Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

It feels like End Times on Twitter. Even journalists are being Raptured away.

If you try to add a link your #Mastodon account in your profile on #Twitter, it'll give you the message:
"Account update failed. Description is considered malware."

Elmo Muck will probably ban hashtags he dislikes next, along with even more reporters whose "free speech" he doesn't like. This is bad.

#freeSpeech #liar #elonMusk #ElmoMuck

Greetings,

I’m new to the #fediverse, having recently fled from the bird site. I was there for a long time, but almost entirely as a follower and not an active participant. I hope to find more engagement here.

I work and play in the technology realm, where I’m somewhat of a generalist. I’ve been around *nix operating systems since the 80’s. Xenix anyone?

I enjoy #woodworking, #travel, and spending time #outdoors.

Raised in #Oregon now living in #NewEngland

Thanks!

#introduction

Aaaand I'm suspended from Twitter 🫡

A revealing moment for Glenn who supports banning journalists he doesn't like.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1603554085109653507

Why wait for #Caturday?
Porch kitty

In other rich-people-going-rogue news, the war on immigrants lives on: empty shipping containers used to create an ad-hoc scrap-metal "border wall" in AZ across pristine oak grassland are apparently being staged on land owned by the James and Jennifer Douglass Family Revocable Trust. (DOJ yesterday filed suit against the State of Arizona for the environmental destruction and the anti-democratic behavior.) Via @UnicornRiot

https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/a-quiet-retreat-hundreds-of-shipping-containers-hauled-to-az-state-prison-as-protests-halt-border-wall/

#uspol #immigration #RogueRichPeople

This made me laugh - Jason Goldman’s take on joinmastodon being banned from Twitter

Re: posts asking "Why're there so many ____ here?
I mostly see these posts in reference to autistic or trans people. In some cases the comments joke "it must just be trendy right now."
🙄
We've always been "here" wherever here is - schools, laundromats, grocery stores, even social media. There's just no algorhythm keeping you in your bubble here. The fact that you chose not to hear or see us before doesn't make us new or trendy now. Your worldview is narrow & rude af #ZipIt
#Autist #TransAlly

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

Know how we know these comments are grounded in white supremacy—not national security?

Right now there are 600,000+ undocumented immigrants in America from Canada & Europe—when was the last time you heard MAGA call for a northern border wall or travel ban from Europe?🤔

That’s the complexion for protection. An ask again to demand Dems pass DACA protections before Jan 3. Do not leave DACA’s fate to MAGA extremists: https://bit.ly/3YedKtj

update: It was NFTs . The announcement is that he's selling NFT cards of himself.

😂😂😂

Your DNS query history is a detailed roadmap of everywhere you’ve been on the internet, usually provided to end users by their ISP. One provider of DNS services was selling this information to the government without letting customers know. Sen. Wyden wants the FTC to look into possible deceptive business practices. (via @JosephMenn) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/15/wyden-ftc-neustar-sussmann/

Also, I would like to see Mastodon utilized to fight fascism in the same way that twitter has been used. We are in an existential crisis where the wealthy, the white nationalists, and the christo fascists are trying to control what our children learn in school, what we read in the paper, and now, even more increasingly, what we see on social media, and this is something that we HAVE to push back against.

In 1941, Nazis asked the city of Amsterdam to make this map of Jews in the city. Each dot equalled 10 Jews.

In 2022, TX AG @KenPaxtonTX sought data from driver's licenses on #transgender Texans.

But don't worry. History never repeats itself. #LGBTQ+
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has reportedly asked for a list of everyone who changed their sex on state documents in the past two years. Why? Paxton's office hasn't said. When asked for docs, they said none exist.

I'm sure it's no big deal. They just want a list of transgender people in Texas so they can send them milk and cookies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/