I gave it one day off this suspicious drug to see if things improved, but nah. I gotta go to the ER tomorrow in the states and get a CT of my abdomen. An MD friend says some diverticulitis can go sideways in creative ways, and it’s not worth the risk, since it’s the prime suspect. He says I gotta go. But I’ll wait until afternoon when I know it will be hurting when I arrive so I can make a proper entrance.

I don’t mean to be that guy here, but we’re going to have to face the fact that America is almost ungovernable. When it actually gets there, then what?

She is so tiresome. Whatever moves her name from point A to point B. That’s all she’s ever been about. And the media is always thrilled to help her get it done. Source: @npub1fflm...tv7d

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#TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Ann Coulter Warns ‘By The Time’ The GOP Wakes Up to Reality of Abortion Politics ‘There Will Be No Elected Republicans Lef...

JFC. I am really learning to hate this fucking country. 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝘅 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗲 https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/08/concerns-over-sex-content-leads-florida-schools-pull-shakespeare/

I sure miss Tweetdeck's notification filters that let me tune-out things I've seen many times before. Mastodon users don't seem to care enough to notice or comment about it. I find it a productivity killer. Why should I have to see my own posts again just to learn of activity on them. Xitter and Bluesky handle this far better.

Good morning . If there's going to be a big commercial, mass-social media dog, I'd rather have a federated Bluesky take that lead, at least until activity Pub has a bump in Mastodon alternatives and better onboarding for them.

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8 Bluesky tips every new user should know

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Xitter feeds me this xit all day long. It should be illegal to do this.

Dobbs is Just the Bludgeon We’ve Been Looking For - by @leftjabber

Dobbs is Just the Bludgeon We’ve Been Looking For

Life and Politics in the Age of Covid. An unapologetically partisan chronicle of the current state of the American Experiment.

I guess you know you're getting old when tits and ass spam really irritates you.

Despite my great experiences with Upper Peninsula Michigan Healthcare, I still can't get over how few Black faces I've seen here. And by few, I mean none. zip nada. Not in the airports, nor the supermarkets, or even Burger Kings where I didn't think the flame broilers could even operate without black black employees. It's easy to see why extremists can sucker these people so easily. They don't understand diversity because they've never experienced any.

I'm working on a browser plugin that diverts anything clearly performative to your performative timeline where a bot will auto-LOL stuff you never read. You're welcome.

Everything You Need To Know About The Ohio Ballot Measure That Could Block Abortion Rights | FiveThirtyEight

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Everything You Need To Know About The Ohio Ballot Measure That Could Block Abortion Rights

The campaign over Issue 1 in Ohio has been provocative, to say the least. One ad argues that the ballot measure is necessary to prevent children fr...

Something to consider when you review that living will you keep meaning to get around to one of these days. Source: @npub1tel5...4v4v

Mastodon

Missing The Point (@MissingThePt@mastodon.social)

When I die, a laptop with my Mastodon account should be frozen along with my head so that we can both be revived together.

It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach By @npub1a24y...dkqm

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It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk

After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach

Call me a wild-eyed dreamer, but I’d like the fediverse to become a global civic accountability, education and remedial action network that could, among many things, be a place to catalogue, propagate and annotate what rules, norms, and ethical standards are (or were) in hundreds of fields… while we still can. Before they are erased by neglect, disuse, and even further political abuse. (For me, this was always a major promise of the Internet.) Source: @npub1lrvm...tth9

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Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)

The fact that the California bar permits John Eastman to retain his law license for even one more day is -- how to put this -- an indictment of the...

Good morning. So many messages to catch up on. I will get right on that after I catch my PCP up on all these medical dramas. I would like to take this moment to remind you youngsters that getting older has a few benefits, but living pain free is not likely to be one of them. Just so you know.

She’s losing whatever is left of whatever had passed for a mind. You used to have to go to places like Italy to find political parties with this many whackaloons. And we have no easy remedy for any of them except “voting,” which gives me no comfort at all. Source: @npub1myuu...623s

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I miss the days when the AC was about the better sailors, not the better technology. Source: @npub10rd7...0rfk

Mastodon

Dave Levy (@davelevy_eu@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image I have posted America’s Cup 2023-24, https://davelevy.info/wiki/americas-cup-2023-24/ to my wiki, The timeline and venue’s h...

Everyone talks about “both sidesism” now. Yet @npub1f7tg...0ml8 and his blog and podcast that spent over 13 years defining and promoting the term still struggles to find a major audience, while hundreds of unremarkable left-of-center podcasts and Substacks flood multiple zones, competing for our limited attention spans. I know it rankles him, but it personally skeeves me as well. A lot. Source: @npub12qzr...efxl

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