Notices by djohngo (djohngo@mastodon.social)

@quinn One of my local papers got bought by Jeff Bezos, the other got bought by Sinclair. Seems like the only way to stay afloat right now is to shill for right wing billionaires. Hopefully a new model will emerge, but I'm pessimistic.

@quinn The newsroom has never been sustainable on its own, though. Only a small number of them have ever made money. They had to be combined with something else that did.

@quinn I don't dispute that, but I do think it is a medium whose time has past.

@quinn All newspapers are zombies at this point.

@quinn Hopefully at least a little funny, too.

@quinn It's like putting on the sunglasses from "They Live" but you can see the Transphobes.

@aral Very enticing! Definitely check back and let us know how you like it.

@Gargron All I want to know is, who is playing the Cabbage Merchant?

@MrLovenstein I was happy to discover that I love grilled asparagus, but somewhat miffed that it didn't happen until my 50s.

@ryanhoulihan Timothee Chalamet is destroying my youth like a virus.

@TheManyVoices @feditips What impact does this have on instance servers? I know there are a lot of small admins that are paying for storage out of their pockets. Wouldn't a link to some other service hosting the media file be more... considerate?

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I guess this is mastodon.social?

@atomicpoet @Extra_Special_Carbon @kainoa @fediversenews It doesn't say what it does or why anyone would want to use it?

@edzilla @simon @kimschulz I don't think they've actually implemented it yet. They just did the poll for the feature a couple of weeks ago.

@Gargron You're doing a great job! No apologies necessary.