seachanger

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

Mastodon absolutely needs more journalists. We should not have millions of people boosting one another’s ideas without a solid contingent of people in here professionally trained to vet stories, check facts, and use best practices for sharing news. It is, imo, an urgent issue & critical for the ongoing success of the fediverse #Press

seachanger, 7 months ago to random

dude can we talk about how many white cis het women are dealing with left or center left husbands spouting alt right talking pts rn? this is an epidemic

seachanger, 2 months ago to animals

Ok let’s do this, reply with your #dogsOfMastodon

seachanger, 7 months ago to random

never forget: we didn’t ask for robot cars. when polled US majorities have always wanted action on climate, good public transit & safe streets. but our leaders act without our consent.

last year, 78% polled wanted increased investment in US passenger rail, a number that went to 80% among women and 82% in cities and 91% among Black people. this year, 76% polled in the US said they are afraid of self-driving cars & just 9% say they trust them and that number is declining year to year

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

what’s a headline from a better timeline you’d love to read?

#HeadlineFromABetterTimeline

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

I literally get more texts from random democrats across the country asking for money than I do texts from my own elected democrats asking me to help organize my neighborhood, that’s a problem

seachanger, 10 months ago to animals

🛑 it’s time to post #DogsOfMastodon. here is mine i would like to see yours

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.

what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes

seachanger, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

the only argument we should be making for mastodon at this point is that you can post as much ass and vag as you want and as long as you mark it and use the CW feature no one cares because a)we own it ourselves and make our own rules and b) no one is trying to make this a safe space for Brands™

seachanger, 9 months ago to random

instances should be called neighborhoods

seachanger, 9 months ago to random

ok I was just doing errands on my bike and ended up behind this truck with a stuffed mastodon mounted on top. obviously I chased the driver down to ask for a pic. turns out she’d just found it on the side of the road and liked the way it looked strapped to her truck

seachanger, 5 months ago to Alaska

boarding the #alaska state ferry Columbia tonight at 3 am with my truck and my dog and heading 1300 miles down the inside passage of AK and BC as i have been doing for the last 20 years or so. i will live toot when i have service because for me, the alaska state ferries are a kind of church and i am a kind of fundamentalist and missionary

#FerriesMoveAlaska

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

daily reminder that no one gets to tell you how to mastodon (or how to fedi)

seachanger, 8 months ago to random

I know mastodon has issues, I know the fediverse is basically a prototype of what it could be. I know it’s annoying when people are snobby about masto despite its faults.

But for real, if we want this shit to succeed, we’ve got to also love what is good here and be growing it. That doesn’t mean yelling about how all other social media sites suck. It means focusing on what we’re getting right here, listening carefully to complaints, and putting a little energy into solving problems

seachanger, 6 months ago to random

The US gives more funding to Israel than we do any other nation, annually and cumulatively.

Meanwhile, Israel’s government-run, universal healthcare system ranks among the best in the world, and the US’s health care ranks among the worst of developed nations. More than 40,000 US citizens die annually due to lack of health care coverage.

seachanger, 10 months ago to random

bad reply guys are one of fedi/mastodon’s biggest problems.

I’m realizing it’s not only a demographic issue but a structural one with the platform. if people cannot easily see one another’s replies, and if the original poster can’t easily QT replies, someone with a popular post has to field dozens of nearly identical replies. if these replies enforce white supremacy or patriarchy (spoiler: they often do), the structure of mastodon tends to center and amplify white supremacy &patriarchy

seachanger, 7 months ago to random

posting a lot about Israel today because the fedi is not a safe space for oppression or religious persecution, and many of us have some learning to do

seachanger, 1 month ago to random

tfw you are on the M/V Kennicott ⛴️

#FerriesMoveAlaska

seachanger, 6 months ago to random

1. waking up big mad about US gov helping israel bomb palestinians
2. looking up numbers of congresspeople
3. saving both senators and rep as contacts in phone
4. calling all three today
5. chatting with staffers like they are old friends. opposing more money for war in israel. asking that rep/senator support a ceasefire
6. texting a friend to remind them to call

seachanger, 4 months ago to random

white people sometimes flip out when we are told something or someone we know or love is actually racist.

we’re conditioned to think of racism as jerks in white robes only, so the gut level emotional dissonance can be shocking and upsetting when our eyes are opened to other layers of racism we were blind to. especially if it’s in something we have positive emotions about.

our work is to learn to observe that reaction within us without kneejerking to denial or being dismissive

seachanger, 9 months ago to random

which Ted lasso character are you, correct answers only

seachanger, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

are you starting to find friends & community here?

seachanger, 8 months ago to random

we spill a lot of pixels on fedi worrying about twitter. i think facebook is a larger threat. remember 3.5 billion use meta, 455 million use twitter.

meta has infiltrated and unified spheres of participatory society that formerly were distributed across a diversity of organizational structures, including small businesses, public institutions, private communications, nonprofits, etc

imo this is essentially the most consequential and pervasive privatization of social life in planetary history.

seachanger, 8 months ago to random

Extremely effing happy to be listening to #NaomiKlein on this podcast right now

https://pca.st/episode/1726cc53-35c0-4717-b994-6bd10cb5214b

seachanger, 27 days ago to random

once an alaska economist on twitter unfollowed me because I disagreed that “construct more houses” was the only way out of this housing crisis and suggested we may have some regulatory leverage as well

https://www.businessinsider.com/nar-settlement-antitrust-lawsuits-agent-commissions-affect-home-prices-2024-3?amp