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@ColesStreetPothole @TheEffekt

That is horrifying.

@brett

Do kangaroo airplane ears mean the same thing as cat airplane ears?

@derekvanvliet

I said "NO!" out loud.

@derekvanvliet

This is delightful and the perfect balance of goofy, emotional and terrifying.

@TheEffekt

How close did you get to see it?

I'm sorry, the thought that ball lighting might be real and might come in your house is terrifying.

Please consider the deadly ball of energy that bounces and hovers.

No thank you.

@brett

What that bird doin?

@tobinbaker

He wasn't even all that upset about the ... you know the murder part. It was more "nyah I don't want my tax dollars in this war"

I ... I will take it I suppose.

@johnlink142

I do not, but she is a rare model.

@timo21

Those of you not in the US should bring it up this is madness. If the US did this to China we’d have a world war. It’s bullying.

@osma

If you run a TV station you can control what people watch. YouTube less so but they have been trying to “fix” this for decades.

I wish there was more that I could do to stop these irresponsible callous killings by the US government in Venezuela. I wrote notes to my congresspeople. But, is there any thing anyone else is doing?

Rand Paul* pointed out that for some drug dealers we say “go back to your country” and turn them away but for these people they are murdered. Why?

It’s provocation and bullying. The US military is trying to start a war. We all SEE it. I’m outraged.

*shows how universal the disgust is

@aram That’s horrific. I love it.

All trump news is disappointing and very boring.

But mostly boring.

We assume bad things warrant attention— but some bad things are just not interesting. He is predictable and repetitive.

Please start the government again. Do your job. Nobody wants to WORK anymore.

@Npars01 @PCMag @software-news-and-reviews-PCMag

This is why my earnest pleas about the positive power of social media fall on deaf ears.

A halo meme? What wicked children have they left posting on his account. I’m so bored by these people.

@osma

I think another factor is the massive loss of central control real networks can represent.

When I try to engage people on this topic a huge obstacle is the trivialization of the role of social media in most people’s minds.

Consider how there was (and for some there still is) a debate about if a President should tweet at all. Social media is seen as an arena for vain, unserious, narcissistic people. People describe spending time on it like it is a vice: they talk about cutting back.

To say making good social media is important makes no sense through this lens.

But it’s The Media!

Social media is important. It’s not pointless gossip or just a waste of time. It’s the news and information distribution system of our world.

We can build things like the wikipedia, like the fedi OR we can keep pretending it’s all just a side game, unserious and not worth the effort of making it good. We can say “it’s just how I relax” as these powerful people plan out our reeducation to better serve the consolidation and concentration of their power.

Am I an alarmist? I am alarmed.

@LillyHerself
what article is this summary from?

@bright_helpings

From the way the people I’ve observed “transitioning” react it is more like they are going at long last to the right sort of water to thrive.