Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Having a mastodon account is like being a thought dj.

Please y’all don’t spend the next 24 hours “unpacking” why this dudes behavior has/does not align with his words

There was NO “free speech” mission

Just a guy…and some friends…high off their own bullshit with enough wealth to make holding them accountable beyond challenging

I just keep having to tell myself it's better now than in the late 80s.

But is it really? Or are there just more of us screaming into the void about the injustice with no real movement?

Needless to say, Mastodon is different and better. It’s tempting to say that it’s better because of the chronological timeline, or its federated nature, etc.

But really, it’s better because we’re better people here.

Remember this, and burn it into your brain if you have to: THERE ARE NO PURELY TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS TO SOCIETAL PROBLEMS. Ultimately, we can’t code around racism or misogyny or ableism or homophobia or transphobia. That’s on us.

I’m actually in time for #caturday
This is Faran. She doesn’t get shown as much because she spends most of her time in her little heated Hut of Evil. Hobbies include costing us thousands at the vet, yelling from the top of the stairs and taking trips to pee on the only carpet in the house.

How books get scanned.

My dumbass always pictured an old librarian with gloves at the copy/scanning machining having to redo it over and over because it scanned crooked.

Let’s get this straight, once and for all: Hate speech is not free speech, it’s the perversion of free speech.

Bunny bunny butt butt.

@AlwaysAutumn You got this, boo!

If they don't accept you for you, they're not good people anyway 💟

I’ll be in Ukraine through the holidays and hope to give you a little slice of how Christmas and New Years is observed in a time of war.

I’m sure there will be some shivering but I’ve also already tracked down a small bowl of pho

Today, We are all John Mastodon.

How to determine your “real age”…

What excites you more:

A) A party
B) A nap

Mastodon please help me with something. I'm a #trans guy with practically no trans guy friends. I know nothing about trans guys. I only know about James.

I could really do with some transmasc and trans men friends so.... hi?

Boosts encouraged 💜

Reporters going back to Musk's Twitter after being "allowed" back on is a case study in how abusive relationships persist.

Okay this made me laugh way harder then it should 😂

#StarTrek #Memes

I’m having a tough time stomaching news organizations presenting their complaints about Musk as a matter of morality or ethics. If it were, they’d be off that platform so fast it would make your head spin. Instead, they are enabling Musk by giving him free publicity on their own sites (covering his antics), creating “drama” by begging him to do this or that, and desperately hoping they won’t have to think creatively about how to replace whatever revenue they would lose by dropping twitter ASAP.

New underwear is expensive but at least they last 18 years.

Also, I would like to see Mastodon utilized to fight fascism in the same way that twitter has been used. We are in an existential crisis where the wealthy, the white nationalists, and the christo fascists are trying to control what our children learn in school, what we read in the paper, and now, even more increasingly, what we see on social media, and this is something that we HAVE to push back against.

Musk unsuspends some reporters on Twitter. Outrage was quick and furious, but without exception, these media organizations kept using Twitter to promote their latest stories. Their official accounts tweeted at their usual busy paces Thursday night and into Friday night, when Musk allowed some of the suspended journalists to return.

Some of the media organizations have opened Mastodon and Post accounts, but the codependent relationship between the news media and Twitter is still strong.

Constructive things to say to journalists: join Mastodon, encourage your audience to have their conversations here, report on Mastodon, add Mastodon to your news org bio, make a video explaining how to use Mastodon, ask lawmakers if they will be joining Mastodon
Not helpful: You are a fascist just like Elon Musk for not immediately deleting your Twitter and giving up the audience you spent 15 years building. It’s all or nothing, right now.