5. Immediate halt of all military aid to Israel and breaking of the humanitarian aid blockade to Gaza

Oh wow I didn’t realize that settings export included communities. That’s great.

Shiiiit. What’s the easiest way to migrate all my communities quickly???

The image search in Google Photos is so useful that I almost don’t feel like an idiot for giving Google access to my photos.

Interesting, I didn’t find this info. Gonna go research now.

Does all this even matter after the courts overturned the tariffs?

There’s only one Jeff Bezos. If he can’t hire people, it’s only what he can do himself in his spare time. We greatly outnumber him, even if we are only doing it in our spare time.

You can form groups without paying people. This ensures people actually care about the cause rather than just doing it for the money.

Banning lobbying isn’t banning organizing. It’s banning rich people being able to put their giant thumbs on the levers of democracy.

I believe the ACLU mostly fields lawsuits against those doing the oppression. But my feeling is that lobbying is on balance such a negative force fielded 95% by the ultra wealthy to further their agenda, that I’d be okay with losing the other 5% that had a positive impact. Those causes could easily be taken up by individuals and unfunded groups and have a much better chance of getting heard.

Anyone making money to lobby government should be thrown in jail.

What happened, India?

Read his comment again:

It wasn’t an idea that I thought was fun or could change the world

Wouldn’t that be a similar but less efficient version of a starter pack?

I’m definitely “taking it slow” on Mastadon. I think I’ve followed less than 10 people in the last 2 years. My feed is dead.

It’s investment vs payoff. I want to get a feed up and running, then I can tailor it as needed. My feed from using starter packs at Bluesky ended up better than 10+ years at Twitter trying to follow people individually, mostly because I was able to oursource the work of finding people with an interest in certain things to people who have put in the time to do this manually which I don’t have the desire to do.

It may just be that the Twitter format isn’t a good fit for me, but it worked at Bluesky in a way it didn’t work anywhere else using that style of communication.

That takes a long time. I tried the same on Mastodon and ended up losing interest. I went to bluesky and just followed some starter packs and was up and running in less than an hour with 1000+ follows and a nice feed. Within a few weeks I had more than 700 followers myself.

Building up a good list of follows on Mastodon is orders of magnitude harder than on Bluesky unfortunately. They need to address this if they want adoption.