Lemmy and BlueSky (primarily Lemmy).

BlueSky’s mobile app is such a clone of twitter, transitioning is nearly seamless for the average user. I tried mastodon at first, but it felt pretty rocky and different (and I’m rather techy).

Between BlueSky and Voyager for Lemmy (I was an Apollo user on Reddit), my user experience hasn’t changed at all – except for the pleasant lack of bots and Nazis on both platforms.

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Ooh, thanks for the reminder! Mine expires next year. Best renew it now before they fuck that up, too.

And who is likely to nominate an antivax, anti-science lunatic with brain worms to head the dept of Health and Human Services?

And who is planning to eliminate the department of education and NOAA?

Previous administrations have done damage through incompetence and/or malice, but the plan this time is on another level. They’re going in with the goal of breaking everything.

I was hoping the Knowledge Fight guys would get it, but this is pretty great, too.

I hope Alex’s cat shits in his shoes.

Nah, they’ll just kill NASA outright and transition to SpaceX.

I expect Madge to get the Dept of Homeland Security.

No, what we sat through was the pre-show with puppets and clowns. Next up is the twisted, gore-filled main event. They’ve been beating the elephants and starving the lions. There will be carnage.

His biggest qualification is he has potential criminal cases he needs gone, just like trump does. Their interests are perfectly aligned. Gaetz will erase all traces of trump’s crimes and evidence without needing to be asked, right after he does the same for himself.

I’m on Voyager and can see it. They pushed a new update the day before yesterday, and a few things broke for me till I updated (inline images).

Updating your app might fix it.

Isn’t this how it always is, though?

Of course those affected turned out. We always do. We’re often getting tear-gassed when 98% of people aren’t even aware a demonstration is happening.

The whole problem is a great many people can’t believe there’s an issue until it affects them, personally.

That’s the heart of it all. If this author had ideas on how to fix that, we’re all ears. Not sarcasm – we’ve been working on that for a very long time.

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Porque no los dos?

Oligarchs should know by now not to stand near upper floor windows.

Kamala Harris recently painted Donald Trump as a fascist. Not to be outdone, the demagogue and convicted felon called Harris a fascist, a communist and stupid.

Well, one of them is stupid.

Someone who was already president once should know enough about politics to know you can’t be a fascist and a communist – they’re diametrically opposed: communism is far left and fascism is far right.

It’s the victim-blaming mentality of an abusive relationship.

‘If the left hadn’t burnt the dinner, the right wouldn’t have hit them.’ We brought this on by not being perfect.

Fuck that. Fascism does not ask permission. It actively foments and exploits any weakness, like a predator, then gaslights you into thinking it’s your fault.

Could the left do better? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean we deserve the fascism that’s been testing the fences like velociraptors for decades, eroding education and the media, sowing misinformation, conspiracy, and discord, and cultivating mistrust and apathy on a scale never before seen.

They need us to blame ourselves, to stay divided, and to point our fingers everywhere but at them. We need to stop making excuses for them.

Blame the fascists for fascism.

I have no choice at this point. I’m fully disabled, and most of my friends and family died within the last few years, so I have no support network.

I’m already struggling to survive, having to choose between food and medicine, and am overdrawn every month. All my savings are gone. I have literally no money to my name, and have been barely staving off homelessness for months. I rely completely on social services now, which trump has vowed to cut.

I will not survive this administration. My fellow Americans have voted for me to die.

That Flynn wasn’t recalled to service to be court-martialed is a travesty.

He’s literally said he will do this.

If you thought journalism was bad before, when they were only compromising their standards for money, just watch now that it’ll be money and threats.

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Unfortunately, though trump is lazy and has no plan, the christofascists pulling his strings are motivated, smart, and have been working on a comprehensive plan for years. Trump can just sit on his ass – his only real job is to be a rubber stamp.

Now that they have a mandate, any real opposition can be ousted and replaced by loyalists. The guardrails that existed in trump’s last administration are mostly gone now.

I’m usually optimistic, but looking at the situation honestly and closely, it really does look dire now.

They didn’t argue that in good faith. They knew the likelihood of that actually happening is near zero. If he was going to be impeached for anything at all, it would have been for inciting an insurrection – which is actual treason – and we all saw how that went. And they didn’t have the trifecta back then. There’s even less chance of that now, and they know it.