US citizens need to be very careful about their next steps.

If you do this wrong you will hand Trump all the reasons / excuses he needs to enact martial law (and have support for that) and then say bye bye to term limit. You need to think about the next 20 years, about a Trump dynasty etc.

Going to try out some kayaking for the first time, should be interesting.

Need to work out an optimal exercise schedule, I’m winging it currently and that’s not great.

Fully support any actions we can take that reduces traffic and / or revenue to X.

Say it ain’t so! 😂

Manipulative headline. It’s not holding up anything as much as people are trying to make sure they can still feed their families in the face of the insatiable corporate hunger for cost cutting to yield ever more profits.

Won’t be 4 years.

Looks like more Luigis are needed.

Us

So weird when people’s meager needs are passed over for rich people’s profits instead.

Message control.

This is why they bought the media in the first place, so what they say is loudest.

There’s a few ways to beat rich executives, quite a few.

I never thought I’d ever see someone argue against helping kids with cancer DIRECTLY when we have excess in the palm our hands, and yet here we are.

I’ll never understand spending that money like that instead of helping kids with cancer.

Probably one of the several reasons why I am not rich.

That’s great, I suppose less concentration to a single platform is a better direction.

Is there less rage and frothing at the mouth on Bluesky? I would imagine whatever ills plague Twitter would also eventually come to Bluesky, because people are there. And people are people. We don’t seem to have a solution to the problem - which is a specific subset of people intent on harm, and allowing them direct and wholesale access to the social fabric.

So easy nowadays to fabricate rage-inducing and follower-generating bait. No time for truth and no plan to really get there. How long before we see someone take a stab at a ministry of truth?

That’s up to Trump, because your vaunted checks and balances are gone.

Think he’s going to show restraint? Insight? Empathy?

I think each woman has her own reasons (some people actually like traditions) but I have the impression that, globally, women are not the same as what we see online. I think today the taking of a surname does not indicate ownership or property, at least to most modern women (and men).

I don’t think any woman thinks like that anymore, or perhaps not many, so the motivations would then also be obviously different.

I’m really enjoying Bluesky strangely enough, not normally my thing.

It’s the investors and shareholders who want their money multiplied, they are to blame. When it comes time to take heads, remember the shareholders and (their hatchet man) the CEO.

It’s not the Blizzard that used to make games we loved anymore. It’s just a name now, and behind that a corporation focused on maximum profit exclusively.

Yeah. Most people are probably experiencing the shock of what they thought the American people were vs what they are. It’s hard to understand and accept.

As foreigners, our views are heavily affected by things like Hollywood, celebrity and visibility to the “best of America”. But the bulk of America is not that, at all. So the veneer is torn away and it’s jarring to most people.

The only positive I see in all this is that we get to watch the US get what they voted for. Pain can be a teacher, but I doubt they can learn from it. Any and all agony from this will just be the other parties fault, always. Too much venom and malice in the politics and too little earnest substance.