@tom @erincandescent so is it always a response, or only sometimes? is emphasis/explanation a type of response?

Per Burgess Everett on X: “What happened last night? After confirming two nominees yesterday and taking several procedural votes, Senate reached a deal in the middle of the night to finish 7 lifetime District nominees in December, and knock out a couple cloture votes and one confirmation (Desai) today.”

@theron29 Pop_OS! does the same but their image is still only half the size.

@fontenot @jonathan @grishka that part is really nice. They're also good for like, reasonably cheap and healthy fast food especially if you're in a part of the country without a lot of options in that realm.

@anniegreens I know... which is why I questioned it when they tried to prescribe it. I don't think they knew [know] what to do with people when diagnosed with ME, so they try to numb us.

Conservatives today aren’t really about policies, ideas, or even pretending to solve problems anymore. They’ve stripped all that away, peeled it down to a raw, snarling essence: hatred. 🧵

@lars you gotta open the backdoor first

World reacts to ICC arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/world-reacts-to-icc-arrest-warrants-for-israels-netanyahu-gallant?traffic_source=rss #News

@dm @thed34n Tech news back then: "Oh, that's fucking rad!"Tech news now: "Oh god no, please stop."

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VG247 just posted:Steam updates its Season Pass policy to make it clear: no mystery boxes that don't say what the DLC is and when it's coming Valve has just updated Steam's policy when it comes to developers selling Season Passes for games, making it clear that it's the duty of the party selling the thing to "clearly communicate" to players what any DLC included in a pass will be, and when it'll be arriving. Read morehttps://www.vg247.com/steam-updates-season-pass-policy-must-say-what-dlc-is-and-when-coming#gamingNews

@ehmatthes Thank you for the compliment!

@gbhnews Writing code! Someone taught me to see that this can be crafty when done for fun.

America’s ‘news influencers’ skew conservative, Pew report findshttps://www.engadget.com/social-media/americas-news-influencers-skew-conservative-pew-report-finds-150002876.html

"AI corporations have... appropriated our work—our poems, our stories, our emails written for socializing or work—for themselves. ...A chatbot is a collectivity. Because it’s produced by everyone, it can’t ethically be owned by any single individual. Socialism—collective, democratic ownership—is the only reasonable way to govern AI. "https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-only-ethical-model-for-ai-is-socialism

@stux @Gargron hells yeah! Just really brought it home for me. I've also got nearly 200K followers on IG and story & post engagement has absolutely tanked. IG is a fine platform to watch videos from random people now, but it's not the home to post & share anymore.

Between Canada being a world champion of real-estate-based money laundering, and the ongoing RealPage landlord-collusion-by-app revelations, I think more people should internalize the idea what we're calling a housing shortage or a housing-affordability crisis aren't inevitable products of the market, or "metaphorical" crimes. They're just ... crimes.They're the result of landlords and criminals doing ongoing crimes in their shared interests.https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-doj-investigation-antitrusthttps://financialpost.com/diane-francis/diane-francis-shining-a-light-on-money-laundering-in-canadian-real-estate

Thanks to everyone who responded here.I am a qualified no.I think there are parts of the Fediverse that can benefit from coordination, like how the SocialCG coordinates work on ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0, how IFTAS coordinates trust and safety work, and how Fedipact coordinates blocking Threads.

@forwardingplaneThanks, will set up a test network and observe my zoo of devices.

@Alien_Sunset Thank you for tagging me!@va Yes, I did recently write https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/, which addresses this challenge in its first section, with some hopefully helpful links.