@emilyfern @StillIRise1963 @Lowie@universeodon.com I was never on twitter either, and I'm mostly gone from FB, but I have a small business with a page there, so I can't really completely abandon it.
Honestly, the social media site I spend the most time at is Youtube. If you go there often, you learn how to avoid the videos with the toxic comment threads and find the good ones. Just ignore what the algorithm tells you to watch and find your jam. And don't feed the trolls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goJ5kjcXJ4g
@Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Reminds me of one of my favorite songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG-GbgKA19I
@sharongascoigne Phototshop!!!
Just kidding, that's a really cool shot.
I've never posted any of my husband's telephoto #moon shots on Mastodon before. They're very popular in our shop and on our Facebook page. On Twitter I have to brace myself for the shouts of Photoshop from people who know zero about photography.
This is #StCatherinesOratory on the #IsleofWight a medieval lighthouse. This shot is achieved by working out when the moon will rise here (rarely) and standing a couple of miles away with a #telephotolens. The weather has to be kind. #photography
@futurebird If the reptile heat pad doesn't work out for you, they have a similar pad for keeping the roots of seedlings warm. It might be a little more gentle, I don't know.
Why #KCRW is leaving #Twitter — and where else to find us | KCRW #NPR
Twitter has falsely labeled NPR as “state-affiliated media.” It’s a term the platform applies to propaganda outlets in countries without a free press, a guaranteed right in the United States.
This is an attack on independent journalism, the very principle that defines public media. Twitter has since doubled down on the label, which is outrageous and further undermines the credibility of the platform.
https://www.kcrw.com/news/articles/npr-twitter-state-affiliated-media
@kyra_davis I was never on Twitter, but I left Facebook a while ago. It's kind of like smoking; the longer you are away from it, the easier it gets. Yesterday I had to check somethign at Facebook, because sometimes you just have to, but I've been gone so long that I wasn't even tempted to stay and look around. I did what I had to do and left. By all accounts, Mastodon isn't a direct replacement for twitter, it's its own thing, but unless we sink into open civil war, Twitter will die and be replaced by something better. And hopefully it will sink Musk with it.
The nearest grocery store to me has 6 charging stations.
I'm pleased to see how much use they get.
And even more pleased to see that, by far, most of the cars being charged did not put money in Elon's pocket.
https://bird.makeup/users/crampell/statuses/1645236557161398277
@rvawonk We've always had lots of guns and as a result lots of gun violence, but to increase so dramatically like that tells me that there is an additional factor in play here. I believe that that factor can only be Stochastic Terrorism incited by the Right-wing Hate Media. To me, this seems like the most urgent thing we should be focussing our attention on, and perhaps gun control can stay on the back burner until we solve the fascism problem.
@wdlindsy @jackiegardina Tied at the hip maybe, but it's a loose knot. Any allegiance they have is tenuous, and now that they have what they were working towards, there is no incentive left to keep them from together.
Make a fake account pretending to be a fan of some far-right hack, and say something along the lines of "boy I sure am glad that president Trump gave us so many Catholics on the Supreme Court. I can' t wait until the whole country is Catholic."
Maybe that sounds over the top, but I bet it would work.
Time to take off the gloves
@wdlindsy @jackiegardina One thing that we ion the ground can do is to sow dissention between the Catholics and the Evangelicals. They only tolerate each other to get their precious abortion ban, but they have a long history of animosity that we can exploit if we play our carsds right. Drive a wedge! Taking the high road hasn't worked and won't work. FIGHT DIRTY!
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