When I take my dog for a walk, he finds the biggest stick he can, whether or not he can carry it.

When I was in high school I knew a kid that loved Braveheart so much he got a reproduction of the claymore, a sword that was easily ten inches taller than him.

I think some dudes, no matter the species, just like the big pointy stick.

“Gradually, then suddenly.”

“Mastodon isn’t ready,” I read every day, posted on Mastodon.

You cite Bluesky account portability as an advantage over ActivityPub, but that’s not really accurate. Nothing in Bluesky is portable. There’s only one instance. There’s nowhere to port to. You can’t move anything.

Explicit policies are better than implicit policies. A code of conduct shouldn’t consist of unwritten rules. Maybe this is why you were rejected? It seems like you didn’t understand the purpose or content of their policies when you applied.

Sure, blocking the sun will surely be easier and more effective than taxing the rich assholes causing climate change.

This is America, people get shot to death by their own toddlers.

Reactionary contrarianism is basically the conservative’s signature move.