Staunch advocate for the Oxford comma.
She/Her #Politics #News #VoteBlue💙
#Genealogy #Genealogist #Ancestry
#Writing #Writer #Editor #Mystery […]
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AnneTheWriter
None of this makes any sense, except as desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat. On the most important questions of war and peace, the president of the United States seems to be losing his grip on reality itself.
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Some fun #ScottishSlang
"Lang may yer lum reek" - Literally means "long may your chimney smoke." It is a wish for long life and good health.
"He's got a face like a bulldog lickin' pish aff a thistle" - The person looks very unhappy or sour-faced.
"Away […]
[Original post on universeodon.com]
Bill Browder about Putin, this is the model that Trump wants for the USA: #Ukraine #russia #corruption
Telegram is an extreme security risk for its users, its developers and operators, holding data and metadata for over a billion people on central servers!
Our decentralized zero-metadata messaging approach is diametrically opposed to such big-platform designs […]
The president’s comments at the G7 summit revealed that he doesn’t understand the war he started—or the words that come out of his own mouth.
Mastodon is close to 1 million MAU according to FediDB, and don't you love to see it!
Pixelfed remains 2nd with over 100k MAU.
If Misskey published their MAU, I'm sure they would be in second, or maybe first.
We did this together, without VC funding, enshittification or selling out users via […]
#flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #photography
By any other name.
The media empire controlled by Trump buddy Larry Ellison (with the tens of billions of dollars of support from Middle East petro-state dictatorships) refused to air an advertisement criticizing its dealings and right-wing politics […]
AnneTheWriter
You know a hole-in-the-wall ethnic restaurant is legitimate when there’s an obviously broken sound system from the 80s sitting on a high shelf because the business has been owned by the same person since it was new and he keeps telling himself he’ll fix it
Tom Nichols
RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116762822225704677
This is what happens when the people in charge think that experts aren't needed, and everything is simple. A rational person, put in charge of any of these negotiations or government agencies would be terrified by their own inexpertise […]
RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/news-i8koidj5z/-/a-g72jaWdNT82DyrHcJIHCTA%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0
Instead of “Is this fascism?” we should be asking “What stage of fascism is this?”
