Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

This “Twitter Blue” and “Meta Verified” shit is hilarious. These billionaires will squeeze you dry for platinum ultra mega VIP status that means nothing.

So, I tried to post earlier about the fact that the way masto threading works at both the instance and (especially) the client level make context especially difficult to follow here.

This results in a lot of confused/ redundant /hostile replies, bc many repliers miss the context and reply to a part as though it were the whole.

As a non-developer inclined to semi-shitposting, I find these replies a bit socially taxing, but haven't hit on strategies for improving the situation on my end. [1/2]

On this #SilentSunday I thought I'd share my Worshiper In Stained Glass Cathedral piece.

It's here - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/worshiper-in-stained-glass-cathedral-deborah-league.html

#artmatters #Mastoart #mastodon #digitalart #AYearForArt #photography #colorful #StainedGlass #worship #sacred #art #artist #digitalartist #church #fediart #WallArt #HomeDecor #arte #digital #artwork #religious #architecture #faith #spiritual #holy #window #chapel

The most ridiculous aspect of Meta Verified is verification using government IDs.

As though Meta’s whole reason to exist *isn’t* to extract as much personal information from you as possible!

Remember, this is a company that tracks the amount of dirt on your phone’s camera!

But now Meta acts like they’re doing you a favour by collecting more of your personal information—for a monthly fee!

@parkermolloy False equivalence is a voter-suppression tactic. Trollfarms used it to great effect in 2016, and tried to do the same in 2020.

The people going off about this who aren't full-on trolls are usually the kind who fetishize a bloody revolution. They think letting abject fascists win will magically bring this on when things get so horrible that there's a mass uprising. A million dead after a botched pandemic response didn't trigger that, though, so...

It's an entire party built on the idea that if they don't like something then it should be illegal. All while branding themselves the "party of freedom." They're fascists. The entire Republican Party is a fascist party.

Hope everyone who's been shrugging off the GOP strategy to criminalize health care it doesn't like (see: abortion, trans rights) is happy with themselves, because it's not stopping there https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/idaho-lawmakers-introduce-legislation-to-criminalize-those-who-administer-covid-vaccines-legislature/277-2436a514-e7da-4b31-9762-f9be10300075

Mark Sumner writes,

"Just last month [Jimmy Carter] wrote a New York Times op-ed expressing his concern about the future of democracy. 'I now fear that what we have fought so hard to achieve globally—the right to free, fair elections, unhindered by strongman politicians who seek nothing more than to grow their own power—has become dangerously fragile at home,' wrote President Carter."

#JimmyCarter #democracy #authoritarianism

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/18/2153743/-Prepare-yourself-Jimmy-Carter-is-not-going-to-be-with-us-much-longer

Joan Jett performing with Kathleen Hanna and Bikini Kill at Irving Plaza in New York City on July 14, 1994. Pic by Ebet Roberts

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #joanjett #kathleenhanna #bikinikill #history #punkrockhistory

"If she says they're good, then I am ready to go."

Before his 1962 orbital flight, John Glenn was wary of trusting his life to a machine's trajectory calculations and asked that Katherine Johnson check them. #BHM

More on mathematician Katherine Johnson: https://go.nasa.gov/3Ef1sbX
#NASAhistory

19 February 1934 | A Czech Jew, Herbert Stein, was born.

He was deported to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto together with his mother Gertruda on 6 September 1943. They did not survive.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Theresienstadt #ghetto #Czechia

Saying it now: Jimmy Carter is the ultimate model of an ex-president who used his time after office to be of service to others.

Decided to venture into the realms of chaos this weekend & painted up this lovely Slaanesh champion!

#warhammercommunity #warhammer #ageofsigmar #miniatures #miniaturespainting

https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2nS7OtpMB/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Really grateful to all y’all. We are less than $5,000 to our $100,000 goal for Turkey & Syria earthquake relief ❤️

Remember, more than 90% of funds donated @HFUSA reach the people in need on the ground

Please boost and if you can, donate here: https://fundraise.humanityfirst.org/fundraiser/4441555

This person blocked me, but this childish response is so dumb. "Erm, ackshually, both parties are the same" isn't some sign that you're insightful. It's that you're a simpleton.

All Polish Tatra Mountains have been closed for several days; avalanche grade 4 on a 5-grade scale; at an altitude of more than 1,800 m above sea level, there is already more than 160 cm of snow
we have to wait for better weather :)
#poland #landscape #winter #snow #photography #sunny #cold

Bernie Sanders "Of course the oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? Oligarchs run the United States as well. And it’s not just the United States, it’s not just Russia; Europe, the UK, all over the world, we’re seeing a small number of incredibly wealthy people running things in their favour. A global oligarchy. This is an issue that needs to be talked about.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/19/bernie-sanders-oligarchs-ok-angry-about-capitalism-interview

James and Rosalynn Carter looking beautiful. ❤️

@uanews Putin should have thought about that before he invaded, RuZZia gets nothing.

"You don’t frighten us, English pig dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person!"

#Squirrel of the Day for February 19, 2023

#Squirrels #MontyPython