@laprice Anyone who is afraid of being seen as "anti-war" has already lost the plot.
Any lawmaker who thinks being "anti-war" is bad shouldn't be a lawmaker.
Preventing war is part of the JOB.
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@byte Welcome to fedi, where we kick advertisers off without a second thought ^.^ (...well, my instance does, anyway. :tootcat: )
@BruceMirken I'm very much wanting to replace our gas beasts with EVs -- but it seems like the entire EV market has switched to the ChildSmasher 3000 Sport Utility Vehicle genre, and just no. -.-
(I'll keep looking... maybe a nice used Chevy Bolt will follow me home one day.)
@artemis This makes me think that maybe one of the exploitable weaknesses of the Right is that they view media in such simple terms that progressive messages can often get completely past them, especially if they're couched in allegorical terms. (Think of "I used to like Star Trek until it went all woke.")
Kinda like reverse-dogwhistling, I guess?
@blogdiva I remember being shown how to text from a text-terminal at Brown to someone at Yale (friend of a friend) in, mustabin, 1986? 1987?
Also, had email as an employee starting in 1985 or 1986 -- but it only went between universities until 1989.
...and then everything changed, when the .com Nation (CompuServe et al.) attacked.
Anyway, you apparently beat me by a couple of years ^.^ 🏆 🥇
Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.
I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.
Pls boost.
Lemmer-Webber's latest fawning puff-piece for the Engooglification of Everything unfairly attacks BlueSky, the only real alternative to corporate social media platforms, for the mere act of securing solid financial support for its users. Clearly Lemmer-Webber gleefully envisions a future in which all social media is centrally-owned, and independent operators like BlueSky are subsumed into the universal panopticon.
How's that? :D 🤡 🥸
(I had to stop myself from ever mentioning Mastodon / ActivityPub by name -- because of course the whole point is to pretend it doesn't exist. The word "real" is doing a lot of heavy curtain-closing here.)
tired: LLM (large language model)
wired: MLM (magical labor manifestation)
tired: "vibe coding"
wired: "Mickey Mouse coding"
(I'm thinking of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from Fantasia, in case that wasn't clear.)
@heidilifeldman Democrats need to stop confirming anyone Trump puts forward for anything. [/probably_obvious]
@AlJazeera @us-canada-news-AlJazeera
I would never trust him to honor any promise, much less one like that.
@hkz I'm just jealous of the amount of sustained focus it takes to do something like that.
(The act itself is entirely normal, however; it's just the done thing.)
@QasimRashid I'm unavoidably reminded of a quip from a trailer I just watched: "It's about to get stupider."
