Happy Towel Day to all you hoopy froods in the Fediverse!
Have a cuppa tea to celebrate the brilliance that was Douglas Adams. #h2g2 #dontpanic #hyperspacebypass
Today was the 30th anniversary of the first episode of Babylon 5, the genre-reshaping series blending politics and religion in one 5 year long story arc, mostly written by one person.
It was crazy hard watching this show - it was syndicated, popped up and disappeared for months at a time and was like nothing before it for the world-building and strong storyline.
Impeccably cast, hands down the finest low budget SF series ever made. Powerful stuff.
Federal Court Halts Mar-a-Lago Special Master Review In Blow To Trump
#USPol #uspolitics #trump #legal #BreakingNews
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-special-master_n_63892e66e4b0b9be876ca149
I want to migrate my account to a new instance, but it appears that there's a snag when the new instance has defederated the old one. How does one migrate in that situation?
#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.
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