Theranos Board of Directors @twisted@pixie.town

Co-founder of “Food Not Bombs” Global, Arrested today

"Keith McHenry, the co-founder of the global movement “Food Not Bombs” was arrested and jailed by the Santa Cruz Police Department today for the crime of serving food to the unhoused community members. Approximately 10 officers of the Santa Cruz Police Department arrested Keith at approximately 10:00 am today, December 27, 2022, in River Street Parking Garage #10, 24 River Street, as he was setting up tables to serve a meal out of the intense rain.

This egregious treatment of this community hero comes just two days after Food Not Bombs served a free Christmas feast to over 500 unhoused persons in downtown Santa Cruz. Keith is being held at Santa Cruz County Jail facing two misdemeanor charges of blocking a parking space and loitering in a parking garage. The police also confiscated some equipment belonging to Food Not Bombs including tables, cups for coffee and sugar."

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/27/18853618.php

#FoodNotBombs #Repression #antireport #mutualaid #FreeThemAll

FACTS ABOUT MASTODON

If you are curious about leaving the cooked turkey site and going to the elephant site, here are some important tips:

1. It sucks. But then, so does every site.

2. You can still shitpost. Take great glee.

3. Picking your server instance is super important.

Ideally you should start at a large instance, and leave because it's full of white suburban NIMBY reactionaries who joined in November because they were promised 0 uncomfortable experiences in their lives and lash out whenever this turns out not to be the case.

Then you move to a smaller server where suddenly you can't talk to your friends because the admin of your instance is feuding with the admin of their instance. Then you wait a month before you can move again.

In this regard, the feudal structure of Mastodon instances is very like early 2000s message boards, whenever the admin got drunk and deleted the site.

4. You can work around the feudalism by running Mastodon yourself. It's the size of a mastodon and costs a fortune.

You can run Pleroma, which is smaller, and is also favoured by Nazis by unfortunate historical accident. Pleroma is perfectly good software that fulfils a need for something smaller than Mastodon, but also the devs are definitely not Nazis but are the other ten guys at the table.

There was a hilarious moment where the guy behind Spinster was so obnoxious he got kicked out of Pleroma and started his own fork called Soapbox/Rebased. He is now known as Soapbox Terf.

The nice people went to Pleroma fork Akkoma, which Soapbox Terf calls the "tr***y server", a review I understand they were delighted by. Try that.

There's also Misskey, which is a bit weird and Japanese, and supports cat ears right there in the protocol.

5. Any bozo who complains about your posts with assertions about the Fediverse that assume it all runs on the rules of mastodon.social is one of the suburban NIMBYs and invariably joined in November. Block and don't look back.

6. If anyone annoys you about your posting, you can improve their feed for them by blocking them from ever seeing your posts. The blocking tools are marvellous.

7. There are NO QUOTE TWEETS on Mastodon and anyone who wants QUOTE TWEETS is an invader, pollutant and corrupting influence despoiling the suburban vistas of Mastodon who only wants quote tweets so they can wreak EVIL.

So quote-tweeting is well supported in Akkoma and Misskey (and forks thereof), is in the Treehouse fork of Mastodon, and will be coming to more Fediverse software soon.

UPDATE: once enough other fedi software adopted quoting, Mastodon finally put it in, implemented gratuitously differently because fuck you.

8. In Mastodon, Eugen Rochko has achieved the creation of something greater than himself. And he will *never forgive it*.

9. The Fediverse interprets Website Boy as damage and routes around him.

10. Mastodon is yet another demonstration that worse is better. So come onto Mastodon, and *be* that worse.
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EDIT: this post is attracting some very dumb reply guys. Consider *not* posting debate club fatuity.

the internet is a series of tubes and all of the pipes connected to lesbian.solutions are full of #piss

"Love is Free and so is shoplifting"
Spotted along Kirkstall Road in Leeds, UK

Remind you that if you're a user on this instance I'm allowed to anihilates you with my big orbital laser, that's how being an administrator works

I'm also allowed to do that with users on other instances

Fuck all these other bands and albums, "Music from Mathematics (Played by IBM7090)" is where it's at.

sure they say the breadsticks are unlimited, but after a certain amount they start throttling the speed

drugs 🤝 education
being able to change your subjective consciousness

someone: "You're really cute but I'm gonna be honest your mannerisms make me feel like I'm talking to a kid on GaiaOnline circa 2010s and it's really off-putting..."

me: "i'm gonna choose to take that as a compliment" *blocks them everywhere lmaosies*

i wanna pin this quote to my chest like a badge of honor

happy ace attorney day

Girlclock

heyyyyooooo

hey you're really aesthetically pleasing but the very foundation of the way you go about communicating with other human beings, as fundamentally social animals, i find to be personally distasteful and i'm gonna insult you about it

like it's not an exaggeration to call my "mannerisms" what they are -- the core of my being

if humans are social animals

and our survival over many millennia has been due to this

it could be said that our most important feature is the ability to communicate and socialize

i know that's certainly my favorite hobby

so like... telling someone the way they neurodivergently communicate is wrong is... mean

you're basically telling them there's something wrong with them fundamentally

Making a post on liberals.democracy:

hello fellow enlightened centrists! I sure love democracy! I'm democrazy you might say! haha, that's just a fun little joke. anyway I'm off to the polls! remember it doesn't matter who you vote for as long as you vote! kony2012!