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Or just being treated like a human being woukd be a nice start for them too.

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Does this mean that showing the Tom Hanks/Peter Scholari sitcom “Bossom Buddies” to kids in Tennessee will become a felony? I realize comedic tastes have changed in the last 40 years, but felony seems an over reach. I guess less gov’t regulation is only good when it comes to hauling toxic chemicals by train, and not the LGBTQ+ community.

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NEW COMMANDMENT:
Thou shalt not use your religion to take away other people’s rights.

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Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

science.org/content/article/mu

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

and

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

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Well Ijust got the official notice, I am now a IEEE Senior member (The highest level one can apply for)

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For my time spent building in , I have learned I wish to build 2^n+1 centered on an even number 0-12 within a chunk. Anything else leads to madness. This is why I really *HATE* Ocean Monuments. :(

Unless you can spread misery equally, options to allow choices *OUT* of misery should not be permitted. Except in cases where some are more equal than others.

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Birdsite conversations:

"Can we agree on what I said? (what was said prior, "Can we also agree that the people with the fewest resources generally have the fewest options when it comes to commuting longer distances to receive better service?")

What is implied, "Poor people are just too damned stupid to come up with solutions to transportation of their child, and too selfish to work as a community for any to manage to get their child to a school of their choice. Obvious conclusion: poor people should have no options to get their child out of a shit public school."

Also finds rebuttal to presumptions of poor people incompetence "boring." Yet, "Don't call me racist! I didn't call you racist for only wanting rich white people to have options!"

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Just a reminder, being a horrible person shoukdnt be tolerated simply because they claim their religion says so.... **YOU** choose one of any number of interpritations of your religion that caused you to be a horrible person. Thats not your religions fault, thats just you finding an excuse to be a shit human. No one needs to tolerate you being a shit human just because your a religious shit human.

That is all...

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Lauren Boebert literally prayed for Joe Biden's death while giving a speech at a Church. In contrast, I want Donald Trump to live a long life--but in a prison cell so he serves as a warning to all who attempt a coup or incite a terrorist attack on US that they will die in prison

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“I know you think you’re being funny, but honestly Dave, it’s just hurtful.”

Stress... Pink eye, out of sick time, wife is in Canada, she and our grandson really badly want time with me on . Our dog is freaked out being home alone. She used to have Frisco & Freddy cats, "da boyz." Then it was just Freddy, and now Freddy is gone, and so is "momma," my wife. I can't explain "momma" will come back, that the voice and picture on the phone is her. So I give her anxiety meds before work.

Went to work, listed as off. I'll have to check with HR for vacation time rather than sick time. It should be OK. Should. "Should" in one hand, "shit" in the other, see what fills faster. I need to tidy the apartment, put things back in order from maintenance work done on the wall last night. The
moron who built the place "on the cheap" didn't insulate the sprinkler pipes so in some places those burst. New owner the last several years has been sinking money for infrastructure improvements, if not corrections for the previous owner / builder. I'm glad our pipes didn't burst, we are OK, and our rent is relatively low because we pay like clockwork, we keep our place up, and we keep an eye on things.

We have it well, better than many. But it's still an unusual amount of adulting for me. There's more I can whine about, but it's just whining. Snot and boogers should be a nose product, not an eyeball product. Time to go back upstairs to reassure my dog I'm not dead yet, even if I can't convince her Momma is coming back. The soul crushing part is being alone. Tilly needs me.

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@Romaq @victorgijsbers @C418 The fascist man is restricting API usage, meaning third party tools that use Twitter in some way (for example, the ones that automatically export all your follows to mastodon) will no longer work unless paid some API quota.

Ah, reminiscing the days as a wizard wondering what /nuke does on a busy server, or missing a specific target to /kill...

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If you wanna use tools to find Twitter people you follow on mastodon, better get that done this weekend. The fascist man over on Twitter is gonna shut that down real soon

And then the obligatory, "Don't call everything you don't like Nazi," says the guy who calls everything he doesn't like "Statist."

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