Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

I love seeing AOC dunking on shitheads as much as the next guy, but can we please stop treating it as some kind of victory? It’s not. It’s just words. Bills becoming laws which protect vulnerable people, now that’s worth celebrating. More of that, please. Otherwise, no matter how satisfying the clapback it’s still just talk.

Ron DeSantis to meet Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on UK trip

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65343554

Perhaps Mr Cleverly would like to press DeSantis on what he is doing in Florida.

who's your favorite Futurama character? mine's Leela 💜

Dare to dream! #dreams #hope #Puffballs #Wishes

#MastoArt #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

#FediGiftShop https://www.artheroes.com/en/shopartwork/Dandelion-Puffball-Field/1163713

The green red currents look like they are wearing tiny crowns. #RedCurrents #Berries #gardening

#MastoArt #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart

#FediGiftShop
https://www.pictorem.com/753240/Green%20Red%20Current%20Berries.html

#Twitter removes labels describing international media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, including those under authoritarian control in #China, #Iran and #Russia.

@dangillmor I was saddened to see 3 of my favorite "resisters" having paid for it. I happened to see it before the blue check message was obfuscated so you couldn't tell.

Grandson of man charged with shooting Ralph Yarl:

"But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “...he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line."

Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”

An American story:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article274517706.html#storylink=cpy

@Alice — and I’m sorry that I missed it, dammit!

imagine someone say "i only hang out at the Nazi bar because there are some really cool non-Nazis who hang out there"

that's what it sounds like when you say "oh, i'm still on Twitter but only bc so-and-so is on there"

A wish for a very Happy Birthday to George Takei today!

As long as bootlickers at Fox News and the Washington Examiner believe Mastodon is dead, I'm happy.

May we never gain their attention!

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/nbc-disinformation-reporter-is-actually-a-partisan-opinion-writer

@fediversenews

Did Republicans use the debt ceiling to hold the economy hostage when Trump was in office? No. Of course not. They raised it. Three separate times. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/disinformation-about-the-debt-ceiling

Despite all the bad days and mean people...

I still believe in good days and kind people.

...Plus, there are always dogs.


#Dogs #Dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon #Doggos #DogLife #WednesdayWisdom

Out dusting off my macro photo equipment and got some decent shots from a local nature preserve, snek, flower, and bug.

(OK eastern garter snake, white trillium, and millipede (Sigmoria rubromarginata)

@dangillmor every time you think "Saudi-funded" think "Saudi blood money" and also why for the first time I rooted *against* players at The Masters.

Proud to have lost the blue check at Saudi-government-funded Twitter...

Everything is going fine on the titter birbsite. #twitter

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that buying Twitter Blue makes you look like such a loser that Elon personally paid for multiple celebrities' blue checks in order to humiliate them

NASA: launches new rocket successfully first try, pundits on social media are all about how inefficient and terrible NASA is

Space Karen: rocket explodes, pundits on social media are all congratulating it and celebrating the revolution

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