^ This needs upvotes. TFF.

Arkansas, where transparency goes to die. Apparently.

MSN was reposting a NY Post story. Would be unsurprising if, in about a decade or, there’re lawsuits alleging emotional distress, lost wages, trauma, etc., against various media outlets.

Nope.

Engagement numbers help the IPO, this in turn would put more $$ in u/spez pocket and that I will not support.

You’re lucky if the communities you have followed survived intact or unaffected. The tenor of my feed was changing for the worse before the API protests. When I left, after? It was a shithole.

Sure, there are communities that I miss, that are absent, or have weak, or hard to find presences. But the solution isn’t to go lurk and buff those engagement metrics, in my somewhat Reddit hostile opinion.

AP was light on photos, MSN doesn’t share that reluctance: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/virginia-house-democratic-candidate-performed-sex-acts-with-husband-on-webcam-for-tips/ar-AA1gA7t7

Chaturbate is mentioned.

Back of a church.

Mmm…and for certain populations control isn’t the goal, extermination is seen as the next logical step.

The roster of Republicans who signed the letter:

The House committee’s letter was signed by Chairman Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), as well as Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-Texas), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Aaron Bean (R-Fla.) and Jake Ellzey (R-Texas).

FL & TX ffs.

kbin.social to start with, posted in random, now another kbin. is being used, but I didn’t note the suffix.

Wait. Tucker? I thought he’d been deplatformed.

Don’t take it seriously. Don’t put up with toxicity. Don’t be afraid to do without.

Sinema. What a joke.

Has he ever taken a lawyer’s advice, let alone paid them?

Thank the party of trickle down for the bulk of that.

With a side of hallucinations.

… try using a Macbook touchpad and then any other one after it.

^ This.

Have been given a current Surface Pro laptop for work and must use an external mouse, or rage in frustration that my 13 yo MBP has a better functioning trackpad.

Clarkesworld Magazine and anything from Skyboat Media.

Kate Baker narrates the former, Stephen Rudniki a lot of the latter’s content and both deliver sonorous, resonant readings that are easy to nod off with.

Along the same lines, but not a podcast, McFadden narrates a docuseries on all things Trek, “The Center seat”, on Amazon currently.

Credit card for the rewards, paid monthly. Keep cash for tipping and small stuff.