Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

The issue is that McCarthy isn’t a true believer in anything except his own power. So even though he’s made all of these concessions, there’s no way to trust that he’ll actually follow through on these whackadoodle plans. #thevotethatneverends

Fine. I'll be House Speaker.

Ok this storm, a bomb cyclone x atmospheric river, has officially been called #piñacollider.
Too bad I'm doing dry January because
1. it's very wet outside
2. this would be a good time for a piña colada

Seems like the predicted big problems at #Twitter are materializing.

"The number of users in the leak is huge. Moreover, user emails are connected to their Twitter handles and names. Now available to any threat actor, this information will potentially lead to social engineering attacks and doxxing"

https://cybernews.com/news/235-million-twitter-user-data-leak/

#TwitterMigration

The world's oldest tree is a Great Basin bristlecone pine, growing in the Inyo National Forest in California. It is 4854 years old.

This tree germinated while the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt was flourishing, and predates most of written human history. It's older than the Olmec civilisation, older than the first Chinese writing, older than Stonehenge. By the time Sappho was writing her poems, it was already ancient.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

I have an important follow-up on my #introduction.

I'm JEWISH, not JEW-ISH

Now, y'all can BOOST this post with the new information as well... 🤪

Semafor said today that "a critical mass of conservatives do not trust McCarthy to lead them..."

Conservatives. Is that what they are?

John Boehner's description of the same crowd in his memoir:

"What they're really interested in is chaos... They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails."

Are the sowers of chaos properly called "conservatives?"

Is MAGA conservative?

Why do #journalists with a commitment to accuracy maintain this fiction?

#uspolitics

Let me put a phrase into your mind: nonconsensual virality. It's why quote-posts on Twitter led to harassment. People's words stolen, taken out of context, used purely to incite a mob of griefers. The answer is to give #Mastodon users control over whether someone else can quote-post them, with a simple setting. We should be allowed to stop people from taking our posts viral without our consent.