When my kids get a little older and eventually ask me about intersectionality, I will say, "Well, kids, back in the mid-2020s, people started using multiple microblogging platforms simultaneously, and that's when intersectionality began."

sorry, folks, the Alderaanians didn’t get to vote for Emperor Palpatine, and neither do you

State prosecutors in Moscow have opened a misdemeanor case against my colleague Andrey Pertsev, Meduza's resident Kremlin political expert. The charge is "participating in the activities of an undesirable organization" (ie, Meduza). https://zona.media/news/2024/11/02/perczev

Watching the World Series, and it's pretty wild that U.S. television networks will run Trump's anti-trans campaign ads when their own corporate non-discrimination policies would likely not permit such hateful content in their original programming.

Several U.S., European, and Russian officials told the WSJ that Elon Musk has had “regular contact” with Putin since late 2022. Russia's president has even asked for a "favor" to Xi Jinping regarding Starlink and Taiwan. ("Don't"). https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187

@mastodonmigration @fedicahq They banned me after I argued with their CEO about pricing. Pretty funny really.

Has anyone found a silver-bullet crossposting app, service, or plugin for Bluesky-Twitter-Mastodon? I’m aware of IFTTT (too slow), Buffer (no threadding in the mobile app) and Violentmonkey X interface hacks, but it’s all pretty bad.

Zelensky's comments in the past two days depict a not-too-distant future where a Ukraine denied NATO membership is developing nuclear weapons to fend off waves of North Korea soldiers.