Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

I wrote a #guide for all my fellow creators starting out on #Mastodon:

https://www.eroticmythology.com/mastodon-for-creators/

Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?

#RIPTwitter #TwitterDown #TwitterMigration #twitter #Fediverse #fedi #introduction #NewHere #creator #WritersOfMastodon #ArtistsOnMastodon #musician #writer #artist #feditips #MastodonMigration

Okay. So we all understand that the Supreme Court has become a right-wing ideological political institution under Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Barrett, Kavanaugh, & Roberts. They're for sale & illegitimate. Now, we have to beat them in the executive branch & the legislature.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-2023-term_n_649f25b7e4b030efa12065d4

Well, if I can't invest the profits into an upgraded 3D printer (which I don't technically need anyway, as the one I have works fine), I guess I can invest significantly less into a replacement screen for the other 3D printer, to have two running at once.

The idea that those who founded America envisioned a super-body composed of unaccountable, all-powerful rulers clad in robes, free to turn against democracy itself and reign entirely outside the structure of institutions that make up the political system, is preposterous.

Latest cartoon: Titanic Failure

#science #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #cartoon #comic

Joined a while ago but not used but #twitterdown #twittermigration has sent me this way.

Anyone have any tips for new users?

I’m searching for accounts to follow by subject & hashtags

How do I find local community feeds?

Just so we are clear…

Selling a cake to a gay person is participating in the marriage, but selling a gun to a shooter isn’t participating in a murder.

What a country!

So 30 people were shot, at least 2 killed, last night in Baltimore. Not a word about it in my NY Times feed. That’s our gun culture for ya- it’s just another shooting, why bother reporting on it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #GunViolence

Judge Jackson recusing herself from the Harvard affirmative action case despite zero financial benefit to her staying on, & Alito, Thomas, & Barrett refusing to recuse themselves from numerous cases where they gained significant financial benefit, tells you everything you need to know about progressive integrity & conservative corruption. #ExpandTheCourt

Experienced fedi users, let's not fuck this up for the new users and make them feel welcome! If you see an image without alt text, instead of scolding, spending that typing energy on writing an image description so the person can edit it in!

Opinion | Half the Police Force Quit. Crime Dropped. - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/opinion/half-the-police-force-quit-crime-dropped.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For anyone just arriving:

I am a (#gay / #lgbt / #lgbtq) 🌈 #attorney from #Madison #Wisconsin.

I handle #prosecution, but also #parking, #CivilRights, #ordinance and #contract drafting, #tax, and #municipal law.

I post about the #SupremeCourt / #SCOTUS and #law / #lawfedi news and discussions, #politics both in the us (#uspol / #uspolitics) and abroad, and especially on #Ukraine / #Russia.

And I adore #electronic #music and #videogames, #podcasts, and #books.

#new #introduction

No books
No abortion
No education
No Black folk
No Brown folk
No LGBTQIA
No Native Americans

That’s the USA
That’s fascism

#SCOTUS #BlackMastodon #Mastodon

It’s time to end legacy admissions. Each year thousands of students are admitted to colleges around the nation only because their parents went there.

Legacy admissions are back-door discriminatory policies that overwhelmingly advantage wealthy, white students over everyone else.

There’s something comforting about knowing that I’m not going to run out of wine anytime soon.🍷

So, if the United States is in a “post-racial society” that doesn’t need Affirmative Action, why was their an explosion of hate groups when a Black President was elected? And why is right-wing media bashing Critical Race Theory and warning people about Replacement Theory?

Almost seems like the most racist people are the ones who claim there’s no racism anymore.

Just another day of Republican corruption:
https://www.wlwt.com/article/ohio-house-speaker-larry-householder-sentenced-20-years/44389125

And right-wing Trump terrorism:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-with-weapons-arrested-near-obamas-dc-home/

Pretty lady #CatsOfMastodon

"The whole idea behind 'the Free State of Florida' isn’t freedom. It’s exclusion. It’s the promise that Florida is a place where the in-group has achieved enough power so that it can punish and hopefully expunge the out-group. It’s important to note that the champions of the Free State of Florida try to convince liberals of how much better life is when lived according to conservative values."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Florida #Republicans #freedom
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