There is a certain pleasure in putting on some minimalist music and watching the Federated feed zoom by. Foreign languages I don't understand, politics, something about cooking, a koala bear pic, some comic in Dutch I think, more words, a dog. It's like an art installation.

Not for nothing but Elon Musk looks like a SCTV era Martin Short character.

I'm not sure if this place is going to be the replacement for the disaster that Twitter has become, but I'll be happy to try it for a while to see if it works for me. I will say that as someone who loved the old Usenet because it was pretty much whatever users wanted it to be, I'm not a big fan of being scolded about language or rules and such. Suggest them & I'll take them under advisement.

People actually care about both women being treated as full human beings and democracy surviving. That is all.