ccart31 @ccart31@librem.one

Sorry, but I find the expression “Merry Christmas” offensive. “Happy Holidays” is also unacceptable. The same goes for “Good morning” or “Hello” or any type of greeting. Don’t even make eye contact until I’ve had coffee.

I just made my 361st loan on Kiva.

Microfinance changes lives. Lend $25 to someone who needs it. Get paid back. Lend it again.

#Kiva

https://www.kiva.org/invitedby/jeremiahlee/for/2493704

Do you always lift the toilet seat to check for spiders or are you not from the tropics?

Anyway anyway anyway, I'm glad I was born and raised Jewish, where we're told it's not just good but *necessary* to argue with god, and where, when I was 12 and told my Rabbi that I was an atheist, he said "good for you!" and then told me all about all the famous Jewish atheists.

It's the end of the year and that means you can delete every email in your inbox that someone sent you before March!

If it's important they will send it again. If you're keeping it there for 'reference' you will never refer to it again I promise

I currently have this deep and primal urge to eat enchiladas. I suspect the only way to address this will be to actually make some enchiladas.

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

i know that slut/slutet means "the end" in swedish but i literally have no idea how to compose myself when seeing this image

There was once a dream of a decentralised web.

As recently as a decade ago we had a still very active blogosphere, connected via blogrolls and RSS. Specialised web forums were still mainstream and messenger apps could largely interoperate.

Centralised social media slowly ate that dream. It had plenty of positives, but it pulled more and more people away from the open web and into corporate walled gardens.

Some people kept the dream of decentralisation alive. And now you are here.

1980 Computers are for nerds
1990 Computers are for everyone

1995 The internet is for nerds
2005 The internet is for everyone

2005 Smartphones are for nerds
2015 Smartphones are for everyone

2006 Twittr is for nerds
2016 Twitter is for everyone

2022 Mastodon is for nerds

Run fedifinder on your 🐦 account: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/#

It now creates a json list of ALL of your followers, so you can continue to refer to that list even when tools / links / etc are disabled.

1 million seconds ago December had just started.

1 billion seconds ago the Soviet Union still existed, and the world wide web was invented.

1 trillion seconds ago the Sahara was a grassland. Humans were creating the earliest known cave paintings, and beginning to make and use flour.

The best career advice I have:

Be kind. To everyone.

Mastodon News Sources

General News - US and World

BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
BBC News Bot - @BBC
CNN Bot - @CNN
CNN Breaking News - @cnnbrk
DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost

Tech News

Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors

The speed of light visualized on a cosmic scale.

Credit: @Physicsj

I do not like that site of birds
I do not like its awful words

I do not like what it became
I do not like its cult of shame

I do not like intrusive ads
I do not like the vapid fads

I do not like the clout it’s given
I do not like its algorithm

But I shall miss that weird bird town
I do not like it burning down