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I was on Twitter for five years and I ended up with 8,000 followers.

I've been on Mastodon for five months, and I already have 16,000 on here.

I think the biggest difference is that Mastodon just leaves me alone to do whatever I feel like doing, whereas Twitter would go out of its way to punch me in the head anytime I tried to enjoy the platform.

We talk about Tucker Carlson , MAGA and even Russia, which has been humiliated by Ukraine, but let's be clear that the biggest threat to democracy in the world right now is the Murdoch family and their vast spread of propaganda

Failing to understand the market for so-called luxury cars these days. In a world where a Honda CR-V has every creature comfort imaginable, people are still paying twice as much for luxury SUVs. My mother-in-law has a new Range Rover and it’s nice, but not twice as nice.

@victoriadecapua Not gonna lie, I had an absolute blast on twitter - until I didn’t - mostly because I’d found people I could tell jokes with and who got me. Sadly, I can’t support what Musk is doing there. I don’t have the mental energy to try and tame another wild tract of land like bluesky apparently is. Mastodon is easy and perfect for *actually* being social, rather than screaming humor into a maelstrom. I’ll stick around.

My wife just booked her (almost) annual trip back to N. Dakota to see her family. I only went with her twice. Once to meet her family after we were married (2006) and once for her Mom’s Funeral. The prairie isn’t really my thing. She dreads the trips, but wants to see her 3 siblings and their families. They spend their days off talking about what’s for dinner.

Their politics are way off the right edge of the spectrum, so they all ... hawaiiboy.micro.blog/2023/04/2

I fell in love w this show and I adore Ellie so much. Shes such a baby and must be protected at all costs. I havent drawn fan art in a long ass time and im so proud of this piece!

#tlos #tlosfanart #fanart #joel #ellie #thelastofus #clipstudiopaint #cordyceps #mushrooms #pedropascal #bellaramsey

- There were 4,000 children lowered into caskets due to firearms last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were 4,000 teen children who got breast implants last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were 4,000 teen children who got breast enlargements last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were over 146,000 teenage children who gave birth last year. Republicans don't care about those.

- There were 4,000 teen children who were diagnosed and prescribed hormone blockers (a completely reversible procedure) by a medical doctor, with the full knowledge and consent of the child and their parents. THIS, the Republicans care about.

Pro-Tip: Anytime you see a headline about a bill dying/passing "in Congress," always think to yourself:

That’s a Both Sides framing.

The ERA bill did not fail in the Senate today, it was filibustered by the Republicans. The Framing that it failed in the Senate is a way to distribute the failure to Both Sides.

The hostage note that K-Mac passed today is another one; not one Democrat voted for it, so the Republicans passed that bill, not The House.

/Rant
#FailedPress

#BothSidesDont

@crooksandliars Because he's guilty as hell and is used to being surrounded by "yes" men and women in Florida. Well, DeathSantis, if you're running for a national office, you need to handle hard questions from journalists who aren't kissing your behind. Get out of the kitchen if you can't stand the heat.

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @autisticadvocacy I really enjoyed "How Not To Be Wrong" by Jordan Ellenberg, a non-fiction book on survivor bias and intuitive descriptions of complex math, and "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir a speculative hard-science fiction book about, among other things, an allegory for how we would go about trying to stop an event on the level of the climate crisis

A woman in our neighborhood walks by our house every weekday morning with her kids and the family dog, probably walking the kids to school.

The dog jumps around, out of its mind with happiness the entire time.

A little bit later the woman and the saddest dog in world return home.

In response to questions about the EU's new #DigitalServicesAct, want to share 2 posts about #Wikipedia's designation as a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP)

First from Wikimedia Foundation's Lead Counsel: w.wiki/6dtq (the WMF is also working on a blog post, which we'll post when it's up)

And second is Wikimedia Europe's EU Policy Monitoring report for April: w.wiki/6du4

Both are worth reading in full, will also summarize in a 🧡

Today's word of the day in #Mikmaq

Sinumkw.

Sinumkw is a Canada Goose.

The Canada Goose is also referred to as the Cobra Chicken, those feathered f*cks, and are rumoured to be where Canadians store their anger.

Unacceptable

β€œcivilian victims of the war died as a result of Ukraine’s decision to locate its forces in the vicinity of civilians”

Imagine blaming the civilians of Ukraine for being so irresistible to Russian cruise missiles that it’s their fault for being attacked

The military is stationed by civilians because Russia is attacking civilians

I will no longer donate to amnesty international. What about you?

(Link below: Amnesty International's Attack on Ukraine)

cfr.org/blog/amnesty-internati

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