The most depressing and convincing theory I've read about the state of American democracy is Sarah Kendzior's book "They Knew".

The tl;dr is that the US is ungovernable. The ruling classes don't have the will to fix the economic and cultural divides that split the country and there's an unspoken understanding between them all that the only way is down.

So they're letting it run its course, letting the weakest fall into the gears and skimming off what wealth they can, to insulate themselves from the inevitable chaos.

Yeah, it's when they install their bozo friends, who in turn hire more bozos. No quicker way to fuck up a business.

You don't have to. He might have developed Mastodon but it's all open source, and he certainly doesn't "own" ActivityPub.

My grandmother, who passed away last week, kept a beautiful portrait over her fireplace of the goatse guy flying a jet into the twin towers.

Vital information

Doubt. Unless there's DNS fuckery afoot.

Punch refresh, chewie

Something you wanna say?

Thought not.

And, conversely, r/shitamericanssay is fun for a facepalm

FUCK YEAH

The spice must flow

I love those long yarns