Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Murdoch & Putin have shown that you can get the majority of people to believe anything you want as long as you invest enough resources. This makes contemporary democracy inherently unstable. The hopeful news, though, is that we know what their tricks are.

@JacobPhD
I am the very model of a devotee of Mastodon,
Because it doesn't have a certain egocentric bastardon,
For far from being satisfied with Trump and all his vegetables,
I find I must be entertained by something more respectable.
I understand relationships have more than instrumental use
And thus I won't consent to suffer
Twitter bans and more abuse
From someone who thinks Mars itself should have his own name plastered on
"Oh no I say, but get me hence! I'll flee from Mars to Mastodon."

Two excellent, in-depth guides to Mastodon, which should answer many of your questions, are here:

1. An Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon by joyeusenoelle: https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon

2. Nikodemus' Guide to Mastodon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit#heading=h.j95atvlbfrn5

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suddenly realizing I don’t post nearly enough dog pics on here.

Re: Trump’s tax returns…

The situation was even worse than I imagined. He wasn’t just withholding them from the public; he used his office to ensure the IRS could not complete the MANDATORY audits of all Presidential returns while he was in office.

Makes J6 look even worse for him now IMHO.

I’m blown away. Make sure you listen to the additional details from Rep. Chu and the other members of the committee.

#uspolitics #TrumpTaxReturns

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, Mastodon went from 300,000 monthly active users to 2.5 million between October & November, and still growing, with over 4000 new users joining every day.

#TwitterMigration

It's almost 3 at night.. Time for some sleeep..

Goood night my dear friends ❤️

Elgol, Isle of Skye. Pretty much my favorite spot in Scotland to spend an evening with the camera. Really is that good #Scotland #isleofskye #nikon #landscape #sunset

Its #WaterfallWednesday my friends!

This is the Devils Punchbowl waterfall in Arthur's Pass National park.

Quite a spectacular falls thats an easy but steep climb up some stairs to view

Time it right and you get a nice rainbow behind it

#photography #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #NewZealand #longexposure #NZTwits

Looking for the womxn #science writers and #Journalists on Mastodon? Here we are! (Some of us, anyway) Who else is out here? #journalism #womeninstem

@Kelcsimpkins
@SusanCunningham
@biancanogrady
@laminda
@inkfish
@Ckatz99
@lizseegert
@skrishna
@payaldhar
@lguterman
@EstelleSErasmus
@jamesian
@Trailanderror
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@jenniferbillock
@AntoniaJuhasz
@alexwitze
@judeisabella

Elon Musk is Still Silencing the Journalists he Banned from Twitter.

It looks like our accounts have been reinstated, but it's an illusion: We're actually locked out and can't post anything without deleting specific tweets the billionaire doesn't like.

This latest article embeds a Mastodon post and links to posts by @drewharwell @MattBinder @w7voa and @tony

https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/

Cyberwarfare reached a new battlefield on Tuesday when authorities said two Queens men working with Russians had been able to hack the electronic taxi dispatch system at Kennedy International Airport in a line jumping scheme https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/nyregion/russian-hackers-jfk-taxis.html

Me: #regex is really useful and you should definitely learn it.

Also me:
re.compile(r'.*?INSTANCE\s+(?P<instance_id>[^\s]+).*?running\s(?P<owner>\S+)?\s+.*?\s+(?P<availability_zone>(ucsb|race|aristotle))\s+(.*?Name\s+(?P<name>.*?)TAG)?.*?euca\:node\s+(?P<node>[^\s]+)(\s|$)',re.DOTALL)

(Actual code I wrote this afternoon.)

someone asked the question recently about what our favorite Christmas/holiday tradition is. I actually forgot what mine is until just now. It's watching my wife sit peacefully with our cat in her lap listening to christrmas music.

🎉ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးဆုံးရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှုရန်ပုံငွေအဖွဲ့တစ်ခုဖြစ်တဲ့ နော်ဝေးရေနံရန်ပုံငွေက မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စု၊ မြန်မာ့စီးပွားရေးကော်ပိုရေးရှင်း MEC တို့နဲ့ စီးပွားရေးပူးပေါင်းလုပ်ဆောင်နေတဲ့ PTT နဲ့ PTTOR တို့ကို ထုတ်ပယ်ပစ်လိုက်ပါတယ်။

အသေးစိတ်ကို 👉🏽 https://bit.ly/3BO5vuy

#JusticeForMyanmar
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

#NEWS 🚨🚨🚨
House committee votes to make public #trumptaxreturns
The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday voted 24-16 to release former president Donald Trump’s tax returns to the public, capping a protracted legal and political battle that began when Trump was in the Oval Office.

As always, when right wing authoritarians do not get their way, or things do not go the way they had planned them to go - they'll try and change the rules of the game they started.

George 'Gorgeous George' Davis was an overlooked early baseball star of the 1890s and early 1900s. He set a record 33 game hit streak in 1893, then hit over 300 9x in his career. He ranks 33rd alltime in bWAR (84.9), 17th in stolen bases (619), and 33rd in triples (163).

Davis was elected to the HOF in 1998.

#baseball #BaseballMastodon