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Yeah that's what I'm finally able to do. There were almost 3,000 in here. Interface is a bit clunky, but I've gotten it down to 2127.

I can't delete them all, but I can delete quite a few.

Oh no. I hope Tuesday ended up being better than this, and I hope that you're able to replace the mug with either the exact same mug that was your favorite, or something you would like drinking coffee out of even though it has to grow into a favorite.

This was an amazingly refreshing post.

This was an amazingly refreshing post.

I don't know why he's so upset. I mean they're just mean tweets. Isn't that what his apologists have been scolding the rest of us about for the last almost 10 years?

@dukepaaron OK you guys have a point.

Oh no rates are never negotiable. This is skilled labor and, if the flood of "it's not antisemitic because $Jew agrees with/said it" is any indication, it's also labor that is very much in demand.

@arstechnica Hell yes LAN parties!

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka Mastodon does OK on desktop, but there are definitely some major accessibility problems. That whole thing with link underlines, for example.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka Yes that would be nice. I think I'm close to being done technologying for today. Don't think that's a word, also don't care. It is now.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I see what happened. My client broke the thread. Somedays I hate this client.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka No problem I just don't want you to get the impression I'm secretly in favor of turning the US into a theocracy. I promise. I'm not.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka This thread was about Israel/Palestine. How did we end up talking about America? Because honestly these are two very different situations.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I've worked on plenty of election days, and I'm very well aware that there are people in this country for whom it is literally impossible to vote. But it still comes down to if enough people who can vote decide to do something that lets the fundies take power, then as a collective we set the stage for that. Doesn't mean we're all horrible people, it does mean that now there's a situation that has some very unpleasant facts associated with it that we all now need to deal with.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka If you have the opportunity this election, see if you can tag along with someone who needs accessible voting at your local polling place. I promise you that situation is rarely without all kinds of avoidable problems, up to and including poll workers who don't know how to set things up, and that's one of the more benign bits. And the only orgs even sort of dealing with that kind of voter suppression are disability rights orgs. And it's a both-parties problem.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I have to jump over crazy hurtles to vote. I still do it because the alternative is that the Christian fundamentalists *definitely take over if enough people like me decide to just sit it out.

Just popping up their new Slack AI think. I was able to get it dismissed.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka If they take over the government, then that means enough people in the US voted for them to take power. So yes, that would mean that enough people in the US either specifically voted for them, or did some other thing necessary for them to take power, like abstaining or writing in or any other electoral thing that would cause them to win.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka "They have the right to choose a fundamentalist Islamic/authoritarian government" is great in principle, except Gazans were granted that right, enough of them chose the fundamentalists to allow said fundamentalists to stage a takeover, all of which has culminated in October 7 with the supposedly moderate PA being little better and yet the international community wants to hand everything over to that entity while pinky swearing it'll reform. All of this then becomes literally a problem for Israel and Egypt, just for starters. Proponents of the two-state solution have yet to seriously grapple with any of this, and I don't think the people doing the moving and shaking in that space are going to do this any time soon. And until that happens, and there's some major changes in Palestinian politics, a two-state solution isn't happening.