Gov. Tim Walz said about Trump’s racist attack on Somali-Americans:
“It is unprecedented. We have kids going to school today, and
the president called them ‘garbage.’
Condemn this attack or you are complicit in it.
The only thing hurting this state is Trump himself.
Our kids are watching."

I condemn Trump’s racist attack on Somali-Americans.
Boost this if you condemn it too.
#racism #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Controversial opinion: Recycling is very real and works pretty well.

Sometimes it's abused for greenwashing purposes but let's keep some perspective: the problem is the greenwashing, not the recycling.

The fact that we could be recycling a lot more stuff and are choosing not to is actually way more damning, to me, than "omg recycling is just greenwashing"

People who want unregulated capitalism are idiots. The same patterns keep happening over and over again throughout history because it doesn't fucking work. Without intervention, all markets converge toward monopolies and scams. There are a chosen few who get rich and powerful by systematically degrading products and services until eventually everything is useless shit.

I've only been alive 35 years and I've seen this cycle/pattern play out multiple times. It's so fucking obvious.

Spotify flaunts how it tracks what each used listens to, and invites users to boast about how much Spotify knows about them. This devious scheme operates at an emotional level which most of the users don't recognize as manipulation.

If you can't yet stop Spotify from using you, at least stop yourself from promoting it.

Why is there so much rust stuff prefixed with rip?

Part of me feels like it ought to mean: Rewrite In Perl :P

I just got called a groomer by someone on Fetlife because I said that deliberately misgendering me was transphobic.

He's 46 and in multiple "age gap" groups looking for an 18 year old.

#fetlife #hypocrisy #transphobia

The Together Alliance is a new national movement of over 50 organisations - including trade unions, the Muslim Council of Britain, refugee groups, anti-war and pro-Palestinian groups, Women Against the Far Right, and many other NGOs - that formed a united front after the "Tommy Robinson" march in September, the largest far right demo in British history. It made many want to do something to fight back.

So that's what we'll be doing. We cannot ever allow our country fall to the fascists. ✊🏼

For the Washington Post, lacking expertise on transgender care makes you more credible, because you're "more neutral."

fair.org/home/on-trans-care-wa…

On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center

The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."

^FAIR

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer.
-- Mikhail Bakunin

#anarchism #quote #bot

'Post pending. We’re waiting on the person who wrote the original toot to give their consent.’

This shouldn’t feel so revolutionary, but it does. Slow social media. Considerate social media. Social media conversations by consent. A new feature that actually makes something better. The opposite of enshittification. Kudos to the Mastodon developers.

One place to check research papers is this:
retractionwatch.com/the-retrac…

And now of course, we have AI slop to deal with, as if there weren't enough problems.

#BadResearch #AISlop

Top 10 most highly cited retracted papers

Ever curious which retracted papers have been most cited by other scientists? Below, we present the list of the 10 most highly cited retractions as of November 12, 2025. Readers will see some famil…

^{Retraction Watch}

A lesser known Mastodon pro tip:

Want to mute a conversation, but the mute conversation button isn't appearing on the post?

The only way you can mute a conversation is on a post you have made in the conversation.

But the secret part - Say you want to mute it without actually participating in the conversation:

Reply to a post, set the visibility to "Private Mention", remove everyone's username from the post. Post it.

Then you can click "mute conversation" on THAT post, and it silently mutes you from the conversation.