Notices by Pino Carafa (rozeboosje@masto.ai)

If you try to argue that the Irish couldn't possibly be racist because they themselves have been the target of racism in the past ... are you stupid?

There is only one explanation for responding to something bad done by a black person with attacks on anyone who happens to be black: racism.

#belfastriots #racism

If you fly across #quebec you cannot fail to notice an extraordinarily regular circular feature in the landscape. A circular island almost completely filling a circular lake. My immediate thought was "impact" and that soon sent me down this wikipedia rabbit hole. Fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Levasseur_Island

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747x7gz249o

Good. Of course this will be dragged through appeals but, for now, GOOD.

@georgetakei bone head, for sure

Still a hansom kitteh at 20. #catsofmastodon

Even though he has had some teeth out and he lost some weight after a recent health scare, my dad's cat Peppone can still strike a pose.

@Iwillyeah @wolf480pl @jmaris every little bit helps.

I'm no fan of China, especially not its attitude to Taiwan, but in all that, China is one thing that Russia and the USA are not: RATIONAL.

@benroyce @tseitr @Eetschrijver It's astonishing how many people don't understand the difference between "both sides bad" and "both sides the same". The first option sucks, but you pick "the best of a bad lot" and you keep working on having better choices on future occasions. I've never seen the second option, ever, anywhere. By the time THAT happens there is only one side left. The NSDAP, The Politbureau, etc. "All sides the same" = dictatorship. Not voting is a great way to get there.

@smutmag @benroyce @tseitr @Eetschrijver Ask the Dutch how well having a dozen progressive splinter parties that do nothing but tear strips off each other when they should be focusing on defeating Geert Wilders and his Ersatznazis is working out for them.

Voting for the best of a bad lot is not "supporting" them. When the other choice is actual fascism, voting for the lesser evil lets you live to fight another day. Getting better candidates is your job for the following 1430 days.

When you hear a rumour that will make you feel all warm and happy inside and that would be hilarious if it were true, the first thing you should do is confirm it through secondary sources. Yesterday I shared a letter written by Epstein to JN which, it is now claimed, might be fake. Maybe it is. Maybe it's not. But I should have waited until I had seen reliable confirmation.

Let's wait until it's confirmed that Nikki Minaj has deleted her instagram account before going full Nelson on her.

@BeAware oh dear, threads is going to render itself even more irrelevant than it already is? Oh dear. So sad.

Never mind.

Russia is, or should be, a European country or at least a country that should be closely aligned with Europe. Obviously, so is Ukraine. We could be living in a European Union with Ukraine and Russia in Schengen. Instead, we let far right shit stirrers turn the UK into a basket case, allow shitheads like Wilders, Le Pen, Meloni, PiS and Orbán sow division, and a megalomaniac Putin steer Russia headlong into an unnecessary conflict with the rest of us. WHY ARE WE TOLERATING THIS SHIT?

@obscurestar @bmacDonald94 as Penn Jilette points out: without a "god" thing watching us and judging us we atheists can indeed murder, rape and pillage as much as we want. And the amount we actually want to do such things is 0. To raise that as an argument against atheism is extraordinarily self damning.

@benroyce @CStamp @Pineywoozle There is a balance to be struck. Ultimately even those with the vilest possible opinions should be able to express them, but that is why it is even more important that those who do not wish to be exposed to them need effective, easily accessible ways to shield themselves from them. If protecting oneself from trolls, fascists and other scum becomes an exercise in mopping the floor while the tap's still running moderation is not good enough. It seems better here.

@CStamp @benroyce @Pineywoozle absolutely. Agree 100%.

Donald "Three Sphincter Face" Trump decides to boycott G20 because of a bullshit claim of a "white genocide" in South Africa. Not sure what is more ridiculous, the claim itself or his expectation that people must buy the bullshit because he's spreading it like a hippo with diarrhoea.

@GossiTheDog @campuscodi Of course, but the reply was about changing a home WiFi name, as if that would foil an employer's attempt to enforce a "return to office" mandate. So it's not unreasonable to then point out that they already have a LOT of other ways they can keep tabs on where their employees actually are as opposed to where they claim to be.

Don't get me wrong, it's still yet another shitty Microsoft "feature" that deserves to be sabotaged.

@GossiTheDog @campuscodi I trust you do more on your machine than use Teams.

@GossiTheDog @campuscodi LOL @ Lumon reference. That aside though, your bigger problem would be that your traffic would not be going through your office's external IP address(es)....

If #Trump can use AI, so can I.

Grok lies about No Kings images. BBC Verify proves Grok wrong. Grok forced to eat humble pie.