I think thune shows exactly how little they are going to matter. the gop panicked since they caught the truck and had to do a secret ballot to get the establishment, next in line guy in place. if the fix wasn’t in, they could have held a regular vote. instead all we can do now is hope that the party that has no spine, suddenly grows one.

These Senators know how much power they have

right, none. the fix has been in for a while now, this train’s brakes have failed and all we can do is hang on.

how is it that everyone seems to have forgotten about this: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

trump owns the judicial branch and they put him above the law.

trump assumes that because he sucks up, that putin is his peer. putin knows how easy trump is to manupulate, this first act after him winning shows that he knows exactly how to play him. my hope is that trump is too stupid to realize it because else there will be a dick waving contest among the two most nuclear armed countries in history…

yes. I’m not sure how unironically it’s meant but it doesn’t matter when you have a group of boys yelling “hawk tuah” and “your body, my choice” at a 12 year old girl. I’ve got boys so they have been insulated but my best friend has girls and he’s getting unbelievably pissed off.

that is the eventual plan.

right now I consider my fediverse and self hosted stuff as my ‘real’ profile. bluesky falls into the same category as linkedin, a necessary evil for my ‘professional’ profile.

So no, I won’t be leaving mastodon (or lemmy).

Bingo. It’s bleak but believe it or not, talking about it with others who see it too, helps. Thanks.

I’m a parent, so got no choice but to get to work and see what the fuck can be done. I truly did not believe this shit would come to pass; when folks would talk about leaving the country if he was elected, I’d joke that I’d stay and join the underground. Well, guess it’s time to start digging.

I think it was when the internet was corporatized. I remember back as a kid browsing around the internet and I laughed my ass off that Colgate had a website. My early 90’s teenage brain could not figure out why toothpaste would need a web presence. I fired up a browser and I looked at what other brands that I figured would never need a website.

If I’d had a credit card that day I’d be a multimillionaire. Sadly domains were still crazy expensive and I was 13.

Short story long, it wasn’t much longer before the internet became essentially a giant ad machine/captive social media network.

Feels like after a week of reeling, folks are coming to their senses. I think this shit is going to be brutal as there are no checks and balances left on a dude who’s brain sucked to begin with but is undeniably failing in realtime.

Buckle up folks, we’re in uncharted waters here.

I have never been an accelerationist but have a feeling it may be our only path forward from here on.

Note- not a plan, will see how things go. Not terribly hopefully atm though.

Sigh, here we go again. I jumped on board because it’s where my friends are. Was pleasantly surprised that most of my old twitter follows are already there. Still, given the history I’m being careful and ready for the next enshittification exodus.

I wish folks would just embrace self hosting and decentralization but we obviously love to make the same mistakes again, and again, and again…