Tootfinder

For everyone already sworn into this 119th Congress,
there was no excuse.
There is no excuse.
The refusal to act,
to even start to pound the drum for Trump's impeachment,
is an abdication of their own declared duty to the nation
and destructive in and of itself.

Oaths Of Office, And How Everyone Not Moving To Impeach Trump Is Violating Their Own
Until very recently the only member of Congress excused from not having moved to impeach Trump was Rep. Grijalva, because until someone swore her in there was nothing she could officially do. But f…

I think there is just as much chance of Half-Life 3 launching as there is of the rapture happening. Plot twist: I don’t see either happening.
https://www.ign.com/articles/why-is-everyone-posting-about-a-half-life-3-announcement-soon

"ICE has been using “brake-checks” as pretense for detaining observers. Another observer car pulls up and my city council member steps out. He strides up to the Wagoneer, blowing his whistle. (Absolutely everyone is confronting ICE—I’ve encountered my old boss from the local cafe scuffling with agents, too.) Someone on the street starts filming and the bicyclist we know in the chat as “small fry” shouts at the agents to get out of Minneapolis."

ICE vs. Everyone | Erin West
What we’re doing now is this: The trainings have evolved into street medic workshops on protecting yourself from chemical weapons and lessons on digital security; there’s a meet-up to sew reinforced umbrellas as shields from mace and a collection spot for barricade materials. And this is what it’s like: Sometimes you’re chasing ICE off your street, maybe you’re buying groceries for a family, but a lot of the time you’re on your phone.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Everyone Says Hi:
🎵 Brain Freeze
#NowPlaying #EveryoneSaysHi
https://open.spotify.com/track/57E8bTfIbarOcrs95hNYI7

Thank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.

Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to @… today and would like to welcome her and her family to Gaza Verified.
She’s an architect who, due to the war, has lost her job and must now support her family …

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

„One tactic of fascism is to shift the scales of political alignment: centrists become stalwarts of the radical left; moms become ‚domestic terrorists.‘ Everyone with a whistle becomes antifa. And actually, that last part is correct—or at least it should be. A general strike has been called for Friday, January 23. With luck, thousands of Minnesotans will join in on what many further left are already doing: stopping business as usual and withdrawing their consent from fascism. Among many thin…

To everyone's utter surprise, "AI" people understand neither humans nor computers
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4108592/human-in-the-loop-isnt-enough-new-attack-turns-ai-safeguards-into-exploits.html

Datacenters/compute should be a thing that states provide to their citizens kind of as public utility that is run only on renewables in regions where the negative externalities would not affect people (requiring a public vote with a high threshold for acceptance). with everyone getting a fair allotment for their own use (and the ability to pull it together in associations). Decisions on added infrastructure etc. would be made democratically with the locations of those data centers being comp…

Hey everyone,
Today, @… and I had the pleasure of welcoming two new members to the Gaza Verified family.
They are:
• Ahmad (@…)
• Suad (@…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan