Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Remember: Running a Mastodon server well isn't free or even cheap. If you have the means consider financially supporting not just the Mastodon project generally, but also your local instance.

There's likely to be another stampede of new users here, and while more voices will make this system richer and more useful, they can also put a strain on existing resources.

You’re not going to fight him by staying on Twitter. You’re going to fight him by helping him fail. That means staying *off * Twitter.

Do I have to draw a diagram or something?

With the great news that the KY #schoolvouchers #education program was rejected by the state Supreme Court, my bit @courierjournal in October on the mess that would have been for KY kids and taxpayers 👇
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2022/10/20/school-choice-why-tuition-tax-credits-are-vouchers-by-another-name/69572948007/

Here is a list of journalists to follow on Mastodon. Added to frequently.

Managed by @tchambers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/htmlview

One note:
Taylor Lorenz is taylorlorenz@mastodon.social

#journalism #journalists #infosec #techie #womenintech #reporters #follow

Three weeks ago

The purge has begun
Journalists suspended from Twitter so far tonight:

• @atrupar (WaPo)
• @drewharwell (WaPo)
• @rmac18 (NYT)
• @donie (CNN)
• @mattbinder (Mashable)
• @micahflee (The Intercept)
• @webster (freelance)

I volunteer to write the next chapter of THE TWITTER FILES on how the decision was made to deactivate the accounts of a bunch of journalists that reported on Musk

Just send me all the internal communications.

My email is in my bio.

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

WHAT THE FUCK?

Big Business Sounds Alarms Over GOP Debt Limit Hostage Plan - The outgoing House Budget chairman said bypassing the issue in the lame duck period is akin to giving Republicans “a legislative nuclear weapon.” #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-business-debt-limit-republicans_n_639b9663e4b0a13a9504ebc6

It is possible to find your inner power.
It is possible to forgive.
It is possible to clear the mind.
It is possible to throw out the bitterness in the deepest bin.
It is possible to let fresh air pass through your lungs one more time.
AFFIRM YES
(📸 Christian Kuntz Photography)

Mastodon's official Twitter account has been suspended. It has 174,000 followers. #birdsite

@Gargron do you have any insight into why?

Kroger projects $4.9 billion in profits in 2022.

Now it's purchasing Albertons, the second largest grocery store chain, for $25 billion.

Albertsons previously acquired Safeway for $9.2 billion.

Why are grocery prices up? Grocery store goliaths are buying the competition.

Russia had a torture chamber for CHILDREN in Kherson, Ukraine.

It is time for a dedicated war crimes court for Russia's invasion and massive brutality against civilians.

I'm just demoing #Mastodon to a friend @Humeera and hoping someone can boost this so I can show how it works! (Thank you)

US sues Arizona over shipping container border wall https://bbc.in/3htgC4W

House Approves Referendum To 'Decolonize' Puerto Rico - The U.S. House has passed a bill that would allow Puerto Rico to hold the first-ever binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain some sort of independence. #huffpost

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-congress-puerto-rico-statehood_n_639b91e5e4b044143045ab63