mastodon 5.0.0-nightly.2026-10-22𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕪𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕨𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟
𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦. 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 "𝘉𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘺𝘤𝘦" 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘦
i live near #RochesterNY #Rochester #NewYork #NY
#FingerLakes #WesternNY #Ganondagan
There are a lot of reasons for the downfall of the #USA but a big one is the purchase of traditional #media by plutocrat goons
Look at this fucking shit:
EDIT: some people are angry that i am potentially misleading because this isn't a recent headline. i am trying to make a point about the decay of traditional media and our current state of things. but yes, this is is from 2014, after #bezos bought WaPo. my point still stands, and you should follow my account for commentary, not breaking news
You may ask:
"Why?"
But the universe whispers back:
"Why not?"
It's not weird for some species to incorporate toxins from their diet as defenses: poison dart frogs, monarch butterflies, sea slugs, etc
But let's get weird and circuitous with it
#Nicotine was developed by plants to kill insects. As a quirk of #neurochemistry, humans use it addictively, so cigarette butts are everywhere
Birds have figured out they can use them in their nests to repel insect parasites
The original intention of nicotine
Weird!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347226000011
They say wrestling is fake
🤔
This video was released by #Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian #Consumer Council, a few days ago
It imagines the career trajectory of an "enshittificator"
It was hard for him to enshittify minor aspects of daily life in person, but became easy for him to do so at scale once he embraced the #Internet and #technology
It's genius #satire
credit:
#Ukraine is the bastion of the free world. I am daily in awe of Ukraine
"Ukraine retakes most Russian-held areas in #Dnipropetrovsk Oblast after weeks of counterattacks"
"Ukrainian troops have liberated more than 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) in the area during the operation... In February, Ukraine liberated more territory than Russian troops captured during the same period"
Define #crocodileTears
An aggressor's sadness, fake or cluelessly entitled, because their aggression backfired
Example:
#Afroman's "Lemon Pound Cake" mocked a #police raid on his home (resulting in no charges)
They sued
Because "waah, my feelings"
One of the officers "cried" on the stand
Afroman won
And congratulations Afroman for reigniting your career
"I got the right to kick a can in my backyard, use my #freedomOfSpeech, turn my bad times into a good time"
Many people recognize this composition
For example it's known as a #Christmas carol, "Carol of the Bells" in the USA
But the original title is "#Shchedryk"
Composed in #Ukraine by Mykola Leontovych about 110 years ago
The original lyrics tell a story of a swallow flying into a household at #NewYears. To sing of the wealth that will come in Springtime
Here it is symbolically performed in the machine hall of a thermal power plant destroyed by Russian strikes
Check out this insane curl by #Canada's #JonThurston against #Norway
If you don't know #curling the goal is to get your stones closer to the center than your opponent. The strategy is to knock your opponent's stones out, avoiding (or knocking closer) your own stones
His precision is stunning
There are no sweepers in #wheelchair curling, no adjustments to the shot after it is made. Instead his teammates hold his wheelchair steady
" #Democrats deliver ‘stunning’ flip in New Hampshire special election, latest in series of 28 upsets"
remember the game plan:
1. #vote in the #primaries, get real left #candidates
if you don't, don't complain about corporatist dems ever again: you're the fucking problem
2. #vote in the general #election no matter who wins the primary
yes the dems fucking suck. but if you're willing to do nothing, helping #fascism, because you want perfect: you're an entitled moron
*beepbeep*
...
"Good morning"
"I suppose!"
Conflict resolution 101
Example scenario: two claimants approach an open parking spot at the same time
Dispute resolution methodology: ✊✋✌️
Feb 24, 2022:
"I need ammunition, not a ride"
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-reveals-bunker/
4 years later #Europe dithers still. The #USA abandons Ukraine
#Ukraine shoulders the defense of the West from mass murdering ethnofascist imperialism...
Alone
Still!
We elsewhere in the West are not worthy of your sacrifice
"#ICEOut. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans... the hate get more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love"
#FuckICE #Music #MusicNews #GrammyAwards #GrammyAwards2026 #Grammys2026
#Texas #Primaries too close to call
Heads up:
With certainty over the coming months you will hear from "leftist" accounts
With all the easy signifiers, flags and symbols
Speaking with great high holy outrage
About some vile betrayal the winner, #Talarico or #Crockett, made against the left
It's a #toxicIdealism #psyop
They are right wingers cosplaying right here on #Mastodon
Do not fall for it
Show up in the general #election in November
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/texas-senate-results
The question now:
Will the average #MAGA supporter, who opposes American military #interventionism as a core belief, now fall in line behind #Trump, or notice how they are idiot victims of a confidence game?
When MAGA fused with #Qanon in disgust with elite #pedophile rings, was that genuine? Or was it an "accuse the other side of that which you are guilty" #Goebbels trick?
Do #zombies grow brains?
Was it all a lying game of #deflection from their own malice?
You might have wondered how they quickly turned the #Superbowl into a sugarcane field for #BadBunny's #halftimeShow
You might have thought about the logistics, that a lot of people must have been on hand to move the "bushes" of sugarcane grass on and off the field
Kind of
The people were the grass
" #Canada could join #EU, French foreign minister says"
https://www.politico.eu/article/canada-could-join-eu-says-french-foreign-minister-jean-noel-barrot/
It's a good idea but even though Canada is closest to #Europe in terms of ethos, EU implies a geographical area not a state of mind
So...
EuCan? "Yes, EuCan!" ("Yes, you can!")
Eumerica?
EU Max?
CanadEU?
Canadian Eastern Neighbors Initiative?
Inverse Russia?
Greater Iceland?
Hans Island Maximum Overdrive?
Oh, I got it:
NATO
Is there an org by that name already?
situational awareness is important in life
LOL ROFL LMAO 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
It's just all so very stupid
" #Russia slams ' #EU warmongers' for not backing #Trump's war against its ally"
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-slams-eu-warmongers-for-not-backing-trumps-war/
What even is the point? "We win with 14 year old edgelord trolling!"?
Remember when the #USSR (Russia) and the #USA were serious players on the world stage?
That era is dead
Historians and psychologists should study how exactly #hubris kills countries and empires
Wait, #China did do that:
https://interpret.csis.org/chinese-assessments-of-the-soviet-unions-collapse/
Just heard on NBC news:
Iranian state media (not some Western news outlet) is saying the #Ayatollah #Khamenei is dead
Holy shit
Is anyone else sick of living in a reality which is nothing but all the #dystopian #fiction from 50 years ago?
We have #JamesBond villains ( #Musk)
We have #InvasionoftheBodySnatchers zombification ( #MAGA)
Etc, etc.
And now we have #Wargames:
" #AI s can’t stop recommending #nuclear strikes in #war game #simulations
Leading AIs from #OpenAI, #Anthropic and #Google opted to use #nuclearWeapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases"
If you're looking to flee the #USA cesspool
Italian-Americans: ❌
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/14/travel/italy-citizenship-law-restrictions-constitutional-court
"Italy ruling tells millions with Italian roots they have lost the right to citizenship"
Canadian-Americans: ✅
"Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it"
#Italy: I have friends who are Italian American. Does that count for Italian citizenship?
#Canada: My ancestors killed redcoats in the Revolution. Would you overlook that?
RIP: the paperback
"‘We’re losing #accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market #paperback
The so-called ‘pocket #book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US
They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like... there is something here for everyone, whether it’s the Harlequin romance novel or something very pulpy like a sci-fi or horror novel that you could quickly get”
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/24/america-says-goodbye-paperback
