@stefan and I guess, not *just* Mastodon but the rest of the 'verse

@stefan it's like, there needs to be the United Nations of Mastodon? Or something

@stefan that's something I had to learn coming over here from Twitter...

The CW is difficult to gauge it seems - some people are way more sensitive to stuff. There's always the option to just mute that person though, right?

@stefan oh, that's interesting... I hadn't thought of it that way.

Are there instances that have very different rules?

@stefan whoa

@stefan @helenchong Oh! I should try and add this to my blog! thanks for sharing

@CorvidCrone xoxo ️ (am determined to make the red heart emoji my number 1 emoji in 2025)

cc: @stefan

The holidays are difficult for me, emotionally & mentally, even all these years after the *first* Trump election.

I essentially had to stop talking to some family members because of the gloating or nutty things they'd say -my grandmother's (Mex. - American) fav thing to say is "I rebuke you for voting for Biden! You're going to hell."

Other members were posting memes on FB, etc & I live far away.

There's more to say but I'll stop.

If you exp. the same - hugs to you. xo ️

#mentalhealth

@gneilyo @stefan but where's your Scottish flag? lol

@stefan admirable that you were able to keep the language...cleaner than my post. ha.

Great take... ️

Emojis I've used the most using @stefan tool(!) https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse-emoji

(Am guessing I'll be using a trash can emoji more in 2025)

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#mastodon

Using @stefan tool https://data.stefanbohacek.com/projects/fediverse

Cool!

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@stefan that's cool! I'll have to take a look at this...

"I have said it before, and will say it again: When #books are banned from school libraries, run to your public library, or the nearest bookstore, and read what it is your elders don't want you to know."

- Stephen King

(Over 50 books by King have been banned in schools across Florida.)

via: https://www.newsweek.com/stephen-king-books-banned-florida-full-list-1947910

#BannedBooks #Libraries #Florida

The U.S. gov. has tried to silence photographers before.

"It hired famed photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures as 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes on the West Coast and interned at remote military-style camps throughout the interior.

The agency had hoped Lange's photos would depict the process as orderly and humane.

But the hundreds of photos that Lange turned over did the opposite."

via https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment

#UsPol #Photography #BelieveInFilm