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This is where we are: Families of trans youth are fleeing political persecution in the US with no sign that anything will stop the GOP’s reign of terror.

This is how we got here: A drip, drip, drip of confusing and misleading news stories showed us how little it takes to destabalize the situation for an already vulnerable minority group.

Calling a spade a spade feels like all I can do some days. #transgender #journalism

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/its-happening-here-its-happening-now

—@e_urq

I hope EVERYONE is enjoying Lag Ba’Omer today, a good All-#American holiday.

And to those of you who aren’t, happy Yom Easter or something.

#chag #holiday #greeting

#LagBaOmer

#MedinatAmerica

—@jewwhohasitall

@koko

Free Software Guy: For too long have we suffered the Torment Nexus, so I am creating OpenTormentNexus to finally give users and developers the freedom to create their own personalized Torment Nexuses.

—@bytex64

People keep bringing up the very tired “Linux on the desktop” meme to dismiss the Fediverse.

But a meme is just a meme.

In the real world, Linux dominates.

Your phone? Probably Linux. Your car’s infotainment system? Linux. Your router? Linux.

Chromebook? Linux.

Windows has a Linux Subsystem too.

Linux has won.

The “Linux on the desktop” naysayers don’t even realize it.

The Fediverse should be so lucky.

—@atomicpoet

Republicans: We will literally criminalize elements of sexuality and forbid them from public life. Also: no contraception, abortions or social safety net.

Also Republicans: Why don’t young folks want to have sex?? https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/parents-to-blame-for-carless-sexless-teenagers/

—@Davechen

I disagree with the current CEO of Mastodon about his stance on mid-sized instances. We don’t want to be run in isolation, we are part of the Fediverse. “Normal users just want the default”, he can repeat that as many times as he wants, it doesn’t make it true because of that.

Diversity is the DNA of the Fediverse and Mastodon is just one part of the whole. Thousands of people spend their time and money to make it successful. Anyone who dismisses that and single-handedly tries to market the Fediverse as a Mastodon brand and use “crowding out” techniques to prevent users from even being encouraged to choose an instance from a diversity will ultimately fail.

I am super disappointed with the direction Mastodon Corporation is taking. If there is not enough headwind here soon, then sooner or later it will lead to a schism.

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #fediverse

—@louis

Introducing ‘Total Crap’, the First Magazine Written Entirely by AI. “We are proud to bring the written word into the future with revolutionary technology that delivers the one thing readers are most passionate about: efficiency.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai

—@kottke

Interviewer: Can you explain these gaps in your resume?

Me: Those are typographical indicators called spaces and line breaks that separate words and paragraphs.

—@StefanThinks

@Patrickoldhiker @malc @Popehat

Angry People: We should have more genetic diversity in the Royal family.

Prince Harry: Let me introduce my fiancée.

Angry People: No, not like that. We definitely very much did not mean that.

—@scottmiller42

“This page looks better in the app!”

idk, random tech company, sounds like that’s more of a you problem

—@wolfe

#mastodon #fediverse
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.

—@sflorg