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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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.
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.
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?