volkris @volkris@qoto.org

For people who've asked why the #House keeps voting, it seems that's literally all they can do AND FURTHER, it's what they **must** do, under the rules of the chamber.

If they are in session, they have to be voting.

If the members-elect choose to adjourn until noon, they are committing their future selves to vote at noon. And keep voting so long as they're in session.

At this point in the House's processes there isn't an option for working on something else. This is the one, singular next order of business, to be overseen by the Clerk without a Speaker to choose a different task.

Procedures are fun!

#USPolitics

If Democrats were really sad as they say they are about the lack of a Speaker delaying procedures in the House, then they could have easily either voted for McCarthy or simply abstained in voting against him to allow the election and get things going.

For better or worse, Democrats' votes are complicit in the delay of getting to work.

Again, maybe that's even for the best, but let's not let them get away with pretending they're not part of this process.

#USPolitics

There's an important detail to understand about #USPolitics : the Senate leaders don't have nearly the power we're told they do.

However, you can see the alignment of interests to promote that myth: the leader gets a feather in his cap while other senators get to duck responsibility for their (in)actions, blaming those pesky leaders.

Today's drama in the #House over #McCarthy strikes me as members of the lower chamber trying to glom onto their own version of that myth, just in a stupider way, as befitting a lower chamber.

And hey @skroobler I'm #QuotePost ing this using the feature on #qoto!

Yep, instances that give users more power and more features are able to participate in #Fediverse even if other instances leave their users hamstrung by questionable software development decisions of the past.

Quote posting allows us to built on other peoples' content, giving proper credit and adding value for all.

It was a silly decision to leave it out of #Mastodon

One way to think about #ContentWarning tags vs filters is empowering the end user or not.

If a person doesn't want to see a topic on #Mastodon they can add keywords to their filters, helping them manage their own feeds.

This functionality empowers them.

But adding content warnings everywhere, as many people demand, instead forces such content to be wrapped regardless of whether the end user would want it to be.

So many people have such strong opinions that content should be wrapped, and I'd say we should push back on that proposal.

Hmmm, it appears that when an instance like #qoto posts a #quotepost using its custom feature for that, the quote isn't rendered on #Mastodon .

I was wondering how Mastodon would handle that.

Well, better to avoid that feature for now, I suppose.

(Or, ugh, #quotetoot I suppose. I hate the term toot.)

"In other words, based on what we know about fentanyl exposure, it is extremely unlikely that what we saw was Bannick overdosing from inhaling #fentanyl in a gust of wind."

Today's headlines about #Musk banning journalists from #Twitter strike me as a great illustration of the behavior that has so many people losing faith in #journalism over the years.

Whether one agrees with the twitter policies on doxing or not, for reports to not put the alleged violations front and center is to misinform readers.

Anyone with more knowledge of the event will know those journalistic institutions are presenting a misleading story, and that's just going to reinforce distrust in journalism.