Anabelthe1st @Anabelthe1st@social.cleverlibre.org

1. Political media is broken

Major outlets spent weeks PREDICTING there would be a "red wave" and EXPLAINING its causes

It was all based on polls, which are unreliable

This kind of coverage is not just pointless, it's harmful

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https://popular.info/p/political-media-is-broken

I'm really liking the 500-character limit here.

It just gives more space, when you need it, to chat in a conversational manner and expand upon some ideas.

Of course I've been trained up by The Other Place to be very pithy and cutting when I need to... but I'm rather enjoying the ability here to just stretch out my legs a little more comfortably on these mini-blogs. It feels nice.

Gonna be fun to watch the Alien vs Predator primary battle of Trump v DeSantis that will inevitably end in both vomiting up whatever's left of the other.

Drop your favorite Dad joke.

Every vote really, really, really does count.

Also too: the Boebert thing is not at all a done deal.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-colorado-us-house-district-3.html

I took a relatively large step (for me) and self-published my poetry, on my web site, with a link from the front page. #Poetry is personal and always feels like people won’t appreciate that piece of you; but I think my poems are quite good to be honest. I’m proud of them and I think they’ve got some universality and make you think.

So I present to you the most recent, which drove me to do this (because I like it, and hope you do too): “To Build a Fire.” #PoetryCommunity https://www.trisweb.com/poetry/mine/tobuildafire.html

@freemo @SteveZissou

You have set up an extraordinary server. And an ecosystem that can enable people to do and write good science on #fediverse
Qoto.org is like #arxiv of fediverse.

I feel like Neo walking into the Matrix for the first time. No, Dorothy landing in Oz. No, wait. Charlie walking into Wonka, Inc., only without all the arbitrary rules. HI! #introduction

White Evangelicals voted for a pathological lying, woman beating adulteress, who neglects his own family, and pressures women into abortions, over the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church.

IDEA: Media outlets should wait until AFTER the election before writing dozens of articles about why one party performed poorly

Very happy to find this group of brilliant scientists and clinicians - who have been so amazing at both sharing their expertise and listening to diverse views and concerns throughout the pandemic - here:
@kityates @Dr_D_Robertson @ariskatzourakis @nisreen @mikegalsworthy @doctoroxford @SusanMichie @chrischirp

Given their disappointing results, Republicans proposing even stricter Voter ID laws, such as $8 for verification.

And just whose expectations were those, WaPo?

I remain genuinely and pleasantly shocked that in the course of 10 days or so, we all just went, “no way, eff this, we’re going to @Mastodon”, and now we’re just here and people are so nice and writing alt-text in their images and sharing great stuff and using content warnings and everything. Obviously none of this would have been possible without years of work by #Fediverse / #ActivityHub devs that came before. Even so, this is really something, no? 😃