David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

7 rules of small town #Minnesota:

1. Never say you don't like something or someone.
2. Only certain people can gossip. You aren't one of them.
3. Local is a term that white people use to argue over who has lived on native land longer. You don't qualify.
4. Never disagree with how things are done.
5. If you sit on a board, expect a decision that would take 10 minutes elsewhere to take three to five meetings.
6. Never leave a party first or eat the last thing.
7. Prepare for 30-minute goodbyes.

Hey all 👋

We have an update on Twitter API Fees and Moa.Party shutdown.

⚠️⚠️⚠️ In all likelihood, we will shutdown the main instance on Feb 9th, when free access to the Twitter API ends ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Please read our status update for full details https://moaparty.com/status/2023/02/05/

@historyofpunkrock Still own that cassette. Got it in Minneapolis. Having been reminded how long ago I should say it never happened.

Excellent read

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/hunter-brown-is-framber-valdez-in-a-justin-verlander-shaped-container/

#Twitter has banned #Movetodon from the API, so it no longer works.

Fedifinder still works, so that's an option at least for a little while.

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

Special Counsel Jack Smith must be chuckling this morning following this development. It turns out someone in 45’s campaign in Wisconsin made recordings of a meeting held two days after the 2020 presidential election. Whoops! What they caught on tape, and what it means, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/lordy-there-are-yet-more-tapes?sd=pf

Interesting stress test. I guess I am about to discover what happens when a post goes somewhat viral on Mastodon I have one happening now, hundreds of likes.

My little 2gb Ubuntu #selfhosted #selfhosting server seems to be responding well, but is a bit ... busy.

Reminder that there are no moderate Republicans in Congress.

Every time I read “critical race theory” I have to double-check what they think it is and why they think it’s a problem. Because it just sounds like the effort to understand history and the truth of slavery and structural racism, which any honest person knows is a real thing.

45 years ago
Poly Styrene on the front cover of Los Angeles punk fanzine 'Slash', February 1978

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene #xrayspex #history #punkrockhistory

Who will cry for the little boy?

WE WILL.

#TyreNichols #BlackMastodon

@RickiTarr Minneapolis has entered the chat

Happy Birthday to Christene Lee Cervenka aka Exene Cervenka, American singer, artist, poet, songwriter and singer for the California punkrock band X, born on this day in 1956, Chicago, Illinois

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #exenecervenka #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Apparently, advertisers do not try to sell to Gen X, because Gen X will automatically refuse to buy anything that is targeted to them.

I sort of want to be offended by it ... but not really.

This issue is a deeply personal one for me. I hope you take the time to read this and understand what is really going on: They are fear mongers, creating a wedge issue, and profiting off of it. It has to end.

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/they-say-theyre-protecting-the-children?sd=pf

36 years ago
Warehouse: Songs and Stories is the sixth and final studio album by punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released as a double album on two vinyl LPs, January 1987

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory

#Doonesbury nails insane GOP Congress members:
#comic #House #politics
Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/01/29

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”