yes. I’m not sure how unironically it’s meant but it doesn’t matter when you have a group of boys yelling “hawk tuah” and “your body, my choice” at a 12 year old girl. I’ve got boys so they have been insulated but my best friend has girls and he’s getting unbelievably pissed off.

that is the eventual plan.

oof, bleak.

right now I consider my fediverse and self hosted stuff as my ‘real’ profile. bluesky falls into the same category as linkedin, a necessary evil for my ‘professional’ profile.

So no, I won’t be leaving mastodon (or lemmy).

This one is on the folks who either voted for him or couldn’t be fucked to get off their couch. This time we ALL knew exactly who he was. I would have voted for a ham sandwich to prevent fascism. Dems suck but it’s verifiably true that the electorate can pressure them into action. Good luck pressuring ol’ donny smoothbrain to do anything that isn’t in his own self interest.

Bingo. It’s bleak but believe it or not, talking about it with others who see it too, helps. Thanks.

I’m a parent, so got no choice but to get to work and see what the fuck can be done. I truly did not believe this shit would come to pass; when folks would talk about leaving the country if he was elected, I’d joke that I’d stay and join the underground. Well, guess it’s time to start digging.

jebus, of this is the extreme court, what’s it gonna be in 4 years?

As opposed to the down home folksy charm of a rapist and convicted felon.

I think it was when the internet was corporatized. I remember back as a kid browsing around the internet and I laughed my ass off that Colgate had a website. My early 90’s teenage brain could not figure out why toothpaste would need a web presence. I fired up a browser and I looked at what other brands that I figured would never need a website.

If I’d had a credit card that day I’d be a multimillionaire. Sadly domains were still crazy expensive and I was 13.

Short story long, it wasn’t much longer before the internet became essentially a giant ad machine/captive social media network.

Feels like after a week of reeling, folks are coming to their senses. I think this shit is going to be brutal as there are no checks and balances left on a dude who’s brain sucked to begin with but is undeniably failing in realtime.

Buckle up folks, we’re in uncharted waters here.

It’s been a week but feels like people are finally getting it.

There’s no checks and balances left, of all we have to hope is a line written on some paper many years ago, we’re fucked.

My pet theory was that the tech bros are lined up so that once turnip takes power, jv dunce can 25th him and boom, our government is being run by the puppet of peter theil and elmo.

His lickspittle behavior at the orange palace though might just fuck it all up. 🤞

I have never been an accelerationist but have a feeling it may be our only path forward from here on.

Note- not a plan, will see how things go. Not terribly hopefully atm though.

Sigh, here we go again. I jumped on board because it’s where my friends are. Was pleasantly surprised that most of my old twitter follows are already there. Still, given the history I’m being careful and ready for the next enshittification exodus.

I wish folks would just embrace self hosting and decentralization but we obviously love to make the same mistakes again, and again, and again…

After hearing about this thing, I’ve decided I’m making myself a Christmas Baphomet decoration for my house.

What gets me is how lowbrow and petty all this is and yet so many people just act like it doesn’t exist. I mean, the universe served up the most obvious villain doing the worst job of criming that I’ve ever seen. I mean his antics are nearly indistinguishable from scooby doo, I’m expecting someone to have a mask pulled off, find out it’s trump who then somehow gets away with it all despite meddling from those kids.

I feel like the entire world has been pranking me specifically to see how long I can believe that my fellow humans are capable of believing this.

This and the previous comment are officially the hardest I’ve laughed on this platform so far.

lol, had the exact same thought. somehow feels a little dirty.