The shooter at Stoneman Douglas was MAGA.

The suicide bomber in Nashville was MAGA.

The shooter at the ClubQ nightclub was MAGA.

Kyle Rittenhouse, who drove two states away to hunt people for sport was MAGA.

The insurrectionists who stormed the US Capital on January 6 were MAGA.

The murderer who killed a lady for flying a Pride Flag was MAGA.

The Jacksonville shooter who murdered three black people in a Dollar Tree was MAGA.

The guy who broke into Paul Pelosi's house and tried to bash in his brains with a hammer was MAGA

Even the kid who tried to assassinate Donald Trump was MAGA.

It's not mental health.
It's MAGA.
MAGA is terrorism.

This cat presents you their butt.

As you may know, when a cat presents their butt to you, it is a great honor.

You are compelled to boost the cat butt.

It's lucky to do so, you know.

Boost the booty.

#BoostTheBooty #Caturday #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Pets #Cute #Funny

I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.

If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.

Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.

This really is a hidden gem 💎 on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature :awesome:

#mastodon

@arstechnica Ok, I'm totally psyched about the attention for the work of @GreatDismal but can someone please continue production of The Peripheral as well?

Cartoon about the gender pay gap. Comments are off because you people cannot be trusted! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/feb/28/a-gender-pay-gap-in-this-economy

Fuck JK Rowling. Remember that buying any Harry Potter related products funds her transphobic and hateful actions like this.

https://news.yahoo.com/jk-rowling-donates-70k-challenge-183123131.html

The ex-president of #Mongolia trolling #Putin 😂

"After Putin’s talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don’t worry. We are a peaceful and free nation🌏"

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1756818696700657935.html

#Ukraine #Russia #Tucker #Carlson #MAGA #GOP #US

This piece about Goodreads is long, but I really need everyone in the book world to read it immediately

https://misshelved.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-goodreads

“So, the main question we should be asking is not why there aren’t any more women leaders, but why do so many incompetent men become leaders?”

https://ideas.ted.com/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men-become-leaders-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2022-4-5&fbclid=IwAR15IAIHXtw7mqYL2zh3rZhDP2F0MYA_0YXSNa-E3j3LBoj-5ifISUjnXTI

@dukethinrediv@universeodon.com @cstross Absolutely, and from a reliability perspective I’m wibbling at the various failure modes and effects an implant like this is liable to realise, both from a physical and software perspective. Any “maintenance” opens the system to a higher likelihood of “maintenance induced failure” and potential new failure causes. I really should incorporate this example into my next training course 🤦🏻‍♂️

As someone who uses hearing aids, I'm asking, no begging, anyone who works at Apple to get a feature added to the iPhone.

Let me *manually* decide to connect to hearing aids. I want to use them sometimes in Bluetooth mode to connect to the phone. But not always. If I'm in a lecture, I don't want a "ding" on my phone muting the audio of the lecture so the phone can grab the Bluetooth of the hearing aids.

Even better: let me select what things the phone will use the hearing aids for.

@hacks4pancakes

> "if you have ovaries that work you can just take birth control forever and never have a period, there are some health caveats but it’s mostly sorta kinda just a stigma not to"

This is a fascinating one. There's all this history about the invention of the contraceptive pill and how the decision to interrupt the pills and for women to [appear to] menstruate was more a political/moral/religious/marketing decision than a medical decision.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/07/decades-women-pill-suffered-they-didnt-have/
https://archive.md/DPMSZ

Imagine being Elon Musk, or Donald Trump, or Boris Johnson. You have more money than you know what to do with. You could literally afford to go to whatever paradise you want and spend the days of your one life doing whatever you please.

They came so tantalisingly close to having more fulfilling and carefree lives than 99.99% of humans who have ever lived, but instead they want the masses to fear and adore them.

And they are utterly miserable, because nothing will fill the void, and the more they try, the more they debase themselves in front of billions, and the people they most need to respect them probably think they’re losers.

Idiots. Fools. Losers.

Musk is the worst of them. Read some Iain M Banks books, didn’t understand any of then, decided to save the world by becoming a solar power and electric vehicle magnate with space colonies.

But instead he is approaching old age as the proprietor of a bankrupt nazi chat room, and none of his kids will speak to him.

How can you have so many advantages and yet fuck up so amazingly completely?

And today he’s gone. I couldn’t be any sadder than I am right now, but glad we were there with him at the end. I’m going to miss you so much my little guy #kowalski #catsofmastodon #blackcatsofmastadon

The writer of this piece is marvelous. Just a total joy to read someone tear into an outrageous & dangerous thing like the #Tesla biz model the way it actually deserves

https://defector.com/youre-supposed-to-be-glad-your-tesla-is-a-brittle-heap-of-junk