#uspol
I agree, Warnock will prevail, they're smashing early voting records nearly everyday. A condition that tends to favor the Democrat ticket.
#uspol
Both parts passed the House of Reps today. It now goes to the Senate tomorrow for a vote, and at least 3 GOP senators said they are on board to vote in the 7 paid sick days. Hopefully there are more, it needs at least 60 votes to pass there.
#uspol
Senator Bernie Sanders pushed forward an amendment that would guarantee all national agreement railroad workers 7 days of paid sick day time. Right now railroad workers get zero. The other agreement only includes 1. They vote on this TODAY. For our economy, it's imperative we take care of our workers that work outdoors, long hours, schedules that disrupt most family living, in unclean industrial environments. Please support the 7 sick pay days for the railroad workers.
The #Schrödinger's cat now becomes the "Schrödinger's plates": as you can see, they are both broken and not broken until you open the door 😉
Elon Musk says he'll make his own phone if Google and Apple de-platform him: https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-alternative-phone-apple-google-ban-twitter-1849822836
I'd LOVE to see him try. (iOS has been developing since 2005-ish, and Android for even longer; the only way he'll get a software stack is to use Android as a platform or buy in a cheap also-ran from China. Either path is a quick way to lose a few billion dollars more without shipping a useable product. A dozen billion here, a dozen billion there, pretty soon it's all gone ...)
Elon's take over of Twitter will change the behavior of the digital world. 🔥
Flickr and Tumblr are thinking about intergrating ActivityPub so it will connect to the #Fediverse.
Everywhere you look, people are being laid off, but #Mastodon is growing. 📈
The world finally understands that social media can not only be fun, but also have the privacy of the user in mind. 🤝
We don't need billionaires to create a good world. ❤️
I agree with this 100%
There is no "stay and fight" on Twitter. If you're there, you're grumbling under your breath at a Nazi rally and calling it "resistance"
Hi! I'm Cosmo. 🌞🌍🪐💫⭐🌌 Thanks to my #GeekDad, I've been a #computer and #electronics enthusiast all my life, I am following in his footsteps. My first computer was an Apple ][+. I miss the days of calling BBS's and chatting on D-Dial. I used to run a #WWIV board in the early 90's called Mission Control in the #Philadelphia area. Here are hashtags I'd love to follow:
🌊 #BlueWave #FBR #FBPE #FBPEU #Liberal #BLM #FireCorruptPower 👮#ProChoice ♀️ #BlueCrew #BlueWave2024 #HumanRights #ImmigrantsArePeopleToo #LGTBQally 🧬 #Science #NASA #DontPanic #Ω #Philly #DogsOfMastodon #Beagle #Bulldog #GuineaPig #Cavy #Science #SciFi #ScienceFiction #DoctorWho #StarTrek #StarWars #ᐰ #Stargate #BattlestarGalactica #MrRobot #2001 #GOT #HOTD #AutismDad #VideoGamer #railroads #muppets
For your first day on Mastodon, just a few humbly suggested steps! Welcome to the party!
1) Consider if you're on the server for you, your hobbies, and your moderation desires. You can always migrate your account, later. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/
2) Make a profile! These can be longer than Twitter ones - and you can format them with line breaks, italics (using asterix), and loads of emoji. Check the emoji on your server, here! https://emojos.in/
3) If you liked who you followed on Twitter, use https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ and/or https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ to create a csv of all the people you followed there to upload into Mastodon, using the web menu option Preferences > Import. Now you are following the same folks!
4) Using https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/, you can also export your Twitter blocklist, and import it using the same function in Mastodon.
5) Create an introduction post! Use lots of hashtags to help people find you and your interests, as there's no algorithm or string search function here. Make sure to add the hashtag introduction!
6) Get used to using hashtags in your posts regularly, so that people can find them manually or using the hashtag following function, or the rss feed function.
7) Use CWs liberally, to help people decide what to see. Follow your server's guidelines, but definitely CW those movie spoilers!
8) Use alt text in your images whenever possible, to help people with screen readers enjoy it here, too!
9) Enjoy your new community, and have a lot of fun!
It’s #FollowFriday so I hope folks utilize the hashtag to find my account here!
Give me a boost! Maybe if I can show some of the big accounts on Twitter that it’s possible to grow sizably and quickly here, too, they’ll migrate over!
We are star stuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.
-Delenn, "Babylon 5"
🌊 #BlueWave #FBR #FBPE #FBPEU #Liberal #BLM #FireCorruptPower 👮#ProChoice ♀️ #BlueCrew #BlueWave2024 #HumanRights #ImmigrantsArePeopleToo #LGTBQally 🧬 #Science #NASA #H2G2 #DontPanic #Ω #Philadelphia #Philly #DogsOfMastodon #Beagle #Bulldog #SciFi #ScienceFiction #DoctorWho #StarTrek #StarWars #ᐰ #Stargate #BattlestarGalactica #MrRobot #2001 #Babylon5 #GOT #HOTD #AutismDad #VideoGamer #railroads #muppets #videogames #NoMansSky