James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

#vote

I am so proud of myself and my society that my 15yo boy can come home and tell me nonchalantly about one of his best male friend's boyfriend. Like it's nothing. This is the future we want. Never would have flown in my childhood. And I'm sure it doesn't fly many places today.

#michigan #lake #autumn #trees #nature #photography #cycling

😭 credit https://twitter.com/PervisTime

The difference between Wikipedia and Twitter is that Wikipedia is intentionally a non-profit.

Sometimes I wonder about Musk’s state of mind when he posts know-nothing shite like this; sometimes I wonder about the legions of morons who appear to think it’s pure genius; mostly I’m just happy not to be seeing too much of either, except by accident.

So, Mastodon:

1. Not difficult to sign up for
2. Not difficult to use
3. Has an app like every other social media network
4. Not owned by world’s richest man
5. Not owned by a company whose main platform has been credibly accused of facilitating genocide by the United Nations
6. Not funded by the guy who made the last place, which sold itself to the world’s richest man
7. Doesn’t have a crypto thing going on
8. Free and open source
9. Administered by a crowdfunded nonprofit
10. Decentralized, portable, and interoperable

I’m writing this because it has been weird to watch some journalists and people who are fully aware of Facebook’s catastrophic history with things like disinformation,

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

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#SilentSunday #nature #wildlife #photography

How ‘parental rights’ language smuggles anti-LGBTQ hate into mainstream politics ‘Parental rights’ is a hateful piper’s tune to commandeer the minds of adults who are supposed to know better| Ricochet https://ricochet.media/en/3994/how-parental-rights-language-smuggles-anti-lgbtq-hate-into-mainstream-politics

@Trapd
The same parental rights arguments were (and continue to) be used against making beating your kids a crime. Child abuse and neglect (including refusing them health care) are not parental rights.

So Trump wasp blindsided that Sidney Powell decided to flip on him. But... my brother in Christ, why?

That woman has been nothing but devoted to him & his "cause" and he's treated her with contempt, laughed at her behind her back, never lifted a finger to help... Then there was the plan to try and blame the whole thing on her...

I'm glad she flipped, not just for the case, but it's been disturbing to watch people serve that guy for NOTHING take abuse and just keep going. It's a ray of sanity.

i.e. give his wife another cheeky bonus before he gets the sack. #BinDayIsComing

We often joke here that #Newfoundland’s second biggest city is Fort Mac.

#Alberta swallows the youth of other provinces and sends them home when they can’t work in the oil fields anymore.

No wonder they, on paper, take in more and pay out less. People only live there to work.

Makes you wonder how shitty their economy would be without the portability of #CPP luring workers.

#Canada #cdnpoli #abpoli

If the penalty for crime is a fine then the law only exists for the lower class.

How time flies....

You know, if journalists *really* wanted a Twitter-like platform with everything we desired, we could, like, make our own.

News organizations have funded cooperative projects in the past.

Heck, that’s where wire agencies came from.