YES totally understandable. That's why I did the title like how it is, or people would (understandably) make the awful mistaken conclusion I think Doris is cool or something.
Threads seems to be beginning to test ActivityPub federation, and since Kbin can be used for microblogging, this affects kbin.social. What are your thoughts on federating or defederating with them?
The House voted on Wednesday to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, pushing forward with a yearlong G.O.P. investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors....
At 6:58 a.m. Thursday, Dr. Angela Adams Powell addressed the nurses at the south Alabama hospital where she had delivered babies for more than 25 years....
Voters in some of the highest-profile school board elections across the U.S. rebuked conservative candidates in local school board elections who want to ban books and restrict classroom conversations on race and gender....
Downvote all you want. You have tea and crumpets with the guy who falls all over Kim Jong Un, and go and name districts after him, then absolutely fffk you and horse you rode in on.
A law under consideration by the German parliament would mean that people who have committed anti-Semitic acts can never be granted citizenship, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Wednesday.
Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: βWe need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.β
Ted Cruz wants lawmakers to get security escorts through Americaβs airports (www.politico.com)
Cruz told POLITICO that his amendment is about ensuring that political VIPs arenβt endangered as they pass through public spaces in airports....
No. Ffffk them rules and also your empathy.
How do we feel about federating with Threads?
Threads seems to be beginning to test ActivityPub federation, and since Kbin can be used for microblogging, this affects kbin.social. What are your thoughts on federating or defederating with them?
House Approves Biden Impeachment Inquiry as G.O.P. Hunts for an Offense (www.nytimes.com)
The House voted on Wednesday to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, pushing forward with a yearlong G.O.P. investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors....
'America will become a renter nation': Grant Cardone warns the US could see 100-year mortgages β says we might even rent our clothes (finance.yahoo.com)
Boosts and reduces no longer working for me?
Boosts and reduces now redirect me to the Kbin error page. Anyone else having this problem?
TIL Dior has released a $230 'scented water' for babies. It's significantly more expensive than its bestselling fragrances for adults. (www.insider.com)
With tears and a lullaby, a rural Alabama hospital stops delivering babies (www.nbcnews.com)
At 6:58 a.m. Thursday, Dr. Angela Adams Powell addressed the nurses at the south Alabama hospital where she had delivered babies for more than 25 years....
The art of saying nothing (thumbsnap.com)
36-hour shifts, 80-hour weeks: Workers are being burnt out by overtime (www.nbcnews.com)
Of particular note:...
Which internet meme, if somehow erased from ever emerging, might have the biggest impact?
Is there a fundamental internet meme that has had such a major impact that it would have notable repercussions if it had somehow disappeared?
Liberal and moderate candidates take control of school boards in contentious races across US (apnews.com)
Voters in some of the highest-profile school board elections across the U.S. rebuked conservative candidates in local school board elections who want to ban books and restrict classroom conversations on race and gender....
Sweden has had enough of being mixed up with Switzerland (www.euronews.com)
How to stop mass shootings in a nutshell by one political party (lemmy.world)
Hamas delegation in Russia (www.reuters.com)
Abu Marzouk, one of Hamas leaders, after visiting Moscow:...
Netanyahu declares a βsecond war of independenceβ as fears for Gazans grow (www.theguardian.com)
Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks β’ The Register (www.theregister.com)
Anti-Semites cannot be granted German citizenship under new law - minister (www.reuters.com)
A law under consideration by the German parliament would mean that people who have committed anti-Semitic acts can never be granted citizenship, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Wednesday.
CEO says COVID gave us bad habits, prescribes unemployment of 40-50% (twitter.com)
Property developer and CEO Tim Gurner: βWe need to see unemployment rise. Unemployment has to jump 40, 50 percent in my view. We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.β