Mr. Dog got his eye gouged by a raccoon, please help send him to the vet!
https://gofund.me/f758e795d

We're generating more data than ever before, yet we might be leaving fewer lasting records than any civilization in history.

Remember Geocities?
Yahoo shut it down in 2009,
taking with it millions of early websites
- a unique snapshot of early internet culture.

The Internet Archive managed to save some pages,
but most are gone forever.

MySpace lost 12 years of music uploads during a server migration.

Google+ vanished, taking with it communities and conversations.

Vine? Gone.

The original Twitter? Transformed beyond recognition.

But platform death is just the tip of the iceberg.

Consider format obsolescence:
try opening a WordPerfect file from 1995,
or running software from a floppy disk.

Even if you have the data, you might not be able to access it.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-the-internet-era-might-be-historys-least-documented-period/

If you could tell your Congressional rep not to vote for a bill that would give the Trump administration the power to revoke non-profit status from any org they don't like...say...EFF, for example, I would appreciate it.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-not-to-weaponize-the-treasury-department-against-nonprofits

We are proud to announce the new mandatory rules for table construction. Please see your local Cat Office of Cat Happiness for information on compliance with these stunning and well-thought-out changes. Congratulations to the design team on solving the problem!

This was NOT posted by #PicaTheCat I, a human agree and support this fully of my own free will. #picalaw #picacrime

@becha yes but my hips hurt and I'm late for bedtime!

My lap right now
#CatsOfMastodon #caturday

Yum, hair tonic!
#NoirAlley

@Andrian6 this is the main thing i remember from seeing this a decade ago

Was that an analingus scene?!
#NoirAlley

That didn’t strike me as an ethical or reliable interrogation method!
#NoirAlley #TheBigCombo

@karabaic not very therapeutic

@karabaic that’s a lotta lettuce!

I’m happy to see I’m not alone in #NoirAlley tonight, hopefully we’ll build our numbers with the current #Twitter #xodus
This one’s a goodie, so strap in, gang!
#TheBigCombo

Only one journalist -- @molly0xfff -- did the serious reporting this year on the cryptocurrency industry's successful purchase of politicians who will deregulate the most corrupt crowd since the 2000s real-estate and banking crew stole countless billions from average folks and nearly killed the global economy.

They may succeed this time with the latter.

You should follow Molly White and subscribe to (and support) her work.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-70/

Peaceful transfer of democratic power to someone who has pledged to rule as a #dictator, and already demonstrated that they will not respect such transfer when their time comes strikes me as similar to the idea of #tolerance for intolerant ideas and behaviors.
If it’s not true tolerance to tolerate bigotry, then how can it be a peaceful transfer of power if it transfers directly to an openly pledged dictator?
I don’t know the solution to this, but I’m very interested in what others think.

@KingShawn I should clarify, I’m saying you ARE the cat furniture, and the sooner you accept that fact, the better they will think of you.

An updated improved guide to surviving #dictatorship for 2024

https://resolutesquare.com/articles/59WL4t7WTu2rjxNmANFyE2/the-authoritarian-regime-survival-guide

@KingShawn hope you don’t have too many plans that are incompatible with serving as furniture for cats because they won’t allow such insubordination.

Speaker Mike Johnson wants to block the ethics report about Matt Gaetz sexually abusing a child, because when someone is innocent of sexual abuse, you definitely want to block the report exonerating him.

Teen Vogue continues to lead the revolution and people who devalue media aimed at teenage girls and young women at a time when their bodily autonomy is under attack can fuck off.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-do-before-the-trump-administration-takes-office-in-january