Gardening, hiking, bike riding, game playing, inactive poly, left-ish/liberal-ish/radical-ish, partisan, urbanist, separated air force, RCV
Very interested in social media and how community is built
software engineering manager by trade
use the phrase "genocide Joe" in my mentions and get instablocked
he/him
I live in #Wisconsin and haven't seen nearly enough on this and I have minimal reach but fuck it, IF YOU FUCKING LIVE IN #WISCONSIN VOTE FUCKING _NO_ ON THE FUCKING #WISCONSIN STATE REFERENDUM TOMORROW, WHILST ALSO FUCKING VOTING _FOR_ SUSAN CRAWFORD AND JILL UNDERLY. Thank you.
Republicans say they’re moving fast on passing their budget: The usual garbage heap of tax cuts and spending cuts designed, as Republican budgets generally are, to punish poor and old people.
https://trib.al/hN1Fh8s
Don’t mess with Trans Kids"
Banner spotted in San "Antonio, TX on International day of trans visibility 2025
This was an act of terrorism, but western governments will never proscribe the IDF, no matter how many acts of terrorism it carries out
And we LOST THAT, and the whole world is honestly gonna suffer, but we will suffer a lot.
https://balloon-juice.com/2025/03/30/thought-provoking-read-the-not-so-special-relationship/
"Such rudeness and condescension do not come out of nowhere. We British know; those ugly Americans learned their imperial arrogance from us. What’s new is Trump’s debasement and corruption of America’s constitutional and democratic tradition. Moral authority is being lost, and with it the right to lead."
While lefties scream about imperialism, the rest of the world GRANTED us the right to lead, because we did do it better than past countries did.
In 1916 Hetty Green, the richest US woman, was called the "Witch of Wall Street". Stereotypes that women have no business dealing with money, are financially illiterate & shouldn't talk about it persist today--and must be broken.
https://www.thepersistent.com/what-is-great-wealth-transfer-millennials-boomers/
This is how you do it people. It shouldn't have been that hard.
Far-right French leader Marine Le Pen convicted of embezzlement and barred from running in 2027 election
Wait ... so in other countries, politicians who commit crimes are sentenced — they don't get to be elected president?
How weird! That's why America is the greatest country in the world! /s
If you use signal, please pay signal.
The infra they need to provide their service ain't cheap.
I really, really, really, need someone who does video editing to mash up Elon crying with all the bad shit elon does.
DEMOCRATS ARE ON A SPECIAL ELECTION ROLL!
KEEP IT GOING THIS TUESDAY!
--WI Supreme Court (Susan Crawford)
--FL-01 (Gay Valimont)
--FL-06 (Josh Weil)
--WI Super of Pub Ed (Jill Underly)
--WI Dane Cty Exec (Melissa Agard)
--WI Winnebago Cty Exec (Gordon Hintz)
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/specials25-26?refcode=masto
I’m still up for speaking at North American events and conferences, but only ones that cover international travel and are in relatively safe states. I’m a cheaper date and fly economy. You’ll need to reach out.
"For me, the challenge that’s hardest is the one Farrell puts forward: thinking of the dynamics of truth through the lens of publics, rather than the lens of people."
back to the article.
"What’s useful about this particular conception of “post-post-truth”, where we:
...
– understand that countering misinfo for one individual is unlikely to change political dialogs, as we live less in individual bespoke realities and more in separate publics, with different presumptions and information sources"
