Clifford Oliver

@cliffco58@mstdn.party
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Trying to live the life I have left, while moving in 5 different directions at once. Neurodivergent, creative creature who rarely creates. Reed College alum. Interested in EVERYTHING, all at once. My life's greatest disappointment: No one has ever said I 'm*fun*.😁

Today in Labor History May 5, 1981: Bobby Sands (1954-1981) died, ending his 66-day hunger strike. Sands was an Irish political prisoner and member of Parliament who had been locked up in the notoriously brutal Maze Prison near Belfast. The strike was an attempt to get the British government to grant political prisoner status to Nationalist inmates, rather than treating them as common criminals.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #irish #republican #IRA #BobbySands #HungerStrike #maze #prison #PoliticalPrisoner

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation. 👏

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Evolving the Team

An update on Mastodon’s core team and organisation.

Mastodon Blog

@rbreich

Sadly, they do not care about 'The People'. In their minds, they are glorious and right.

They see the solution as getting rid of many so more is left for them, and the remaining ones who aren't part of their pure, blessed clan, can do their work.
Fewer people, easier to manage.

No outrage touches them. Until the real pitchforks arrive, that is.

Jessica Tarlov: “Let’s also talk about the clear failure of DOGE based on their own set goals. We started at $2 trillion, then we moved to $1 trillion. Now, we’re at $160 billion … But the real story of DOGE is that Musk has $38 billion in government contracts and has not had a penny of his money touched.”
@davidho
Capitalism is a death cult.

@davidho
Maybe they should all just quit fucking around in this piecemeal fashion, change the calendar to 1850 and start over from there. We’re gonna get there eventually and we could save time and daily anguish. /s

#ImpeachTrump
#StopTrumpNow

BREAKING: Americans travelling abroad are now apologizing 37% more often than Canadians.

@luckytran

yep, that's the plan, his desire is to kill people, every dead senior citizen is another person who will no longer be able to collect the Social Security benefits they contributed to for decades-- which means, more money laying around for the rich to divert unchallenged into private pockets

ananda: lord, today i saw a strange creature

buddha: describe it

ananda: it was green, full of sorrow, and played the banjo

buddha: ah. you have seen the kermit

ananda: is he a bodhisattva?

buddha: he doubts himself, sings anyway, and loves without guarantee
he is closer than most

select each of these that you are
bad to the bone
16.7%
sad to the bone
31.3%
glad to the bone
18.8%
mad to the bone
27.1%
chad to the bone
6.3%
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