Shoq

I'm @shoq from ExTwitter. Self-appointed evangelist for the #fediverse, working on open source projects that can help it become the communications backbone for the planet that Twitter might have been.

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2026-02-25 00:49:27 UTC

In case you hadn’t heard, @nprofile…arxj is producing a “People’s State of the Union” in DC tonight. @nprofile…ehxw is co-hosting with @nprofile…4kj7
Here’s the live youtube link:
https://youtu.be/mSAFFOKDkOgH

2026-02-21 20:25:37 UTC

So listen, without judging me, or lecturing me on the obvious health benefits of doing so, can anyone suggest a way I can undiscover Little Debbie Honey Buns? Supernatural or occult-facing suggestions will not be rejected out of hand.
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2026-01-27 21:40:09 UTC

How to delete TikTok account: Interest in leaving app reaches all time high - Newsweek
▶ Search interest for “how to delete TikTok” has reached an all-time high, according to a Newsweek review of Google search trends.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-to-delete-tiktok-account-interest-in-leaving-app-reaches-all-time-high-11425360

2026-01-26 16:24:30 UTC

Lower back pain sufferers. I was sure I’d tried it before, but after weeks of restless agony, I tried the old knees up on a pillow trick that as a side sleeper I’d always dreaded. But I’ve had 3 good nights in a row (the side method failed me). Inconclusive, but promising.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/962/325/843/209/480/original/2c8c6730e8a5be6e.png

2026-01-26 12:24:11 UTC

Five minutes ago, for the first time since Trump came down that escalator, I burst into tears after seeing this execution.
When do we shut this country down and stop this abortion of our values, rights, and country? When? #TurnAmericaOff
https://stzl.ink/959j42
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2026-01-14 13:00:21 UTC

#MemeOfTheWeek
Pass it on.
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2026-01-14 12:38:29 UTC

Some are calling for a “day” of strikes and walkouts in Minneapolis. Fine idea, but:
A) not enough
B) too local — the while country should join them.
It’s time to conclusively show the disgusting 33% — the loathables — that always supports NAZIs that the rest of us don’t.

2026-01-12 23:20:25 UTC

If you can’t access Threads, I am sure this is available on many platforms. It’s must-see TV. Don’t miss it.
https://stzl.ink/donc8v
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2026-01-07 14:26:21 UTC

It takes a Canadian pundit to nail it down this well:
Occam’s kazoo: When it comes to Trump’s behavior, the most plausible explanation is the stupidest.”
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trumps-behaviour-most-plausible-explanation-stupidest/?intcmp=gift_share
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2025-10-18 22:01:40 UTC

I’m glad folks showed up today, but I still think this #NoKings message was the wrong one. Our problem isn’t a King. It’s an evil and corrupt fascist-facing movement controlling the GOP and our govt. Trump is a symbol and a tool of that much larger threat.
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2025-10-11 13:34:28 UTC

This MAGA cult of incels and morons is a danger to the Enlightenment, if not all living things. We need to stop being polite. We need to stop being gentle. We need to get really angry. And soon.
Trump Moves to Cancel a Giant Solar Project
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/climate/nevada-solar-esmerelda7.html

2025-10-11 12:59:31 UTC

Sorry, her handle was dropped from my post. She’s a really interesting follow because she sees no reason to be polite in the face of this MAGA moral catastrophe we find ourselves living in. That gets my respect.
Handle: https://www.threads.com/@heytocristina
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2025-10-11 12:29:20 UTC

The conservative entertainment complex that is decimating democracy and America — on purpose.
Next question please?
https://twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1976929276927918414
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/355/533/937/645/307/original/8a616b8a74d8d0e0.webp

2025-10-11 12:23:20 UTC

This paragraph alone should be enough to make the American people rise up and depose these fanatics—by any means necessary. Yet we sit on our doom scrolling asses, pondering what the rest of our lives will look like. We are nothing like the people we thought we were. We’re actually rather pathetic.
James Comey. Letitia James. Who’s Next?
https://archive.ph/SkSNN
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2025-10-04 20:07:49 UTC

So, have we had enough of Russell Vought and his #Project2025 yet? Have we had enough of the American military in our streets on these ginned up Reichstag fire excuses?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/317/700/584/640/843/original/bfbc5bede5b1fd07.jpg

2025-10-03 11:17:55 UTC

Much MAGA clout grew from from these mega-churches with their predators, and scumbags. Thesists have always been history’s greatest suckers, but white American Christians take it to a new level.
Texas megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges.
https://apnews.com/article/texas-megachurch-pastor-sexual-abuse-oklahoma-0ca16aa31d9d8e5a810d1e1e3483dce4?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

2025-10-01 13:43:01 UTC

@nprofile…fcmc, well said on every level. This piece earned you top bunk in the gulag. See ya soon, comrade!
The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay
https://archive.ph/EwFVO

2025-10-01 13:02:59 UTC

Unfortunately Jamelle’s opinion of whether he has a mandate doesn’t matter. Trump and MAGA believe that’s exactly what the election gave him the right to do. And the Left still isn’t doing much of anything to stop him. We talk a lot, post lots of memes and barbs to drive traffic to pay our bills, but largely propose nothing and do less. But for @nprofile…xy20 and Marc Elias, we are the American #DoNothingLeft. And our entire way of life is soon going to die if we don’t start doing …
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2025-09-29 21:35:10 UTC

LISTEN ⏵If the Left were serious about the threats to our democracy it would be planning open rebellion. That’s all that is going to stop this rolling coup.
When enough wealthy interests are sick of losing money from chaos, these criminals will be deposed. Not before.
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2025-09-11 12:53:46 UTC

How Charlie Kirk Planned to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act.
“a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”
https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

2025-09-11 12:37:46 UTC

Today is the anniversary of 9/11, the greatest attack on America’s soil ever, and all conservatives want to do is pay tribute to a fallen charlatan who was much closer to Adolf Hitler than Abraham Lincoln. America is a mess.

2025-09-09 20:29:36 UTC

https://mastodon.social/@w7voa@journa.host/115176190389421057
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2025-09-07 13:40:29 UTC

I have nothing to add except this: the cost of creating a viable alternative has plummeted with streaming services. What’s needed now is a reason to watch. And that’s doable. If more liberals truly believed in improving civilization, rather than just virtue signaling to themselves and others about it, a few famous ones would band together, raise billions, and solve this fucking intractable infrastructural problem. It’s doable.
https://mastodon.social/@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org/115160486133648135
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2025-09-06 15:09:42 UTC

https://mastodon.social/@Chancerubbage/115157830584575193
That has been my ongoing question for a few years now. I think it’s the only practical way to create a business model that gets us to a new place that works for us. It doesn’t have to be exactly like the old, but it can share most of its core facets.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/157/983/641/286/779/original/c685c67880735f6b.webp

2025-09-06 14:23:40 UTC

Most liberals I know are living in a delusion, thinking there is still some political fix possible for our MAGA crisis. Until we focus on the fact that almost all local American media is just regurgitating venal, counterfactual conservative propaganda, every hour of every day, we are all just pissing up a rope thinking we are going to stop this methodical deconstruction of our society, if not the Enlightenment itself. Just pick up the front page of any local paper, or spin your radio dial in …
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2025-09-03 19:33:38 UTC

I’d sure think about it 😄
And I guess it isn’t just me because the tattoo removal industry is already a billion business in the US alone, and growing fast. Some GPT harvested facts:
https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/68b8978e3aac8191aa54d6197c0a08a2
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2025-09-01 00:53:07 UTC

10 years into this fiasco, and HuffPo still needs convincing?
Maybe Rex Tillerson Was Right. Maybe Trump Really Is Just A Moron.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-ignorant-moron_n_68af882fe4b0d635adb3ace1

2025-08-30 12:23:03 UTC

WARNING: these messages are all bullshit. Do not click (i got 3 in one hour)
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2025-08-25 19:43:32 UTC

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How is this impacting activityPub? Doesn’t it have the same problems complying with this bullshit verification law that bluesky does? Like everything else these MAGA motherfuckers do, the law was designed to create this disruptive chaos, not protect anybody.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/091/112/712/319/289/original/1d23fccdf52b83ad.jpg

2025-08-21 00:30:44 UTC

All of you people that avoid looking at Twitter are making a huge mistake and putting us all at risk. Some of us warned 25 years ago to stop ignoring Rush Limbaugh, and the results of that have been disastrous. If you don’t pay attention, we’re all going to pay a price.

2025-08-21 00:01:09 UTC

We used to send observers to watch elections in other countries. Maybe it’s time for other countries to now observe ours. While liberals dither, the Trump gangsters are whittling away at our ability to resist anything they do. What they’re doing in Texas is the overt stuff. Think about what they’re doing covertly.

2025-08-20 12:51:28 UTC

Another example of how I rely on chatGPT almost everyday. Rather than spend an hour analyzing the County Water Report, I just asked it to synthesize the PDF and in 10 seconds had all the facts I need? Is it reliable? Probably. But I wish we had an AI that vets AI.
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2025-08-16 18:11:31 UTC

No matter what the topic I bring up across multiple social sites, the only place I get consistent quality responses and discussion is in the Fediverse. This qualitative difference has yet to be promoted much. I just wish more people gave a single shit.

2025-08-16 17:35:17 UTC

Boom
https://bsky.app/profile/theatlantic.com/post/3lwjtsrhwny2d

2025-08-16 17:27:20 UTC

Would anyone in Europe like to help me do a simple price comparison between common household purchases? I ‘m convinced the public has no understanding that pricing is not competitive, but predatory, and long ago ceased to have anything to do with real costs, only the producer’s share price. It’s time someone documented this fraud. Journalists don’t seem to be very interested in doing this kind of work.

2025-08-12 15:36:06 UTC

Every year I feel a need to repeat this question: If we progresses are so smart, how come these MAGA morons, who couldn’t order lunch without adult supervision, are steadily eating ours?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/016/529/733/614/336/original/30267ac494b64e0b.png

2025-07-27 00:56:01 UTC

This can’t be real… can it? Can we be this fucked?
https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/114922404160059424

2025-07-25 16:14:55 UTC

I’ve now heard at least 4 segments on NPR which go out of their way to find nice or unchallenging things to say about Trump’s trade deals, inflation, DEI, and even attacks on NPR. If we don’t start focusing on our news crisis, we’re toast as a country. Nothing else matters as much. Nothing.

2025-07-21 01:00:19 UTC

I aw this bumper sticker on I-95. As I passed him, I shook my head and mouthed the word “nope.”
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/888/515/137/984/869/original/624884e7ff9cf652.jpg

2025-07-15 18:24:04 UTC

These MAGA morons that think that all Democrats are pedophiles, despite virtually no evidence of it, might just be the dumbest things nature has ever created. With the possible exception of the Q cult.

2025-07-12 12:31:34 UTC

So, if aliens arrive tomorrow and want us to take them to our leader, WTF are we going to tell them?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/840/272/480/233/565/original/1ba942040a5c6668.png

2025-07-11 13:01:05 UTC

Progressives waste time pretending our salvation is “messaging.” Our problem is that we have no way to distribute messages that can be heard above the near-ubiquity of MAGA media. 100,000 Substacks and TikToks are not a message delivery system. They’re a message diffusion system.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/834/726/210/679/617/original/dd8e003171d1e445.jpg

2025-06-28 02:25:10 UTC

BOOM. Constitutional law professor Lawrence Tribe basically just told @nprofile…n0c7 what I’ve been saying for years. That we’re now in a nightmare and there is no political remedy and uprising could be the only remedy. When is everyone else going to realize this? The game is over, and they’ve won, unless we now break the board.

2025-06-26 19:09:48 UTC

It was Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Socialist tribe that got us into this mess in the fucking first place. The right used him to take down Hillary the first time when the Supreme Court should have been our only priority. Thinking ideology is going to stop the GOP is just dangerously misguided thinking (again). Over 10 years maybe.right now we should be focused on winning the midterms. This might help in a few of them it won’t help in most of them

2025-06-26 12:25:30 UTC

Is this a real Pentagon press conference, or preview of an SNL skit? I’m asking for sane people.

2025-06-25 22:04:55 UTC

DirectTV has a promo. they will buy out my ultra shitty DishTV contract, and charge me $35 a month less for faster service than Xfinity internet. And I don’t have to move the damn Dish antenna myself. Any reason I shouldn’t jump at this? Is DirTV acceptable these days? (none are without fails).

2025-06-25 18:09:47 UTC

I just had my 3rd ablation to nuke a nerve in my back. It’s not a painless procedure. In fact, it hurts a lot. Briefly, but intensely, and several times over 10 minutes.

2025-06-23 20:45:43 UTC

Electing Andrew Cuomo after Eric Adams would be like beating prostate cancer and being rewarded with terminal lung cancer. This country has no more rails to come off of.

2025-06-23 19:49:55 UTC

We were just lied into war by a Republican president for the 5th time since 1980. And this is why I was among those very angry that Obama didn’t go after George W Bush for his crimes. We’ve let these lying shitbags get away time and time again.

2025-06-23 14:07:45 UTC

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Because I never imagined it to be a mistake. Nothing about it suggested it even might be, and without context, my comment would make no sense to mutuals. I agree with you about the promise of fedi, but don’t believe it will never appeal to more than a more educated elite. But that might not be a bad thing at this point. Also: I never post anything I’d object to being quoted. But that’s me.

2025-06-23 13:35:57 UTC

Say what? Didn’t push MAGA conservatism? You cannot possibly believe that to be true.
https://mastodon.social/@wjmaggos@liberal.city/114732926970353252
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2025-06-23 13:18:24 UTC

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2025-06-19 19:26:35 UTC

I suppose it’s also time to acknowledge that I’m finally ready to think @Walsh_freedom’s conversion to a reality-based human was real, too. While I still think he owes apologies to everyone for things his past version of himself said, he’s at least acknowledged that he’s learned some things that helped him grow. It’s not that he’s consistent in his story now that impressed me most. It’s the passion and conviction of his rhetoric that did. He’s not just going through the motions. I think he …
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2025-06-18 14:55:21 UTC

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just erasing history.
Understanding Jewish fear isn’t incompatible with empathy for Palestinians.
History is layered. And it’s possible—even necessary—to hold more than one truth at a time.
(If you agree with this thread, don’t just “like it.” Please share it. Bigotry aimed at any person or group is a learned behavior. Andit can be unlearned. )

2025-06-18 14:55:18 UTC

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burned out of their homes.
Entire shtetls lived in fear, waiting for the next attack.
⏵ Then came the Holocaust. Six million murdered not by mobs, but by modern bureaucracy. Factories of death. Families gassed, cremated, erased.
So yes, when people say “Zionism is about safety,” it’s not theoretical. It’s not paranoid.
It’s the product of millennia of trauma.
You can oppose the occupation of Gaza.
You can demand justice for Palestinians (as I do). But denying why Jews sought a homeland is …

2025-06-18 14:55:16 UTC

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100,000 Jews were slaughtered. Babies beheaded. Women raped. Elders tortured. It was “genocidal” before the word even existed.
⏵The Christian church wasn’t just complicit—it was foundational in antisemitism. For centuries, Jews were labeled “Christ-killers.” This wasn’t fringe theology. It was official church doctrine. It fueled hatred, violence, and exclusion across Christian Europe.
⏵ In the 1800s–early 1900s, pogroms swept through Russia and Eastern Europe. Jews were beaten, raped, and …

2025-06-18 14:55:14 UTC

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expulsions, and systemic persecution—long before Hitler was even born.
⏵ In 1290, Jews were expelled from England.
In 1394, France did the same.
⏵ In 1492, while Columbus sailed west, Spain expelled all its Jews. Convert, leave, or die.
⏵Throughout the Middle Ages, Jews were blamed for plagues, poisoned wells, and killed in mob violence. They were burned alive during the Black Death. Whole communities wiped out in hours.
⏵ In 1648, during the Khmelnytsky massacres in Ukraine, an estimated …

2025-06-18 14:55:12 UTC

I AM SO WEARY of how willing too many are to ignore the long history of hatred for, and persecution of Jews. Especially now, when white supremacists and other extremists are successfully leveraging Israel’s bad behavior to inflame antisemitism in yet another generation.
SOME FACTS ARE NEEDED. You don’t have to endorse every action of the Israeli state to understand them:
Jews had and have every reason to seek a secure homeland. It wasn’t just the Holocaust. It was centuries of massacres, …

2025-06-14 21:13:15 UTC

THIS RIGHT HERE. What I learned at Nokings today? Most young people don’t know where to get news. So they rely on Insta and TikTok. We need to settle down and focus on a single venue FOR NEWS! Nobody cares where you want to chit chat. I use 5 platforms. Using ONE to help save our democracy doesn’t seem like a hardship.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/683/779/106/494/555/original/861faf7e01cb7353.png

2025-06-14 02:39:35 UTC

But.. but…I thought he was keeping us out of foreign wars? This is so confusing.
https://mastodon.social/@w7voa@journa.host/114678051690226011
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2025-06-13 16:59:09 UTC

BOOM! I was looking for some way to say somethin like that but you said it better. They absolutely derive power from it. In fact, they feed on our revulsion. So calling them hypocrites is just flattering these malignant scumbags.
https://mastodon.social/@jon_wnc@mstdn.social/114677105385688979
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2025-06-13 12:24:49 UTC

Because you probably missed it ⏵ French Senator Has Become Trump’s European Nemesis - The New York Times
cc @nprofile…m90x No Paywall: https://archive.ph/8PPDp
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2025-06-13 00:27:23 UTC

BREAKING: Israel launches major strike on Iran; sirens wail across Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-june-12-2025/

2025-06-12 22:43:53 UTC

Such a simple story, but with so much of mass media just not interested in telling it, most Americans — not just the MAGA dopes — never hear it. We need to find ways to make them hear it.
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2025-06-10 21:11:16 UTC

National guardsmen and cops have donned gas masks in LA. Protestors have done nothing new. It looks like they’re under orders to create some violence so the the United States of Donald Trump can crack some heads.

2025-06-10 00:26:10 UTC

How can it be that the only flags visible at the LA protests (against ICE) on TV are all Palestinian flags? These kinds of mixed messages just dilute all our messages. People constantly whine that Democrats lack coherent messaging. Well, , so the does everyone else. I have yet to see a SINGLE banner, sign or message on TV that defines what this struggle is about. THAT is a messaging failure of epic scale, given the severity of Trump’s authoritarian response.

2025-06-08 16:49:27 UTC

Next Saturday is the day we turn out in force to finally make MAGA and Republicans understand that the 70% isn’t rolling over for institutionalized grifters, Nazis, bigots and sociopaths.
BE USEFUL ⏵ Pass it on
https://www.nokings.org/
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2025-06-08 16:45:12 UTC

My argument for the last 5 months
https://mastodon.social/@Crow@pagan.plus/114648661755465160
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2025-06-07 23:05:09 UTC

LISTEN TO ME ⏵If you don’t find a way to spend at least 2 hours at this event next weekend, you ARE part of the problem. So PLEASE do us all one favor: don’t be a part of the problem.
https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/114644564703997863
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2025-06-06 23:33:56 UTC

I think it’s time we talked about a Cold Civil War. We fight these motherfucker by denying them our consumer dollars. We disrupt so much profit, our politics have to change to restore them. It may not work, or work well enough, but the alternative may well be a hot civil war.

2025-06-06 16:41:35 UTC

I’m old enough to remember when Musk was thought mad to spend $40 bil on Twitter. It was only crazy if he expected to make money (which he still might). It was a play for power and influence. And he got his money’s worth. Trump will soon be gone. Musk can jack us around for decades.

2025-05-30 16:26:22 UTC

Just overheard 2 workers building the house next door:
Worker 1: Know any trans women?
Worker 2: Yeah, my kid’s GF
Worker 1: Your kid’s a homo?
Worker 2: She calls it queer
Worker1: What do you call it?
Worker2: Her god damn business. Fuck off.
#Props

2025-05-25 19:15:25 UTC

I was condemned for this once, but I think it’s the only way out. We need to stigmatize any person or company doing ANYTHING with these Republicans on ANY level. I don’t give a fuck if it’s your mother, brother, or local Jiffy Lube. We need to make zero tolerance for fascism a thing. Soon.

2025-05-25 15:46:45 UTC

Photo: The words “Black Lives Matter” cut rout of the DC street as the ultimate “fuck you” from Donald Trump to Black people, and anyone standing up for their humanity and civil rights.
5 Years After George Floyd’s Murder, the Backlash Takes Hold
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html?smid=threads-nytimes
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2025-05-24 14:34:41 UTC

X down: Twitter not working as thousands of users report issues
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/x-down-twitter-not-working-b2757194.html

2025-05-24 13:26:41 UTC

Elon Musk “Finished,” His Close Allies Admit
“People hate him.”
Alas, I have a bad feeling that his new Tesla robots are likely to double his wealth.
https://futurism.com/officials-elon-musk-finished-gone

2025-05-24 13:01:25 UTC

Trump’s FEMA thumbs nose at a state that backed him 3 times: ‘Gonna cost a lot’
https://www.rawstory.com/fema-north-carolina/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

2025-05-22 20:06:26 UTC

Randy Fine Suggests Gaza Be Nuked Like Hiroshima on Fox News
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/house-republican-suggests-gaza-be-nuked-like-hiroshima-in-shocking-appearance-on-fox-news/

2025-05-21 17:29:23 UTC

I have been using Mastodon steadily now for 3 years. The culture behaves so differently, and generally far more civilly. It’s not the tech. It’s the more international user-base. This daily grind with right-wing extremists has made too many Americans into such total assholes.

2025-05-21 17:12:17 UTC

Watch this demo. 3D printed homes are the future. If we had a government with balls, we’d be ramping this up with public money today. Sadly, we may never have one of those again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOR612WviMs&t=111s

2025-05-18 21:08:22 UTC

Yet, they got away with this nonsense. Democrats need to hold shadow hearings and expose this fuckery. Force the GOP to put people under oath
DOGE said 40% of the Social Security Agency’s calls were ‘fraudulent.’ Data suggests it was actually less than 1%
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-said-40-social-security-171438243.html

2025-05-18 01:54:16 UTC

Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna207395?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

2025-05-14 23:01:32 UTC

Again, if this were all a movie, you’d walk right out, disgusted by the sheer idiocy of it all. But here we are. Here the fuck we are.
https://mastodon.social/@memeorandum@universeodon.com/114507510467973533
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2025-05-14 22:35:56 UTC

I’ve lived most of the only life I will ever have. But I will spend whatever time I have left trying to find a way to improve the lives of people I will never know. In any small way I can. Because that feels like a better way to live my remaining days, than just sucking down oxygen that might have better uses elsewhere.

2025-05-14 10:31:12 UTC

Good morning. Hope this brightens your day. It worked for me. #schadenfruede
As Crisis at Tesla Deepens, a Hail Mary Is Turning Out to Be a Major Bust
https://futurism.com/crisis-tesla-sales-model-y-refresh

2025-05-12 21:06:38 UTC

Know nothing lemmings at Fox will eat it up:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Secures a Historic Trade Win for the United States – The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-a-historic-trade-win-for-the-united-states/
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2025-05-12 12:51:07 UTC

They have simply applied Joey Overton’s window to economics. You push so far to one side that the previous extreme seems more acceptable.
https://www.threads.com/@msignorile/post/DJjdWssuHz_
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2025-05-11 19:47:18 UTC

Is Trump Out of Touch, Senile, Nuts, or Something Worse?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-trump-out-of-touch-senile-nuts-or-something-worse/

2025-05-11 15:34:21 UTC

The Right is now gaming Threads the same way they did Twitter. They plant tropes and narratives meant to incense and divide liberals.
I use all four major platforms. The only place people seem consistently smart, engaged, and CIVIL, is Mastodon. Bluesky is next.

2025-05-11 14:45:11 UTC

It’s getting harder to think otherwise. These MAGAs are ALL sociopaths, and it’s time the rest of us stopped pretending otherwise. I don’t care anymore if they were fucked by globalism, or they’re your parents or siblings. They are all monsters.
https://mastodon.social/@5teverin0/114486487115597447
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2025-05-10 16:08:52 UTC

I don’t know about you, but there isn’t a day I don’t get a severe stomach ache 2 minutes after turning on the news. I told my doctor I am pretty sure it’s going to kill me. She said “I hear this a lot.”

2025-05-08 22:59:40 UTC

I’m thrilled this malignant woman hates him. I still can’t believe I live in a society where this piece of shit gets any notice whatever.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/474/692/130/381/201/original/d08738593381ddd5.png

2025-05-07 11:35:43 UTC

Thank dog we have such super-skilled foreign policy ninjas like Trump and Rubio. I’ll sleep well, tonight (cough).
Pakistan claims to have downed Indian warplanes, vows response to strikes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/07/pakistan-down-india-jets-strikes/

2025-05-02 01:12:16 UTC

Are you watching @nprofile…xtrd? They have a live town hall with federal workers who were fired, discussing what they did for us in their former posts. It’s as informative as it is infuriating. I still can’t believe we’re not dragging Republicans from their offices in chains over this evil lunacy.

2025-04-18 12:32:26 UTC

#PostofTheMonth
https://www.threads.net/@goldengateblond/post/DIk4iRsRc6f
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2025-04-08 17:10:30 UTC

Trump Rages Wildly at Tariff Blowback as GOPers Start Turning on Him | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/193708/unwell-trump-rages-many-targets-gop-starts-turning-tariffs

2025-04-08 17:00:36 UTC

Trump’s Tariffs Are Already Reducing Car Imports and Idling Factories - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/trump-tariffs-cars-auto-industry.html

2025-04-04 15:11:54 UTC

Seriously, MAGA America, what the fuck did you expect to happen when you voted for someone as utterly unqualified as Donald Trump? Don’t bother blaming him. It’s all on you dipshits. All of it. Fuck you.

2025-04-03 15:11:39 UTC

Tariffs are going over really well. The Kremlin must be thrilled.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/274/670/922/574/028/original/69c164ff1352d8da.jpg

2025-03-22 10:59:43 UTC

I’ve heard some dumb-assed conservative hooey this year, but this statement that only people getting illegal social security payments would complain if SS checks stopped coming has to be the dumbest of the dumb. Do these morons cross the street by themselves?