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msbellows

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Twitter diaspora. Agamemnon sucks: we do the fighting, he gets the girls. (Oregonian. Mediator/lawyer/writer; bylines in The Guardian, Alternet, HuffPost/OffTheBus, more.)

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msbellows, to random
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Creative Effort To Persuade Birdsite Friends To Move To The Fediverse, attempt #1,296:

dgar, to random
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For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.

msbellows,
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@dgar And also, "lead" is pronounced "led" whereas "lead" is pronounced "leed."

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    @Teri_Kanefield It's why I disagree with those jurisdictions that forbid lawyers from asking whether jurors are willing to speak with them afterwards.

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    @Teri_Kanefield Has DOJ crossed a Rubicon here by charging a MOC with fraud/embezzlement for lying in a campaign then collecting the resulting contributions? His case is exceptional, but the principle could be applied to many, many pols.

    atomicpoet, to random

    I’ve been in a good mood today.

    Today is the first day in over a year that I haven’t used Mastodon.

    No, I’m not saying that Mastodon is “bad” and made me miserable. In fact, Mastodon freed me from Big Social, and for that I’m thankful.

    But it’s also true that Mastodon is kind of limiting. And well, I kind of want to spread my wings and fly.

    Actually, it’s a compliment to Mastodon that I can still talk to Mastodon while using another service that gives me more joy.

    If Mastodon was a walled garden service, I wouldn’t be able to do this.

    msbellows,
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    @atomicpoet What other service?

    rodhilton, to random
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    When I die please don't argue with the owners of web sites I post shit on to make them keep my stuff on their servers forever as if that's a reasonable request.

    In fact, the opposite. Please have every trace of me scrubbed from the internet as quickly as possible after my demise, I don't need people 50 years from now looking up my old jokes and judging me by their standards.

    msbellows,
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    @gdinwiddie @rodhilton Also, what if we're already laughing at you because of your old jokes and outdated standards?

    AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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    @AbandonedAmerica I've been told that most dogs do ground scent well but have to be taught to air scent, so if the bear didn't come from behind you originally your hound may not have picked up on it.

    msbellows,
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    @AbandonedAmerica I'm jealous of your experience. It sounds glorious (in hindsight, from safety).

    TonyStark, to random
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    Please block trolls, folks. If we don’t, they just keep haunting decent people’s posts and messing with our momentum to get things done.

    Pushing anti-democratic talking points that could have aired on RT? Telling you voting doesn’t matter, no progress happens, that both parties are the same or barely different? Just block that noise.

    If anyone needs help, happy to oblige. If you can’t tell them from Tucker Carlson, there’s a reason for that.

    https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/concern-trolling/

    msbellows,
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    @TonyStark @maddad OK but Tony that sounds like something someone without a uterus would say.

    (Ducks thrown shoe)(unsuccessfully)

    Ow.

    aral, to random
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    “According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”

    https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/5/with-charles-iii-coronation-colonialism-is-coming-home-to-roost

    msbellows,
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    @aral I'm convinced the only way to save the monarchy at this point is for everyone else to abdicate to Harry and Meghan, allowing them to recast the monarchy as a low-profile, privilege-renouncing, purely symbolic emblem of a modern, multiracial, culturally egalitarian commonwealth. Absent that? It's dead. By 2050 Sweden will have a stronger monarchy than England.

    davidho, to random
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    The best-selling vehicle in France vs. the US in 2022.

    msbellows,
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    @davidho OK but TBF

    msbellows,
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    @twobiscuits @davidho Except they have good trains.

    msbellows, to random
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    Home again in PDX after a work-related road trip to meditate in a small, beautiful town on the Southern Oregon coast. Just finished a 280 mile drive today, my butt and back hurt, I'm sick of sitting, and yet all I want to do now is collapse in my recliner. Why is that?

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Well, this looks like competition for journalism schools from Allbritton. In my experience students are uncomfortable writing in public until they feel they've learned enough. So I'll bet his salaried "students" will be much farther along.
    https://www.semafor.com/article/05/01/2023/politicos-founder-is-spending-20-million-to-train-aspiring-journalists

    msbellows,
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    @jeffjarvis I hope it doesn't end up creating center-right journalists, though. I went down a rabbit hole, and it seems like Allbritton is a pretty typical second-generation-wealth heir. From his dad's wp:

    juddlegum, to random
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    Oh look, we are now calling peaceful protests "mob action" and deeming it a "threat to democracy"

    msbellows,
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    @juddlegum "We can't have democracy anyway until we find out who set fire to the Reichstag -- so democracy is hereby suspended until we determine who set fire to the Reichstag."

    atomicpoet, to random
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    Elon was able to buy Twitter because it was centralized and one company owned it.

    Bluesky is supposed to prevent that from happening—but Bluesky users want to repeat the same mistake.

    They don’t realize that Elon could buy Bluesky right now and it would all be over.

    See screenshot.

    msbellows,
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    @atomicpoet To my admittedly non-techie self, advocating for a single-server platform (but without Elon Musk) because it's simpler/easier seems like saying, "democracy is complicated and messy; can't we just have an efficient totalitarian government but with an enlightened leader instead of another Hitler?"

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    All of the posts on Mastodon about how the Blue Sky team was silly for releasing a social media network in 2023 without blocking and moderation, even in private beta, and that the Blue Sky team should have known what would happen...

    ...are being written on Mastodon: a social media platform that in 2023, still doesn't take into account that Black users face a disproportionate amount of very specific types of abuse, and is missing key features that would make the Black population safer. 🙂🙃

    msbellows,
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    @mekkaokereke @BlackAzizAnansi @Are0h But is Blue Sky any better? I mean, a lot of folks are sticking with Twitter, which sure as hell isn't better moderation-wise than Mastodon.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Day 2 of v and I’m here to thread it (given a few breaks because of the time zone difference. Hey, a girl’s gotta blow dry, right?). 1/… 🪡

    This entire thread is just me sharing @KlasfeldReports’s live reporting. Credit goes to him, not me, but thanks 😉 Here we go. Klasfeld:

    E. Jean Carroll's testimony continues with more questions from her attorney, before cross-ex by Trump's legal team.

    I'm covering the proceedings, for @lawcrimenews.

    msbellows,
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    @hammancheez @GottaLaff I hate this, but he landed some solid blows in 44-47 above. In closing arguments, we're going to hear a lot about how there was no reason for her to go into the dressing room if she weren't planning to have intimate contact. He'll argue that (joking aside) TFG obvs wasn't going to try it on, so the only reason she entered it is that she was open to trying it on herself (ie, angling to get more intimate) +/or hoping to actually have sex there (which high-end stores often are surprisingly willing to turn a blind eye to).

    Again, I'm just noting what I expect him to argue.

    msbellows,
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    @samhainnight @hammancheez @GottaLaff Agreed, of course, but she has never said it began consensually and that she then withdrew consent. She says she never consented, so if one juror believes she initially did consent and is lying about it now, then that juror could conclude nothing she says is reliable.

    It's a much better argument than the "you're in it for the $!" anyone he's been pushing.

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    Beyond the politics of it, there’s been an interesting shift that’s occurred since Biden disparaged his older competitor in 1972. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/26/biden-age-2024-election/?itid=ap_philipbump

    msbellows,
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    @pbump WOW.

    GrimmReality, to random
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    Complete bullshit. Nobody LIKES to push a plow OR chase a cow. Those were labor requirements of the respective trades. And affinity for either wasn't a virtue, it's just shit you did as a filthy dung-encrusted yayhoo working on filched land.

    msbellows,
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    @Jonathanglick @GrimmReality And a profound misunderstanding of both soil science and the social and utilitarian needs of herders vs farmers.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    The amazing @KlasfeldReports is on it, and off we go. Thread: 1/… 🪡

    just swiped at twice in the last hour on Truth Social, calling her case a "made up SCAM."

    We'll see if the missives come up in court today.

    msbellows,
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    @GottaLaff Here, I visited Truth Social so you don't have to. And yes, Trump just invited the court to order him to provide a DNA sample and invited E. Jean Carroll to add yet another defamation claim.

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    Green_Footballs, to random
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    Jack Dorsey enthusiastically co-signed the deal that betrayed 200 million Twitter users and handed their accounts over to a fucking right wing egomaniacal billionaire. You’ll have to excuse me if I’m not eager to sign up for another one of this dude’s schemes.

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    @ekknappenberger @Green_Footballs I personally am open to the possibility of (checks recipe) tucking some Jack Dorsey under the skin of a chicken before roasting, to add flavor and fragrance.

    msbellows,
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    @ekknappenberger @Green_Footballs "Sage"!

    aral, to internet
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    Was just asked by a friend if I wanted a #BlueSky invite.

    My reply?

    “Thanks but no thanks.”

    Why?

    Because I don’t need to see the app. I know the people behind it and what they stand for. The app can only ever be a manifestation of (or an initial misdirection from) that.

    Expecting the wolf that took a bite out of you last time to this time act in your interests is how you end up as its dinner.

    #BlueSky #JackDorsey #billionaires #SiliconValley #decentralisation #lipService #crypto #bullshit

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