They're after me... @frickinLasers@qoto.org

Cop show!

Cop show: different city!

Cop show: extra violent!

Fun for the whole family.

A list of places y'all gon make me lose my mind:
1. Up in here
2. Up in here

I call today’s look, ‘I can’t find my lint roller, but I’m fucking wearing these black pants anyway.’

This can be a viral toot if we all agree to make it one.

There's a new academic search engine out there called Scinapse.

Tagline: "We're better than Google Scholar. We mean it."

https://www.scinapse.io/

More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."

Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.

I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

Is "quiet quitting Twitter" really a thing? If so, I assume it's frowned upon. Although unintentional, maybe that's what I did.

The abuse being dealt out to people who announced they were leaving only got worse when they returned after making said announcement.

It was tough. It still is, but I miss my friends.

4: let’s have feet for breakfast!

Me: but then we’d have... a runny tummy.... * uncontrollable laughter *

4:

Therapist: Describe yourself in one word.

Me: No.

If you're ever in need of a rabbit hole in which to lose yourself, I highly recommend PBS's "Blank on Blank" clips on Youtube - fun animation set to fascinating audio interviews with various icons and luminaries. For example, enjoy some Rod Serling!
https://youtu.be/7ywWdT6IL3o

Boy, did I have a day. It lasted many hours and was full of events. Words were uttered. I drove an automobile. You don't even know.

Prune MREs

#RecipesForDisaster #HashItOut #HashTagGames

I just had a bug in my mouth

7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday.

Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.

https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070

SHARK TANK PITCH

Audio Book Transcripts

I like my men how I like my coffee. I don’t drink coffee.

If I’m reading their lips correctly, it looks like my neighbors are having an argument about the creepy guy next door.

I keep seeing articles about Mastodon slumps, and journalists going back to Twitter. Is it fair to say, that maybe Mastodon isn't for journalists, or brands, or even people who want large accounts? Maybe Mastodon is true social media, for people who want to interact and discuss, not be influenced, sold to, or manipulated with cult style tactics and followings. There will always be groups who dislike the idea of the people controlling their own inputs, people who don't like the idea of accessible Administration, and people who don't like the idea that if we don't like a space that we can just move to another one, or even create our own. Individualism is scary to the kind of people who thrive on complacency, and not challenging the status quo.

Just installed a utility that locally indexes your Apple Photos and gives outstanding textual image search capabilities.

Here is a search for “kids at the beach” in Apple Photos native search (left, zero results) vs the same search in "Queryable" on the right (lots of accurate results).

This is all local and private!

App store link (runs on macOS, iPadOS, iOS): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/queryable/id1661598353

All of these hot takes about how Mastodon is too hard to use for mass adoption are missing the point entirely. We are not some tech startup trying to "disrupt" the social media ecosystem. We don't have VCs breathing down our necks pushing for continuous growth at all costs. We're just regular people out here building communities.

If people don't like Mastodon and decide to go back to Twitter, that's fine. They are not commodities to be exploited. If people like Mastodon and decide to stay, that's great! They are going to be more invested in the community because they are actually deriving real value from it.

If there's one thing the global capitalist system cannot fathom is that value can exist that is not fungible with monetary value. There are plenty of ways to create value for people that do not involve buying and selling. In fact the whole notion that value = monetary value is a relatively recent innovation in human history.

I'm not saying that capitalism doesn't have its benefits, but our minds have become so warped by its zero-sum game vision of the world that it's easy to believe that generating profits is the only thing that matters. We may have to play that game to justify our existence on this planet, but there's a whole world of value to be found outside of it. Just because we're forced to play the game doesn't mean the game is all there is.