jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

So much for rooting out corruption... Once again person people claim is ending corruption turns out even more corrupt, GO FUCKING FIGURE.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/24/headlines/brazil_son_of_president_bolsonaro_linked_to_criminal_syndicate

Rich People apparently think Loans are magical things. SO TRULY OUT OF TOUCH.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/24/business/wilbur-ross-loans-food-assistance-government-shutdown/index.html

URGH... JUST WHY DID HE THINK THIS CLEVER?

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/01/msnbc-pundit-apologizes-calling-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-transgendered-joe-biden/

1) Get all billionaires to agree to go on Undercover Boss

2) Tell them that this is their job forever now

3) Use their billions for kindness

4) Remind them that they can become billionaires again if they just work hard enough packing peaches for $6 an hour

@danishcookies if you'd like some info on related stuff, Rational Disconnect made a video on south africa that you might find interesting although you'll have to find a mirror, and Shaun has one about "the great replacement" in which he disproves racist talking points on how white europeans are being replaced by poc immigrants

bodybuilder: *makes bicep cube-shaped*

me: weird flex but ok

Because their gender wasn't validated by 2 doctors, a psychiatrist and a judge, it doesn't mean cis women felt gender isn't valid !

Art therapy has been enlightening. While it looks nothing like me, this is a self-portrait. It feels like looking at the past, which is weird since it looks nothing like me. Art is weird. #acrylic #traditionalart #art #painting

@spookcentral I thought it was spelt cancelled with two Ls

@spookcentral he’ll never come back from this

I saw some 200 million year old plants today 🌿

livetooting thru a proletarian revolution

So I mean, this place has virtues, but a lot of the really vaunted ones people were talking about in August were clearly kind of an oversell.

I no longer really buy “the fedverse is not for brands.” Like, it’s not for selling things. But this format doesn’t really do all that much to minimize parasocial attachment. And people mostly just produce *more* content to get around the ephemeral quality of the posts?

People, even people who are anti-brand, have gimmicks here. Some even have logos, ffs. And people absolutely still overstep. In fact, on other social media, people seem to have a slightly better sense that someone is a stranger. Negativity is less intensely personal on other sites. And no, negativity’s not less common here.

per interventionists, the 2018 Venezuelan election was a "sham", but the 2015 elections where the more left wing of the country was ousted on the back of an economic crisis engineered by oil cartels is v. legitimate, per liberal observer orgs in countries now inciting a civil war