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Personally I always follow back for 2 main reasons. 1) I think that's how you build community & mutual interaction rather than just randomly yelling into the void, & 2) I'm not here just to build an echo chamber of people saying what I want to hear. Learning about new things/perspectives is cool.

BryanOfOhio @BryanOfOhio

I've been wanting to say this for awhile,
ANYONE gets a follow from me. Been here a year and only have one account blocked, one. Although I have quietly screamed at some users and the use of the term micro-penis, I am an adult and I've been through worse.
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The thing about this is half of US lawmakers do not give a shit, because they are explicitly anti-democracy and they know the interference helps them.

Lola Gayle @LolaGayleC

NPR - U.S. elections face more threats from foreign actors and artificial intelligence

U.S. elections face more threats than ever from foreign actors, enabled by rapid developments in artificial intelligence, the country's top intelligence official told lawmakers on Wednesday.

U.S. elections face more threats from foreign actors and AI : NPR

"Russia remains the most active foreign threat to our elections," said Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, noting that new AI technologies make influence operations easier to pull off.

08:17 AM - May 16, 2024

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Still haven't seen any of this. Guess I'm following the right people 🤷‍♂️

Christopher Bouzy @cbouzy

I said what I said, and I was clear in what I said. I prefer individuals taking their drama to Mastodon, than staying here ruining the experience for others. I don't have the time nor desire to appease adults throwing a tantrum because someone they like was suspended. Their drama is exhausting.
03:07 AM - May 16, 2024

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Tbh I just find it hilarious that Margate has a crab museum.

(Or any museum for that matter.)

Alberto Pastor @albertopastor

"In a unique event, the Crab Museum from the city of Margate, UK, has crowned the world’s funniest crab joke. The jury, comprising of both humans and crabs, was selected from over 700 entries."
🦀😂 #CrabJokes #Humor #Contests

Crab museum crowns the world's best "crabby" jokes

Several jokes were disqualified for "scientific inaccuracy," said organizers — "and rather a lot for lewdness."

03:50 PM - May 15, 2024

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Terrifying. What world are we leaving our children?

Jim Plunkett @JimP32

Great visualization from Randall Munroe:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Literally everyone should see this. (scroll all the way down for the punch)

Yes, the climate has changed in the past, but NEVER this fast

It is the speed that is the problem

xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline

09:14 AM - May 15, 2024

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Yes, we really have to stop lionizing people just because they can code a fun online tool, because they have money to invest in other people's ideas and skills etc. These bros are horrendous people, and their wealth and celebrity just makes them worse.

Professor Kyle @blackcatprose

Wow. I didn't realize Dorsey had abandoned BlueSky. In a nutshell, it was because he wants social media where bigots can say anything they want without consequence; people on BlueSky didn't want that, so he went back to Musk's X. These tech bros are truly assholes. https://www.washingtonpost...

Why Jack Dorsey gave up on Bluesky - The Washington Post

He thought technology could solve online speech. It hasn’t.

09:25 AM - May 14, 2024

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Local Utah media is generally pretty comically bad, but this headline is a doozy - "Utah high school ranked #1 in Utah"? Wow. There was me thinking a Utah high school would be #1 somewhere else.
https://www.abc4.com/gtu/g...

abc4.com

Utah high school ranked #1 in Utah | ABC4 Utah

GOOD THINGS UTAH (Salt Lake City) – US News and World Report ranked Beehive Academy in Sandy the best public high school in Utah for the 4th year in a row. Beehive Science and Technology Academy embraces stem focused education for grades K-12. Halis Kablan is the principal of the secondary sch..

09:18 PM - May 13, 2024

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Because Trump hates the same people they hate & it was never really about government per se. It was about resenting that government might help people they hate.

He validates their belief that their own shitty lot in life is the fault of the right "others", so unchecked supreme power is just groovy.

Dan Henry @idahogie

The same people who've been convinced to distrust the government in almost all its forms are also seem to desire an authoritarian, unitary executive with ultimate power and no legal accountability.

How are they not self-aware enough to see that contradiction?
09:00 PM - May 13, 2024

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Really? This passes for news now? Who gives a fucking shit. This puritanical pearl clutching over "rude" words is so goddam asinine (not to mention hypocritical given it is NEVER applied equally).

Salma Typhii @Epidatageek

And I bet they DGAF #BidenHarris2024

Harris utters a profanity in advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers...

02:18 PM - May 13, 2024

03:33 PM - May 13, 2024

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Yeah, one would think you would have little to fear from scores of women coming forward with damaging allegations if you are not a serial rapist.

Salma Typhii @Epidatageek

Because you are a rapist scumbag

Trump feared that "a lot of women" would come out with stories about him, Michael Cohen testifies

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 13, 2024 in New York City. (Steven Hirsch-Pool/G...

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Ok, a) polls are bullshit. Who tf even answers their phone to an unknown number? Have they even stopped relying mostly on landlines yet? b) your choice is literal fascism led by the dumbest man alive you fucking muppets. (That's a British expression, in case you're not familiar. Not complimentary.)

12:08 PM - May 13, 2024

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In a sane world, a felonious far right stooge sharing a 30 year old pic he found online, easily identifiable as Copacabana Beach, as evidence of a POTUS candidate drawing huge crowds in NJ would be quickly fact checked by media & laughed out of town by an educated populace. Alas, this is America.

08:26 AM - May 13, 2024

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This is cool. Britain once had so many of these local dialects (tbh didn't realise Yorkshire's was so threatened). Tragic they're dying out. Lesson for America: THIS is cultural heritage. Not the battle flag of your racist loser great great great grand parents.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/0...

metro.co.uk

Man, 80, on a mission to revive a 1,000-year-old British language | UK News | Metro News

Rod Dimbleby, chairman of the the Yorkshire Dialect Society, is on a mission to save the county's language.

12:36 AM - May 13, 2024

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The really sad thing about that stupid Copacabana pic is the painfully credulous morons on the right will lap it up and use it as "evidence" their demented painted Messiah couldn't possibly lose.

Ftr, obviously Copacabana, but simple Google search identifies it as a Rod Stewart concert in 1994.

11:55 PM - May 12, 2024

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Lol. Pretty sure Biden wouldn't waste his time campaigning on Copacabana Beach. Unclear how many NJ voters one would encounter there.

Dodi Davies @Dodibd60

Accuracy test.

Accuracy Alert!

The claim, "Accuracy test," appears to refer to numerous different styles and applications of accuracy tests, spanning from typographical skills, such as mouse and typing accuracy games and professional speed tests, to more technical realms, including machine learning model accuracy evaluations, diagnostic tests in microbiology (e.g., COVID-19), and election auditing procedures. Due to the vast domain differences in the provided sources, the compilation does not support a singular cohesive conclusion around the topic of "accuracy test." Therefore, the claim is neither exclusively true nor false: instead, it introduces a vast topic that embraces various aspects of precision across different fields of study and aspects of daily life. It seems the key similarity is that all these tests aim to evaluate the precision or correctness of certain processes or skills, regardless of the sphere in which these operate.

11:23 PM - May 12, 2024

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Apropos nothing in particular, a pet hate, speeps: could NOT care less, America. If you leave out the "not" you're not being ironic, you're being lazy, illiterate, and saying the exact opposite of what you mean 😘

11:44 PM - May 11, 2024

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A fantastic illustration of at least 2 things:

1) the desperate need for effective education and family planning in underdeveloped nations, and
2) how absurdly asinine it is to say the richest country on earth can't take more people.

Michaeledward @michaeledward

09:03 PM - May 11, 2024

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A note about Stonehenge: everyone should see it, and when you do, fight every urge to be underwhelmed, and take a moment instead to think about how it got there, 5,000 years ago!

Also, if you're frustrated you can't get closer to the stones now, blame the pricks who kept vandalizing them.

Mama Ezekiel @Mama_Ezekiel

#DailyPictureTheme #travel
Good morning! 🥰
I traveled to England during my final semester of university to do some courses to complete my degree in the spring of 2002. When I wasn't in class, I took the opportunity to explore. Here I am at Stonehenge & in Bath.
I hope everyone has a great day! ❤️

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Are all Trump supporters Nazis? Of course not. But every one of them has decided they don't care that a lot are, and that they're fine associating with them.

Charlene Deveraturda @CharleneD

Definitely a cult of the worst kind. Stealing Christianity for supremacist goals.

08:24 PM - May 11, 2024

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He's not wrong.

Michael Bourchier @The_Bouche

I moved here from Post a few weeks back and really happy I did. With due respect to Post, Spoutible is far better technically than Post ever was.
Some super nice people here too.
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Excuse me while I get golfy for a moment 🏌️... This guy is broadly right about the handicap system, but entirely wrong on where the fault really lies: 1) enter competitions commensurate with your level, and 2) clubs should always have flighted comps with equal prizes for gross & net
https://www.golf

golfmonthly.com

'The Handicap System In Golf Has Ruined Club Competitions' | Golf Monthly

Many scratch golfers and low-handicappers are becoming increasingly incensed with golf’s handicap system. But what is their gripe and is there a solution?

08:38 AM - May 11, 2024

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In response to Nick.

You know a vehicle is truly ugly when it makes a Pontiac Aztec look beautiful.

09:50 AM - May 09, 2024

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👇 supply side economics is such obvious horse shit. People don't buy more because it's there. People buy more because they have $$ available and they like the stuff.

Otoh nobody ever got rich by spending $$. More $$ at the top gets locked away. More $$ at the bottom stimulates the entire economy.

Jack Jeng @drjeng

This is the reason community programs for low income families, like tax assistance or universal basic income (e.g., Compton, CA; Tacoma, WA; Columbia, SC), directly help the local economy. In the process, many families learn financial management skills too.
11:12 PM - May 08, 2024

11:24 PM - May 08, 2024 (Edited)

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The thing about the Cybertruck is it's not like there aren't significantly less hideous options for people who aren't insufferable racist bros.

11:05 PM - May 08, 2024

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So much of this scene is directly applicable to the political mess America finds itself in.

Ortizmo 2000 @Ortizmo2000

10:25 PM - May 08, 2024

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This is really fucked up. What is wrong with people?

Socio-gen @JennieKinPA

Warning for anyone with pets who hikes the AT, especially those who walk in the area of Lehigh Gap and Woodpecker Trails.

Dog Treats Filled with Fish Hooks Found on Appalachian Trail in Penn.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and Lehigh Gap Nature Center shared on social media on Monday, May 6 that a hiker found dog treats “stuffed with fishhooks” along the Appalachian Trail and warned pet owners to exercise 'caution' when on the trail

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Something is afoot with the worst people in the world and their online toys.
https://amp.theguardian.co...

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Hoping for short-term help. Echo if you can't donate. Thank you.

https://gofund.me/27ba7592

gofund.me

Fundraiser by Undrea Hurst : 1 month of rent

Hi. I'm Undrea. I recently experienced a reduction in hours at work. If I can raise the money to cover 1 … Undrea Hurst needs your support for 1 month of rent

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