Notices by Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King" (markmetz@sfba.social)

Excellent insight into the state of #Mastodon right here. Some great talking points to bring people on board.

https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/

Remember life before search?

You had to actually know how to look things up.

Kind of inconceivable nowadays.

#libraries

Holy shit!
I don’t usually get a fire in the belly feeling from most politicians, but hearing Shapiro rip on Vance for a couple minutes here is the gas we need right now.
Starting about 30 seconds in.

“If you are using undocumented immigrants' tax records to find and kidnap them, then it was never about them paying taxes.

If you are showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working.

If you are showing up at courthouses, then it was never about getting them to "do it the right way".

If you are kidnapping women and children, then it was never about criminals.

If you're refusing to give them due process, then it was never about the Constitution.

If you are building concentration camps in Florida to keep them here in cages, then it was never about the border.

If you're spending billions to do this, then it was never about the economy.

And if you're doing all this in the name of a 34 time convicted felon, then it was never about following the law.”

~anon on Reddit

This right here 100%
“Social Networking is Pickleball…
The fediverse doesn’t need to resurface the tired, worn-down tennis courts of the old internet. It needs to create something new. This ecosystem offers an entirely different kind of online experience. It’s smaller, more local, more relational. It’s messy in the best ways. It prioritises conversation over content, sharing over extraction, and community governance over corporate control.”
https://jaz.co.uk/2025/10/30/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-pickleball-courts/

I just wanna send a big shout out to everyone here that has a #FediverseFirst policy.

Bluesky may be the buzz of the moment, but this is the most authentic place on the Internet.

I really appreciate the accounts I follow that put the work in here.

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Regarding comedy, this is pretty succinct.

Recent stats from the Cato Institute

“The cold, hard reality is that Donald Trump, his Vice President JD Vance, the leaders of HHS, NIH and CDC, and the rest of the senior leadership of the federal government are in favor of mass death in the form of biopolitical darwinism.”
https://www.mind-war.com/p/biopolitical-darwinism-america-is

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My friend just pointed out to me that without the robber barons of the last century, we wouldn’t have the big museums back east.

So they may get a bad rap, but the Rockefellers etc weren’t all bad.

I’m curious as to what grandiose public good our current crop of robber barons are contributing to?

Vance Boelter - suspect in today’s political assassinations in Minnesota.

Nice one, grandma…

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But who’s bragging?

A rare map of the Technate of America drawn by the Technocracy, Inc., 1940 (or the Technocracy movement), which Elon Musk's Canadian maternal grandfather was a member of until he was arrested when the organisation was proscribed in 1943.

Well, it worked for VW… 80 years ago.

I’m starting to think that democracy cannot survive surveillance capitalism.

C’mon, just look at the upside.

We’re all getting an overdue civics lesson into how the federal government used to function while we watch Musk and his cronies carve up the carcass with bone saws.