Rowley @Rowley@social.cleverlibre.org

SERIOUSLY, LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT SANDWICHES ARE. I LOVE 'EM. ALL KINDS.

I'M NOT A SANDWICH PURIST. YOU CAN SHAG A FEW CLOSE CALLS INTO THE ROUGH AND IT'S STILL A SANDWICH. I AM NOT HERE TO GATEKEEP YOUR IDEA OF WHAT A SANDWICH CAN BE. I AM SIMOLY HERE TO CELEBRATE THE IDEA OF A SATISFYING HAND-HELD MEAL.

Both Twitter and BlueSky - backed by untold amounts of money and white tech bros - are down.

Mastodon - run by trans furries and femboys high on anxiety - is running just fine.

With Twitter Services Limited And Unreliable, Americans Turn To “Books” To Determine Whether Jews Fabricated Red Cross Blood Drives As Part Of Great Replacement

Meine Recherchen ergaben, daß viele Menschen keine Laktose brauchen, um intolerant zu sein.

a thing of beauty

Hey journalists: want a fun story? Look up all the people who filed amacus briefs against student loan forgiveness and cross reference that with the PPP loan forgiveness database.

It is simply astonishing that companies are embedding technology into search engines that makes them vastly, vastly worse at finding accurate information.

France is trying out the American solution to police brutality, which is much, much more police brutality.

Hey atheist creatives, you can now tell Christianists and other religious fascists to pound sand if they want to employ your services.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-web-designer-refused-work-sex-weddings-rcna68629

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they’d likely just be some other planet’s asshole billionaires

I must not engage with the discourse
Discourse is the time-killer
Discourse is the little error that leads to table-flipping
I will ignore the discourse
I will permit it to pass through me and over me
When it has gone past, I will turn to my timeline and see no posts
Where the discourse was, there will be nothing
Only cat pics will remain

#Alito is a full-throated fucking neo-Nazi who would greenlight the Nuremberg Laws if he got/gets the chance, and his sadboi, aggrieved entreaties for "respect" for the "institution" should get lost in a neverending chorus of "Shut the fuck up, Nazi."

I hate flying. I love trains. Trains are wonderful. High-speed rail is one of those things that would make America so much better for literally everyone except airlines, oil companies, and car manufacturers. Can we build it, please?

Don’t look now, but a judge just wrote an opinion saying that Heller was bullsh*t, and Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia changed the 2nd Amendment— while taking hunting-trip bribes from pro-gun billionaires—which flooded our streets with guns and gets kids massacred.

Crack Heller open. #ExpandTheCourt.

The Scalia Second Amendment is fake, it was created in 2008, and the real 2nd Amendment is about state-sponsored militias only.
#2A #USPol #CorruptClarence @Dahlialith

Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).

In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.

The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.

...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.

https://www.wired.com/1997/07/longboom/

The world is short on lithium and we're letting the same car manufacturers which sold 8mpg SUVs make electric cars as big as they want.

Y’all — let’s challenge Joe Rogan and RFK Jr to publish a peer-reviewed paper in JAMA or NEJM showing vaccines are harmful. If they can come up with funding, design a study, pass IRB, recruit participants, collect data, analyze those data, write a paper, get it through peer review, and pay for publication, maybe then we can talk. Otherwise they’re just a bunch of cowards too scared to do research.

GOP: We are pro-life!

So—free pre-natal care?

GOP: No

Extend child tax credit?

GOP: No

Paid family leave?

GOP: No

Universal pre-K?

GOP: No
Universal healthcare?

GOP: No

Gun reform?

GOP: No

How exactly are you pro-life?🤔

GOP: Ban reproductive health access & increase women’s death.

Really impressed by the number of people on social media who turn out to have expertise in both deep sea engineering AND modern Russian political dynamics.

Nice to see #Mastodon is becoming as good as #Twitter used to be in it's heyday when global news is breaking.