David Samuel Auer

@DavidSamuelAuer@ohai.social
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I am a person-type person who does person-type things. Any pronouns will do. I play #HashtagGames.

Avatar: White-bearded, dark mustached smiling person's face with thin-rimmed glasses. Background sunlight emanating from the left.

HashtaggerHashtag Games
PoliticsFar Left
CompassionFan of
CivilityFan of

EIon Musk’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $249B

Jeff Bezos’s Wealth
2009: $6B
2023: $153B

Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2009: $.6B
2023: $105B

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
Worker tax rate: 13%

Pay workers.
Tax Billionaires.
Save our economy.

Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂
MAGA Trumpers are now doxxing prosecutors and staff involved in the Trump classified documents case, leading to harassment and threats.
They must be stopped. Our democracy cannot be held hostage by stochastic terrorism.

Edited to update: BlackQueerLife instance now has a properly-set-up channel for receiving money contributions. If you wanted the Fediverse to be more welcoming to Black people, it's one practical way to help :-)
https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife

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New instance for Black queer people:

"My intention for BlackQueerLife is that when Black queers are searching for a place in the fediverse to call home, we are accessible to them."
- @tillshadeisgone

https://blackqueer.life/about

#Black #queer #fediverse

BlackQueerLife - Open Collective

Hosts and manages a Mastodon instance

Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling?

Here is First Dog on the Moon’s handy guide to the dystopian social network you should be on

The Guardian

This is a warning about Meta and Threads.

Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.

I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.

#abortionrights #pregnant #threads

#FictionalCharactersLifeAdviceToANewGraduate
#HashtagGames

If a superhero causes you to go bald saving your life, seek revenge at all costs.

This is the secret to my financial and political success beyond all imagining.

@SAPhillips I still am not very active on Mastodon, but nice to have another friend here. I figure pretty soon *EDIT* Elon *EDIT* will get tired of me criticising him and I'll be out on my ear.
This is the graph everyone needs to see for International Workers' Day.