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If Elon Musk actually leaves DOGE in May, don’t celebrate. And don't let up. Escaping accountability is his whole game. He’s a Nazi, propping up fascism, wrecking lives, and laundering cruelty. Keep the pressure on. Torch his brand. Shatter his legacy. Make sure history spits on his name.

It is daylight savings time in the EU. So before you go to bed tonight, please remember to change the time to January 21, 2029.

When you wake up tomorrow, Ukraine has won the war, Elon Musk is in jail, Trump has died from a blood clot, JD Vance has lost the US election to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Bernie Sanders is now Vice President.

So please — and I cannot stress this enough — remember to change the time.

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.

Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.

No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead

"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”

"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”

Did you know? Chromosome testing in sports has been done before and was stopped because cisgender people repeatedly learned that their chromosomes didn’t match their assigned sex. — Something the “XX and XY only” crowd seems to have forgotten.

What a lot of people are scared of is young people thinking for themselves, with access to all the world's knowledge, because they won't support the status quo they've built.

A Mastodon milestone.
According to my phone this my three thousandth toot.
It is hard to believe that I've had so much to show and tell.
The thing is, that I showed up here uninvited, and with zero social media experience. My grandkids thought this might be the best place for me to lurk if I wanted Covid updates coming from people that were actually knowledgeable. So, I dipped my toe in the social media pond.
They thought there was a good chance some pretty smart people, were to be found here, if I looked.
It turned out I was to find so much more than knowledge.
There is overt kindness and acceptance here and I didn't have to look far to find it.
You found me.
I am thankful.
The fact that you are overwhelmingly smart, and kind, and that you generously share your expertise, is a bonus.
I am privileged to inhabit a small space in your digital community.
The photo is from our walk this morning.
#Seascape

You know you can tax the rich right now, right? Just shift where you spend your money.

Support your local coffee shop instead of a big chain. Shop at farmers' markets. Eat at local restaurants. Buy from mom-and-pop stores. Choose independent brands over corporate giants.

Yes, it might cost a little more, but you're redirecting money away from corporations that thrive on low wages and putting it straight into your community—where it can grow, support jobs, and build something better.

You are effectively taxing the rich.

If Trump succeeds in torpedoing the economy and causing a recession, decimating tourism and air travel to the US, and weakening industrial production, he may cause a substantial drop in US emissions of climate-destroying gases and help us meet our Paris Agreement commitment.
#climate

Oh, Muskie, my sweet. Yes, we do want to destroy your "influence" (= complete control), because we believe in democracy. Where ordinary people (remember them?) have a say.

And no, the "Nazi stuff" isn't fake. We saw you, light of my life, heart of my heart's desiring, we *saw* you make a Nazi salute. We *know* you enabled a fascist president, and spent $400 million to get him elected. We *know* you supported the neo-nazi AfD in Germany.

*You* are the evil one.

"An off switch? She'll get years for that."

Vizio: "Please enjoy falling asleep to these calming nature scenes, occasionally punctuated with unhinged fascist rants. As a treat." I left the tv idle while I went to the other room to play with my dog....
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