Richard Luciano

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And to be ultra clear, when I say #Mastodon or Mastodon world, I'm talking about the Mastodon organization.

The #Fediverse and the people on #Mastodon instances are amazingly great people. The org Mastodon is deep in #SystemicRacism #WhiteSupremacy

The org could easily go oops our bad, sorry and fix it pronto before it goes to the next level. But they won't even answer an email. They are a social media organization and they ignore hundreds and hundreds of boosts.
#Native #Indigenous #BIPOC

When did you stop posting on X?

Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.

Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.

Government: We're still posting there.

An "option to turn off ai features" isn't even the bare minimum.

The bare minimum of responsibility would be not to push epistemic vandalism such as "ai summaries" on users by default.

So, the US government is threatening to prosecute American grocery stores for offering discounts to people NOT receiving SNAP benefits because of the shutdown.

Why on earth would they be doing that? I dunno, sorta sounds like the Trumpenreich position is "we're gonna starve poor people and blame it on Democrats and if you don't HELP us do that, you're going to jail."

Literally cartoon villainy hours up in here.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/usda-tells-grocery-stores-they-can-t-give-discounts-to-people-hit-by-trump-s-food-stamp-freeze

USDA Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Give Discounts to People Hit by Trump's Food Stamp Freeze | Common Dreams

As the Trump administration illegally withholds food assistance from 42 million Americans, it's also telling stores it's against the law for them to provide discounts to those struggling after being robbed of their benefits.

Common Dreams

Shoutout to Hakeem Jefferies for waiting so long to endorse Mamdani that when he actually does it, it just reminds me of how little I like Hakeem Jefferies.

Totally inexplicable why this party is running behind rectal cancer in national polling...

MAGAs & corporate Dems who opposed Biden’s student loan forgiveness because it was “unconstitutional” are quiet as a church mouse as Trump gives $50K student loan forgiveness to join ICE.

Haven’t heard one House speech, one lawsuit, one media interview opposing it.

This is why we are angry at Centrist Dems for not fighting. For waiting for permission. Biden should’ve forgiven this exploitative debt, made the files disappear like the Epstein list, & dared MAGAs to oppose him.

But nah—“Norms.”

Conservatives every time the Pope tweets that Christians should care for and help poor people.

Picked this year's scotch bonnets and had a cautious nibble on the end of one to check the flavour. It was delicious, sweet and fruity like a good scotch bonnet... but barely had any heat. I shrugged and prepped the batch because they'd still be good for the project I had in mind. They were so tasty, I took a less cautious nibble of another. A chomp, in fact. About a third of the pepper.

Turns out that first one I tasted was a dud and the rest of them are normal heat.