They had to stage it because it's doubtful CECOT even has a visitor area due to being a torture and death camp.
If the place isn't a torture center and death camp, why did the senator have to meet this guy at a hotel? Usually jails have visitor areas but for some reason this one doesn't. Gee, I wonder why.
I've been on it for a few years now.
It's different from Twitter and that's fine. I have no real drive to join bluesky to see if it's similar because Twitter felt deeply unhealthy anyway. Crack cocaine isn't good for you.
Nobody needs to know about the existence of, for instance, "bean dad".
As a user of both Mastodon and Lemmy, I think there are inherit differences between the formats that make Lemmy easily a capable replacement for Reddit, but Mastodon not at all a replacement for Twitter.
To get into specifics, Lemmy is more meme and news based, and as long as there are a few thousand users using it and some percentage of those posting content...it largely scratches the same itch.
Twitter was very much an active global conversation forum. It was nicknamed the hell site for a reason because if someone took issue with or was very amused by something you posted and you became "the main character" of Twitter for even an instant (something I experienced only very slightly) it was electrifying and even sort of scary at times.
In addition, the people that were active on there were very active, and it felt at times like you could talk to anyone who had been twitterized...which was a lot of people including prominent politicians, celebrities, and even experts of certain fields.
It was just an entirely different thing altogether. Mastodon is like many of the Twitter alternatives that have popped up from time to time. It's largely kinda the same with regards to functionality (though not having quote tweets is completely ridiculous IMO) but the engagement of it is very low, and the place largely feels very inactive. It feels like you're talking to dead feeds posted in syndication and there's nobody on the other end (and in many cases I don't doubt that is literally the case).
It's not the same as Twitter, and I doubt that Bluesky will even be the same as Twitter. Honestly, maybe all of that's a good thing. But the virality and the engagement and the discovery and everything on Mastodon is way turned down versus Twitter. Twitter was like the crack cocaine of social media...fast, cheap, addictive, and terrible for you. Mastodon is like a cup of tea by comparison.
They're ripping and a'ramming, bippin and a'bambing, bashing and a'slamming and in the meantime Republicans are continuing to not give a shit and wiping their ass with the Constitution followed by the Magna Carta.
Edit: Have you even said thank you once?!
I prefer the backronym SCROTUS but I'm not sure what the R would stand for.
I hope he sues and gets a fat check from it.
hey guys remember to tip your landlord (into an open vat of acid)! 🤗♥️
If Pangaea was administered by Americans they'd be all like "yeah but it's just too big for trains!".
Yep, collectivism for fascists, rugged individualism for those who seek to root them out.
Pairs nicely with all of the following American sentiments:
and on and on
One of the few great reads I've had in this trying time where nobody is equipped to even offer me an egg.
She is last seen surrounded by dementors
Hey, just like in real life.
I feel like I was in the minority that saw that for the first time in the movies and was like...dude how fucking outright antisemitic can you be in a children's movie?
They're revoking the revocation of the revision of the exemption from last Tuesday with a "truth" posted today. Those who were responsible have sacked those not responsible.
Kinda like the trillions we'll make from golden visas 🙄
The diehards are not persuadable but not everyone in this country -- or even a majority -- is willing to lay down their lives and their livelihoods for Trump.
Ending HIV? We're starting measles back up. This administration has a pro-disease agenda.
Wendy's Is Introducing Uber-Style 'Surge Pricing'
Kirk Tanner, the new CEO and president of Wendy’s, shared with analysts his various plans to increase company profits, including investing in digital menu boards that will have the capacity to display dynamic pricing that fluctuates throughout the day by 2025. Here's what customers need to know.
Hold on honey, before we get our Wendy's I'll have to check the wsj for the historical prices on chicken nuggies first.
Jay Som - "One More Time, Please"
Awesome song, was just thinking how it makes a really great test for new audio equipment (especially for the mid-bass / bass part of the system).