The ratio of things you want to change to things you can change is typically 99:1. But focusing on that 1% is worth every minute. Do not feel inferior because you have to leave 99% unsolved. Don’t complain. Do your 1%. Trust the community. Other people will be inspired to work on their 1%. In sum we can reach 120%. Take your ego out of the equation. Do what you are good at. We will win. And celebrate your every little win. Locally. With your friends. Peace :)

#Stoicism #SharingIsCaring

I may have a problem.

Illustrations from Japanese fireworks catalogues (ca. 1880s) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-cataloguesFireworks

#Fireworks appeared in Japan sometime around 1600 and were called hanabi — a combination of the kanji “fire” and “flower”.

Lil'Bo and Savage Dan, about to drop an album.

#caturday #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour

Congratulations to the US on becoming a kleptocratic monarchy, 250 years after gaining independence from royalist colonisers. You must be *so* proud that your new king exemplifies, as William Burroughs said, the "American dream to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through".
#America250

RE: https://solarpunk.moe/@vv/116862340401012931

this is a real thing https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2012/01/30/gender-benders/

> Girl itself evolved in much the same way. The word originally referred to a child of either sex. Back then, prior to the sixteenth century, girls generally were divided into knave girls, which were boys, and gay girls, which were female girls.

EDIT: I added context, because it may have sounded like I was joking originally. It really is a really thing. boys used to be knave girls and girls used to be gay girls

Heh. Trump is worried about the commies. Buddy, you need to be worried about the middle aged, middle of the road folks like me who are becoming socialists by the hour in response to your nazi nonsense. We were raised on a steady diet of Freedom (TM), underdog stories, and DEI armies saving middle earth from an evil bastard hellbent on our destruction.

The United States is 250 years old today and, like some seniors, it shows signs of memory problems, has fallen victim to scammers, and is struggling just to stay alive.

*slides into your DMs* *attempts to come to a stop but fails* *continues sliding, entirely unable to control motion* *crashes into the mastodon "collections" tab* *knocks over a giant pile of starter packs, which promptly fall into your bookmarks* *your bookmarks are now full of starter packs*

The Democratic Socialists want your children to be fed healthy nourishing food and receive the best possible medical care, and to do that they intend to raise taxes on a handful of corrupt and squalid pedophiliac monsters who have stolen 1000x more money than anyone can spend—well not in MY America.

Science explainer: how to tell honest uncertainty from manufactured doubt

In 1969 a tobacco executive wrote "Doubt is our product." The industry couldn't prove cigarettes were safe, so it manufactured an open question and delayed regulation for decades — the same playbook later run on climate, and now on gender-affirming care.

One test: does the doubt want an answer, or just delay?

https://codeberg.org/ReclaimAllies/reclaim-allies/src/branch/main/science/2026-07-03-explainer-honest-uncertainty-vs-manufactured-doubt.md

#TransRights #Science #ReclaimAllies

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Colarusso/113798853200484481

Remember, we want public officials who revere & speak the truth not only because the electorate needs the truth to make decisions, but because anyone who has shown they are willing to ignore the truth, to act in bad faith, is telling us not only who they are but who they may become.

Those capable of lying about crowd size on day one are telling us they won't have a problem lying about the evidence in a criminal trial, whether or not those around them are corrupt, or even if we're at war.

Enthusiastic consent. Always.

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It’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻.

When people ask,
“𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰?” or
“𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰?”
– a lot of it is because I do not rely on special interests to get
re-elected.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟬𝟬% 𝗯𝘆 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.
No lobbyists.
No corporate PACs.
No call time with wealthy donors or billionaires.

I have one of the lowest average contribution numbers in all of politics, and I’m proud of that.

𝗜𝗳 𝗜 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁,
𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 $𝟱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆 𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗘𝗖 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁?

https://cortez4ny.com/actblue_secure25

No matter what, thank you for being here.

Pa’lante,
Alexandria

A Grimm Tale: The iron stove was cold, black, filled with soot and silence. She crawled inside, the darkness smelling of cold ash and burnt wood, and pressed her face to the flue. She could not, dare not, tell a living soul, but the secret had to be told. So she whispered into the dark, pouring out the story of her stolen crown, the blood on the handkerchief, and her horse’s severed head speaking from the gateway. The metal absorbed her sobs, vibrated with her grief. "I am the true princess," she wept, "and I am so afraid." Outside, the hidden king pressed his ear to the pipe, listening to the echoes, decoding what it meant.

#Microfiction #aiart #vss

Those quotation marks are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

#punctuation #ItMatters #humour #humour

Supreme Court saved gratuitous meanness to trans kids for the last day, presumably because they wanted to savor the cruelty.