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Am I the only one who has a moment of panic when an app suddenly requires a new login for no apparent reason?

Am I the only one who has a moment of panic when an app suddenly requires a new login for no apparent reason?

Who's using Pixelfed?

Who's using Pixelfed?

Sending off a little nastygram to John Fetterman reminding him that his own wife could've been detained and deported over an unfounded...

Sending off a little nastygram to John Fetterman reminding him that his own wife could've been detained and deported over an unfounded suspicion if the Laken Riley Act had been law before she got documented.

It won't matter but I like reminding him that his slouch rightward impacts real people.

I would pay good money to never have to see the words "beef tallow" ever again.

I would pay good money to never have to see the words "beef tallow" ever again.

2022 me, responding to the Senate losses of Charles Booker in KY, Krystle Matthews in SC, Val Demings in FL, Trudy Busch Valentine in MO,...

2022 me, responding to the Senate losses of Charles Booker in KY, Krystle Matthews in SC, Val Demings in FL, Trudy Busch Valentine in MO, Cheri Beasley in NC, and Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial loss in Georgia, was prescient, and remains correct.

As the mainstream media pundit class tries desperately to convince us that the Trump victory was because of Democratic embrace of identity...

As the mainstream media pundit class tries desperately to convince us that the Trump victory was because of Democratic embrace of identity politics around inclusivity and trans rights, we need to grapple with punditry as equally potent a force of mis/disinformation for self-assigned savvy voters as populist social media nonsense and nefarious doings in Moldovan server farms have been for low-information/highly propagandized voters.

Please be sure that your #MutualAid includes the Ko-Fi, Patreon & Substacks of marginalized people who rely on subscription money to...

Please be sure that your #MutualAid includes the Ko-Fi, Patreon & Substacks of marginalized people who rely on subscription money to stay alive. #OrganizingForSurvival

I saw three kids exit the public library, two girls, maybe 10 or 11 years old, and a somewhat older boy. One girl went in the opposite...

I saw three kids exit the public library, two girls, maybe 10 or 11 years old, and a somewhat older boy. One girl went in the opposite direction of the girl and boy, and she called over her shoulder “bye, skibidi sigma, see you tomorrow! Bye skibidi sigma’s brother!”

I thought that this language was all an elaborate joke, and the kids were not actually saying these things except in jest, but apparently I was wrong.

A completely true sentence I just said out loud: “I just booped Cory Doctorow.”Life is weird. Happy Halloween.

A completely true sentence I just said out loud: “I just booped Cory Doctorow.”

Life is weird. Happy Halloween.

Having just heard a litany of white people, turning themselves into pretzels, acrobats, crabs, in the way they will bend over backwards and...

Having just heard a litany of white people, turning themselves into pretzels, acrobats, crabs, in the way they will bend over backwards and contort themselves to excuse the vile racism at the Madison Square Garden Nazi rally, there is no question about this. Whiteness will always protect whiteness, and whiteness will always provide blinders that prevents the truth from being seen.
From: @lovelylovely
https://masto.ai/@lovelylovely/113392378205455001

For context, on Friday in Georgia, Trump said outright that he has been talking to Netanyahu “almost daily” undermining the US led...

For context, on Friday in Georgia, Trump said outright that he has been talking to Netanyahu “almost daily” undermining the US led ceasefire negotiations.

And it recently came out that Elon Musk has been talking about public policy regularly with Vladimir Putin.

This should matter to somebody.

Wouldn’t it be a wild and lovely thing if somebody thought about enforcing the Logan Act at any point now?

Wouldn’t it be a wild and lovely thing if somebody thought about enforcing the Logan Act at any point now?

I just heard someone describe Stitch, as in “Lilo and” as an “intergalactic bunny.” And while this is not particularly accurate, it...

I just heard someone describe Stitch, as in “Lilo and” as an “intergalactic bunny.” And while this is not particularly accurate, it is, I think the funniest way to describe Stitch.

How would you describe Stitch?

The best email of the day. (Yes I’m just looking at emails from Monday. It’s been a migraine week.)

The best email of the day. (Yes I’m just looking at emails from Monday. It’s been a migraine week.)

To dystopia up our dystopia, a little dystopia squared if you will, Amazon is running ads to proclaim that the unskippable ads they have...

To dystopia up our dystopia, a little dystopia squared if you will, Amazon is running ads to proclaim that the unskippable ads they have added to their Prime media streaming are a good, innovative, and exciting thing.

The ads touting the benefits of the unskippable ads are, themselves, entirely skippable.

You can’t make any of it make sense.

Mitch McConnell enabled Trump every step of the way, refusing to convict him in impeachment — twice – creating and then immediately...

Mitch McConnell enabled Trump every step of the way, refusing to convict him in impeachment — twice – creating and then immediately disregarding a rule to help him pack the same court that is blocking the effort to hold him accountable for his crimes. Nothing he has to say about Trump, short of an apology to the American people and an endorsement of Kamala Harris, is worthwhile. He is complicit In every Trump crime.

From: @Bellison22
https://mastodon.social/@Bellison22/113345464163346565

There is something to unpack about how we have commodified a lot of the things that we used to do for one another out of kindness or...

There is something to unpack about how we have commodified a lot of the things that we used to do for one another out of kindness or religious imperative or familial responsibility or just love and care.

But whatever discussions we might have about dissolved networks of care and how that links to the “everyone is lonely” phenomenon and how we rebuild human connection, I just want all of my neighbors to be able to get their groceries, and that’s a problem I can’t solve.

It’s like we rolled the clock back a decade, to before the gig economy opened new doors for people like us: disabled, senior citizens,...

It’s like we rolled the clock back a decade, to before the gig economy opened new doors for people like us: disabled, senior citizens, people without their own vehicles, moms with too many small kids to take to the store on the bus. But now, none of us have the network of friends or family who will step in and help, because people have stopped thinking about extending shopping or ride assistance to folks because we can pay for that now. No one has to volunteer to take Aunt Mary to the doctor.

If everything we possibly needed could come via USPS or Amazon, we’d be set. They are showing up despite the closure. (The level of “no...

If everything we possibly needed could come via USPS or Amazon, we’d be set. They are showing up despite the closure. (The level of “no damns to give” of Amazon drivers would be admirable if it weren’t driven by performance metrics and fear.)

But USPS and Amazon don’t run the world so we’re kinda screwed.

For another 19 months.

If the city offered to buy us out, with a fair market +25% + costs offer, we’d start packing tomorrow. (It’s a city construction project. They did this to us.)

City officials say they have no answers. They didn’t tell anyone the street is closed. And technically, even if they did, and could issue...

City officials say they have no answers. They didn’t tell anyone the street is closed.

And technically, even if they did, and could issue a new statement to update the situation, it’s still officially designated a one-way street, so the partial closure will still hamstring anyone relying solely on GPS to navigate here because it won’t allow someone to drive the wrong way, and it’s inevitable, either coming or going.