@Mastodon I know it's not necessarily something to celebrate on merch, but I'd love something with the "mastodon fail" elephant. He's so cute.

@Nadinabbott @donmelton That's awesome!

🎉 MAZEL TOV to the #ACA on its Bar Mitzvah! (Part 1) #ACA13
https://acasignups.net/23/03/23/mazel-tov-aca-its-bar-mitzvah-aca13-part-1

@vivienhessel When some states are actively trying to legislate that minority out of existence, some of us find that newsworthy. Glad it doesn't affect you though. Enjoy your privilege.

Top headline in the Washington Post today, a story about trans people that features actual trans voices instead of fear-mongering and bigoted terfs. The NY Times has a choice in how to report on trans issues and they always choose wrong. (gift article) https://wapo.st/42xm1e4

"Redistribution of wealth doesn't work."

"Did the guys with the wealth tell you that?"

brb starting Moms Against "Moms Against" Groups

#Debirdify has been suspended by Twitter without warning or explanation. Apparently it violated ‘Twitter rules and policies’, but that is all they told us.

We contacted Twitter support about the situation, but we are not particularly optimistic.

We always knew this could happen; it happened to other services in the past, so we are neither particularly surprised nor sad about it.

In the mean time, Fedifinder still works: https://fedifinder.social

Use it while you still can!

Disney trolls Ron DeSantis as it holds "the largest LGBTQ+ conference in the world" https://boingboing.net/2023/03/22/disney-trolls-ron-desantis-as-it-holds-the-largest-lgbtq-conference-in-the-world.html #boingboing #Disney #Disney_World #florida #LGBTQ_rights #ron_desantis

So it’s time to give #Mastodon another try - if you haven’t yet or gave up.

It seems like the usability issues are being solved due to an ever more innovative and competitive ecosystem of apps.

Mammoth is one of the best apps right now: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/mammoth-for-mastodon/id1667573899?l=en

Future people in 2025: "OMG, why didn't anyone warn us #COVID19 damages our health and shortens our lives akin to HIV?"

Wuhan doctor in February 2020: "The influence of COVID-19 on the human body is like a combination of SARS and AIDS as it damages both the lungs and immune systems."

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1181121.shtml

“I’m sure you did your best” is the ninja of insults.

@mattpt55 https://mastodon.social/@epp_john/110066864543503958

The New York Times ran six front page stories in a year claiming trans kids were transitioning too fast and regretting it but failed to come up with statistical or even anecdotal evidence backing it. One story had an anecdote about a person who took 7 years to transition and got all of their medical treatment as an adult as the primary example of kids transitioning too fast and regretting it. That's neither a kid or transitioning fast. And it's a setup for banning transition for more than kids.

Venetian Street, 1882 #johnsingersargent #americanart https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/venetian-street-1882

my wife's company is trying to convince people to return to the office because one of their executives thinks its embarrassing when clients come by and the offices are empty, anyways, theatre students always need some pocket money and if someone wants to join my exciting new "potemkin village as a service" startup

Guilty verdicts are coming in now in the Oath Keepers trial (the militia leaders that helped plan and carry out the attack on the capitol.)

Deterrence (a theory of punishment) doesn't usually work (I did the research for a published book; the DOJ studies concur.)

Incapacitation can work, but temporarily (sentences are limited, inmates get hardened, etc.)

Luck in timing: Just as Trump needs another insurrection, the leaders of the last one are in court.

And they know he didn't help them.

A neighbor asked me why it was called the “dot-com era” and friends, I could feel my bones getting more brittle as I stood there

RT @AndyRichter
It still kills me that these rubes center that failed real estate clown from the '80s and '90s in their grandiose nationalist paranoid fantasy. It's like they wanted a George Washington and they chose Ted Knight's nephew Spaulding from Caddyshack to play him https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1638299505178075138