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You just know it’s coming….

Let’s end the sentence here: “MAGA is revolting.”

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

“Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet—All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online….” 🦋 💪🏽 ✊🏽 🛜 🌎 #Bluesky #bsky

Ungated version: archive.is/1yHkm

The ACLU is no longer posting on Twitter. They have abandoned their 1.6 million follower account and are now posting on Bluesky.
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Mario Vargas Llosa: Five essential novels Wondering where to start with the new Nobel laureate? Here are five highlights

Here are five essential novels by the great Peruvian writer, and Nobel laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa. He died this Sunday at the age of 89. 📚 🇵🇪 ✍🏽 #books #writers #LatinAmericanWriters #Peru #PeruvianWriters #novels #BookSky

Merle Haggard was born on this date in 1937 and died on this date in 2016. Here are a few of my favorite Hag mag and book covers (that last one especially!)

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

Image of a forest with the words: “Trump has ordered over 100 million hectares of forest to be chopped down. That's nearly three times the size of California.”

This, in particular, has me feeling depressed lately…. 🌳 💚 #USGovernment #USPolitics #USA #TreeSky #nature #NatureSky

"How can so many voters be so politically selfish?" asks left-of-center journalist class that refuses to stop using a degrading app run by an antisemite because they personally benefit from it.

My radiator is really “generating steam heat” at the moment. 🎵 🥵 🥶 #Ramones #BlitzkriegBop #MusicSky

Album Cover

The Raincoats - The Raincoats
1979 UK Rough Trade #vinyl #music
#NewWave #Avantgarde #PostPunk

New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Lied” “The president, offering no evidence, insisted upon his version of the story.” “The president extemporized with a blithe disregard for established ...

“The president once again found himself galloping ahead of reality’s leisurely pace.” 😂 ✍🏽 🛜

#McSweeneys #comedy #PoliticalHumor #NewYorkTimes #TheFailingNewYorkTimes #USMediaFailure #ObeyingInAdvance #AnticipatoryObedience

The government can’t use its power to prosecute and silence disfavored opinions.

We sent a letter pushing back on U.S. Attorney Martin’s message to Elon Musk about legal action against those who merely criticize, challenge, or “impact” DOGE employees’ work— an alarming threat to free speech.

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You’re quite welcome. I hope that helped.

"It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself; Nathanael West perceived that, in The Day of the Locust; and at the time of the 1965 Watts riots what struck the imagination most indelibly were the fires. For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it would be in the end. Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are." — Joan Didion, SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM

“Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse….” ✍🏽 📚 🗣️ #LosAngeles #JoanDidion #CaliforniaWriters #BookSky #2025LosAngelesWildfires #SlouchingTowardsBethlehem

Hope this helps people move to more independent social media NOT owned by billionaire techbros.

It started as a reply in another thread to someone who was struggling with this. I’m reposting it here so people can easily share/repost it if they think it helps. 💟 Give me a follow, if you care to.

pixelfed The original Pixelfed instance, operated by the main developer @dansup

And, if you’re still anxious about which one to choose, just pick the original, and largest instance (I think)— pixelfed.social and go from there. Good luck! 👍🏽

Pixelfed Server Directory Find the perfect Pixelfed community to join with our Server Directory

This is a list of possible PixelFed servers. Just pick one and sign up.

You can even move to a different server at a later point, like you could switch email hosts if you wanted. If you did, likely only the tail-end of your username would change, the server/instance part.

pixelfed.org/servers

Think of it this way: it’s like signing up for email. You may want coolguy@yahoo.com, or coolguy@gmail.com, or coolguy@fastmail.com. The servers on PixelFed are like those different email-hosting services. So you just pick one, like you picked one for email. There’s honestly nothing hard about it 👍🏽

For those interested in leaving dirtbag Zuckerberg’s 😡 Instagram who are confused by how PixelFed works (a la Mastodon) with the different servers and such… a short thread…. 🧵 📷 #PixelFed #FederatedSocialMedia #DistributedSocialNetworks #DumpZuck #DumpInstagram

pixelfed The original Pixelfed instance, operated by the main developer @dansup

And, if you’re still anxious about which one to choose, just go with the original, and largest, I think— pixelfed.social and go from there. 👍🏽

Pixelfed Server Directory Find the perfect Pixelfed community to join with our Server Directory

This is a list of possible pixelfed servers. Just pick one and sign up. You can even move at another point like you could switch email hosts. Only the tail-end of your username would change, the server part.

pixelfed.org/servers

Think of it this way: it’s like signing up for email. You may want prowlsghost@yahoo.com, or prowlsghost@gmail.com, or prowlsghost@fastmail.com. The servers are like those different email-hosting services. So you just pick one like you picked one for email. There’s honestly nothing hard about it. 👍🏽

“If you are a musician or a music program based in the LA-area affected by the fires, please read below and click on APPLY NOW at the bottom. Requests will be accepted now through Feb. 28, 2025.” 🎵 🎸 🆘 🇺🇸

Subversive shots of Catholic schoolgirls in ‘80s New York Catholic Girl — When revisiting her alma mater, Andrea Modica noticed schoolgirls finding forms of self-expression beyond the dress code. Her new…

Subversive shots of Catholic schoolgirls in ‘80s New York

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