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Pissed off progressive who votes, owns a pitchfork and isn't gardening this year.. Jai Ma, motherfuckers.
Joined Nov 2022
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Quick reminder re #BlackFriday savings … best way to save money is NOT BUY ANYTHING YOU DON’T NEED 😉
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Supreme Corruption
👀 "To remain as close to the court as possible, Mr. Schenck purchased a building across the street and began working the court’s employees.... [H]e visited Scalia and Thomas in chambers, where he shaped his prayers as political messaging, using phrases like “the sanctity of human life” to plea for an end to abortion. (Peggy Nienaber, who worked with Mr. Schenck, was recently recorded saying that the group had prayed with justices at the court.)"
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USA: Jobs are temporary gigs, held only subject to market conditions, Fed policy, the whim of your boss, or the whim of your company’s billionaire owner. You aren’t entitled to even a sliver of job security.
Also USA: Lose your job and you get no medical care.
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The "Verified By Walt" List
@DoctorDNS @WalterShaub @NatlSecCnslrs @miblogestublog @LeahLitman @leahmcelrath @laseletzky @marcelias @marcidale @emptywheel @markhertling @MattGertz @maxkennerly @michelle @mikemadrid @Mimirocah1 @mirandayaver @molliekatzen @mollyjongfast @MollyMcKew @NellSco @schwellenbach @GottaLaff @noahshachtman @normornstein @owillis @pkrugman @pogowatchdog @qjurecic @TheRaDR @rabbijill @randimayemsinger @rjgianfortune @samueloakford @sarahposner @scottmstedman @shannonrwatts
https://journa.host/@scottmstedman/109363873191080451
Get back to me when I can open my email app and scroll through the complete contents of each email on a single page without having to click into or expand anything. And keep each email to around 500 characters, with a link to further information should it be required.
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US pol, Hunter Biden conspiracy theories
What that Report Purportedly Authenticating the "Hunter Biden" "Laptop" Really Said
What the analysis of @matthew_d_green and Jake Williams showed.
#USPol
Figured out that if I view this site in a browser, as opposed to the Android app, I'm not stuck with the annoying CW cut tags. It was getting pretty redundant to log in and see only a page full of those. I'll probably delete the app; this is much easier to use.
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"But then why do people do the dirty work at all?..."
"Because they are done together.... And other reasons. You know, life on Anarres isn't rich, as it is here. In the little communities there isn't very much entertainment, and there is a lot of work to be done. So, if you work at a mechanical loom mostly, every tenthday it's pleasant to go outside and lay a pipe or plow a field, with a different group of people. ... And then there is challenge. Here you think that the incentive to work is finances, need for money or desire for profit, but where there's no money the real motives are clearer, maybe. People like to do things. They like to do them well. People take the dangerous, hard jobs because they take pride in doing them, they can egoize, we call it-show off?-to the weaker ones. Hey, look, little boys, see how strong I am! You know? A person likes to do what he is good at doing...."
Since we can't RT the way we've been used to, trying an embed. Her thread is a good encapsulation of why I am also still on the bird app. She and others in the reply speak of it in the past tense, but it's not gone yet. I just hope that something evolves that will provide us with the same sort of public square experience.
Already over having to click to expand CW on the majority of posts (cause yes, the people I follow post about the 'P' word). And unfortunately the expand setting doesn't apply to the app, which is 98% of how I use this. I hear there are better ones out there; open to suggestions (Android only pls!)
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LOLitics
Kari Lake losing would be amazing for American democracy and terrible for Tudor Dixon, who really wanted that Fox News job.
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It just occurred to me that across the 4,000 #Mastodon servers each with their #MastoAdmin plus their moderator teams... we have more content moderators tracking reports and complaints than Twitter does.
For the folks who keep asking about how we're going to scale, we're on it.
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🔵 By the Tainted Talons of Trump, dare you enter... THE MURDOCHVERSE OF MADNESS?!?!
Dwell in a Universe of your own choosing, where only facts you prefer exist!
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Read this week's Tom the Dancing Bug RIGHT HERE👇
TIL you can't just log in to Mastodon, you have to log in to your Mastodon *server*. That seems a bit counter-intuitive, especially since it's been so widely touted that the server doesn't really matter.
One thing about this app, I can actually stay pretty current with it each time I check in.
Of course I'm only following a fraction of those I follow on the bird app - and I capped that amount a long time ago.
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I often think of that Obama (yes, yes, I know) Nobel speech where he talked about his theory on how things get better.
“Let us focus,” he said, “on a more practical, more attainable peace, based not on a sudden revolution in human nature but on a gradual evolution in human institutions.”
People change slowly, but their behavior can be shaped by the institutions and systems in which they operate. Improve the institutions, and you make it more likely that the agregate of human behavior will improve, too.
For technologists, myself included, it is often tempting to think of making things better by improving the software. With social media, this looks like reducing the likelihood of virality, adding "friction" to certain behaviors.
There is a limit, however, to the impact of these sorts of decisions. All the design in the world won't prevent people from being awful to each other.
The evolution of institutions must be matched with an improvement of ourselves, to make a better world.
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Just a reminder that Senator Warnock should already be re-elected.
Georgia's runoff system is a Jim Crow artifact meant to keep Black Georgians from picking their own representatives.
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Women remember that one time 8 years ago when you kinda sorta implied she didn't look good in those jeans.
Did you really think we'd forget you overturned Roe?
Pissed off progressive who votes, owns a pitchfork and isn't gardening this year.. Jai Ma, motherfuckers.
Joined Nov 2022
