I find that Bluesky increasingly suffers from many of the same problems that annoyed me with pre-Musk Twitter. People spend too much time talking *at* each other, and it's very hard to be heard here if you aren't a 'big' user. Mastodon is better on both accounts.

It definitely still exists. It has fewer active users than Bluesky, but it's growing. The interface is easier to use than it was during the 2022 Twitter exodus, and the character limit is higher than Bluesky's. I find the signal-to-noise ratio much higher on Mastodon than here.

Mastodon has good climate posts, and no tolerance for pseudoscience.

I had no idea that Olive had posed for so many artists before I adopted her.

and that Trump and Netanyahu have apparently never encountered, because reading would require an attention span longer than a TikTok and a humility neither man has ever been accused of possessing. '

But you bomb a country, and the population rallies around the flag, because that is what human beings do under fire, that is the one iron law of aerial bombardment that every military thinker since Bomber Harris has understood and articulated and written down in books that are available in libraries

Fourteen million Iranians have volunteered to fight. You think they love their government?

Motherfuckers, these folks were in the streets three years ago trying to pull the thing down with their bare hands.

The hard, diamond-bright legitimacy of victimhood. Of being the ones getting bombed. Of being the ones whose children are under the rubble while the man doing it can't spell "reign" and thinks Persia is a type of carpet.

' You bomb a country's schools and universities and hospitals, you kill its children, you threaten to destroy its power grid in the syntax of a going-out-of-business sale, and you hand the regime the one thing 47 years of domestic repression could never, ever generate organically: legitimacy.

Fourteen million Iranians have volunteered to fight. You think they love their government?

Motherfuckers, these folks were in the streets three years ago trying to pull the thing down with their bare hands.

The hard, diamond-bright legitimacy of victimhood. Of being the ones getting bombed. Of being the ones whose children are under the rubble while the man doing it can't spell "reign" and thinks Persia is a type of carpet.

' (You bomb a country's schools and universities and hospitals, you kill its children, you threaten to destroy its power grid in the syntax of a going-out-of-business sale, and you hand the regime the one thing for 47 years of domestic repression could never ... generate organically: legitimacy.