Anabelthe1st @Anabelthe1st@social.cleverlibre.org

#USPOL #ElectionNight2022
I am SO proud of Maryland’s new Gov-Elect @iamwesmoore. A superstar who is brilliant and dedicated. He is the first Black Governor in the history of the state and only the third Black Governor elected to office in the U.S. since Reconstruction. Wonderful! If you don’t know him learn about him!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/08/maryland-governor-results-wes-moore-dan-cox/

1. Elections aren't decided by polls

They are decided by counting votes

So we should pay more attention to Pennsylvania — which could determine control of the Senate — where Republicans are trying to exclude thousands of ballots from eligible voters

https://popular.info/p/trashing-votes

Who’d have guessed Elon Musk would pay $44 billion to promote Mastodon.

Morning folks, time for my first Mastodon thread (!)

Ahead of the #midterms tomorrow, I want to talk about the tragic politicisation of science in the US.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when the Republicans became the anti-science party, but the process probably began in the 1980s, when the Christian right first emerged as a major force in conservative American politics.

Since then, the journey has been smooth and swift, and there is now a stunning partisan divide on confidence in science 😥

Turns out Twitter can act quickly and decisively on sad Elon being called names by verified accounts but not on death threats, slurs and violent incitement against marginalised people.

If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏

At this point I’m just perusing #blackmastodon and #blacktwitter and adding whomever I find on here. It’s like giving the nod when you see a mutual in a public space 😁✊🏾

Toots are now Woot Woots #BlackMastodon

Hello! Well, I’m getting lots of calls from media outlets around the world re #TwitterMigration. Elon’s very upset with me because he thinks I stole his identity on Twitter but my handle always said @kathygriffin. I changed my nickname to Elon musk, and I changed my profile picture to his profile picture. I wasn’t the first or last to do it, but account was the one he saw.
Lots of Musk cult bros are lashing out! Snowflakes! 😂

9. I am not saying all speech allowed by the First Amendment should be allowed on Twitter. THAT IS WHAT ELON MUSK SAID.

I'm saying ELON MUSK IS NOT DOING WHAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO.

Hopefully, that clears up any confusion.

@joshtpm Twitter came up and grew at a time when a lot of people who were previously tech-averse discovered the benefits of being active in an online community. I'm hopeful that the migration here is a sign that people are both more tech-savvy and less willing to accept a toxic community. What Musk doesn't, in his bones, understand is that the community on a platform like these, is the boss, not the consumer. And his hubristic takeover made that point clear to many people.

Very chill and normal Monday. Nothing at all ominous looming on the horizon.

#IndigenousMastodon where you at? #FirstNations #Indigiqueer #TwoSpirit #Indigenous

Alright, this thread is dedicated to your favorite old school R&B tracks. Drop a song!

#BlackMastodon

I noticed there seems to be a lot less #prison content over here than THE OTHER PLACE so I asked a group of prisoners with contraband phones - they’re in a message chain together - if they had joined the #migration yet… and none had heard of mastodon. BUT they said they are wary of social media apps bc they eat up data… would mastodon typically use less data than Twitter or the same? I assume (?) not more?

@Anabelthe1st I think the no ads thing is great here. Also everyone here seems authentic and more enthusiastic about making a good first impression in order to make this work. Very exciting. I think it’s the people and not celebrity status that make a community. Everyone is starting over and learning something new which is humbling and fosters a sense of trust out of need. We’re on the precipice of something great I think.