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Did @[email protected] just quit working for anyone else? @ivory?

I don’t know how far this will reach and my apologies for not using a CW tag (I don’t know how in @ivory to do that) but social security payments don’t just affect the elderly.

I’m a widower and my kids get social security survivor benefits from my wife. If social security stops, we’ll be ok but millions of kids who’ve lost parents won’t be.

One thing I miss about mastodon vs twitter is that, for me, I had a really nice list of people I follow how did a great job of surfacing the relevant news of the day. Twitter was the way I kept on top of the news.

I don’t have that here even though I’ve followed as many of them as I can.

I’m objectively less informed now than I was over there and I’m pretty bummed about that.

Would you be okay with a fediverse-wide hashtag search (public posts only)?
Yes
95.4%
No
4.6%
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Die Hard is most definitely a Christmas movie. #diehard #christmas
A nice visualization and explanation of some economically relevant math: https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
Why the super rich are inevitable

Why some mathematicians argue the economy is designed to create a few super rich people – unless we stop it.

The Pudding

Because people oddly continue to post the first tweet of a thread rather than an unroll:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1605407289975967744.html

Thread by @DavidCornDC on Thread Reader App

@DavidCornDC: I did a quick read of the just-released House Ways and Means Committee report on Donald Trump's tax returns and shot out a few tweets. Here they are as a thread. nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is qui...…

My son, who's 8, created this level for me in Geometry Dash.

It uses an 8bit version of Still Alive by @JonathanCoulton (a song he knows I love). He painstakingly added all the lyrics, word by word, even making his own Aperture Science Logo in-game.

I am so proud.

After almost 3 years of dodging it, covid finally caught me. It sucks. I hope my kids don’t get it - it would spoil a big part of their winter break.