Notices by Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦 (zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net)

Is it just me or are people suddenly growing a pair and standing up to Donald Trump this week? Did the image of the dude in an inflatable frog costume finally flip a switch in everyone all at once? Did the absurd imagery of the frog standing up to ICE finally convince everyone that the Emperor did not, in fact, wear any clothes?

#USPolitics #PortlandFrog

@Alice What a terrible time to be literate 🤣

D'awwwww it's a hedgehog!

https://peertube.zalasur.media/w/xsATTAQ85Kue4C6xjVGFWb

@Mrfunkedude Yeah, as much as I'd like to see Peertube be a solid choice for this type of situation, the biggest problem is you have to pay for your infrastructure. Commercial platforms get away with providing their services for "free" with the help of advertising revenue.

The attack on our elected officials #Minnesota that resulted in the assassination of one of our representatives is clearly a targeted attack to coincide with the #NoKings protests scheduled to occur across the state today.

We're headed to the Saint Paul march today and we won't be intimidated.

#USPolitics

@cwebber Reznor also released a track for the Black Sabbath tribute album We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll under "1000 H*mo DJs" (they did a cover for Sweet Leaf which was really good but yeah that whole thing was really cringey).

@cwebber it was the blurst of times

@lunareclipse @cwebber I just wanted to chime in to say that at the very least it was an informative answer. 👍

@ChrisWere @The_Icarian Lots of drafted servicemen died in that war. They didn't have Trump's privilege of claiming a made-up medical condition to get out of the draft.

Trying to claim that you were simply criticizing the Vietnam War is disingenuous at best and displays profound ignorance of the sacrifices many of an entire generation of American men and women had to make. You can claim that the War was unjust (it was), but praising Trump in the same breath is beyond tone-deaf.

@ChrisWere @The_Icarian No. It was not.

Him dodging the draft meant that someone else, almost definitely lower income, had to go in his place.

I don't know if a recent update broke things on #PeerTube but it looks like my markdown for my support pop-up window isn't working.for any of my channels. I narrowed it down to the image not loading but it's only emerged as a problem in the past few weeks since I did check it a couple of months ago. Did PeerTube decide to no longer render image links in markdown anymore?

Stole this from X (ugh) from a post by the Stephen Colbert Tonight Show account there.

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World Central Kitchen
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Razom for Ukraine
http://razomforukraine.org/razom-emergency-response

Nova Ukraine
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United Help Ukraine
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Global Giving
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For the past month and a half I've had to wear my "backup" sunglasses when driving. I was over at my in-laws' house and I figured I left the my good ones there. The backups aren't bad, but they aren't polarized lenses so they weren't quite as good for cutting glare.

We got over to the in-laws again today and asked if they'd seen my sunglasses and they were like, nope! I was confused until I reached into a forgotten pocket in my travel bag and... Yup I had them the entire time 😅

#Whoops

I'd like to make the following observation. Yesterday's Oval Office press briefing with Elon Musk was not a projection of strength. They are getting defensive. They know a lot of people are pissed at them and the walls are closing in.

I'm saying this because right now I'm seeing a lot of doomerism permeate the online discourse. This is not all inevitable. Keep fighting because whatever we doing, is getting to them. And it shows.

#USPolitics

I'm working on setting up a #mastodon instance and the most difficult part of it may be setting up a mail server. My last attempt ended in failure so this is basically my kryptonite. My question for #MastodonAdmins is: is it necessary to do that for a single-user instance or can I skate by without one, at least for the short term until I gather up the courage to try a second go at this?

@GottaLaff It's interesting that the front page placeholder says that President Trump will take care of everything (paraphrased).

But here is the thing. What if he doesn't? What if he *can't*?

Are the people mad at Biden for signing the law going to be mad at Trump next? Expectations are riding high.

@georgetakei It would appear that he's fine, but yeah that was a close call for him.

When the new #Mastodon update came out, I did not like the UI change to the Content Warning container.

Now that I've had a chance to get used to it, I've decided I *really* don't like the changes.

@georgetakei No, the worst part is when you parallel park and you get it perfectly, but no one sees it.

@mattwilcox American here. 👋

I could not agree with this statement more.