Dominique Roller
Matthew Haugheywelp
Luis Villa@mathowie hell of a way to find out
Amye Scavarda Perrin
Cassandra@mathowie haha wow didn't even take a whole year
jwz@mathowie "Then they came for the milquetoasts"
Jeff Atwood
@jwz @mathowie also this is fun https://amyhoy.com/the-origin-of-the-ha-ha-meme-guy-in-a-series-of-tweets/ from @amy
The origin of the "Ha! Ha!" meme guy, a research journey
Originally a thread on Twitter, archived here for posterity, plus an expert weighs in at the bottom! Nov 22, 2018 — 6:17pm somebody buy this antique(?) copy(?) of the original oil painting(?) that inspired the HA! HA! meme guy so i don’t have to plz [expired ebay link] 6:
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦
ⰎⰅ ⰀⰍⰨⰒⰎⰫ@mathowie what makes him a canary, rather than anyone else?
MexicanYenta@mathowie I just posted pretty much the exact same thing. (But I did it today, not in 2024.)
qurlyjoe@mathowie
Shit. What did I miss?
Shit. What did I miss?
James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺
catatonicprime
contrasocial
Grassroots Joe
Whine Spectator
Miakoda 
@mathowie Uh, the canaries were the trans people and our immigrants. Even capitalists wanting as close to slaves as they could get didn't protect the immigrants.
Morgan ⚧️@hellomiakoda @mathowie capitalists who want slaves are exactly the people behind what's happening to immigrants right now. For the most part, they're not killing them (on purpose). The only thing better to an evil person who wants slaves than an oppressed worker who has few choices and can't do shit about illegal work conditions or sub minimum wage, is an oppressed worker who can't leave and is legal to pay sub minimum wage. That's what prisons have been for this whole time
Jay Thurber Show
Mike Mayak@mathowie Time for revolution!!!
Courtney (moved to dads.cool)@mathowie were the concentration camps and ICE not full blown enough for you
Alex von Kitchen@courtney I wrote the toot a day after the election when he immediately went after Kimmel which seemed so petty and thin skinned and odd, none of the other stuff happened yet
@mathowie I initially wrote a different reply here but honestly it was me being fact-check-y and a dick and the world doesn't need more of that. ✨️☀️💛🙏
gary@mathowie just ignore the entire shit show - it is all just rubbish and your mental health will thank you for just taking the hall pass
Except that leaves my physical wellbeing at grave risk.
Putting my head in the sand only to end up in a concentration camp would be quite bad.
And the likelihood of that happening just increased a lot - https://mstdn.social/@joeinwynnewood/115224792940620079
Grassroots Joe (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] “It could also allow federal law enforcement to broadly target anyone involved in protests viewed unfavorably by the Trump administration, even retroactively.” Fascism, pure and simple.
As far as they like in terms of a reason to sic the FBI on you looking for any pretense for DOJ to issue charges, pick you up and put you in jail until you can get bailed out and then have to spend $1000s on attorney's fees.
And that's if they don’t ship you off to a foreign gulag b4 your lawyer shows up.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
Matt May@mathowie A lonely nation turns its eyes to John Oliver
chebra
crypticcelery 🔙 EH23
Jeff Zugale - Z Factory
Ratboy (reformed dino pirate)@mathowie less than 12 months. 😔
mastodonphan HAS MOVED
Robert J. Berger@mathowie So its clear that its time to cancel Disney / Hulu / ESPN streaming and boycott ABC
Evan Prodromou@mathowie please stop predicting things
schamspeare@mathowie I have scoured the net for "offensive" remarks by him related to the shooting and found none. Only straightforward, honest comments, i.e. that MAGA influencers and leaders are trying to use the murder to score political points. No lies detected.
But you know how sensitive MAGA is when the wrong people's speech is free.
Dusk2025You could have stopped at "...you know how sensitive MAGA is." and still been spot on.
Heliograph@mathowie oh wow not even 12 months it took 😬
levampyre@mathowie You already hit full blown fascism. And your mine is spreading globally.
Dave Shea@mathowie I'll see you a Jimmy and raise you a Jerry https://apnews.com/article/ben-jerrys-greenfield-cohen-unilever-9ed945056cd243ca459d130d9933ee62
Why Jerry Greenfield is leaving Ben & Jerry's after 47 years
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying the freedom the company used to have to speak up on social issues has been stifled by corporate parent Unilever. Co-founder Ben Cohen posted Greenfield's letter on social media platform X on Greenfield’s behalf. Greenfield said that he felt the independence the brand had to speak on social issues and events was lost to Unilever.
jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷWow, you didn't get the point @mathowie .
Your canary is a parrot, and I hate to bring it to you:
Monty Python - Dead Parrot
from Monty Python's Flying CircusSeason 1 - Episode 08 Full Frontal NudityRecorded 25-11-69, Aired 07-12-69The world famous Dead Parrot sketch, here, in it'...
U.Lancier@mathowie the US have hit „full blown fascism “ in March 2025. At the moment its citizens simply learn to recognize how much of their rights and means to act on them were lost then. People in the US will realize it finally when they can't vote nor candidate freely at the next election.
Martijn Tonies ✅ 🧷@mathowie Is MSNBC the last bastion of free speech and government critique?
Murenius
tyil@mathowie You... screencap yourself? 🤔
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ@tyil @mathowie I guess he'd quote tooted if the function was enabled on his instance, but it's hella real and less than a year old: https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/113435015190603325
Matthew Haughey (@[email protected])
I hate to say it but our canary is now Jimmy Kimmel. If anything happens to him in the next four years, we’ve hit full blown fascism and need to leave the mine immediately
@Mabande @mathowie Just seems a little sad to have to quote yourself and make the content less accessible at the same time 😕
Fun fact, pretty much all #Fediverse software other than #Mastodon have been able to quote post for years 😉 But there's other options that don't turn very accessible text into less accessible imagery, such as boosting/retooting, or just copy-pasting it into a new toot.
Fun fact, pretty much all #Fediverse software other than #Mastodon have been able to quote post for years 😉 But there's other options that don't turn very accessible text into less accessible imagery, such as boosting/retooting, or just copy-pasting it into a new toot.