CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Remittancegirl one of the best features of the biden admin was not hearing about either of them in the news every day

@pomegranate_stew @futurebird @StephanMatthiesen "How could we possibly manage two locker rooms?" /one of the old obstructionist arguments that is probably still used today.

@hydropsyche @futurebird This was something discussed in person. I often discuss things that I don't know about a hundred percent. I just say what I've heard. Saying it's not hard to be well informed is missing the mark when the conservative elites made it their business to misinform people.

@hydropsyche @futurebird add to that that we are all overworked, busy, and addicted to social media. Who's going to fact check something that sounds plausible according to their worldview, and isn't that important to them personally?

@hydropsyche @futurebird Knowing this person, I don't think they knew this information and chose to admit it. They probably only heard the unfavorable part of the story to begin with.

@futurebird The main problem I perceive is when the other competitors bristle at having to suddenly compete with someone new, and say it is unfair, because they want to remain the winners. But this happens for other reasons as well, like when people from unrepresented parts of the world start getting good (and often, get accused of being men or all kinds of other things).

@futurebird Just last night, heard an otherwise liberal old man talk about that swimmer who transitioned mtf, waited a year, and moved up in the ranking from 250 to 13 or something. The implication: men have a biological advantage in swimming fast, and mtf individuals competing is unfair. The alternative: *some people* have a biological advantage in swimming fast. Some women are faster than some men. Why consider being born AMAB as more important than being born with large feet?

@wpeckham @protonprivacy that would have to be a fork of android AOSP, right? To keep google from making breaking changes?

@protonprivacy I thought grapheneos still depends on google to fix bugs in the underlying AOSP, I'm talking a Linux OS that can run android apps

@protonprivacy Will Proton ever create / sponsor a cell phone OS to be a true google replacement?

@blog Also by using them you're a participating in their theft of writers and artists' work so there's that too.

@dave Could there be a moderation setting where I could choose not to see any posts that are followers only if I am not following the person who authored it? Even if it mentions me by name? But still see public posts that mention me by name.?

@dave Is there a shit mastodon says account yet? Maybe people could anonymously shame the harassers by messaging screenshots and posting them that way.

@MichaelOpal @pluralistic I would not even know how to start using RSS.

Are there any clients that don't make it feel like email, like another digital chore?