#rpilocatorDE
Under the GOP's proposed 30% sales tax, you'd pay higher prices on everything, including nearly $5 for a gallon of regular milk.
Inflation is already causing enough pain. Folks shouldn't pay more at the grocery store to help Republicans fund a tax cut for the wealthiest 1%.
I finally wrote a new article on my website (and I plan to do that a lot more in the future).
As the 5 year anniversary of the channel approaches, I wanted to reflect on what it means to work as a full time content creator, how it happened, the good, and the bad. Enjoy the looooooong brain dump!
It's a disservice to tell people their mastodon instance doesn't matter, just sign up anywhere
If your server abruptly shuts because the owner gets bored, dies, runs out of money, that's a problem, no way to transfer. If the owner decides to ban people for something arbitrary they can
For mastodon to take off we need instances that are reliable, stable, resilient, fairly run. Or to not tie online identity to a single instance
P.S. Reliable so far doesn't mean reliable long term
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by @micahflee
Big Journalism mustered a few pathetic protests to Musk's control freakery with reporters' accounts, but maintained business as usual on the birdsite.
In other words, Musk is winning his campaign against freedom of expression that he dislikes.
You'd imagine that the journalism business would take genuine action -- eg leaving Twitter -- to demonstrate a backbone, and help preserve press freedom. You would be wrong, sadly.
Elon Musk to fake-quit as CEO of birbsite at some point in the future when he eventually wants to
There, I fixed your headlines folks