Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

@thepoliticalcat @keithvd while not trying to be conspiratorial, it seems more to me like the bad actors have begun trying to infiltrate #Mastodon instances since it's still gaining traction as #Twitter continues to disembowel its own user base.

That's my hot take for the day anyway.

@Winter_Pig @keithvd @thepoliticalcat
I'm going to jump in here and reiterate one of our guiding principles: We believe that freedom of speech is not freedom of reach. You may say whatever you want, but we reserve the right to keep you from using our platform to say it. Bullies, trolls and disruptors are not welcome in mstdn.ca.
There are many other instances for you to try being an outright asshole to people, but this instance isn't going to be it.

Sharing a lunch 🥗

How the Northern Lights are created:

Ice pillars in #Greenland

#ClimateChange

On Dec 2, 1859, Abolitionist John Brown was the first American ever executed for treason. The second ever executed for treason was Aaron Dwight Stevens (March 15, 1831 – March 16, 1860).

Their crimes? Attempting to free the enslaved. The first Americans executed for treason was for the crime of freeing the enslaved.

Legality is not always a measure of justice & morality, but a measure of power. This was only two life spans ago.

May we learn from these atrocities & uphold justice forever.

One of my friends, who I met as a #lego enthusiast who loved the Science Center of Iowa, tragically passed away this week.

The Iowa LEGO Users group, which he co-founded, posted this tribute: a candlelight vigil in Chris’s honor ❤️😭

First time putting together the #Lego #Christmas tree 2 in 1 set. These came out so cute!

I came home today after teaching photography and found this in the house.

#caturday

You like bad boys?

Real poor-quality guys with failing organs and paper-thin skin?

Faulty, low-grade, broken-brained men who are literally falling apart?

Just shoddy, defective, garbage-shit male humans?

Want some decrepit Earth dudes?

You know the boiled frog legend, right? What are the steps that led the frog not to jump? Was there no awareness in the oddity of being placed in a pot full of water? Has this ever happened to you? If you were slow-boiled to death, what, and how did it happen, and were you aware?

he's got a point really

Each of us must decide, in the end, whether to remain on Twitter and help legitimize its radical right-wing forum or seek a new domain with promise, such as Mastodon. Today I made that decision and deactivated my more than 25,000 followed account there. But I didn't leave Twitter-- until it left me.

Oaks near Sheepstor in low cloud last December #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #mosstadon

Designed this shelving unit for the series as a sort of modular thing that can be adjusted in size to build whatever size makes sense for a room/area.

In America’s rush to build the #nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed.

#Uranium mills that helped fuel the weapons also dumped #radioactive and toxic waste into rivers. Thousands of sheep turned blue & died after foraging on tainted land. #Cancer wards across the West swelled with sick uranium workers.

The government bankrolled the industry but didn’t have a plan for the toxic byproducts of this nuclear assembly line.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uranium-mills-pollution-cleanup-us?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

All the best journalism is spoon-fed to reporters from a billionaire and published in a format and on a platform of the billionaire's choosing

"Most people don't really want the Truth. They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth."

Friedrich #Nietzsche
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence

Ousted Disney CEO Bob Chapek is set to receive a golden parachute worth ~$23 million.

Meanwhile, Disney is dragging its feet on paying its workers better wages to keep up with the rising cost of living.

It’s corporate greed above all else.

Whose Tweets? Our Streets—A new poster and zine for an offline media offensive

https://crimethinc.com/wheatpaste2022

Elon Musk is systematically suppressing the voices of those who oppose fascism while welcoming the most notorious Nazis back onto the platform. In response, we invite you to make the streets of your community speak out with a new poster about capitalists like Elon Musk and Donald Trump. If there’s one medium that billionaires will never control, it’s wheatpaste.

In addition, in case you prefer to paste up posters the old-fashioned DIY way rather than just buying wallpaper paste or spray adhesive, we have made a zine version of our Field Guide to Wheatpasting. Please print these out and distribute them to anyone who might be interested in communicating on a platform that isn’t run by a pro-fascist billionaire!