AmberWavesoFlame @AmberWavesofFlame@qoto.org

@britishtechguru @Galliformesguy is rage simply not much of a problem in the UK, or Argentina, or Greece, or Germany, or Australia, or Japan? Did everyone else figure out the secret to a wholesome harmony that skipped over one country in particular? Big if true! Maybe the US should simply ask any of these places that don’t have a mass shooting every week or two how they’re managing that.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country

@britishtechguru @QasimRashid where is your evidence of this happening on the scale of US mass shootings? Bringing up other countries is self-refuting, when you compare the gross difference in numbers. Do you think other countries don’t have bullies, mental illness, violent video games, secularized schools, absent parents, poor role models, or all the other proposed causes? Is it your contention that America simply has the worst, most damaged people around?

Via Radley Balko:

Hunter Biden would have to serve on the Burisma board for at least 5,000 years to earn the money Middle East governments have given to Kushner’s firm since Trump took office. #Kushner of course had an official White House position, and worked on ME policy.

#Qatar #UAE #middleeast #ethics

He linked the original NYT story; non-paywalled v below.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/kushners-firm-was-backed-by-investments-from-the-emirates-and-qatar/?amp=1

Our bodies are temples— we pour way too much focus on the outside, but it is the inside that matters, and what defines us.

Our bodies are tools— if an eye or hand or any other body part distances us from God, it is better to cut it off and throw it away. Again, what is sacred is the spirit inside, and our flesh is diametrically not, it is a means to an end. The end of course of loving God, which He tells us means we feed His sheep. Not of winning a human consensus of propriety.

Our bodies are garments— and we are not meant to wear one wrong for us.

On this #TransVisibilityDay, let’s remember that what God sees is far beyond what man sees, because God sees our hearts. It’s time the #Church sees our trans brothers and sisters, too.

Like immediately after I posted that I saw another example:

I’ve been seeing a genre of post on #Mastodon where the poster just spams every popular hashtag they can think of, most clearly unrelated, paired with deliberately hateful memes and ugly remarks about how [slurs] should die and so on. Since they aren’t on my instance and I’m only seeing them from hashtag abuse, what happens when I report them? Who does the report even go to— my admins or theirs? And does it do any good if they can keep reaching everyone the same way?

#moderation #hatespeech

@futurebird

@futurebird my cat supervises and also appointed herself Morale Officer when I work from home.

#cats #catsofmastodon #WFH

@maxleibman I have an ever-shortening list of holdouts important enough to me to keep going back for since they aren’t crossposting regularly yet, but while I’m there anyway fuck yeah I’m stealing Elon’s content to enrich his competition. And screenshots >> links, for obvious reasons. When the person does also have a 🐘account, even a defunct one, I tag it. I also constantly evangelize for 🐘while I’m there, with some known successes!

@twitterisgoinggreat

Via @kt_so_it_goes :

#twitter #NYT #TwitterBlue #fail

As reported by Oliver Darcy of CNN:

Simply egg-stortion.

#economics

#cats #pets #memes #oops