Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

This is what fascist propaganda looks like.

reposting this, with original author sign.

The guys who want Putin to pick our president seem pretty pissed at the guy who leads the country that keeps pantsing Putin.

@ChazBrenchley I'm going to need a lot of boosts to #DefeatTedCruz and get to the #USSenate. #LoveForTexas #BlackMastodon F/B

A reminder because I feel like many have forgotten about this.

Nancy New—who Brett Favre texted to confirm media wouldn’t find out he’s getting $5M in Mississippi welfare funds—has pled guilty to welfare fraud. She's likely going to prison.

John Davis—the former MS welfare director—has pled guilty to welfare fraud. He's likely going to prison.

So here's my question: Why isn’t Brett Favre—who was the beneficiary of that MS welfare fraud—arrested yet?

DOJ: Charge Favre & demand accountability.

A reminder that Matt Gaetz had $482,321 in PPP loans forgiven.

Matt Gaetz doesn't own a company.

Friends new and old!

My first Mastodon post.

For the past 5 months, I've worked on a two-part investigation with Floodlight's Miranda Green & Mario Ariza.

The details are pretty bananas. And they get at the grim truth of what flourishes as local news coverage withers.

Part 1:
How power company cash secretly flowed to a half-dozen news sites in Alabama and Florida that assailed their critics

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm

There's going to be a massive land grab of all these big instances. There will be lots of merging and and acquiring too.

My advice is that you all become *very* aware of who owns your instance and why.

Get to know your admins—make sure their values align with your own.

If you don't want to put your social media life in the hands of strangers, then self-host your own instance.

For the record, releasing Trump’s tax returns in 2016 might have saved our democracy six years of pain and trouble. Every presidential nominee should be required by law to make their returns public.

Let's do another #Quiz! JAXA's SLIM lunar lander is due to launch next year. A technology demonstration, SLIM is designed to test pin-point precision landing by using real-time image recognition to identify its position. But where is SLIM planning to land?

Still thinking about this — and thinking George Santos shouldn't be able to attend any public event without being asked about whether he lied about this.

RT @migold@twitter.com: The congressman-elect told Brian Lehrer that his company, which he did not identify, "lost four employees that were at Pulse" in 2016. @gr_ashford
and I reviewed coverage, and none of the victims appear to have worked at the firms named in his bio

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html

Actually, the tax returns of all Supreme Court justices should absolutely be made public. That should be a requirement to be one of the nine people with lifetime appointments who make final legal decisions for the rest of the country.

Hey new followers, especially followers in the legal profession, got something serious to talk about for a sec.

The US is getting extremely scary for trans people. New laws are being proposed and passed to criminalize our existence at a terrifying pace. This stress takes a toll on us, and it's a lot more taxing on me personally than I let show here.

Please speak up for trans people whenever and wherever you can. Don't leave us by ourselves while we're under attack.

Did botsin.space defederate from @QOTO? That would mean I can't use @PleaseCaption.

Is there a way to look up who federates with whom?

You know why it took me so long to get over here to Mastodon?

I was confused AF.

I couldn't figure out the whole thing with the servers, and whether it mattered which one I joined.

Which one is the best?

How do I find all of my friends if they're scattered on other servers?

So many questions. 😫