The Peppersnail

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I love cats. I love every kind of cat. I just want to hug all of them but I can’t hug every cat.
I also ride my bike a lot.
Avatar from Javier Pastor Art https://www.pinterest.fr/javierpastordiaz/#cats #cycling

AND LET'S GO FOR A FONTAINE TRAILER

#GenshinImpact

https://youtu.be/9SbgmM3mSps

Overture Teaser: The Final Feast | Genshin Impact

YouTube

Shucking oysters and clams in Tomales Bay, California.

This is the first time I’ve shoved my clam and oyster knifes in my jersey pocket…glad I didn’t crash and impale myself. My sweaty kit now smells like the sea.

The best bike rides are the ones with interesting destinations…even better when they’re a little bit off-the-wall. #cycling #california

It’s Grimace’s birthday today! Seems they turned him into a shake. #mcdonalds #animalcruelty

Whatever is going on right now in #Russia, I do note this: #Twitter is now useless at tracking this. Junk accounts everywhere, no verified accounts, swarms of sketchy bluechecks.

The ONE thing that place was good at was breaking global news. But not now.

See everyone here tonight.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin has #Russia thread too, ends this way:

While any challenge to Putin’s dictatorship is historic, we should remember: #Prigozhin & #Wagner are not good guys coming to liberate Russia & make it blooming democracy. Remember, Prigozhin troll farms & influence ops targeted US elections in 2016.

US posture at this stage shd be watching events closely, assisting our #Ukraine allies in exploiting any battlefield opps, & staying flexible & alert at an unpredictable moment in history.

Reddit just removed all the mods from /r/self and locked the sub - Lemmy.world - https://lemmy.world/post/366564?scrollToComments=true

#reddit #RedditImploding

Reddit just removed all the mods from /r/self and locked the sub - Lemmy.world

Looks like another hostile takeover.

Claiming that a commitment to openness requires giving Meta access to your posts, that you somehow must cooperate with them or allow them into your community is another of those occasions when it’s obvious that someone doesn’t understand that freedom of association also includes the ability to choose not to associate – and that freedom of association is, if anything, an even more important right than freedom of speech. It’s the freedom not to have to listen.

Ian Betteridge: Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?

Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?

​ There has been a lot of chatter about the decision of some instances on Mastodon to pre-emptively block Meta’s purported new ActivityPub-compatible service: Dare Obasanjo: It’s a weird own …

Ian Betteridge
The Reddit enshitification continues...I hope kbin and/or Lemmy is up to the task of absorbing users and mods that decide they've had enough. I'm also hoping that the remaining mods remember that they are essentially volunteering to prop up a billion dollar business who only keeps them around as long as is convenient for them. Yet another reminder why I won't join any social networks that aren't open source, open data, and optionally self hosted ever again. Thank you #fediverse for filling these gaps more than enough for me; and hopefully with time for the majority of internet users. #fediverse #reddit #lemmy #kbin #RedditMigration #enshittification
After porn-y protest, Reddit ousted mods; replacing them isn’t simple
After porn-y protest, Reddit ousted mods; replacing them isn’t simple

Replacement volunteers have big shoes to fill.

Ars Technica

Oh. Reach out #reddit admin about "what next steps will take place" if I don't reopen.
The lights aren't on anymore. I've left.
I was the creator & sole mod of most of my communities. We aren't "stewards in a position of trust with our users." We made a house & invited users in if they liked the way it was run.

I still mod a few #fannish reddit comms close to my heart in the hopes I can find a decentralized self-hosting option to redirect them to. I want my own damn house. #redditblackout