Trying to be happy while living on a messed up world.
I don't boost twit links or look at them either.
If I can make someone smile or laugh, I'm a happy camper.
LOIQs like #Trump#Elon#DeFacist not tolerated.
Blocking Bot accounts and RW propaganda.
I steal from the rich to give to the poor.
Here's what people on the outside looking in, don't get, Mastodon isn't an alternative to other social media, it is its own thing entirely.
That's what struck me about it, and why I'm still there. People on Mastodon didn't care how many people were on it or if their favorite celebrity or journalist was here. They want to build communities with real people.
All these kinds of articles are basically stating, "This wasn't for me, therefore these things are failures." How absolutely ridiculous.
Most of us would be kicked off of twitter by now, myself included as I don't walk softly criticizing the republicans and their star players (Trump and DeFascist).
There are so many cool people here, even when we disagree, it's in a nice way, with no trash talking.
Freedom of speech is what we are all about here.
No Ads, no BS period.
And to top it all off, this place is a lot of fun.
I haven't read and written so much in years,
Thanks Mastodon. 😀
Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?
Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.
When I was young I was living one paycheck away from being homeless for a few years.
It's a horrible feeling and really affects your mental state.
I did the stay with friends a couple of times because I had to, and it was because of their help and encouragement that I was able to get my act together and reset my perspective on things.
I didn't know anyone who 'chose' to be homeless. They were in that situation for reasons not in their control.
America, we have 11 months to stop a dictator. Don't be fooled by the familiarity of the fool or by any soft-pedaling of the situation. Trump means us excessive harm.
Nobody in the Democratic Party, including Joe Biden, is perfect. We don't need that and we won’t get it. We need people that will stop this march to autocracy, misogyny, racism, and the deletion of our rights.
One chance, people.
Voters must take Trump seriously and literally. The stakes are that high. https://wapo.st/47EtCsV
Monstrous decision that says women’s lives are not to be protected, even in the face of a medical emergency. Gun owners are fiercely protected in Texas. Women, not.
A lot of people need to take a hard look at how they are voting or plan to. Who gets elected in Texas is one thing, but the Fifth Circuit is comprised of judges appointed by Presidents.
The Supreme Court Rules That Cops Can Steal Your Stuff—as They Always Have
By a 6-3 vote, the conservative justices decided that there is no need for the state to provide a preliminary hearing in civil forfeiture cases.😡
When cops decide to help themselves to your property, they can do it without a warrant, without securing a conviction, without even charging you with a crime. 😡
When the government doesn't obey the law,
Then there is no law.
Billy Jack 1971
Threads: I'm in a wrong party and don't know what to say. I feel awkward, everyone is so happy with their gym selfies. Everyone asking endless questions and asking things from the algorithm. Lots of people use it like Instagram, every post is a selfie with a meaningless caption. Some are copy-pasting the same sentence over and over again for each line. Endless quote-post memes... What the fuck is this shit I don't even...
Bluesky: A Twitter clone, but still very barebones. Notifications are still not working, there are no hashtags and I don't find any relevant content to me in any of the feeds. It's mostly Facebook-like what's up in life, furry scene and AI photos. No news, no tech/web scene, no nothing. Not to mention it's still invite-only and won't support ActivityPub (yeah I know the reasoning behind that but for me it's mostly bullshit, I look forward to trying bridgy fed).
Mastodon and the Fediverse: Here I'm at home on my own server. Most content, most features. A community is friendly but has also lots of nitpicking, some angry dudes. Still the most safest, most healthy and most customized, but somehow the most hated network elsewhere. "Too techie", they say. "Too difficult", they say. "No algorithm", they say.
Nostr: Kinda promising, but way too obscure, strange and even techier than Mastodon. Too much crypto shit.
Well, that's that. Sometimes I feel like Internet is ruined. But I believe in the open social web movement and I want to see this grow.
In no other place I can write a status update as freely as this, as long as this or with a low bar as this. I LIKE this 100%. The same can't be said in those other places I'm experimenting with out of curiosity. There I'm the weird kid. Here I feel like myself.
I was never much of a social media person, never had a facebook or twit account but was a bit interested.
I think when twitter was crashing in 2022 I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I came across Mastodon and liked what I read about it so I opened an account.
Now I am a regular reader and post almost everyday. Most of the people I meet here are really cool and the trolls are blocked with one easy click.
Mast got me reading, writing and thinking again, I'm grateful for that.
As the #republicans continue to broadcast their lies and disinformation, I realize that I am just as angry at our government now as I was in the late 60's, early 70's.
We went to protests with the energy of diesel locomotives to express our hatred for war and the corruption in politics.
I feel sad because we are still fighting that fight now 😢
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙑𝙊𝙏𝙄𝙉𝙂!
Please vote at every level of government and destroy the #Republicans at the polls.😡
The Orangeburg Massacre occurred on the night of February 8, 1968, when a civil rights protest at South Carolina State University (SC State) turned deadly after highway patrolmen opened fire on about 200 unarmed black student protestors.
Saw this story in a previous post by @StillIRise1963 and it's driving me nuts.
Forcing Florida’s homeless into monitored camps is called internment. Are we in 1933 Germany?
Touted as “cutting edge,” the idea is to keep homeless people far from the view of selfish people offended and threatened by reminders of the plight of the less fortunate.
This has #NAZI written all over it.
America is on a downward spiral to a #Fascist dictatorship.
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry
The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S.-made electric vehicles that cost three times as much. A shorter-range version costs under $10,000.
This what most Americans need.. an affordable EV.
We should have freedom of choice 😡
Remember these?
We were always ready for a nuclear attack in the 50's and 60's
There was also an air raid siren within sight of our house.
Between 1953 and 1963, all new radios sold were required by law to carry a triangle-in-circle at 640 and 1240 AM on the dial. The triangles were referred to as CD marks, for Civil Defense.
This is the stuff that keep people awake at nights 😱
Former United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper explained on CNN, Friday how former President Donald Trump could use the Insurrection Act to stop protests against him if he were re-elected president in 2024.
GOP presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley went after her campaign rival, #Trump over comments he made about her military husband who is deployed overseas.
“Michael is deployed serving our country, something you know nothing about,” Haley said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Someone who continually disrespects the sacrifices of military families has no business being commander in chief.”
Again, #Drumpf insults our military service people.💩
That is correct. Your righteous anger is misplaced and you are at fault, yes.
History will record you as complicit and cooperative to the groups you claim to demonstrate against and protest about. They will refer to you as a "useful idiot" and you will disagree and think it has value.
A civil war in America would be devastating. There would be no winner, and you can bet the farm that the rich would not suffer and would probably watch from the comfort of their homes abroad.
War is not a game!
