!
Walking the autumnal woods of Morey, France, around 1910. This gorgeous autochrome was taken by Julien Gérardin over 110 years ago and is original colour (not colourised) 😍 pic.twitter.com/B09dQ5ZuxF
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) March 4, 2023
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
That is a beautiful picture.
re: #15 darthstar
Hey everyone! We’re all getting laid!
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Do I understand correctly that women won’t have sex with men (because they won’t be able to get birth control or abortions) unless the government agrees to help support their children? Somehow this doesn’t sound like individual freedom and self sufficiency.
As a tribute to all enslaved people buried in cemeteries in unmarked graves, artist Craig Walsh illuminated trees with faces to honour their souls
This installation is called Monuments and was in Charlotte NCpic.twitter.com/2GQFWOzd4Z— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) March 4, 2023
Another reason why I’ve not gotten a Mastodon account is that the instances with all the cool kids won’t let me in.
This is problematic because one cannot (AFAIK) communicate with a Mastodon user on another instance unless that user is already following you.
That’s a brick wall.
So if I sign up on some instance that has been set up for a special topic (like AI images), likely I will never be able to message someone on another server.
The Fediverse is all about everyone having their own little village.
It’s a kind of provincialism, I feel.
Should brands be getting involved?
Unless Mastodon makes major changes to the way the site operates, it’s probably not worth brands experimenting on the platform, especially when there are other social networks where people are more likely to engage with brands.
re: #15 darthstar
Hey everyone! We’re all* getting laid!
*Trumppromise terms apply.
“…When President Donald Trump emerged from a three-night hospital stay for his coronavirus infection, he made a vow in a videotaped on the White House South Lawn.
“I want everybody to be given the same treatment as your president because I feel great. I feel, like, perfect,” Trump said.
cnn.com
re: #15 darthstar
Hey everyone! We’re all getting laid!
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Which, in Trump’s words and experience, is only enjoyed by men.
WTFITS
No I am not listening to this.
Full story here: https://t.co/HYaeLcIn2k
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 4, 2023
re: #22 The Pie Overlord!
WTFITS
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Neither will I but I know my Jesusbot relatives will probably hear this garbage in church.
I daresay that I am more qualified to serve as a U.S. Senator than Turd is to judge pilot proficiency.
I’m a trans pilot with 21,000 flying hours and 42+ years of experience. Zero crashes, and as Chief Pilot of an air ambulance/corporate charter operator, Ted Cruz would be fortunate to have me at the controls. I would say that my job performance history far exceeds his. pic.twitter.com/SHX14QqAdm
— Rachel Martin (@RachelJoStewart) March 4, 2023
re: #21 wrenchwench
Which, in Trump’s words and experience, is only enjoyed by men.
You ever hear the one about the guy with the three inch penis?
“Who do you expect to please with that?” A woman asked.
“Me.”
I’d be willing to bet any amount of money that Trump has never actually pleased a woman in bed. That’s not his thing.
Apparently Netflix is broadcasting a Chris Rock performance live right now. One of our neighbors is watching it. I’ll wait for the replay because that’s how I like my Netflix…on demand.
re: #25 darthstar
You ever hear the one about the guy with the three inch penis?
“Who do you expect to please with that?” A woman asked.
“Me.”
I’d be willing to bet any amount of money that Trump has never actually pleased a woman in bed. That’s not his thing.
In other words;
More important than the equipment is the ability to stop thinking only of oneself.
I know I posted pics of the rug we bought yesterday, but I thought I’d share a couple of the contenders that we didn’t buy…
We loved this rug but it didn’t fit the room. It was made 65 years ago. Hand knotted, Turkish.
Here’s a silk - came in about 100K over my budget. Merle loved it. Freaked me the fuck out when he jumped on it and started marking it.
And this rug was still over budget by about 30K, but gorgeous. Look at it from two angles. Green and lush as fuck…then vibrantly pale.
Yes. Same fucking rug. Amazeballs.
re: #27 jaunte
Also, Conservative only things = no Libs for them to own.
Personal stuff
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Also, this “Freedom City” shit is not a new thing. From 10 years ago:
This week saw not one but two announcements about the development of intentional living communities dedicated to the principles of libertarianism: one from Glenn Beck (Independence, USA, a “city-theme park hybrid” that will marry “media, live events, small business stores, educational projects, charity, entertainment, news, information, and technology R&D”) and the other from a group of like-minded citizens looking to build a rifleman’s paradise in the mountains of Idaho (The Citadel, which boasts “No credit check. No background check. Zero down payment. Zero interest. Zero property taxes.”).
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
“…As of March 2016, after four years of promotion, it seems to exist only as promotional materials on a website, which expired and became a parked domain in November 2018.”
rationalwiki.org
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
The Citadel, which boasts “No credit check. No background check. Zero down payment. Zero interest. Zero property taxes.”
And will suffer the same fate as Colorado Springs…and South Gate, California when the Libertarians had a working coalition majority with the sole Republican on the City Council in the early 80s…and the major employers GM & Firestone shut down their plants in response…
re: #29 darthstar
Those rugs are all beautiful. Especially the silk one.
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
Personal stuff
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re: #24 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
On further reflection, Turd’s statement is so stupid I actually can’t wrap my mind around it. Does he think there will be a huge influx of trans and wiccan pilots once the new admin takes over? Does he think there is some kind of communard lobbying movement to get the standards waived for them? They aren’t barred now so where does he think they will come from? And why does he think such pilots are automatically less competent? Have they caused a lot of crashes? He must think so, since he takes it for granted that they don’t “know how to prevent a plane from crashing.”
The notion that whole groups of people (blacks, women etc.) are inherently unable to fly has a remarkably consistent history of being wrong.
re: #29 darthstar
I know I posted pics of the rug we bought yesterday, but I thought I’d share a couple of the contenders that we didn’t buy…
We loved this rug but it didn’t fit the room. It was made 65 years ago. Hand knotted, Turkish.
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I LOVE Oriental rugs. We had a couple, much smaller. One really delicate that we hung on the wall, rather than walk on it. We had a dear Armenian friend who’s business was importing Oriental rugs from Turkey, Iran, Armenia, etc. She said that “at home”, every so often they would take the rugs outside, throw them upside down and let them be driven on to knock the dirt loose, so that could beat it out of them. Then throw them back onto the floor for another year. She said they were Tough.
already over on The Derm, I’m Piratedan7 over there if you need someone else to follow, will be sure to reciprocate while you build a list of who to follow.
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
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Bakhmut, where Ukrainian snipers still operate. pic.twitter.com/Y68YI3231l
— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) March 3, 2023
re: #39 retired cynic
I LOVE Oriental rugs. We had a couple, much smaller. One really delicate that we hung on the wall, rather than walk on it. We had a dear Armenian friend who’s business was importing Oriental rugs from Turkey, Iran, Armenia, etc. She said that “at home”, every so often they would take the rugs outside, throw them upside down and let them be driven on to knock the dirt loose, so that could beat it out of them. Then throw them back onto the floor for another year. She said they were Tough.
They are tough. You can take them out in the driveway, work in some Dawn dishwashing liquid in water with a push broom, rinse them with the hose and hang them to dry. The last part is the most difficult. Traditionally they are apparently nailed up on the side of the house, but fortunately there are places that will do all that for you without you having to put nail holes in your house.
Sadly I don’t have any, but my brother does. I’m suitably jealous, but not quite jealous enough to have a hardwood floor put in so I can put a rug on it.
re: #33 jaunte
Applicants to the Citadel will be required to sign a “Patriot Agreement,” which provides that they must pass annual marksmanship tests with handguns and rifles (starting at age 13 for anyone raised within), will own and maintain an AR15 with at least 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and will always be visibly armed with a handgun whenever they are in public.[18]
Which would be the local government regulations requiring citizens to buy products from a private company. Seems a far stretch to think of as fitting a Libertarian philosophy, not to mention a big conflict of interest. It would make the people running the town wealthier with captive demand for their product.
And I owe my soul to the company store
ETA - forgot my quote - oops
You run sixteen scams
And what do you get
Lawyers free you from prison
Suckers pay your debt
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
please take care!!!!!!!!!!!!!
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
Wasn’t “The Citadel” - planned as a survivalist/gun nut’s Utopia - the place in the boondocks of Idaho with no roads, no utilities, no comms, AND was only about 40 acres total (for a supposed population of “thousands”)?
Incredible footage of combat in the residential area of Bakhmut. The enemy is on the same street as the Ukrainians, 15 meters away. The task, at a minimum, is to create a flurry of fire to prevent enemy assault.
Source: MotoLife. pic.twitter.com/djkodYGkGX— Dmitri (@wartranslated) March 3, 2023
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
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This guys a f’ing asshole (both them)
Sounds like freedom of choice to me.
— EstebanTornadoPGA-ish (@ETornado1963) March 5, 2023
re: #52 EstebanTornado1963
Moron cult member. People can get Covid more than once.
I think the 80286 in the upper left can’t run Linux. Check all the other boxes.
— MangoPi SBC🐧 (@mangopi_sbc) March 5, 2023
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re: #36 calochortus
Those rugs are all beautiful. Especially the silk one.
Aren’t they, though? I wish I could justify paying for a silk rug, but the wool rug we got is still beautiful - 350 double knots per square inch…took two years to make…by hand. It’ll last the rest of our lives at least.
This will be enough to carry 810 Ukrainian soldiers into battle…at a time. Multiple trips to ferry troops forward.
re: #59 darthstar
This will be enough to carry 810 Ukrainian soldiers into battle…at a time. Multiple trips to ferry troops forward.
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Hey now, the Russians will have more armoured units soon…once they can cut the locks off the doors at the next museum.
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Confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era (The Lancet, full article, March 2, 2023)
Over the past two decades, anti-vaccine activism in the USA has evolved from a fringe subculture into an increasingly well organised, networked movement with important repercussions for public health. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this evolution and magnified the reach of vaccine misinformation. Anti-vaccine activists, who for many years spoke primarily to niche communities hesitant about childhood vaccinations, have used traditional and social media to amplify vaccine-related mistruths about COVID-19 vaccines while also targeting historically marginalised racial and ethnic communities. These efforts contributed to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and expanded the movement, with early indications suggesting that this hesitancy could now also be increasing hesitancy that existed pre-pandemic towards other vaccines. It is important to understand the implications of this recent evolution of anti-vaccine activism on vaccination uptake and the promotion of sound public health strategies. In this Viewpoint, we summarise the latest developments in US-based anti-vaccine activism and propose strategies for confronting them.
(continues at the link)
So RootsTech 2023 is going on - it’s freebie, just sign up familysearch.org - and there is a tool to find your relatives who are there (or watching online.)
Turns out I have a bunch of 3rd cousins there.
It’s a small, small world.
re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So RootsTech 2023 is going on - it’s freebie, just sign up familysearch.org - and there is a tool to find your relatives who are there (or watching online.)
Turns out I have a bunch of 3rd cousins there.
It’s a small, small world.
I don’t know about any third cousins in my family, but I do know all my first cousins, first cousins once-removed, first cousins twice-removed, and second cousins personally.
They know me too, which is why they don’t associate with me (except my eldest first cousin, her children, and her grandchildren).
It does help that I have a very small family, and that everyone on my father’s side is long-deceased.
re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
They have other tools as well, such as the area your name is from (not hard for me), its meaning if it has one, and common given names with that surname.
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re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Without an account there, they have some limits. For example, you cannot look up information on living people. They have a metric fuquetonne on dead people though, such as my father and his family. (Probably way too much, since you could use that to find the information on the living people in my family on my mother’s side.)
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #68 retired cynic
According to the US Census, there are thirty-eight people in the USA with my surname. I know four of them (me, my mother, my sister, and my son).
I found your doc. He doesn’t look anything like me. /s
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Amazing how one piece of information can blow someone’s privacy.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Right, that’s him, and you are right. You don’t look anything like him! Interesting coinkeydink, however!
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, I blew it. I know five people with my surname (I forgot my wife). I presume I’m going to be dead if she reads this.
re: #70 retired cynic
Right, that’s him, and you are right. You don’t look anything like him! Interesting coinkeydink, however!
It says he is also licensed to practice in Rhode Island. Illinois and Rhode Island seems like a strange combination: I wonder if he’s from Rhode Island (or Massachusetts) originally.
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re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I would suppose that you are related. I can mention that I know a *** that lives in Nebraska, IF you wanted to be in touch.
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
FamilySearch accounts are free.
I have mostly used Ancestry (for my US research), but FamilySearch has its uses.
But the sad thing is the unified Family Tree. Newbies keep screwing it up, usually by merging people they should not.
re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Or you can keep your tree private.
re: #75 retired cynic
Or you can keep your tree private.
Oh, there are privately owned trees on FamilySearch.
But their one tree, aka the Big Tree, is a compilation of whatever people want to add.
And I have several ancestors who continually get messed up because newbies always merge their parents with some other people.
A classic newbie mistake: they find an identical name so think two people are the same person.
Example, my ancestor “John” who was born in Scotland. He was a McArthur. He married a Margaret.
Problem is, half the men are named John in that country and about half the women are name Margaret. Just because you find a marriage between a John and Margaret does not mean that is your John and Margaret.
It’s a classic research problem and it always trips up the newbies.
Americans in particular are very bad at geography but if one is going to do genealogy one has to be familiar with where your ancestors lived.
That is the first step to knowing if those people you thought were your ancestors really could be your ancestors.
So the newbie merges people with identical names… not checking whether the locations and dates are correct.
re: #73 retired cynic
I would suppose that you are related. I can mention that I know a *** that lives in Nebraska, IF you wanted to be in touch.
Sure, why not? Perhaps we’re related, perhaps not.
Well, I found a subreddit which is full of crazy.
Not just Covid vaccines, but people claiming long-haul symptoms from any vaccine.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s not until July, so don’t expect anything exciting next week!
Also not a drag queen
Tennessee pastor and elementary schools girls basketball coach has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for grooming childhood, raping them and using them for child porn. World, meet Joshua Henley, pleaded guilty on child sex charges.
NOT a gay man. NOT a Trans person. A Pastor. pic.twitter.com/CXDbeKhvmR— MP Arizona☀️🏳️🌈💙🌵🐕🐕🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 (@AzPetrich) March 4, 2023
re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Him: “I didn’t say it”
Also him: “transgenderism must be eradicated”
“I said that to one group of people but not to you!”
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, this “Freedom City” shit is not a new thing. From 10 years ago:
Wasn’t that also a Glenn Beck brainchild from the early 2000’s?
Christofascist weighs in at CPAC.
.@MikePompeo: “The basic idea that each of us is endowed by our creator with these unalienable rights & we are equal in the eyes of the Lord is the antidote to the poisonous lie of equity, wokeness and identity politics.” pic.twitter.com/71mPORsRUd
— CPAC (@CPAC) March 3, 2023
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A buddy had a car like that, but it was the rear end that was rebuilt with canvas and plywood, practically turning it into a real Beverly Hillbillies pickup.
The CDC confirms the person who brought measles to the so-called Ashbury Revival was an unvaccinated person who travelled abroad and brought it back to Kentucky.
The rest of the world really needs to clamp down on unvaccinated people entering their countries from the USA.
In the meantime, the CDC has issued a nationwide health alert, as plague rats are spreading the disease from there to all corners of the country.
The more I think about Mastodon the less I like it.
It’s really not a social network, if by “social” we mean society.
It strikes me more like Christianity, or aptly Churchianity, where like minded people gather in their little groups. Christianity has ended up with thousand upon thousands of instances, er, denominations.
Some websites keep touting (or is that tooting) that if you don’t like your instance you can move your username to another instance.
Sure, but then your prior posts are gone, vanished.
This erasing of history I find more troubling, because it is a symptom of our society where nothing in the past really matters.
Indeed, and ironic, that the CPACers whining about “CRT” are really whining about people knowing history, interpreting history, wrestling with the past.
It will be interesting, as time goes on, to see if Mastodon really makes a difference or if it will be just another Discord, where each little clique finds its own environment.
We humans form clubs because we are social animals.
And that is why so-called social media exists - because we are looking for groups in which to hang our hat.
I suspect it will be typical that a Mastodon instance has a half-life of but a few years. Already people are reporting instances that have disappeared.
Flocking to Mastodon: Tracking the Great Twitter Migration :
The acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk has spurred controversy and uncertainty among Twitter users. The move raised as many praises as concerns, particularly regarding Musk’s views on free speech. As a result, a large number of Twitter users have looked for alternatives to Twitter. Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network, has attracted the attention of many users and the general media. In this paper, we track and analyze the migration of 136,009 users from Twitter to Mastodon. Our analysis sheds light on the user-driven pressure towards centralization in a decentralized ecosystem and identifies the strong influence of the social network in platform migration. We also characterize the activity of migrated users on both Twitter and Mastodon.
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Christofascist weighs in at CPAC.
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UK’s Metro via MSN. I wonder who he upset.
Top Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov ‘seriously ill from suspected poisoning’
Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov - a close ally of Vladimir Putin - is reported to be seriously ill with kidney problems amid fears of ‘poisoning’.
The fanatical pro-war zealot who has advocated using nuclear weapons against Ukraine is rumoured to have summoned a leading doctor from the United Arab Emirates because he ‘does not trust’ Moscow doctors.
Several opposition sources have claimed kidney illness accounted for Kadyrov’s surprising absence from Putin’s state of the nation speech on 12 February, and a recent ‘bloated’ appearance, as seen at a recent meeting in his palace in Chechen capital Grozny with Denis Pushilin, head of the invaded Donetsk People’s Republic.
The Chechen’s leader’s luxury private jet was known to have made several trips recently to the UAE, and he has been less visible than usual in recent weeks.
While Kadyrov, 46, is one of Putin’s closest allies, the Chechen strongman - reportedly a father of 14 with three current wives - has strongly attacked the running of the war, especially by the Russian defence ministry and certain generals.
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re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
UK’s Metro via MSN. I wonder who he upset.
Top Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov ‘seriously ill from suspected poisoning’
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Poisoning, eh? Guess he was smart enough not to stand near any windows in Moscow.
re: #89 Targetpractice
You have inalienable rights, but none of those rights allow you to live as you choose, identify as you choose, or teach others that my white ancestors were racist shitheels! ONLY THE RIGHTS THAT I LIKE COUNT!!!
My read is that “you” is to be read extremely narrowly, so it’s only rightwing white Jeezoid nutjobs. And therefore, they have the inalienable rights to do whatever the fuck they want to anybody else without restriction or criticism.
re: #91 Targetpractice
Poisoning, eh? Guess he was smart enough not to stand near any windows in Moscow.
There are other people saying that this is just rumor. However, hope for the best and maybe that shitty tinpot warlord and his TikTok clan army get flushed down the crapper of history.
re: #92 ericblair
My read is that “you” is to be read extremely narrowly, so it’s only rightwing white Jeezoid nutjobs. And therefore, they have the inalienable rights to do whatever the fuck they want to anybody else without restriction or criticism.
Oh, they’ll allow exceptions to the rule, allow racial/sexual/gender/etc minorities into the master’s house…just so long as they understand that there’s no seat for them at the master’s table. And that if they get it in their head that there should be, then they’ll be back out in the fields fast enough to make their heads spin.
re: #93 ericblair
There are other people saying that this is just rumor. However, hope for the best and maybe that shitty tinpot warlord and his TikTok clan army get flushed down the crapper of history.
Yeah, I don’t think we’re lucky enough to see this prick die anytime soon. We’ve been teased with Putin’s imminent demise for literal months now and yet the fucker still keeps walking around. Wealth has a way of keeping evil bastards around for fuckin’ ever.
re: #95 Targetpractice
Oh, they’ll allow exceptions to the rule, allow racial/sexual/gender/etc minorities into the master’s house…just so long as they understand that there’s no seat for them at the master’s table. And that if they get it in their head that there should be, then they’ll be back out in the fields fast enough to make their heads spin.
Tokens are valuable to the fascists, since they can be used to ward off all the accusations of racism and sexism. “See, black people are lazy entitled morons, and even this black person agrees with me!” Our fascists get amazingly upset when you call them bigots, even though the bigotry is all they sell.
You can’t have a lot of tokens, though, because the plural of “token” is “mob”.
Well, this is fun. The hotel and surrounding area just lost power. Funny bit is guests actually think it’s either isolated to their rooms or that it’s something I can fix.
Nearly all the reserve pilots (37 out of 40) of the Israeli Air Force’s sole heavy-strike F-15I squadron have informed their commander that instead of showing up for reserve duty they’ll be protesting against the government. By @yanivkub @haaretz > https://t.co/V3FfE30yTt
— Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר (@AnshelPfeffer) March 5, 2023
Well, this is interesting.
re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Also not a drag queen
he will likely spend a significant portion of that time in solitary, because he WILL be targeted inside.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Been saying this for quite awhile. Good to see some solid research published on the topic.
re: #9 Belafon
Linux makes sense, though.
Made birbie by holing out from 50 yards away. Looks like a beautiful day here. Currently in the upper 30s but should warm to near 70. Will take MrsTarH to our local walking park for a gentle stroll later today. Happy Sunday folks!
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I know there are Tommy Emmanuel fans here so I will post this link to WHYY so that they can watch “Tommy Emmanuel, CGP: Accomplice Live!” It will be broadcast 11:00 PM EST.
Remember to hit the live button.
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re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Very obliquely related. I have no idea why city flags seem to go out of their way to be horrible.
Sometimes people use the steps of genocide to catastrophize things that are merely bad
This is not one of those times
You should read this thread https://t.co/kmecFW9pmA— Laura Jedeed (@LauraJedeed) March 5, 2023
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re: #99 ericblair
Nearly all the reserve pilots (37 out of 40) of the Israeli Air Force’s sole heavy-strike F-15I squadron have informed their commander that instead of showing up for reserve duty they’ll be protesting against the government.
Does this make them anti-Semites?
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re: #103 TarHellion
Made birbie by holing out from 50 yards away. Looks like a beautiful day here. Currently in the upper 30s but should warm to near 70. Will take MrsTarH to our local walking park for a gentle stroll later today. Happy Sunday folks!
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re: #108 Teukka
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re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Christofascist weighs in at CPAC.
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Republicans: But what about gays, trans, women, and minorities?
God: Did I stutter?
Republicans: OK. Only us white people then.— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) March 5, 2023
re: #103 TarHellion
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re: #59 darthstar
This will be enough to carry 810 Ukrainian soldiers into battle…at a time. Multiple trips to ferry troops forward.
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As long as they survive, which, based on history and the fact that they have mostly been reduced to use by Reserve Units, not frontline troopers, means not long.
Strykers were a decent idea that didn’t survive contact with the enemy.
Now, Bradley Fighting Vehicles are a different story. That 25mm chain gun? That makes them *useful*.
re: #116 austin_blue
As long as they survive, which, based on history and the fact that they have mostly been reduced to use by Reserve Units, not frontline troopers, means not long.
Strykers were a decent idea that didn’t survive contact with the enemy.
Now, Bradley Fighting Vehicles are a different story. That 25mm chain gun? That makes them *useful*.
Wheeled vehicles - all kinds from all militaries - have proven again and again to be nothing but death traps. Use them in rear areas to release real vehicles for front line service.
The TOW is equally important to the 25mm on the Bradley as well.
re: #116 austin_blue
That’s what I was thinking - they’re not heavily armed, but they can cover a lot of ground fast to bring in fresh forces and shuttle the wounded back to safe care.
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The CDC confirms the person who brought measles to the so-called Ashbury Revival was an unvaccinated person who travelled abroad and brought it back to Kentucky.
The rest of the world really needs to clamp down on unvaccinated people entering their countries from the USA.
In the meantime, the CDC has issued a nationwide health alert, as plague rats are spreading the disease from there to all corners of the country.
Make Measles Great Again
Meanwhile, Internet “experts” all over the world will be explaining why the Measles Vaccine is deadlier than the disease.
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Meanwhile, Internet “experts” all over the world will be explaining why the Measles Vaccine is deadlier than the disease.
Andrew Fucking Wakefield has entered the chat.
“I need a hug,” she whispered.
“We are monsters,” came the gravelly reply from under her bed.
“Yes, but you’re my monsters. Everybody needs monsters on their side.”
“You shouldn’t have to.”
“No. Can you change that?”
Silence.
Then: “Close your eyes.”
It was a good hug.
“Thanks.”— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) February 2, 2023
re: #122 Belafon
Up against Russia?
Oh, hell yes. Put that thing in a trench in hull defilade and it’ll stop any infantry assault and its TOWs will kill enemy armor. An M-3 BFV is a peach of an offensive unit, when well deployed with its siblings.
As a solo vehicle to hold hard points?
No. That’s not how armor works anymore. But in a six-vehicle unit, they can be just deadly as hell.
Seems that Chri Rock’s thing last night isn’t going to do him any favors:
Neither did any of the other women he referred to last night in that way. https://t.co/9DfRaG1oUw
— G O L D I E. (@goldietaylor) March 5, 2023
holy fucking shit, over SIX THOUSAND American children were killed by guns last year. but sure, let’s lose our fucking minds over the imaginary damage done by a handful of drag performers. it’s a rounding error away from ZERO, you overwrought fucking dipshits. grow the fuck up
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) March 5, 2023
Silly person over here just went down to check on my laundry and I noticed that my little laundry bag with all of my small items was still in the washer. At least my laundry should be done before noon.
re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Also not a drag queen
But forever tagged in jail as “Short Eyes” which will keep him in solitary.
re: #131 Joe Bacon
But forever tagged in jail as “Short Eyes” which will keep him in solitary.
I don’t see him surviving for 45 years in prison. And I’m okay with that.
“If Christianity is false, then for the good of society… Christianity must be eradicated from public life entirely,”
“This is not Christian bigotry. I have nothing against individual Christians per se.”— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) March 5, 2023
re: #132 darthstar
I don’t see him surviving for 45 years in prison. And I’m okay with that.
Naw. Let him live through every damn day of it. Without parole.
re: #133 gocart mozart
Michael Knowles Michael J Knowles who said transgenderism should be eradicated, now says transgender people should not be eradicated. Question for Michael: how do you eradicate transgenderism without eradicating the transgenders who ‘commit’ transgenderism.
You “heal” them, of course, by applying tried and tested methods…
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You “heal” them, of course, by applying tried and tested methods…
By suffocating them to death.
4/6 Word Hurdle
re: #137 Eventual Carrion
By suffocating them to death.
Justified self-defense and deterrent effect.
An Oklahoma pastor has been arrested & charged with child sex crimes involving six & seven year-old girls.Matthew Reiber, senior pastor of New Life Christian Church of Chickasa, has been charged with 5 counts of lewd acts to a child.
NOT a gay man. NOT a Trans person. A Pastor! pic.twitter.com/uzbvjm92mM— MP Arizona☀️🏳️🌈💙🌵🐕🐕🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 (@AzPetrich) March 4, 2023
re: #141 Belafon
An Oklahoma pastor has been arrested & charged with child sex crimes involving six & seven year-old girls.Matthew Reiber, senior pastor of New Life Christian Church of Chickasa, has been charged with 5 counts of lewd acts to a child.
NOT a gay man. NOT a Trans person. A Pastor!
Expect the following response:
“So if a Man of God is capable of such abominable acts, just think of what Transgender Homosexual Groomers can get up to given half a chance!
We need to double down now before it’s too late for our dear, innocent not-yet-sexualized children!!!”
Science stuff:
Lynn Margulis, the biologist who worked on symbiosis in evolution, was born #OnThisDay in 1938. Her work, which asserted that features of living cells were once independent bacteria, was dismissed for years before becoming accepted thanks to genetic evidence. #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/LJT3jHNwEd
— The Royal Society (@royalsociety) March 5, 2023
Russian reservists are likely using “shovels” for “hand-to-hand” combat in Ukraine due to a shortage of ammunition, the UK’s Ministry of Defence says.
In late February, reservists described being ordered to assault a Ukrainian position “armed with only ‘firearms and shovels’”, the ministry said in its latest intelligence update
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re: #141 Belafon
It’s almost as if the job attracts a certain type.
“Did you hear about Mabel’s son…he’s a youth pastor…”
re: #144 darthstar
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Standard WW1 tactics, I assume they mean army entrenching tools, which, like hand weapons, are easier to wield in trenches than rifles.
re: #53 gwangung
Moron cult member. People can get Covid more than once.
He should be tested for covid then. Being infected should count the same as receiving a vaccine. I kind of see their point. Rules that require a vaccine within the previous x period should stipulate that infection during that same time counts.
re: #141 Belafon
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
It’s a sad and very well-known fact, that many pedophile hunters, especially the most fervent ones, very often are child molesters, or have similarly problematic behaviors around children… pic.twitter.com/sACwiUyuq0— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) March 5, 2023
re: #144 darthstar
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The Russians have used, and trained with, the shovel as a weapon since WWI. Nothing new in their use of it. The Spetsnaz were especially known to be very fond of their shovels as edged weapons.
re: #148 Teukka
Also the case that many people who are strongly anti-gay have homosexual tendencies.
Just that classic projection Conservatives do so well.
re: #141 Belafon
re: #148 Teukka
Exhibit I: https://t.co/F0PtMX2qr0
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) March 5, 2023
Exhibit III: https://t.co/fij8iew2m5
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) March 5, 2023
re: #151 Teukka
Josh Duggar is another example of this.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Also the case that many people who are strongly anti-gay have homosexual tendencies.
Just that classic projection Conservatives do so well.
Self-loathing for being what they have been taught all their lives is an unnatural affront against God and Society.
Bezos’ SS Minnow has set sail at a staggering price tag. A boat is just a hole in the water you throw money in. I was more interested in the dismantling of the historic bridge than his penis enlargement vessel. Yes I am jelly.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ new yacht has been revealed after a five-year construction - and it will be the tallest in the world, measuring over 230ft tall.
The Executive Chairman of Amazon commissioned for the boat - called Koru - to be built in 2018 and the brand-new superyacht was constructed for a whopping $500 million.
And it seems that money is no object for Bezos as, after all, he is the third richest person on the planet with an estimated net worth of $115.4 billion.
Previously known as Y721 or Project 721, the yacht now goes by the name of Koru which means ‘new beginnings’ in Maori.
Reportedly, the megayacht is set to be delivered to Bezos within the next couple of months.
The vessel is 127 meters in length - with triple masts that reach 70 meters - making the sailing yacht nearly half the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
You know what else is slated to cost $500 million? The replacement of this bridge.
re: #140 Colère Tueur de Lapin
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re: #129 Dopamine Fish
Well, that went sideways in a hurry.
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re: #154 Shropshire Slasher
Well, at least Bezos figured out a way to (“quietly”) get his mega-tub out to sea without having to dismantle that bridge (even I, as a thorough landlubber, knew that the masts on a sailing ship are the last things to be put on) - so bon voyage, Jeff…
from that link, I gleaned this about Koru:
The finished length of the yacht is 127 meters long or 416 feet. It is a sailing yacht so those do tend to be shorter in length.
Meanwhile, the masts on the vessel reach 70 meters or 230 feet.
It was modeled on with three enormous masts so it can be powered largely by kinetic energy from the sails.
What this extremely advanced and green technology means is that the sails can be managed by a single person rather than an entire crew.
I got the not unpleasing image of Jeff Bezos’ crew and guests mutinying, and abandoning him on his yacht: at least he would be able to sail it home all by himself….
re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg
Josh Duggar is another example of this.
The whole Josh Duggar thing makes me want to just stand up and scream until I’m hoarse outside the Duggar house in Tontitown, Arkansas. And then start again after my throat had a rest. Keep in mind that Josh is in prison because they found he possessed child pr0n on a secret Linux partition on his work laptop. *But* before that, it had come out that Josh had sexually assaulted four of his sisters and a neighbor girl. And because the Duggar family was part of Bill Gothard’s ATI, the girls were taught that they may have brought their abuse upon themselves.
I cannot even begin to imagine how completely FUCKED UP that is.
When this became known in the circle that the Duggars ran in (way before their popularity), JimBob and Michelle Duggar protected Josh, did not turn him in to authorities, and basically told the girls to keep quiet. Because Josh, as a future patriarch, was far more important than the girls. So they got him “counseling” and not the girls. (The “counseling” was with a friend who was also a sexual predator.)
So now, fast forward a couple of decades and we have Jinger Duggar Vuolo writing a book about how she was freed from her family’s cult. The problem is, she’s in another cult, the cult of John MacArthur, which y’all will remember that I picketed last year on Juneteenth. She went from a bricked in room to a straitjacket. She can move a little. And from what we know about John MacArthur, he was quite willing to protect abusive patriarchs. He excommunicated one woman because she would not return to her abusive husband. This guy is currently a lifetime guest of the California prison system and goddamnit, MacArthur has never apologized to the wife. She’s not the only one.
So my point is, that yeah, I want to stand out in front of the Duggar house and scream for the sake of the children who lived there and were abused, and to get the attention of the women today who are still being abused in their Baptist cult of personality around John MacArthur. Or other pastors, because damn if the cult of personality isn’t strong in Evangelicalism.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Also the case that many people who are strongly anti-gay have homosexual tendencies.
Just that classic projection Conservatives do so well.
For starters google Robert Bauman who was a virulently anti-LGBTQ congressman from Maryland and who marched in tandem with that rabid racist Jesse Helms…until he was outed…
One thing that perplexes me is why hashtags are case sensitive. #caturday/#Caturday and #silentsunday/#SilentSunday are separate hashtags in Mastodon.
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re: #161 darthstar
One thing that perplexes me is why hashtags are case sensitive. #caturday/#Caturday and #silentsunday/#SilentSunday are separate hashtags in Mastodon.
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Linux. :)
Why does this keep happening to MAGAts? Oh that’s right…they’re fucking idiots.
True GOP Conservatives want their own Putin: buff, manly, autocratic, oligarchic, militaristic, xenophobic, homophobic, patriarchal, theocratic.
re: #162 TarHellion
One I always remember is Terry Dolan
Ah yes Mr. NCPAC who prided himself on destroying McGovern, Culver, Magnuson, Church, Bayh and Durkin from the Senate in 1980.
Terry Dolan the hatchet man for right wing fundraiser Richard Vigurie who was the original implementor of the Powell memorandum and who continually wore the cross on his sleeve to flaunt what a good Xtian he was all the while he was hopping in and out of bed with every muscle stud he could get his hands on.
And when it came out he contracted AIDS he continually denied it. Even on his deathbed he blamed the “liberal press” for smearing him.
The best thing Terry Dolan ever did was die.
I know I like to make jokes about it, but when I talk about Linux vs Windows, I mainly mean that one operating system us geared toward knowledgeable people who are willing to spend the time to make maximum use of the flexibility of the OS, and the other is geared towards those that don’t really want to have to know more than necessary to write an email, watch a YouTube video, or just write code.
Similarly, Mastodon is great if you want to have the maximum flexibility in decentralized control of microblogging.
re: #156 TarHellion
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‘It’s sad’: Conservatives lament the collapse of CPAC since Trump came along
As the 2023 CPAC gathering wraps up in Maryland, Republican activists are expressing their dismay with the turn the conservative gathering has taken and wonder if it will survive now that it has been taken over by the MAGA crowd.
With attendance down, likely due in equal parts to the sexual assault allegations levied at founder Matt Schlapp and key Republicans staying away, ABC reports that this year’s convention was more Trump-centric than any in recent memory.
However, according to one attendee, CPAC needs more Trump and fewer alternatives.
“It is a broad cross section, but that’s kind of a bad thing, you almost don’t want that,” explained Joe Walters from Westchester County, N.Y., before adding, “I wish it were more Trumpian in some sense.”
Yes. Keep saying that and remember kids when it comes to Creepy Perverts And Crooks always remember their motto!
When they say they are Domestic Terrorists—BELIEVE THEM!
re: #170 Joe Bacon
When they say they are Domestic Terrorists—BELIEVE THEM! This is a riff on their old talking point of “if you are going to call me a racist for expressing my deeply-held beliefs, then well, I’M A RACIST!”
re: #155 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I’d pick the banana slices off and sneak them to to the dog, but otherwise that looks fantastic and now I’m hungry.
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
All aggression is passive in nature!
Il Duce’s next move. Stopping all “frivolous” lawsuits.
‘Wild west of litigation’: Buckle up as Florida legislature pushes sweeping changes to legal system
Shortly after a state House committee last month OK’d sweeping changes to the state’s litigation process, Speaker Paul Renner gathered a powerful array of business and insurance representatives in the Capitol’s Fourth Floor rotunda for a news conference.
They all agreed that, in making it harder to sue insurance companies, the legislation would reduce frivolous lawsuits and thereby protect businesses and everyday Floridians. At least that’s what certain GOP lawmakers and lobbyists believe.
As monumental a change to the law as the legal reforms under discussion would represent, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-led Legislature aren’t stopping there.
During the 60-day regular session that opens on Tuesday, lawmakers also will consider making it easier to sue journalists for libel and requiring bloggers who write about the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, chief financial officer, commissioner of agriculture, or legislators to register with the state and report any income their posts generate.
And it gets worse with the GOP having supermajorities in the gerrymandered legislature.
George and Kellyanne Conway — the GOP power couple whose marriage drew intense public curiosity as he became ever more loudly critical of the Trump White House, for which she worked as a senior adviser — are divorcing, the couple confirmed late Saturday.https://t.co/9f2t5qBjDb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 5, 2023
re: #177 The Pie Overlord!
And let me guess what they will use as a reason for their divorce: irreconcilable differences.
re: #173 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
I’d pick the banana slices off and sneak them to to the dog, but otherwise that looks fantastic and now I’m hungry.
LoL. The banana slices and whip cream were a last minute addition to the waffle to be honest.
re: #178 PhillyPretzel
And let me guess what they will use as a reason for their divorce: irreconcilable differences.
He got woke.
re: #180 darthstar
That is another way of saying it.
re: #178 PhillyPretzel
And let me guess what they will use as a reason for their divorce: irreconcilable differences.
(As seen on the bird app) They grifted apart.
re: #180 darthstar
He got woke.
My guess is that she became too corrupt him to put up with or respect when she not only went along with the Trump madness, but lied for the rotten cause, and the marriage ran on momentum and angry sex for a while.
re: #182 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
(As seen on the bird app) They grifted apart.
Funny, but the reason he’s seen as a cynical grifter is their marriage. People believed they were playing both sides, and there may have been terrible tension there rather than a grift.
Another possibility is that she may have had an affair after she bought that new face, the divorce could have nothing to do with politics, and they could both be cynical grifters as people suspected.
I just saw Hecuba’s Daughter give me an upding, and as I turned to go (i got stuff to do), I whacked my kneecap on the table. Accidental tribute. Ow, but nowhere near hers.
re: #177 The Pie Overlord!
I think I speak for all us when I say: What the hell took them so long?
re: #183 Crush White Nationalism
My guess is that she became too corrupt him to put up with or respect when she not only went along with the Trump madness, but lied for the rotten cause, and the marriage ran on momentum and angry sex for a while.
They had been living apart for a while. I think they were staying married because of inertia and a because of their daughter.
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“Ultra MAGA” vs. “original MAGA” pic.twitter.com/FoynCBnEzo
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 5, 2023
re: #188 wrenchwench
I just saw Hecuba’s Daughter give me an upding, and as I turned to go (i got stuff to do), I whacked my kneecap on the table. Accidental tribute. Ow, but nowhere near hers.
My wife is in awe of my incredible talent for smashing my knee into…just about anything.
She swears I’m doing it on purpose but I keep telling her I really am that clumsy.
re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg
My wife is in awe of my incredible talent for smashing my knee into…just about anything.
She swears I’m doing on purpose but I keep telling her I really am that clumsy.
re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg
My wife is in awe of my incredible talent for smashing my knee into…just about anything.
She swears I’m doing on purpose but I keep telling her I really am that clumsy.
Mrs. Fish has a singular talent for waking up and finding a random massive bruise somewhere on her body. The slightest contact with any random object can put a dent in her fair skin.
re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg
My wife is in awe of my incredible talent for smashing my knee into…just about anything.
She swears I’m doing on purpose but I keep telling her I really am that clumsy.
Some people just—are. I worked with a woman who was clumsy. My first thought was that she just wasn’t trying, but I have learned that everybody is wired differently, and that’s one of the options.
People want to pretend that non-binary and transgender identities are an invention of Tumblr when in reality the original historiography of non-binary identity was burned in the streets of Germany by Nazis along with 20,000 books of transgender history https://t.co/ERTbhSHJyo
— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge) March 5, 2023
So…wait. You’re telling me the strategy of welcoming back “JewRosterNaziOvenLord666” and “NateHiggers1488” to the platform was a failed business strategy? https://t.co/NA1dZ3P5VQ
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 5, 2023
re: #197 DodgerFan1988
Business genuis pic.twitter.com/aRwXt1jMST
— Mohamed (@BloodyMathias88) March 4, 2023
Water is exactly where water needs to be. Water does not move at the discretion of humans. https://t.co/omC7F2CkKK
— Superior, The Lake (@LakeSuperior) March 5, 2023
re: #191 Belafon
They had been living apart for a while. I think they were staying married because of inertia and a because of their daughter.
and because they’re Catholic. Devout, apparently.
re: #195 wrenchwench
Some people just—are. I worked with a woman who was clumsy. My first thought was that she just wasn’t trying, but I have learned that everybody is wired differently, and that’s one of the options.
We always gave my sister grief for being clumsy. As an adult, she was finally diagnosed with a perception disorder — I don’t know the precise mechanism, but it’s a mismatch between the distance her eyes perceive and where her hands or feet actually are. She says it was a tremendous relief to know the reason, even if she still has to work consciously to overcome the discrepancy. (And now we all feel bad for razzing her, too late to do anything about it :(
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