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OK federated hive mind, I need someone to explain the concept of declaring alternate drinking days for St. Patrick's Day because apparently this has been declared which means after our dinner order was cancelled twice and we opted for pizza the only thing they had left was large stuffed crust. I don't remember this being a thing when I was in college but then again we drank every weekend.

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A good new week everybody, just waiting on some dinner. We're hoping it gets here soon because both of us are hungry and the first time we ordered it was cancelled and refunded so we tried again. Gathering with John's brother and his wife didn't happen today, but I'm sure we'll manage it at some point when everybody's not busy putting out fires.

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Fox News Host Throws Hissy Fit Over 'Woke' Legos
The toy company has apparently "gone woke" because of its new figures representing people with disabilities.

Another data point for the theory that the term “woke” now mostly operates to let bad people be publicly mad about things that even they would find embarrassing if they had to just directly say what they were upset about.

This time, it’s another instance of not pretending people with disabilities don’t exist, and by extension, disability rights and accessibility, once again being declared woke. So can we quit pretending that there’s some sort of bipartisan agreement on the belief that people with disabilities should be able to fully participate in society and working towards actualizing that goal now?

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jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu by Jupiter Rowland @jupiter_rowland@hubJupiter Rowland @jupiter_rowland@hub (Mastodon)
There are still way too many people who believe that Mastodon was created as a reaction to Musk's planned (or even actual) takeover of Twitter, and if they find out there's more to the Fediverse than Mastodon, everything else was created even later. Acutal reverse timeline, to whom it may concern: Musk bought Twitter in 2022. ActivityPub was acknowledged a standard in 2018. Mastodon is from 2016. Hubzilla is from 2012. Friendica is from 2010. Actually several months older than Diaspora*. As early as 2008, we already had something called StatusNet with a huge instance named identi.ca.
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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Friday. We're halfway through it, and John and I are going to have steaks and drinks with his brother and his wife this evening. We haven't done this in a while, where it's just us and not the older relatives, so this should be fun.

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FL Bill Makes Transphobia Accusations Defamation, $35k Penalty
Every day, a new bill is released that targets the transgender community in new and cruel ways. HB991 in Florida is the newest example, which could charge people $35k for transphobia accusations.

Oh look! Another instance of “Free speech for me but not for thee”! I’m sure the champions of free speech on these here internets will be all over this.