There’s no need for mastodon to be in the mix here, whatever software they are using can federate directly. I know wordpress already has a plugin to do exactly that. (I have no idea what CMS major news outlets use, hopefully not wordpress)
People have to choose a server with mastodon, and you can’t just pick any server because of the mess of defederations.
The Skripal thing? No amount of tanks or missiles can stop espionage.
I’ve volunteered for a few charity shops (UK version of a thrift store) in the past, the weirdest thing was the trash people would “donate”, like used diapers.
Self hosted instances are artificially limited to 10 accounts, however https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation
And that’s only the frontend “server” that can be self hosted, the “relay”, that’s more equivalent to a mastodon instance, doesn’t seem to be self hostable.
From an entirely selfish perspective, the UK has very few threats militarily, unless the French decide to invade again.
The term isn’t quite as specific as you want, but it sounds like a positive feedback loop? (the linked article even gives ponzi schemes as an example)
“don’t worry about it being perfect” and “stop being so self critical”
This election was crazier than the last election. On the other hand it will be less crazy than the next election.
Eugene Debs ran for president while in federal prison for sedition, so it’s not really unprecedented.
So you didn’t vote for anyone for president?
I’m not American, if I was I would have voted for Stein though.
Not voting for someone who is aiding and abetting genocide is morally correct, it’s not complicated.
If genocide isn’t a red line for you, what is?
As a non-american, this seems unsurprising. The Harris campaign seemed to be running the same playbook as the Clinton one did. The main reason anyone gave for voting for her was not being trump, effectively making her the satus quo candidate. If everything is shit for you under the current status quo, that doesn’t encourage you to vote for her.
Octopodes no longer die when they give birth, meaning they can teach their young and form societies.
But the SC should never decide the president in a Democracy
That already happened in Bush v. Gore
To give you an actual answer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_threat
The true threat doctrine was established in the 1969 Supreme Court case Watts v. United States.[3] In that case, an eighteen-year-old male was convicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for violating a statute prohibiting persons from knowingly and willfully making threats to harm or kill the President of the United States.[3]
The conviction was based on a statement made by Watts, in which he said, “[i]f they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.”[3] Watts appealed, leading to the Supreme Court finding the statute constitutional on its face, but reversing the conviction of Watts.
In reviewing the lower court’s analysis of the case, the Court noted that “a threat must be distinguished from what is constitutionally protected speech.”[3] The Court recognized that “uninhibited, robust, and wide open” political debate can at times be characterized by “vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” In light of the context of Watts’ statement - and the laughter that it received from the crowd - the Court found that it was more “a kind of very crude offensive method of stating a political opposition to the President” than a “true threat.”[3]
Viral is no longer a strong enough adjective for headline editors, we now have MEGAVIRAL.