Dinah @metagrrrl@mastodon.social

RT @verge@twitter.com
.@RepBeatty@twitter.com guts Mark Zuckerberg on civil rights and housing advertisements

i’m just saying the more of us make cool art, the more art there will be here. and then you can tell your other cool friends “ohh all the cool art is on mastodon” and then they will join too. and then there will be even more art and also cool people here. just saying

Not Today, Satan

My Weekend's Basically Shot, Satan

How's Tuesday Looking, Satan

Social justice is a library issue; libraries are a social justice issue http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XfGGPCxgfTA/alice-g-smith.html #boingboing #glam #jessamyn_west #libraries #universal_access_to_all_human_knowledge

Rats can learn to drive tiny cars around an arena in exchange for a food reward. Their hormone levels suggest they seem to find going for a drive relaxing

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220721-scientists-have-trained-rats-to-drive-tiny-cars-to-collect-food/

RT @mipsytipsy@twitter.com
We are hiring a product manager at @honeycombio@twitter.com. It's a big, meaty leadership role spanning the entire org, and we need someone who loves developers, listens hard, and *cares* about making this whole software thing way less shitty.

https://jobs.lever.co/honeycomb/c5ce6b20-4230-421c-b5e1-b17d3a190d1c

Estonia is running its country like a tech company

https://qz.com/1535549/living-on-the-blockchain-is-a-game-changer-for-estonian-citizens/

“Untitled Moose Game” you’re a moose and you’re trying NOT to bother anyone, but you’re wreaking absolute havoc on the town because you’re a gargantuan clattering moose

RT @jonesthescribe@twitter.com
Titled Goose Game. In which the goose is made a life peer and terrorises the House of Lords.

Behold Our Dazzling Night Sky When the Milky Way Collides with Andromeda in 4 Billion Years https://kottke.org/19/10/behold-our-dazzling-night-sky-when-the-milky-way-collides-with-andromeda-in-4-billion-years

this is honestly a great article about organizing and really really radically demanding shit and GETTING IT

"all of these lessons were ones that we also got from the original abortion struggle — is to not go for half a loaf....the idea that you don’t cut off half of your base, half of the people who need what you’re trying to get. You don’t sell them out." https://jacobinmag.com/2019/10/abortion-without-apology-reproductive-rights

Yeah, okay, Mayor Pete’s moment of being interesting is over.

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RT @sahilkapur@twitter.com
Mark Zuckerberg has been quietly advising Pete Buttigieg on who to hire — and some of those recommendations are now part of the Democrat’s campaign staff.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/zuckerberg-offered-advice-in-hiring-to-buttigieg-in-rare-move
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1186253985948356609

Narrative Illustrator Owen Pomery https://kottke.org/19/10/narrative-illustrator-owen-pomery

#Inktoberday18 for my RPG Monster #Inktober prompt list! Day 18 is "Displacer Beast!" I ADORED these monsters as a kid looking through the old Monster Manuals, but I was always rubbed the wrong way that blink dogs get to all be cool and good and the really cool cat monsters had to be evil. True story.

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#inktober2k19 #inktober2019 #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dnd5e #monsters #rpginktober #mastoart

If you work for Facebook, I implore you to consider options elsewhere. I bet it looks good on a resume. For now.

Zuck and FB's leaders are determined to profit from becoming an even more dangerous weapon to further dismantle democracy and society.

Please don't help them.

RT @anildash@twitter.com
Facebook responded to the massive harm caused by political misinformation on its platform by creating its own, deeply destructive, political misinformation.

Gaslighting or self-delusion from Zuckerberg?

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RT @juliacarriew@twitter.com
I did also find out what Zuckerberg thought he meant when he said “we overcame polarization after WWI” and (spoiler alert) it still doesn’t make any sense to anyone who made it through Season 2 of The Twentieth Century https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/oct/17/zuckerberg-mlk-frederick-douglass-facebook?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1185216051304267776