Let me put the unbearable pain of mass shootings into its’ proper prospective. As a retired federal agent, I have had the sad misfortune of cleaning up after a few of these “events” as they were called. Try to lift a dead child (or adult) from the ground to put on a gurney, and their head falls from their body. Or you have to collect body parts to “complete” a victim for analysis. It hurts the strongest of us. Let republicans come into scenes and do this job. Not one would last a minute.

@AliensAbound

Toot Global, Browse Local

The Local Timeline is key to the #Mastodon experience. It’s a community of like-minded individuals sharing what they find interesting. Local is a human-curated alternative to the infamous #algorithm for discovering the best content. When a toot goes viral, it’s usually because people saw it on Local and boosted it hard! To make the most of it, find a server that focuses on topics of interest to you and migrate there.

@baruch

Twitter is dying by Natasha LomasNatasha Lomas

It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter. The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam […]