Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Downside to Mastodon:
No one I know in real life can figure out how to use it.

Upside to Mastodon:
No one I know in real life can figure out how to use it.

If you hear a MAGA talk about terminating parts of the constitution, tell them we’ll start with the second amendment.
They won’t discuss terminating the constitution for long.

#politics

@rbreich anti intellectualism made truth irrelevant

Finished my latest II Legio lance with a couple of extras - a lil gladius and a cute stand of infantry!

#battletechminiatures #battletech #paintingwarhammer #miniatures #miniaturepainting #tabletopgames #mechwarrior #vajellopaints #citadelpaints

https://www.instagram.com/p/CleHISINc02/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

It’s a Gif, not a Jif.

Unless you’re posting animated peanut butter.

A follow up to the previous Public Service Announcement:

Me: Doctor, I seem to have an instance of high blood pressure going on.

Doctor: No problem. Just take #Mastodon 3 times a day. And, I’m going to need you to off the 🐦 completely.

#Mastodon #TwitterRefugee #TwitterExodus #Newhere

“I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened.”
— via @ZackBornstein

I am begging you, please don’t call me and immediately start ratting off information that you think I should care about. This has happened like 5 times in the past two months where I’ve had to interrupt people to ask literally who are they and what are they talking about. 😂

PARENT: "Have you finished writing your letter to Santa?"

CHILD: "I'm don't believe in Santa anymore. Now I believe in a decentralized network of independently operating elves who federate using an open protocol called ActivityPub to share information about children's Christmas wishes and source gifts to fulfill them"

Flu hospitalizations in the U.S. have reached the highest level in a decade, CDC says.

The bare minimum we should have learned from the last two years is that the best ways to stop an airborne virus is to get vaccinated, wear a mask, and stay home when sick. Why are we all so determined to do the opposite?

#Flu #COVID #PublicHealth #BringBackMasks

When people are incapable or insecure of change or growth, they will not acknowledge yours.

RED ALERT, please boost! We got word this morning that Senate leadership has cut a deal to include #JCPA in the must-pass #NDAA.

This is a terrible, Rupert Murdoch backed bill that essentially creates a "link tax" and would make Big Tech and big media cartels even more intertwined. AND, apparently what Schumer "traded" for it was ... the vaccine mandate for the US military. I kid you not.

@team has a contact-congress tool here, please contact your Senators!

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/tell-congress-protect-our-access-to-credible-news

The last leaves floating on the water #leaves

Hello world!

Looking for 9999 of our closest friends and no more than that. 😉 /j

If the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through, they will own more than 5,000 U.S. stores.

What's to stop them from continually raising their prices if there's nowhere else to shop?

Today in 1944, Robert Clothier is presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross for attacking several highly-defended targets.
After the war he gets into acting. In 1972, he wins the role of Relic on The Beachcombers, which he plays until 1990.

#Canada #History #Beachcombers #Canadian #Acting #Histodon #Histodons

A good holiday reminder that when you see someone stealing food, no you didn’t.

The sides of medieval books can be quite beautiful. And because of the materials used, paper and parchment copies look very different.

Paper in older books is brittle and uneven, and has a yellowish colour - though not usually so for medieval paper.

Parchment tends to curl, giving the long side of the manuscript a lovely "wavy" appearance.

Pics: Leiden, UBL, SCA 28 (9th c); Leiden, Archives, SA 207 (dated 1717).

#paper #parchment #BookHistory #history @medievodons @histodons