Given the crossover of people displaying "thin blue line" flags with those showing "thin red line" flags (which is stupid, who is against the fire department??), and with their success in harassing corporations into dropping DEI initiatives, I wouldn't put it past right-wing crazies to try bullying their fire departments into ignoring incidents for their progressive neighbors

"Welcome to City 17!"

I love how his last name is pronounced "to share a" and he did, in abundance

This "just open the source code and change a few variables" github energy isn't good enough for a big boy platform.

Honest question, who is doing this? All android apps I've used have been completely fine and usable out of the box, and you can just go to your instance web address on your computer. Are you on some ancient alpha version of a client that hasn't been maintained?

Did any other US residents just get a text from cdc's v-safe program? 👀

Don't forget the trans and gays! 🙃

163 years without a civil war, it's been a good run. Note I'm not knocking this effort, but the lines in the sand are being drawn...

I think it's easy to understand Mastodon, or any federated service, using a metaphor for a country or large place, where you can say "I want to move to X country" but then you have to actually pick a place IN that country to live, like a specific city or rural district. Once you decide on your instance, it's really not that hard

Congrats, you've been played into infighting with the only legitimate opposition to Republicans, very cool 👌

If that's not illegal already it should be

The problem is that they have been brainwashed by 30 years of right-wing media to convince them to never believe anything Democrats say ever. We could tell them literally everything they want to hear and they would say we're lying, or nod along and then go vote for the Republican anyway

And make it in black or gray so it's impossible to find in an emergency👌

Friendly reminder that everyone should have one of these seatbelt-cutter-window-hammer things in their glovebox

Bulettes, obviously

We're either laughing or we're crying 🙃

Dems are not standing by, they just ran a whole goddamn election. That they were/are bad at that is not in question. You can be mad at them all you want for losing but don't act like they didn't try to warn us and do something about it

Sorry to go all doom and gloom, but I have this sinking feeling that despite their best efforts, progressive US states will be unable to prevent LGBT people from being rounded up after the Holocaust machine is done with the illegal immigrants. The window is closing

Buckle up buckaroos

I'm definitely not going to read the whole thing (good grief that sucker is long)

Expand your horizons. Sometimes reading long things is worth it