Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

#ElonMusk has already said he wants GOP to take the White House. He has begun using the major-media-identified “Democrat Party” *slur* publicly (there is no such party; it is the Democratic Party). He has mass unsuspended/unbanned far-right feeds even as he has now begun mass-suspending/banning targeted *left-wing* feeds on the explicit, public demand of a list of 5,000 proposed accounts provided by neo-Nazis & other white supremacists.
@SethAbramson

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-news-neo-nazis-and-other

Scrapped ideas from the people who created Jurassic Park:
- Virus Farm
- Broken Glass Water Park
- Bounce House Full ‘O Bees
- Tunnel Of Love Featuring That One Handsy Guy
- Log Flume Into A Concrete Wall
- The Dodging Traffic Adventure
- Frontierland With Actual Bears
- Hugs From Wet Ted Cruz

Proof in the pudding. I have two likes on Twitter on this post, and 12 likes, 7 reblogs here.

I have over 16,000 followers on Twitter!

No one sees the stuff I share there. Especially if it's critical of Twitter.

Inflation is exacerbating the enormous gap between the rich and the poor.

The Fed's rate hikes are making it worse, placing the burden of fighting inflation squarely on those who can least afford it.

Meanwhile, corporate monopolies are making out like bandits.

Reading about this:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-mathematician-who-decodes-the-patterns-stamped-out-by-life
A Mathematician Who Decodes the Patterns Stamped Out by Life

Corina Tarnita deciphers bizarre patterns in the soil created by competing life-forms. She’s found that they can reveal whether an ecosystem is thriving or on the verge of collapse.

🐱🐶🐱🐶🐱🐶🐱🐶🐱🐶
PLEASE remember PETS when filling a #foodbank.
Animal charities are recording record numbers of pets being abandoned/ handed in.
Also animal charities will take blankets/towels for cages.
Pets provide companions/ therapy for people.
#pets #hungrypets

Thinking about the time the tour guide at Independence Hall in Philadelphia told us that no country in history had been more effective at freeing itself from a monarchy than the USA, and my French boyfriend spent the rest of the tour just muttering "I don't see any guillotines" under his breath

Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.

After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.

This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.

Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.

I’ve been saying this for years.

Boost and fav if you agree!

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

#TaxTheRich
#austerity

so I've been using this inter-dimensional gateway to visit a world full of sentient swedish fish. it's an amazing place and they're such a wonderful, peaceful people. so trusting. I have committed terrible crimes

People with “ally” in there bio will also spend several minutes defending the “redemption arc” of a dead former slave owner and that’s…weird 🫡

#Cats and #snow

I feel like part of what we’re experiencing in this country, and really in a lot of countries, is the collapse of identity, which in the U.S. used to be rooted in a white, Christian-centered worldview that only had to account for other people when it came to sports and entertainment. The majority now has to cope with the reality of growing political and social equality, and the attendant demands to expand the notion of national history and identity. Some folks are taking it hard.

They should give Donald Trump’s tax returns to Justice Alito so everyone will know what’s in them.

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.