I took some time to think about the Ronna McDaniel hiring and firing.

The result is that I have written another blog post that has me going against the current.

https://terikanefield.com/the-ronna-mcdaniel-story/

If you get the error message, wait a minute and try again. It's Mastodon's fault! This doesn't happen with any other platforms.

Some news: I may be back in Nevada doing voter protection work with the Nevada Democrats after several cycles in Georgia. A little closer to home.

The Ronna McDaniel Story - Teri Kanefield

The announcement that NBC / MSNBC hired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor prompted an “open revolt” by MSNBC “stars,” who went directly to their TV and social media audiences to denounce the hiring because (among other things) McDaniel supported Trump’s lie that the election was stolen. In response to the revolt, the network executives […]

Teri Kanefield
@Teri_Kanefield Thanks for all your posts. I find you very informative and interesting. I saw again you mentioned the 500 error your blog gets when you post to mastodon and found in a different post somthing that might be helpful? https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112186000767358271 Looks like he caches that with cloudflare in a later reply.
Simon Willison (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Huh... it looks like it's the Mastodon effect, where sending out a link causes thousands of Mastodon servers to all hit /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:[email protected] at the same time - but I've survived these storms just fine in the past, not sure why it's hurting the site today

Mastodon
@jimmynash I'm pretty sure we tried that and it didn't work !!