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It’s rude to tweet here but tooting is actively encouraged. Mad world.

One of the greatest "How it started/how it's going" examples, EVER.

(via Peter Kafka)

Sick burn, @Gargron
Will check in on Twitter, but I am going to start posting on http://Post.news and/or Mastadon (which one is doing better, open to suggestions!): I am @[email protected] on both. @[email protected] is a monster and I do not want to produce content for a company he owns & uses to cause harm.
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Author friends, of which I know there are several here: Today (11/28/22) is the start of the Whatever 2022 Holiday Gift Guide, and today is specifically for traditionally-published authors, with tomorrow being for indie/self-pubbed authors. So if you're interested in promoting your work to my site's tens of thousands of daily readers (plus additional promo on my socials) these are the days. The link for today's post is below, and all the details you need are there.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/11/28/whatever-holiday-gift-guide-2022-day-one-traditionally-published-books/

Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2022, Day One: Traditionally Published Books

Welcome to the first day of the Whatever Shopping Guide 2022 — Our way of helping you folks learn about cool creative gifts for the holidays, straight from the folks who have created them. Today’s …

Whatever

RT @[email protected]

Elon claims it's "objectively the case" that Twitter affected “conservative” candidates more negatively than “progressive” candidates.

But every empirical study ever done - including by Twitter itself! - shows the opposite. Musk is a conspiracy theorist.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2025334119 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595605877712642050

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/maxberger/status/1595771969949106177

Well regulated militia strikes again.

6 people and assailant dead in Walmart shooting

https://apnews.com/article/walmart-shooting-chesapeake-virginia-b52927596381aa65efed367ce0c81c83

Walmart manager opens fire in break room, killing 6

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A Walmart manager opened fire on fellow employees in the break room of a Virginia store, killing six people in the country’s second high-profile mass shooting in four days, police and witnesses said Wednesday.

Associated Press
As a naturalized American, I might bandy around the term “resistance” but as a native Brit I *know* that the annual battle to refuse heating until you can see your own breath is the true Resistance.
I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.
We are all living a lie in some small way, are we not?