Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

It's no longer merely enough to condemn criminal actions by the GOP. There MUST be a call to consequences. Criminal, legal, etc. The weakness on that front is a stain on our society. We have Republicans KILLING AMERICANS through policies or by blocking lifesaving policies. OR outright TRAFFICKING HUMANS across state borders! We got fraudsters LYING to get into political office with no apparent criminal consequences! WHY NOT?! FRAUD is prosecuted everywhere else? Who not for political office?!

@atomicpoet @Jarruda each instance has one or more moderators to enforce the policies of that instance. The idea is that if an instance is perpetually poorly moderated, people can move to a better one. I've seen this happen and it means that poorly moderated instances shrink.

@Jarruda @gwync Central authority? No, we need common values.

And yes, moderation should be a common value.

@atomicpoet precisely why I became a moderator on the instance I'm on.

The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) was created by FDR in July 1943. Eleanor Roosevelt and Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune successfully advocated for the admittance of African-American women in the WAC, although as in the rest of the Army, segregation prevailed. In Nov 1944, 824 enlisted African American women were gathered to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. In this photo, the 6888th await departure for Birmingham, Britain at the New York Port of Embarkation's Camp Shanks.

Hey everyone! 👋
New server, new #introduction

I'm Daniela (she/her), a frontend developer from Austria who is passionate about #accessibility, #UserExperience and #InclusiveDesign.

I co-created https://a11yphant.com, a platform that teaches the basics of web accessibility, and just wrote my first-ever blog post, published on #HTMHell.

Currently, I'm a full-time double degree master's student in #WebDev and #DigitalServiceInnovation, graduating in 2023 👩🏼‍🎓



Are here any #butterfly lovers? Raise your hands, because I have "few" interresting photographs and I can share if you like.

You may have realized already that I have a very wide scope of interest in #photography. That's because I love to step outside of comfort zones and learn something new. Doing the same type of photography is just boring for me!

#nature #closeup #photo

Greetings. The amount of cynicism I see here about the Internet is really quite remarkable. Maybe it helps to have been engaged in this wonder of the world from the early ARPANET days (as I have) to fully appreciate what a fantastic tool the Internet is.

And yes, like any tool, the Internet can be used for good or evil. A hammer can help build a house for a needy family, or it can bash in someone's skull. The hammer doesn't make that decision -- the people using it are in control.

And so it is with the Internet as we stand on the cusp of 2023. Best, -L

@AgentCarter_SSR @TonyStark
Abbot is exactly like the autocrat that the GOP would like to have in the White House. Mean, cruel, and heartless.

The January 6 Final Report is a huge undertaking with multiple critical factual findings. Today, I extract a small section of it to show how much legal peril Trump and his top aides now face on a specific line of inquiry: the fake elector scheme. What evidence did the Committee unearth, how strong is it, and what will Trump’s likely defenses be? All that and a bit more in today’s piece:
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-fake-electors-scheme-could-be?sd=pf

Here is a portrait of Rosie. She's a Rottweiler and husky mix. The eye that you can't see is a pale gray color. This artwork was done in soft pastels on a textured paper.

See this dog portrait in my online gallery at https://mm-anderson.pixels.com/featured/rosie-mm-anderson.html
Happy #Mondog
and let's make 2023 #AYearForArt
#DogsOfMastodon #ArtistsOnMastodon #dogs #PastelArtwork

Daphne is catching some rays on this cold winter morning.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #Tortie #TortoiseshellCats

Proposition to repurpose gendered restrooms as “messy” and “clean” because that’s literally all that I care about when using a public restroom.

If we cannot openly talk about the sin of racism and white supremacy in the church, & the church is supposed to be the hospital for sin & sickness, then where else do we expose it? If the church doesn't expose it, then they are complicit in defending it. #whitesupremacy #evangelicals #church #racism #christian #christianity #christians #christiannationalism #blackmastodon

"As Republican nominees of archconservative Supreme Court yank back precedents of the last hundred years in an attempt to scrub American society of any rights that old-timey English witch-hunters or Colonial-era slaveholders would find distasteful, we've landed ourselves in a place where nobody's quite sure what is or isn't covered by United States law because court conservatives have been increasingly unwilling to bother with explaining it to us."

#SupremeCourt

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/12/26/2142782/-New-studies-show-the-Supreme-Court-s-imperial-behavior-really-is-unprecedented

When I say I don't want to be dragged into drama, that does not mean I oppose calling out assholes. Rather, a healthy community needs to protect itself from assholes without letting that become drama.

Drama is what happens when an effort to call out and ostracize the "Bad Ones" evolves into a social game whose participants endlessly try to dig up dirt on everyone else, and find any reason to ostracize them, while increasing their own clout by any means necessary.

This is how people are acting in the U.S. right now. Yes, it does get ridiculously super cold for like one or two days, but it used to be very cold for many days.
https://xkcd.com/1321

Super post by @tzimmer_history in the Guardian: 'Much of the moral panic over “cancel culture” – which animated Musk to buy Twitter in the first place – is a reaction to the fact that traditionally marginalized groups gained technological means to affect the political debate.'

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent | Thomas Zimmer | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent

#musk #democracy #Twitter #power #ThomasZimmerman

Mathematician John Conway was born #OTD in 1937. He made broad and profound contributions across all of mathematics, but he is maybe best known by the general public for his "game of life" cellular automaton. Conway passed away in 2020, from COVID-19.