Also Named Bort 🇨🇦 @terryenglish@librem.one

@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.

Brands Town is a new culture jamming project I'm doing. It's meant to be weird and sarcastic and fun.

In a nutshell: ridicule the nature of brands on social media by creating our own fake brands. The sky is the limit on creativity. If it's funny to you, I'll probably think it's funny, too.

If you want to LARP as corporations and develop strange lore in our very own ARG, come on down.

https://brands.town

A little exprriment... I wanna see how far this post can go & how many people are on what software. Repost for exposure pls ​​​​

#Poll #Fedi #Fediverse #Software #Experiment

New research suggests that bumblebees like to play. The study shows that bumblebees seem to enjoy rolling around wooden balls, without being trained or receiving rewards.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347222002366?via%3Dihub

#protonmail shut down their #mastodon account a while back to focus all their comms on Twitter. I hope they realize by now that they bet on the wrong horse and are seriously considering to revive their presence in the #fediverse.

https://mastodon.social/@protonmail/107421854866115843

"Should be promoted to Senior any day now."

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https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/yt4xdm/should_be_promoted_to_senior_any_day_now/

honestly Jupiter same

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Censorship, Weaponizing Anti-Semitism & Getting Fired for Criticizing #Israel

Katie Halper getting fired from #The_Hill for criticizing #Israeli_apartheid as well as the ongoing cynical weaponization of anti-Semitism to discredit advocacy for #Palestinian human rights.

#eat_the_rich

@terryenglish Well, I think Eli Lily would disagree about it being fun. But I'm enjoying it. lol

@terryenglish I've been using this a lot over on the bird app. Some hilarious stuff going on.