Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

If a #strike causes major disruption, that's not the fault of #labor.

Don't blame the #workers who want to have sick days during a #pandemic -- blame the #capitalists who decide that slightly more obscene profit is more important than the lives and livelihoods of our #EssentialWorkers . Blame the #RobberBarons who are willing to risk all of us in a radically unequal game of chicken.

This isn't on #labor. Support the #RailStrike and the #unions .

One odd festive fluffball every day until #Christmas

What more could you want?

#FluffyAdvent #silly #festive #creature #picture

which one is better?

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I have an #economics question. If people buy cryptocurrency with real money, and that cryptocurrency collapses, does that ease inflation?

I thought I'd introduce myself, since I'm new to this platform.

I'm Paolo Viscardi, senior curator at the Dead Zoo in Dublin. Mostly I talk about #museums #science #biodiversity and general #naturalhistory.

I'm happy to help with identification of #bones - particularly #skulls, and I run a weekly mystery object blog using museum specimens and found natural objects: https://paoloviscardi.com

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample for the results to be predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boots but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

Over on #MetaFilter, I am a member of the MeFi Global BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Advisory Board. We just posted a summary of our mandate, perspective, activities, scope, plans, etc.

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/26210/What-The-MeFi-BIPOC-Board-Does

Please reshare this with people who used to be #MeFites, especially those who left because behavior on the site kept making them feel unwelcome.

#MeFite

You might have seen somebody using the proverb Vox Populi, Vox Dei. What was missing was the context in which it was used:

Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

In case you do not speak Latin, it means in English:

And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

Good morning! A post just rolled across my fedi-timeline saying not to post about politics on Mastodon, so I'm here to remind you that:

1 "politics" refers to decision-making about how to live together in groups
2 choosing to not participate in political discussion is saying you support the status quo, and is a political stance
3 abstaining from politics because you feel safe from its impacts is a privilege and a choice to abandon your more vulnerable neighbours

If you're mad about what a billionaire is doing to destroy Twitter, wait until you hear what billionaires are doing to destroy the planet.

Mt. Rainier casting a shadow upwards across the sky.