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Hmmmm well https://GardenState.social has gone down and I'm waiting for Cloudplane to work and get it back up. So goes managed hosting I guess. @stefan
Garden State Social

A place for all things New Jersey. You don't have live in the Garden State to join because you can love New Jersey from anywhere in the world.

Mastodon hosted on gardenstate.social
"Please," said the man, "can you do magic to make me be kind?"
"No," said the witch. "Magic cannot change anyone's nature."
"So there is no hope for me?"
"You ask the wrong question. Kind is not something you are. It is what you do."
"Is it that simple?"
"It is that hard."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
Did you know:
If you've stopped wearing masks, you can simply start wearing masks again

haven’t seen it reported anywhere else in the western media, but it seems like a very big deal that at the World Cup opener, the Iranian men’s team stood with arms around each other, in silence, refusing to sing their national anthem, in solidarity with the protesters in Iran.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/21/iran-refuse-to-sing-national-anthem-in-world-cup-opener

Iran refuse to sing national anthem in World Cup opener

The national team shows support for the anti-government protests taking place after Mahsa Amini’s death.

Al Jazeera
Tonight I finished @maddow’s new podcast Ultra. This powerful warning shot, this unearthing of the threat of American facism in the 30s& 40s is required learning for this moment. There has been a dress rehearsal for what we are facing. We’d best learn. I strongly encourage you to listen to all 8 episodes. The parallels are stunning. A reminder that we’ve fought this before. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/id1647910854?i=1000586931428
‎Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra: Episode 8: Ultra Vires on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra, Ep Episode 8: Ultra Vires - Nov 21, 2022

Apple Podcasts
Yikes! Amazon is on track to lose $10 billion this year on its hardware division, including Alexa devices. Most devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize them have failed in "a colossal failure of imagination."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-colossal-failure-on-pace-to-lose-10-billion-this-year/
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company’s biggest money loser.

Ars Technica
What's up #NewJersey?
I wonder when #TheGuardian, #WashingtonPost and other mainstream media will remove their Bird "tweet" buttons? Will they make one that's generic or for Mastodon sharing? #twitterexodus #media #journalists Edited and updated: Apple is following 0 and may never have tweeted.
OH: “all of my overheard toots are just things I said”
Some quick notes on how we might build some of the essential infrastructure and governance processes that will be needed if #Mastodon is really going to be sustainable and viable as a mass-adoption social network (1/n):