Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Maybe when a bunch of trans people are being denied medical treatment and having to flee their home is not the time to post tone-deaf shit like "the fascists are everywhere so you should stay where you are and fight fascism there"

Like I get the sentiment but parents shouldn't stick around where the state will steal their trans kids and then perform torture (conversion therapy) on them. Nor should people be expected to stay somewhere where state actors want to murder them specifically

Many cultures around the world have a legend of a Bon Jovi-like figure.
Germans know him as Guten Joven;
in Brazil he is Bom João

Attention people of The West:

I think they are crumbling under the pressure. Maybe skip the fireworks? If only to save the Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources from losing the last shreds of their sanity.

To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is sent to a third party for AI labeling.

BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they can use content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images.

Update: https://meow.social/@FluffyDeveloper/110652053858910840

#ai #bluesky

when did red shirts become starfleet command uniforms

When you don't know what a hobbit is and just get the description from reading the book.

omw to challenge some stereotypes

[God making soup]

ANGEL: so I need hot water & then I can add literally anything else to it?

GOD: yup

ANGEL: tomatoes?

GOD: tomato soup

ANGEL: a chicken?

GOD: chicken soup

ANGEL: an Italian wedding?

GOD: [taking bong rip] Italian wedding soup

twitter users when you tell them to literally click a button

"That's my name, don't wear it out" implies that a name can in fact be worn out, and I'm wondering if this method is a cheaper option than the typical legal name change procedure

I wonder if Steve Ballmer's friends call him "Balls"

I mean, I would call him "Balls"

Welcome to Fedi 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining federated platforms.

The rate limiting incident in Twitter isn't really what pushed me over to use Mastodon more and more. Currently there is a hashtag on Twitter related to the French riots that's calling on the expulsion of all Muslim, African, and Arab immigrants from the entirety of Europe. The trending hashtag (at #2) is filled with images encouraging mass killings and lynchings of Arabs. There is no come back from this.

Holiday update:

4th of July has been canceled due to a shortage of Independence.

Sincerely,
Women

#July4th #IndependenceDay #Canceled #Shortage #Independence #Women

#IllegitimateSCOTUS #Abortion

#IAmDB