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I'm @shoq from ExTwitter. Self-appointed evangelist for the #fediverse, working on open source projects that can help it become the communications backbone for the planet that Twitter might have been. #fedi22 #opensource #sidetoolz #USpolitics #liberal #invention Other contacts: Twitter.com/shoq, @shoq@bluesky.app; @shoq:sidetalk.net

Vivek Ramaswindle could be the least likeable person any party has come up with in my lifetime. And that’s an achievement.

Good morning. And thanks to you folks in Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia, it actually is one. Thank you for your service.

Young Black Republicans have a career death wish. I hope they’re not disappointed.

Even Fox is seeing storm clouds.

nostr:npub1g8ew6jwnylnyvc5q4h5w8r7e7uxksz8qd4mr3wjxmx555c6dxtdqm7qdqf nostr:npub1lslwn6kpyfkj3xp3zk6jd2epur5gjdeawklnsh9nd498xy50ezdqfz9c2x In other news, Extwitter seems to have quit some or all of its shadow bans. 3 of us who have had zero visibility for years are popping up to our followers again. Like a switch got flipped. Will it last? #shrug. It might be a server breakdown :)

I’m finally approaching 500 followers on Bluesky. And I didn’t even have to buy a single one. This whole social media bingo card thing was so unnecessary. It’s just too bad government didn’t build Twitter. It would have been more open, accountable, and always evolving. Sure worked for the Internet.

One of the most destructive ideas in the last 50 years was this notion that everyone should have the right to speak as they wish, even in private venues. That “free speech” was some kind of entitlement card you could swipe anywhere and get a pass on whatever bullshit you wanted to spew.

I’m reached the end of the streaming Internet again. I may have to start watching those zombie movies that are made just to be distributed to foreign markets. It’s that bad. I am open to suggestions.

HA! I told you the Johnson crap would come rolling in fast now.

nostr:npub1zeql3qg3sgfmv8wfkl8dncs0gauvrgrvxqtgdj72ztskdg6qcacsfuqpj8: Guys, the new Speaker was involved with that Ark Park/Creation museum and obnoxious grifter Ken Hamm:

https://answersingenesis.org/ministry-news/ark-encounter/ark-encounter-incentives-are-about-tourism/

Zounds! A Chrome upgrade that actually matters. Finally, search marks from the sidebar. That only took 15 f-ing years.

Good morning. Well, more or less, anyway. I mean Kevin McCarthy is giving Jim Jordan a verbal blow job on the House floor. It’s good in the same way that candy laced with razor blades tastes good.

Note: This article refers to the “bad” Charles Johnson (of twitter infamy), and not my app partner, the “good” Charles F. Johnson (nostr:npub1d0spkr0ktwcasanl9jmyx8vtm03tugv7a89f2u367k6jeul7pvqspfegda)

Exclusive: Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Was an FBI Informant

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10

#ThreadsEcho

The Evil Geniuses who sold free enterprise and competition as the most important national goals a people could have, are sure going to have some explaining to do when we fight a war with China and it becomes painfully clear that far too many of the moving parts of our mighty military are now made in China, often by the same oligarchs assembling them in the USA and making crazy amounts of money on the flip. Once again, you couldn’t write a movie script this unbelievable. But here we are.

When I said yesterday that the cruelty of this evacuation was that they “had nowhere else to go” I assumed many people knew the simple reality: that Palestinians are about as welcome in most of the Arab world as fire ants are at a picnic. That’s been the open secret of the whole issue for over two generations now. Nobody ever wants to talk about it. But there it is.

https://besacenter.org/do-arabs-hate-palestinians/

From the roach-infested mind of the hideous asshole who brought us the “critical race theory” hysteria.

“The fog of war” is a well worn metaphor. We need a new short saying to describe the “fog of social media bullshit.”

I would argue that the Arab states have never wanted or cared about the Palestinians (but many of their subjects did), and still don’t. It has nothing to do with a “genocidal ideology”

See: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/14/the-arab-world-has-forsaken-the-palestine-cause

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https://mastodon.social/@ramontaba@toad.social/111227996561570453

I said when this started that Israel would overreact. But it’s been much worse than I thought it would be. 6,000 bombs in 5 days? That’s Putin level death and destruction. But he did it a long way from his own home. These Israeli generals and their families don’t live very far from the ruins that they’ve just made into the biggest incubator of terrorism anywhere. Just incredibly stupid. And most of them probably know it.