The official Twitter account of the GOP House Judiciary Committee posted about Peanut.

Elon Musk posted and reposted over 20 tweets about Peanut throughout the weekend.

The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece decrying Peanut's death as an example of "abusive government" and tried to tie the incident to crime on New York City subways and Democrat-run government.

And right wing crypto accounts have begun boosting a forthcoming Peanut meme coin. https://www.usermag.co/p/how-an-ig-famous-squirrel-became

SCOOP: The “anonymous new media outlet” a right wing recruiting firm has been reaching out to journalists about on LinkedIn is LibsofTikTok.

I wrote about Raichik’s efforts to hire an investigative journalist to launder her hate campaigns and how the role shows how she’s is seeking to expand her enterprise and gain legitimacy as a news media figure. https://www.usermag.co/p/libsoftiktok-is-hiring-an-investigative

@johnonolan I just saw this info in this link and wish I realized earlier or I would have mentioned!! Look forward to chatting, I am a fan of what u guys are doing! https://www.augment.ink/ghost-substack-discoverability/

@quillmatiq Oh wow!! I wish I knew this I would have included a line. Great piece

Substack could embrace the federated model of social media, which platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and even Threads leverage. In so many ways, the Fediverse embodies the ideals that Substack was founded on: giving users a platform-agnostic connection to their audience, allowing for audience portability, eliminating top-down moderation, and putting users back in control of their online experience. https://www.usermag.co/p/how-substacks-follow-feature-betrays

@johnonolan @jvnknvlgl hi!! Omg I have never seen your replies I am sorry, I would have definitely responded!! I would love to chat, and not trying to hate on ghost btw. As I understand Quilette is on Ghost and you guys don’t do content moderation. But I wasn’t trying to hate on anyone and I just think that a lot of these convos about publishing tools are derailed by what ppl read in headlines. I’m on [email protected] if u ever have a few min to chat I’d love to connect

@jvnknvlgl they do! They have less moderation than Substack but it was never a viral headline. I’m not defending it or saying “well this platform is also bad so it’s ok for Substack to do xyz” just saying it’s a broader systemic issue with these email newsletter platforms and publishing tools that don’t want to get into the content moderation business

@jvnknvlgl Ghost also accepts nazis, I realize they’re not part of the fediverse but I struggle to find a single publishing tool that doesn’t allow allow reprehensible people to publish.

Question for something I’m writing: would it be possible for Substack to make substack Notes (its twitter like feature within the Substack app) part of the fediverse?

I’m wondering if this is something that’s technically possible or not and I don’t know enough about how the fediverse operates to know if it would be feasible. #fediverse

I really hope the fediverse can get more traction among “normies”. But one thing I have been wondering is why the community on Bluesky (which I think is also part of the fediverse?) is so much worse than Mastodon?

I’ve received more hate and harassment on Bluesky than Twitter. The people are truly awful on that app, but every time Musk does something usage balloons. I don’t understand why people jump to Bluesky when Mastodon is here and so much better imo!

NPR is once again publishing irresponsible misleading garbage.

An entire strain of the flu was not eliminated "thanks to covid" it was eliminated because everyone collectively masked and took measures that halted the spread of airborne disease.

Think how many viruses and people could be saved if people just fucking masked, we upgraded ventilation, and took airborne disease seriously.

But NPR will never put that in a headline.

Very telling that the "free speech" brigade who spent years (falsely) decrying Meta's censorship of right wing views, are absolutely silent about the actual censorship these platforms engage in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12btf2Oq820