*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo

Unequal opportunities, to start with. The old boys club is mostly male, and they control a lot of things.

Progressives, minorities, etc, low chance to get in.

@IntegralDuChemin

@rw @pluralistic Yes, that's Cory, but it's different content -- kind of a digest of the topics he posted elsewhere, it seems.

He runs and posts for Boing-Boing as well. Does it on Twitter, but here there's a bot importing it : @boingboing

@freemo

It's specially comforting when you get tired of how many males are such jerks. And the politicians, control is with males in most cases.

@IntegralDuChemin

@freemo
Agreed - I have a lot of female pen pals, specifically because I felt the need to listen (read) the female view point and reasoning, prose. I have enjoyed it a lot.

@IntegralDuChemin

@hansw@mastodon.social Those filters work really well, I used them at other instances and even taught the locals how to; there were some bad crossposter abusers there, OMG.

@freemo Wait, is it a connect the word kind of page??

Annabel ---- Tities ? 🙊

@arteteco Nooo peeking!

@freemo
And when pigeons are all out, smoke signals!

@arteteco

@hansw@mastodon.social @freemo I remember when school desks that had been there for decades still had the inkwell cutouts. Used fountain pens to start writing (pencil first, maybe, it's been a long time)

Ball points made things much easier, although there's pleasure in the flow of a fountain pen, if the person enjoyes it and spends the time to learn. Been a long time since I last used one.

@carl
And in a way, the ones who never bothered to vote either.

Turn out is unreally low, in most other countries an election with that level of participation would be reported internationally as "suspicious".

And then. Electoral College.

The USA has been stuck in some political timewarps, it's past time for some major revisions. Two party system represents 330 million citizens?

Corporations are legally Citizens and can fund political campaigns?

Rest of the World watches in disbelief. Sadly, the result impacts the whole planet. Hope they get it right this time.

@IntegralDuChemin

@resynth1943@banana.dog

Stack Overflow... 😎

@freemo @IntegralDuChemin

@freemo
All is cool then. No worries and the typing wasn't lost either.

That lady I mentioned and posted a snapshot, is a local user too. 😛

Not very active, but I invited, she came.

@IntegralDuChemin

@freemo

loll... it's ok, copy paste in the other thread?

@IntegralDuChemin

@freemo

Plus, besides being a Geek Goddess, she has Cats too. ❤️

@IntegralDuChemin

@freemo ?

I think you switched the band frequency on us, wrong channel?

[we were not talking pens, were we?]
@IntegralDuChemin

@IntegralDuChemin Great story, thanks for telling it.

I love writing and telling stories, and am into letter writing; exchange lots with pen pals all over the world.

Pickle and Nancy, two Tuxie Girls, so pretty, charming. Love the #DarkCats.

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #xp
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RT @PickleAndNancy
Have a wonderful #Caturday furpals, love Pickle and Nancy! 😸❤️🌺
https://twitter.com/PickleAndNancy/status/1261535725406871554

@IntegralDuChemin I would have to look at your profile and see if I could identify it again, it's been some time past now.

@IntegralDuChemin
Ah, I see -- you never left clues either way, but I thought I had seen a snippet somewhere, that made me think male at that point.

@freemo

@freemo
Yes, me too -- and I got along well with her, although we never got close geographically.

She's in the Prairies area.

@IntegralDuChemin