George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Dec 9, 2022

One of Trump’s buddies in the House said the quiet part out loud and tweeted his support for Trump’s call to “terminate” the Constitution.

Well, someone must’ve gotten to him because he deleted the tweet but not before Liz Cheney could screenshot it and troll Rep. Kevin McCarthy with it.

Well played, indeed. 👏

https://www.comicsands.com/cheney-gosar-tweet-trump-mccarthy-2658899334.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Pro-Trump Rep. Deletes Tweet Supporting Trump's Constitution 'Termination'–But Liz Cheney Won't Let GOP Forget It

Well played. 👏🏼

Comic Sands
Show threadMatt StewartDec 9, 2022
@georgetakei
Thanks for posting this, I didn't see this supremely awesome post by Cheney before now.
Can you put cw on it next time tho? Let folks choose if they want to see politics here or not. I heard it's the polite way to respect others on this platform, and I agree.
Show threadThe Evil Microwizard
@jackscerebellum @georgetakei Mr Takei is political and always has been. Why are you following him?
Dec 9, 2022 at 1:25amWeb
Show threadMatt StewartDec 9, 2022
@evilmicrowizard @georgetakei
I've followed him for years because I enjoy hearing what he has to say.
I understand that here on this platform it's common and polite to cw politics, and I was just letting George know.
Show threadThe Evil MicrowizardDec 9, 2022
@jackscerebellum @georgetakei Perhaps on some servers? I haven't seen it happen even once, either locally or federated.
Show threadMatt StewartDec 9, 2022

@evilmicrowizard it's not an instance or mod construct, it's core to Mastodon culture. It's one of the best features of Mastodon over Twitter.
You can Choose what you feel like seeing that day, as opposed to some algorithm pushing stuff at you.

From the mastodon onboarding guide:

One of the best features on Mastodon is that button that says “CW” where you write your toots. Clicking that adds a content warning field where you can put information about what the toot contains (eg. mental health, politics, lewd talk, nudity) so that people don’t have to see content they wish to avoid, for whatever reason. Of course, it’s also great for show or book spoilers.

A common convention is to put +, -, or ~ in a content warning to signify if the contents are broadly positive, negative, or mixed respectively.

My advice is simple: if you’re not sure whether a toot needs a CW or not, give it a CW. People really appreciate it and it doesn’t do any harm to be too cautious and too respectful of others.

Show threadMatt StewartDec 9, 2022
@evilmicrowizard and I see it constantly wherever there is politics. Both my home and local feeds. I don't check federated much unless I've run out of things to see in the first two. ​
Show threadThe Evil MicrowizardDec 10, 2022
@jackscerebellum Sounds like a curation thing for you. I did searches for "cw" and "politics" on both my local and federated feeds and found not a single use that way.
Show threadMatt StewartDec 11, 2022

@evilmicrowizard
Im pretty sure it doesn't work that way.
I don't know of a way to search for posts that have content warnings.

A content warning, or "cw", just means that the post was marked sensitive or has a #cw applied. It show up as a quick excerpt with a "show more" button on the feed. That's it. If you want to read it, you hit the button.

It puts the choice to read a controversial or triggering topic in the power of the reader. It's actually refreshing and way different from the bird site horror show.

A neutral example: if I were to write a post about the movie "Prey", and my post contained spoilers, I would write the post, hit the cw button, enter the excerpt "Movie:Prey spoilers" or something like that.