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Today’s edition of β€œDogs are weird” and β€œHow can that possibly be comfortable?”

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

OK, language weirdness question.

Someone recently said:

"I just about caught the train."

Did they catch it or not? Perhaps it depends whether you think of English as (one of) your first language(s).

As always, if you're happy to do so I'd be grateful if you'd boost for reach, and to get beyond my circle of followers.

Thank you!

Shoutout to people who cruise my page boosting everything except my toots.

I tried living the dream but apparently walking around your old school with no pants on gets you arrested.

#terrorstateRussia
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RT @ukrainiansquad
Can we deliver this message over the world in all languagesβ€œrussia is a terrorist state”. Write β€œrussia a terrorist state” in your language.
twitter.com/ukrainiansquad/sta

A lesbian, bi person, gay man and a trans person waiting in line.

An lgbtqueue.

Mushroom gets sad and grumbly when I get up from the couch unless I build him replacement snuggles with the blanket. It’s fine, he’s not spoiled.

#cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon

This is consistent with the model we put out. That the immune aging predisposes to a response characteristic of an aged immune system

RT @OliveSiffleur@twitter.com

for all those assholes who were cool w covid deaths bc it was just "burning dry tinder" and "stealing deaths from the future"β€”well, the tinder's getting drier and the future is getting further out, bitches

wbur.org/news/2022/12/01/morta

πŸ¦πŸ”—: twitter.com/OliveSiffleur/stat

Praying to the fire gods?

With all this rain (I’m in California and we’re getting a lot) we lit a fire, the first in probably a year. I think the cats forgot how nice fireplace fires are.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #fireplace #rain

RT @lenaUA
This is a six-year-old girl Elya from πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦Avdiivka. For the past 11 months, she has lived 5 km from the front line, under shelling. She hid in the basement and trembled with fear. She died last night of a heart attack. This kid died of a heart attack… Burn in hell, Russia

@ScottSoCal yeah, that’s rough. I didn’t want mine sitting for more than a week even if I don’t necessarily need to use it.

I was fully ready to crawl through my trunk, but it’s a sedan and I have two carseats in the back. They weren’t budging.

On a plus side, I found out that I have a hidden keyhole on the underside of my trunk lip, above the license plate. I’ve only owned the car for 10 years without knowing, nbd.

Twitter appears to have stopped third party Twitter apps from accessing Twitter, without any warning or explanation. The reason Twitter can do this is because they control twitter.com and there are no other servers to choose from.

This kind of instant shutdown cannot happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse, because there are thousands of independent servers running on free open software standards.

This is why third party apps are so much more widely used on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

From July:
β€œIt’s a safe space to be yourself regardless of who that is. I don’t understand why people want to smother that.”

Despite the presence of anti-LGBTQ+ protesters, over 150 people attended the first story time event in Wolfforth, a small suburb of #Lubbock. texasobserver.org/wolfforth-lu

(πŸ“ΈPhoto by Topher Covarrubio)
#Texas #news #LGBTQ+ #activism #drag

Got my locked and dead car opened up and the battery on a charger. Battery had died last weekend bc my 4 year old turned on a dome light and I hadn’t needed the car so I just left it.

Key slot was jammed up, too, because I never use it. But lots of silicon lubricant later, I’m in.

Felt like a thief in my hoodie in the pouring rain trying to break into my own car! Heh

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