Sean C.When someone says you are difficult, it means they wanted something from you and you said no. —Dave Winer
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‘The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.’ Joseph Heller Catch-22
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profile pic is roman era tile mosaic mostly in cream and brown colors of a gorgon head
Banner shows small gray poodle sniffing a patch of grass with several tall trees and thick fog in the background #plogger
Dying World 🔥🌎🔥@arstechnica Employees at a company with a clearly fascist business model, founded by a known fascist, are concerned about a "descent" into fascism? Oh you sweet summer children.
P_______X@chasnah @arstechnica These "realizations" almost never occur due to one gaining insight on their own. It's just that the company's reputation is now starting to impact them in their personal lives. It always comes with a delay.
stux⚡️One thing I do dislike about the official #Mastodon app is how it’s all driven towards either mastodon.social or .online
The default button signs you up on mastodon.social and when pressed ‘login’ the two instance suggestions are only those two
That makes it unnecessarily harder for people on our instance for example to easily get started on the app
𝙽𝚘𝚊𝚑 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚍Do I believe in the existence of faeries? No, I am a being of logic and science.
Will I step into a ring of mushrooms without leaving a gift of song and/or a gift of milk, bread, and honey? Abso-fucking-lutely not! Do you think I have a death wish or something?!
My mother legally proved that Father’s sister & her husband embezzled money from our family for years. My uncle was a founding member of our parish & church elder for nearly 50 years. Mother asked me why i attended services in #dtla & i said do you think people want to see us at church? I am a reminder that a dead man they respected was a thief & stole from his wife’s Family. He made them fools & I remind them of that. My mother hadn’t even considered that. #greek #saintsophiacathedral #LA
Dave RahardjaThe most pernicious lie that conservatives promulgate is that the government is the enemy. “I’m here from the government, and I’m here to help,” claimed Ronald Reagan, were supposedly the most terrifying words one can hear.
But in a democracy—and yes, the US is a democracy—the government IS the people. We literally shape it into what we want, and when we want competence, we DO get competence. We have incredible competence in NASA, in NOAA, in FEMA, in NHTSA, in NIH…the list goes on. Denying that isn’t only cynical, it is factually false.
Those who seek to smear “the government” are smearing democracy itself; and they’re insulting your intelligence. Beware people who call everything “waste” and destroy these engines of public service. They are trying to replace the government—our common good—with something they can profit from, which is invariably far worse.
Ruth MottramI had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."