@mitchwagner.com If you steal $1,000, they throw you in prison, but if you take hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes, they put you in the White House.

@mitchwagner.com In the United States today there is no penalty for flagrant corruption and attempting the overthrow of the US government — if you’re a billionaire.

@mitchwagner.com Or will they wimp out, as the US has done since the Reconstruction after the Civil War, and give oligarchs a pass?

@sloanlance I am not so easily offended. And yes I too share the disappointment about AI-generated images, particularly cute animal videos and photos, which I loved and now love a little less.

And the original image may have been AI-generated. I found it posted without context or explanation, and did the same.

@tezoatlipoca But the bikesheds are great.

@JohnPhilpin Do you like Feedland? What is its value over other feed readers?

@karawynn I may look up a high-res version of the image.

I think what’s going on is that the man got himself in a perfect position to get on the bus first, and then the bus came and everybody was jostling and jabbing elbows and he got left behind. But like I said I’m not 100% sure.

@ffmike He may well be but does that mean RSS is flawed in ways that Atom or JSON correct?

@radleybalko.bsky.social Our neighbors across the street speak little or no English. I’m Jewish and see plenty of Christmas decorations go up around the neighborhood. We have Latino, Asian and Black neighbors. It’s fine. None of this causes us any problems at all. Dale is a dipshit.

@bss 34? Don’t exaggerate! It’s only been a couple of dozen…. :)

There are women on MIcro.blog but yes it has a gated community vibe.