Notices by Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote (benroyce@mastodon.social)

@Gargron @nelsonakis @ayoub

thanks for addressing the issue Eugen

i understand the reasoning for opaque mod decisions

but when there is a large outcry it's prudent to identify the exact violation publicly

at the very least so others may avoid the snag on contentious topics

i recall a similar situation earlier this year where you spoke to the specifics of why a popular account was hidden

maybe new policy exists since then

so i ask mastodon.social mods:

allow Eugen to relay the specifics

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@Alice

what you do is you take one chopstick and you stab the dim sum while you make a disturbing guttural noise

then lock eyes with whomever is staring at your behavior

bring it slowly to your mouth, and smile menacingly as the dim sum slides off your chopstick into your lap anyways

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-said-she-had-a-miscarriage-then-got-arrested-under-an-abortion-law/ar-AA1t7MxH

"She said she had a #miscarriage — then got arrested under an #abortion law"

'...five men eyed Frazier from the driveway

...hands on their holsters as if bracing to shoot.

Frazier told the female sheriff’s deputy that her boyfriend wasn’t home

...the 26-year-old had a terrifying realization.

The officers were there for her.

Earlier that month, Frazier had shared a #Facebook post about the son she lost.'

#Trump's #America

#vote!

#womensrights #reproductivefreedom

@Gargron

this #american says "thank you eugen"

#vote!

#election2024 #usa

A well written villain in a movie or book lets the reader or viewer understand their motivations,

even sympathize with them.

Or feel rage at them.

Or... uh...

posted without comment

#musk #trump

@aral

why don't people understand that working with likes of #meta #facebook #threads is only you lose, they win, in every scenario

why don't people understand that?

is it a concern for money?

is it a concern for clout?

what?

you can never make a deal with the devil where you come out on top

never

#socialwebfoundation #fediverse #mastodon

completely understandable and appropriate

@arstechnica

this was the opening ceremony of the new building for the Space Command of the Bundeswehr last year

Germany:

yes, we can see the humor

and it's rather, uh, how shall we say... evocative of some themes you maybe, uh, don't want to evoke

she was disqualified for a "political" display hidden in her clothing that she revealed in competition

#ManizhaTalash

an Afghan #breaker on the #IOC #Refugee Team, residing in #Spain

there are things far more important than an #Olympic #medal

and Manizha chose right

story about her from before her display:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9x8dj81r73o

#olympics #olympics2024 #afghanistan #refugees #women #breaking #breakdancing

@nixCraft Musk has enough money to throw temper tantrums in the form of lawsuits. It won't be successful but he'll be able to generate some whiny twitter posts about woke mind control being out to get him. Then he'll take a nap with his blanket and feel better

@arstechnica

ah yes, advertisers are "colluding" to tank #twitter's ad revenue

i see #elonmusk. uhuh

in another time, i would consider such words to be a method, a lie crafted to advance a narrative

nowadays, i don't think that's the case at all

now, i view #plutocrat manchildren like #musk as merely incapable of moral reasoning skills

when they say "collude," they mean it, honestly

because to a mind devoid of morality, collusion is what simple common revulsion appears to be to such turds

We worry about #Trump winning in November.

But even if he loses, we will have to contend with this bullshit:

"In a first, #Republican majority on a Nevada county commission refuses to certify election"

If it is a close vote, it *will* get violent, spurred on by #socialmedia #psyop campaigns. Domestic #fascist #plutocrat ones, and geopolitical agendas from the usual suspects abroad, to sow enduring division.

It will be Jan 6, multiplied across various hotspots.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/11/nevada-republicans-refuse-to-certify-reno-election/74352699007/

today in #enshittification chronicles:

old heads remember when the local #pharmacy was an independent business. a sphere run by an independent class of #pharmacy professionals is now reduced by #corporate leverage into a cookie cutter wage slave existence

not that prices went down, of course

next up for the ghouls: your local #veterinary #clinic and your #veterinarian #vet

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/veterinarians-corporate-consolidation-1.7207186

@nixCraft

buy gruthub.com gribhub.com and grithub.com

you'll get all the hungry programmers with low blood sugar and slippy shaky fingers

people are aware that #h5n1 is in cow's milk

i made a few posts that #rawmilk is popular with #maga, and this is a possible vector for transmission:

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112339025056616724

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112301494616847164

it's far worse than that:

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

"Mark McAfee, founder of Fresno’s Raw Farm and the Raw Milk Institute, said his phone has been ringing off the hook with 'customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it.'"

we live in a world with suicide cults of ignorance

@arstechnica

your social output will be fodder for the machine

submission is compulsory

uggh

all these poor stack overflow users joined in when it was the sheer pleasure of exchanging knowledge

and now they are grist to feed a machine

what a world

The Fermi Paradox says we should have contacted alien life by now

The Great Filter says we haven't because a civilization's capacity for self-destruction increases to certainty over time

I thought for us it would be an exotic technology or scientific discovery that instantly destroys on a large scale

Nope. Far more depressing and mundane

We simply watched ourselves destroy our climate and lacked the will to do anything about it because someone was making money off it

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

@Gargron @blogdiva liar!

it's czechia's 🤭

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A1lovec_Region