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Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet) (Calckey Social)
What @gruber@mastodon.social clearly doesn’t understand about the Fediverse is that *I don’t have to interact with people or services that make me miserable*. Which I couldn’t do when I was using Facebook. I was at the mercy of their algorithm, hoping that I wouldn’t encounter something *they dumped into my feed* which would make me deeply unhappy. And yet he believes that *choosing* not to connect with #Barcelona makes you a “misfit island loser”. @gruber@mastodon.social believes that freedom of association is for losers. (📎1)
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Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Pastor Daniel Merrick Charged with Possessing Child Pornography, Blames Wife for His Crimes by Bruce Gerencser
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I sincerely hope his wife files for divorce as quickly as possible.

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Biden picks new FCC nominee to fill seat that’s been empty for over two years by Jon Brodkin
Biden nominates US official Anna Gomez after Senate refused to confirm Gigi Sohn.

I would have preferred Gigi Sohn because of her track record as a consumer advocate and the expertise she brings to that field, but of course the Republicans just had to fuck something else up and so we get more attempted capitulation as if doing this again will get the Republicans to like us or something.

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The Federalist Society’s 40-Year Plot to Undo Roe v. Wade by Author - Ilyse Hogue
IN THE EARLY Reagan years, religious right movement leaders Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell knew that they could not solely rely on fickle politicians to implement their plan on a national scale. They didn’t have public opinion on their side — certainly not on legal abortion, nor on other elements of their plan to maintain their privilege and power. In order to implement their anti-democratic policy agenda and political philosophy, they needed the influence and power of a court system impervious to the will of voters. In that pursuit, an institution named the Federalist Society became their main vehicle.
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Living Blindfully Podcast (@podcast@livingblindfully.social) (Living Blindfully)
Is it groovy that #Microsoft has such an engaged #accessibility team? Yup. Is it a downer that they continue to post on a platform that fired its entire accessibility team and killed off the third-party accessibility tools, while ignoring this one? Hell yup. So if you missed it, here’s their #GAAD blog post. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/05/18/global-accessibility-awareness-day-generative-ai/
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Eniko Fox (@eniko@peoplemaking.games) (People Making Games)
Love seeing people defend staying on twitter by bringing up people who's livelihood depended on it, as a person who's livelihood depended on twitter. You know what that made me do? It made me work extra hard to set up shop elsewhere because with my livelihood on the line I couldn't actually afford to stay on twitter and wait for Elon to destroy it and my livelihood with it