Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

@RIDDLES #johnMastodon’s #kitty

I would love to think that the city puts up these gigantic Christmas trees as a feast for all our homeless kitties

#Homeless #Kitties
#Christmas #Cats #Cat #HolidaySeason #CatsOnMastodon #CatsOnMastodon #MastoCats #Kitties #NewYorkCity #Photography #Lights #NewYork #NY #Trees #ChristmasTree

Finally put the tree up. Peanut came to decorate. 🥰🎄

"Musk’s message was loud and clear — Twitter is his playground now, and he’ll kick the libs out of it if he wants to." - @atrupar

https://mastodon.online/@atrupar/109563693998500207

Howdy pardner

I believe in a livable wage for everyone. It baffles me business owners argue with me, and I’ve had many do so, that paying their staff a higher wage will destroy their business. They are always white dudes who fancy themselves clever businessmen.

Until I hit them with, “wait, are you saying you didn’t budget for employee wages that afford them the basics of life? Surely you budgeted for that, right, Jimothy? I thought you understood business?”

It’s a blow to the fragile biz man fee fees.

We’ll take a little break next week, but will be back in the first week of January. Stay healthy, everyone, recharge the batteries, take care of yourselves and the ones around you. We’ll keep discussing democracy and its discontents in 2023. /end https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-this-democracy/id1652741954

https://t.me/liveukraine_eng/3286 ‼️🇺🇦A UAF drone went down behind enemy lines. A news type of rescue was preformed to recover the downed drone. Witness Ukrainian drone team recovering a downed drone with a drone (VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

New at Media Nation: A Long Island weekly had the goods on George Santos before Election Day. So where was the NY Times — and Newsday, for that matter? Hat tip to @joshtpm. #journalism #politics https://dankennedy.net/2022/12/23/a-long-island-weekly-had-the-goods-on-santos-several-weeks-before-election-day/

No shit your parents are pressuring you to have kids. You personally haven’t been cute in like 25 years.

Happy #blackfriday to all. Please read this essential, must-read book if you haven’t already done so. And kindly spread the word to other people to read this book as well. #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #MalcolmX

Large waves slam the 40 foot cliffs of the Lake Superior shoreline

#lakesuperior #waves #gales #lake #photography #greatlakes #LandscapePhotography #winter

Please remember, if you live where the temperatures are dropping into #frostbite territory, your #pets should be inside too. If you wouldn't stay outside for hours, they shouldn't either. #freezing #winterstorm

A #MustRead #thread 🧵 from one of the original engineers of #Twitter , who sees the expanding #fediverse as a chance to fix what was broken early on in the #Twitterverse , and who offers up words of comfort and empathy for anyone saddened at the loss of their old communities on #TheBirdSite .💔

Thank you, Blaine.

And welcome to the fediverse. 🐘

https://mastodon.social/@blaine/109327688462036016

In Kherson, Russian army shelled a kindergarten. Luckily, there are no casualties. However, it's clear that Russia isn't going to stop using its terror tactics. - Ukrinform #RussiaIsATerroristState

Here in rehearsals with my co-stars and the director of our musical “Allegiance,”and we’ve got quite the show to dazzle you with! Performances begin in London in January.
Tickets: https://Allegiancemusical.com

We’ll deserved!

22:00 Thursday - Still a freezing rain/sleet mix in Northwest #Portland. Normally sleet would be better than freezing rain but the small amount of rain falling is just welding all the sleet together so that the result is the same - a sheet of ice.

#pdxtst #orwx

#MastodonNews Dec 22, 2022

This is a pretty awesome story.

The New Stack: Why a Twitter Founding Engineer Is Now All-in on Mastodon >>> https://thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer-is-now-all-in-on-mastodon

Blaine Cook @blaine was one of the founding engineers of Twitter in 2006... I asked Cook if he thinks it’s likely that the fediverse can [become] the default platform for public conversation... “Yeah, I think it’s inevitable. We’ve seen a similar story before — the phone networks used to be monopolies.”

#twittermigration #fediverse

I think a lot of the Twitter resistance to switching to Mastodon is because it has a learning curve and that, coupled with switching to an environment where you don't know who to follow or have people following you, makes you feel a bit small. I'm kind of used to feeling foolish about things but some people have a really hard time with it. It's nice to see many in the community here react by being gentle and encouraging.