Notices by Lynn I 🗽 (lynnskyi@social.vivaldi.net)

@BeAware Not everyone! I won't be moving back to that. I'd cut out social media before I'd return to that corporate culture and algorithms.

A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending $14 billion in climate grants. (AP) #TrumpRegime

@BeAware I don't know all of your requirements, but this instance has been a good fit for me. Character limit is 1,337. Server located outside of the US. Rules not overly intrusive, etc. I also like it because of the Vivaldi browser and their attitude concerning big tech.

@BeAware I see your point. I follow two types of people--people I know or want to interact with, and sources of information about news, politics, tech or books.

@BeAware Why would anyone here even want all those followers? I have fewer than 200 followers, and that's fine. I have plenty of people to talk with here.

@Pawpower @gocu54 @JustinMac84 @Fragglemuppet Have people really forgotten what went on on January 6, 2021? Lots of Nazi saluting, a gallows to hang then VP Pence, major destruction of property, violence, murder. It all happened, and now we have a President who pardoned almost all of those insurrectionists. And that seems to be okay with his political party in general, and his party's members of Congress also. So please do not try to convince me all is well. And let's not forget about Trump's immunity, gifted to him by the US Supreme Court. So there's a plague of complicit behavior sweeping the country, mostly unchecked. And then this is all compounded by his having a second chance, and is well on his way to success this time.

@Fragglemuppet @JustinMac84 @gocu54 That feeling of powerlessness is very real. Life is reasonably good for me, but I know it is not reasonably good for others, and unless we, collectively, care about those others, one day, life will no longer be reasonably good for us either.

@gocu54 @JustinMac84 @Fragglemuppet Right here in the state in which I live, we had an attempted takeover by a racist and his ilk, of a small community where the goal was to establish a Nazi society. The community stood up to it, and the guy was put on probation and left the community. So, yes, this stuff is very real.

@gocu54 I think that may be because the federal government is being dismantled, and the federal work force is being decimated. Those of us mentioning it aren't being gloomy, it's a fact--One I don't know how to characterize as positive because it isn't. This is today's reality. The other reality is that the US may be looking at a dictatorship. Hard to see anything positive in that either.

@BeAware I won't follow anyone there either, unless their posts are available to me here. Same goes for X and Facebook.

@BeAware I agree with you. I only hope this platform doesn't become corrupted.

📢 I apologize to everyone who I told that another's favorites are visible to their followers. They are not. I definitely misunderstood somehow. The person who knows you favorited a post as the owner of the account the post came from. Still, I'm glad favoriting let's the poster know I like their post.