Gary De Risio

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Car guy, fountain pen collector, opera lover, cynic. Retired NPO operations factotum. California, USA

There’s not ā€œliberalā€ and ā€œconservativeā€ news. There’s the news, based as close as can get on fact and truth, and then there’s propaganda, filled with lies and distortions.

Fox is the latter.

From NY to Georgia, from Mar-a-Lago to the US Capitol, Donald Trump must be held accountable if democracy and the rule of law are to survive—and for America to move on from these years of criminality and repair. First up: NY DA Alvin Bragg.

Berlin | Look up ā™”

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The mastodon.social server is currently under a heavy DDOS attack and may not work properly.

The 12,164 other servers on the network are unaffected.

This is part of the reason why federated networks are a good idea: if one server goes down, the others work fine.

The more spread out we are on small and medium sized servers, the harder it is for anyone to take down the network because there's no obvious target.

There are also many other reasons why federation is good: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers

Why is the Fediverse on so many separate servers? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Scott Adams’ routine: feel yourself getting inadequate attention, so troll hard, and then wrap yourself in a mantle of victimhood and cry censorship when people react — is so painfully obvious and predictable of a grift that it’s appalling that people fall for it.

The pressure for introverts to act as extraverts is real.

We aren't broken.

We don't need conversation.
We don't need to get out and do.
We don't need to go to a party or concert.
We don't need to make more friends.

We need to retreat inward to recover so we can do a very select, chosen few of those things.

I promise we are okay if you let us do that.

Vladimir Putin is a murderous thug who launched a war in Ukraine a year ago to steal Ukrainian sovereignty and end their democracy by committing mass murder and terrorizing destruction. But sure, tell me again how Zelensky and the Ukrainians should negotiate for peace with him.
How about more leaders who care about public service (like Jimmy Carter) and less who relish cruelty, violence and punching down on vulnerable communities (so many examples)?