For those of you who didn't know why House Republicans were taking our nation to the brink of shutdown, now you do.

The one thing NOT in the Continuing Resolution: aid to Ukraine.

That's right. This entire game has been orchestrated by Putin and, when Biden signs the continuing resolution in the 11th hour before the shutdown, the MAGA Republicans and Trump will have finally sealed the deal for Putin.

American has just betrayed an ally, again.

@ecksmc

I predict Coso will hit a quarter million users by month's end, assuming they can handle the surge.

With the same assumption, Mastodon may hit 20 million at the same time.

Those flocking to any other contenders are fooling themselves concerning data protection issues.

@th3j35t3r

Now that's making me pine for Twitter... not.

@th3j35t3r

IF Vlad ever emerges from his bunker again.

@th3j35t3r

Favored/boosted because of the exposé.

I will add that the Twitter account cited is not the friend of Social-Democracy or true freespeech media her followers think she is.

But what do I care? I've kicked the Twitter algorithm addiction and it's wonderful.

@th3j35t3r

I've known for some time that his only reason for buying Twitter was to break the back of the most left-leaning (users) media platform he could find.

Yes, very expensive war on the left but he doesn't care.

@emcamozzi @th3j35t3r

Fellow AW user. Yes!

@th3j35t3r

Michael Collins was also the most isolated human in history during his solo orbits of the moon.

None of the other astronauts who orbited in the Command Module did so at as great an apogee as he.

@th3j35t3r

Personally broke my Twitter/X algorithm addiction when Musk went dark mode only.

The big accounts are going down with the ship. They will fall hard.

Mastodon will hit 14 million users next week.

Don't trust Post, Tribel, etc., they are also billionaire/corporatist owned.

CoSo and Mastodon are the only ones that are safe and with Mastodon, make sure you pick a good non-profit server. Preferably, an artists/creatives associated one.

@th3j35t3r

Elon's dark mode only finally broke this camel's back.

Your program fix to allow lite mode on CS kept me here. I'm a small fish but it is appreciated.

Thanks.

@th3j35t3r

Whoa, reminds me of HIMEM and ordered loading of DOS just to get enough RAM to play a FPS that I had loaded from multiple 5.25 floppies onto the 30MB HD that I built from a kit.

Ah, memories.

The GOP has got to be so very frustrated with the gender reveal in all these criminal indictments.

@ecksmc

You may be believing too much hype. The below article explains in synopsis. There are numerous papers that suggest dark mode, particularly not "true dark mode" is worse for your eyes because it tricks them into thinking they are looking at significantly less light than they are and reducing the amount the pupil constricts.

Https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dark-mode-chrome-android-ios-science

@ecksmc

Musk went to dark mode only - so, I'm done even poking around over there. It was likely a tactic to drive more away but it worked on me. Dark mode is bad for your eyes. Humans have adapted to reading dark words on light backgrounds for thousands of years. I'm not reverting to Neanderthal behavior or straining my eyes for a billionaire.

Done.

I can't stop watching this. Wait... did she throw a syringe at the camera? Did she addict me?

https://youtu.be/Q45yicposyI