@blogdiva they don’t really have as much of an established web or data or infra scene unlike Germany / France / Switzerland

@blogdiva Waiting you to be called "terrorist" for this post.

was finally asleep when the smell of burning wood hit me. woke up, ran to the kitchen, checked my heated blanket, checked all the rooms.apparently there are fires in some New Jersey forests and the wind is blowing so hard we are getting hit by the smoke.a 2025 #fediverse #Mastodon priority should be to rebuild the PSA megaphone we lost with #Xitter. not just for USA but the world over. look at happened in Valencia. we need country channels.ok, back to sleep. STAY SAFE NEW JERSEY!

i have a filter for sub/stack since it's ran by nazis. seems they are using variations of their url to slip through filters? anyways, i updated that filter. fuck fascist techbros.

@blogdiva As a friend if mine likes to say, getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative.She now self-describes as a grumpy old bitch.

IF YOU PRESENT AS WHITE DUDE AND A TECHBRO AT THATand you come to my mentions to say shit about voting without knowing an iota of how the VOTING RIGHTS ACT meant to secure the vote and and do not know or care to understand how something like the dystopianly named HELP AMERICAN VOTE ACT is an affront on the VRA exactly because of fucking TECH IP AND TRADE LAWS all i have to say to you: you are part of the problem.dudes like you are why Trump is POTUS

@[email protected] @[email protected] Alright, low key? My gregarious karaoke loving ass wants to do this. Do I know anything about the sport of 'ball'? No, but I have yet to let that stop me from pontificating in an attention grabbing way.

do y'all know insulin is a hormone?when Republicans put all sorts of constraints on hormonal therapies —and the fascist pharmabros will giddily acquiesce if it means they can increase 1000% the price of insulin and everything and anything to do with hormonal therapies— watch how it will be the price of insulin and menopausal therapies that will skyrocket again.you cannot separate endocrinology from all the other biological systems. you just can't.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, I think "best revenge is a life well lived" only when that person isn't capable of doing active harm to people with their bullshit. It's not revenge to remove someone from authority, it's justice.

@blogdiva One of the reasons I did not like the bird site was that it started hiding my Gaelic bubble from me, because it was less busy than the English and German languages ones. That was even pre-Musk.

FASCISTS ARE CLAIMING A DECISIVE VICTORYhttps://flipboard.com/@euronews/world-news-frvv3r54z/-/a-xXn1bkDZS36Au43RLk-URg%3Aa%3A89340020-%2F0because of the Black Box Voting, gerrymandering and voter suppression they could get away with LEGALLY.I BEG YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS DICTATORSHIP BY LAWif you have not been paying attention, all civil rights gains of the 1960s been clobbered away since 2000 WITH LAWS and accelerated after the financial coup d’etat of 2008.i beg you, nobody believed me 20 years ago we were headed to this moment.please believe me now.

i had a sliver of hope that things would work out, but you can't in a system where whatever they say is what got them the votes cannot be audited.33% more Latino men voted republican this time around?that doesn't track.but history did show us how all the Jewish collaborators ended up killed or exiled.so there is that.

@[email protected] @[email protected] not that I can tell; I’m just… feeling sick from it all.

STRIKES WORK!vote like your right to #unionize depends on it, because it doesBoeing workers vote to end $9.6B strike, nabbing 43% wage increase over 4 years - Ars Technicahttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/boeing-workers-vote-to-end-9-6b-strike-nabbing-43-wage-increase-over-4-years/#ElectionDay #UnionStrong

who needs a little boop in the snoot? you do! #joyscrolling

tomorrow should be #CatsOfMastodon #DogsOfMastodon #MooDeng #FionaHippo and all cute animals, furry, feathered and otherwise, all day long on the timeline.

in a weird way, am actually relieved that FINALLY people can see and understand what i have been seeing and sounding the alarm about for almost 30 years now. it's true: we aren't going back. too many of us remember the days of neighbors raped by their husbands, of aunties dead of back alley abortions, of cousins left to die of AIDS or killed in prison for a dime bag.i remember when mami finally was able to have her own bank account. she was so proud she had her own checks. 🧵

EARLY VOTINGENDS TODAYIN NEW YORKTuesday is the general election. if you find that you are not on the voting rolls, ―purging does happen here in New York― you are supposed to be given a provisional ballot AND a voting registration card. this happened to me a few elections ago. the process is seamless and you still get your vote scanned.

WINDOWS IS BEING PRIMED AS A DATA FIREHOSE FOR CHATGPTSatya Nadella is even more evil than prime Bill Gates. Windows will mine computers for data to feed ChatGPT. it is already doing that with Microsoft Office, aren't they?it should be obvious given how Microsoft is gambling 15 BILLION IN EQUITY on OpenAi. if OpenAi loses money, they'll lose money. Windows computers' are now colonial outposts for MS techbros looking to devour everything you've created using their OS & MS Office

it blows my mind people are not even discussing the obvious consequence of the #AI'fication of American capitalist-driven business making: if you give up your corporate secrets to the few companies running the AI scam, you are abdicating your right to - corporate secrets- intellectual property- copyrightthis, btw, is why going 100% to the cloud would end up destroying so many businesses: Bezos OWNS your secrets.you may or may not still have a right to trademarking but that's about it.