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It’s jokes until it’s not.
Welp looking forward to Post-America

"SNL rooting for Kamala, pollsters geeking out because of a stunning Iowa poll, the uncomplicated delight of envisioning Trump under house arrest at Mar-a-Lago with an ankle monitor that ruins his golf swing.

[People] yearn for the escape to a permanent mental vacation… 'Libbing out' is giving in to your 2016, or pre-2016, sensibility of Democratic normality." https://www.usermag.co/p/permission-to-lib-out

'Libbing out' is the latest irony-fueled coping mechanism

+ A new gossip blog/lit mag, Utah hair, bomb threats over P’nut, and who gets the TikTok in a divorce?

User Mag

You do not need a billionaire or a VC fund to use social media.

They are just middlemen opportunists trying to insert themselves between you and your friends.

The Internet was built to make it easy for you to connect with others, and that is getting easier with protocols like ActivityPub.

You don’t need Elon Musk. You don’t need Mark Zuckerberg. You certainly don’t need any Silicon Valley tech bro to let you use social media.

I see another influx to Mastodon in our future...
If this goes how I expect it to go, get ready for another big surge in Mastodon's popularity.

It's amazing how much you can learn about risks to the future of the internet by just watching attacks on sex workers and their livelihoods.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x9mb/spankpay-sex-work-payment-platform-shuts-down

Sex Worker-Led Payment Platform Shuts Down After Being Cut Off by Processor

Crypto payment processor SpankPay announced on Monday that it would shut down because of financial discrimination.

@TexasObserver @texastribune Any man who finds out his partner chose to not have a child with him will be able to file multiple lawsuits to get his revenge.

Exactly what pro-choice advocates predicted would happen.

#ThisIsNOTJustice

Chad Loder’s suspension looks like it was the canary in the coal mine. #twitterexodus
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