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🇪🇺Iconic anti-war poster, originally by Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #WomensArt
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Jason LefkowitzNobody tells you "resistance is futile" unless they are desperately trying to talk you out of resisting
Ham on WryWhat to expect from Trump’s #SOTU tonight:
Lie, lie, con, blatant lie, indiscernible ramble, wheeze, blame, blame, blame, name calling, more indiscernible rambling, attack on the press, inability to sound out a big word on teleprompter … bragging about how no-one else knows more etc etc etc.
#trump #StateOfTheUnion #republicans #news #worldnews #laughingstock #MAGA #politics
myrmepropagandistWhat makes this worse is restaurants who can't tell you their ingredients lists. I just give up and get the most basic foods.
Then there are the things that no one believes: like the "shelled peanut problem"
I can eat peanuts, love them! but not if they have been shelled in a "facility" because whatever they do it gets some kind of other nut dust on them and down i go! Toss me the epipen it's gonna be a long night.
Allergies are so odd. Obscure but serious ones are annoying.
👩🦯The Blind FraggleI hate asking like this, but I'm testing out sounds, right now it's for notifications, and you can help me by liking and boosting this toot. Thanks!
AJ SadauskasRecently, there was a question by @taylorlorenz about how you explain the Fediverse to someone who doesn't use it.
And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.
I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.
But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.
Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.
Which is increasingly a rare thing online.
Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.
What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.
And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub
And usually, what we tend to do is we talk about servers and decentralisation and federation and ActivityPub and all these highly technical concepts.
I've been thinking about it, and all that technical stuff is really impressive work by people far more clever than I'll ever be.
But for me, that technology is a facilitating thing. It's like trying to describe how a bicycle works, rather than why you ride it.
Instead, what the Fediverse is, is a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way.
Which is increasingly a rare thing online.
Almost the entirety of the internet, from SEO on the web to YouTube to TikTok to Spotify to Instagram and X and Facebook, has been turned into a race to game an algorithm designed to sell ads.
What makes the Fedi unique is that it's not that.
And I suspect if you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or GtS, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining it as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a decentralised protocol.
#Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub
Zeke HausfatherThe scientific understanding of human-driven climate change is much stronger today than it was in 2009 when the EPA first issued the endangerment finding. There is no scientific basis for the Trump administration's decision to repeal it https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/29239/chapter/1#ii
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Heidi Li FeldmanGood for the Democratic Senators - except of course Fetterman. Senate Democrats block homeland security funding bill as department shutdown looms – live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/12/trump-tariffs-canada-republicans-democrats-ice-bovino-pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-698e288e8f08daf11acecac7#block-698e288e8f08daf11acecac7
