Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Expounding on something from yesterday.

There is no benefit to any corporation or media outlet to say that Mastodon is thriving. It means less control of the societal narrative, political landscape, and corporate profits.

When we read reports to the contrary, bear in mind the motivations and the trustworthiness of the outlets proclaiming it as inconsequential.

There is a vested interested in minimizing the importance of Mastodon in the public perception.

Teakettle Junction, Death Valley National Park, California (2019).

"Take nothing but pictures.
"Leave nothing but teakettles."

It's true that I'm ambitious
I am a working cat
But lately I was coasting
My job had fallen flat
I asked for a promotion
They said I couldn't cope
I worked my butt off, got a raise
And now I am a slope

@TCatInReality Yeah, not enough folks realize Democracy is at a bit of a crossroads here. This demands on all-hands-on-deck response. And Garland is a key player. He cannot F this up.

I don't have time to send individual messages, so please forgive me for resorting to a round robin.

Abandoned tunnel in France 🇫🇷

Shameful. We're coming for you!

The 170-plus Republican election deniers who were just elected to Congress had some crucial last-minute help. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-lie-corporate-donations_n_63e69db8e4b022eb3e301098

Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan

Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning room:

It's a superconducting electromagnet, mate. The metal detectors on the door aren't there for your explodey penis substitute, they're there because ferrous metals go ZOOOOM if they get too close to the high-Tesla field!

It's like the dipshit ignored the pre-MRI fact sheet/briefing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-lawyer-death-mri-gun-b2279514.html

The floodplain today...Hunter Valley, NSW Australia

#photography #photo #LandscapePhotography

Good Shabbos...and apparently all other kinds of nonsense over on the hellsite... 😬 🤷‍♂️

With the upcoming closure of mastodon.lol, I'll be moving over to mastodon.social/@officialunoffocialjdc. I haven't set anything up there yet beyond just registering, but I'll be exporting everything from here over to there soon. I'll update this post when it's done.

Thanks to @nathan for keeping this instance a place of sanity for as long as he did.

Fuck Nazis.
Fuck TERFs.
J.K. Rowling can burn in Hell.

Plato quote to start the day off...

#plato #quote #encouragement #philosophy #goodsense #kindness

#FawltyTowers, which I like and John Cleese wants to bring back, reminds me that in Anglo-US-North-EU Academics, I had to first enter as the Manuel character, not the Cleese or his wife characters. #Diversity is complicated. Be kind to non-native speakers.
https://youtu.be/cwYPCFfbhZM

The "high altitude airborne object" within US sovereign airspace and territorial water in #Alaska was first detected by ground radar, DoD spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder tells reporters.

Yeah, #FensterFreitag. Einer meiner Lieblingstage — zum einen weil ich #Fensterlicht liebe, zum anderen weil man mit Fenstern natürlich wunderbar arbeiten kann ...

Katharina, #Hamburg 2014

#Portrait #Portraitfotografie #Portraitphotography #Fotografie #Photography #Hand #WindowFriday

Jonathan Turley is a Constitutional Buffoon. #GOPBlowhards

Dem Wipes The Floor With Fox's Jonathan Turley https://crooksandliars.com/2023/02/debbie-wasserman-schultz-wipes-floor-foxs

It's your girl Swole, #Squirrel of the Day for February 10, 2023 #Squirrels #NaturePhotography

At least the people trying to destroy us are pretty bad at it