Also Named Bort 🇨🇦 @terryenglish@librem.one

Have you seen this man?

Millions of people see him in their sleep every night.

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It's the emoji. A bright…

Aaaaand... my 10 y/o brother took it, said "it's cute"

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@mint @r000t @wagesj45 @terryenglish I know @arcanicanis has run into the same issue.

He was actually asking Alex to add on a feature to clear that out as well.

@r000t @wagesj45 @terryenglish Worst part is, it isn't reversed even when you forcefetch an object. I had to manually clear the unreachable_since row when a large instance goes back online, and this works, but I can't force all the admins to do the same.

@terryenglish @Moon oh also, there's 1 user on my instance, not 40,000. I'm not restricting another person from being able to see your "content"

@terryenglish @Moon Meh. Governments and politics on social media are typically acting in a performative-only way that's very much like corporate brands or celebrities and that's stuff I really don't want in my feed as I consider that to be anti-social behavior.
There is newspapers/TV for that kind of stuff.

So Dems keep control of the Senate, and the House may end up 1 or 2 votes down (or up). If this isn’t a repudiation of Trumpism — its belligerence, bigotry, nastiness, and election-denying dangerousness — I don’t know what is.

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@Moon Well mastodon.etalab.gouv.fr used to be a thing and EU has their instance.

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I keep hearing that #Mastodon is not likely to replace #Twitter. To that I say: so what?
I've been contributing to the #Linux desktop for the last 15 years not because it's likely to replace #Windows, but because providing people with free desktop is the right thing to do.
I use and support Mastodon not because it's likely to replace Twitter, but because it's a social network done right.

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.