https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Remini:_Scientology_and_the_Aftermath

I can’t even remember which things I read about and which things I experienced.

It wasn’t why Mastodon. It was why Twitter or twitter-like apps.

I do think it’s shifted from people to groups. Still has ‘my cousin’s new baby’ but also much more hobbies, cities, marketplace, and political groups.

Can you guys help explain it to someone completely inexperienced?

I had Twitter but only used it for following music venues to see upcoming events and bars for happy hour updates. I have a Mastodon account but only played with it for a few minutes because i didn’t really get it. I don’t understand following a person. What can one person have to say that i would care enough about to download an app. What am i missing?

I’m in Texas in a blue bubble - more than i had realized i guess. 80% of the people i know are blue. I work in public education, so most of the red people i know were considering voting blue because of the push for school vouchers. I rarely see maga stuff and the yard signs around me were 80% Harris. Because of that i was completely shocked last Tuesday by the popular vote and it’s left me kind of disoriented. My husband works in redville, so he’s disgusted and exhausted. My adult sons are sad, mad, scared. My DIL has called me crying a few times - her parents are trumpsters and she wants to cut them out. Luckily we have enough cash on hand to help the kids get passports ASAP and enough savings to briefly go out of state/country if she needs healthcare. I 70% believe that Republican infighting will slow them down and it won’t be as bad as feared, 30% ready for the leopards!

I don’t think mine shows weather. Is there a setting for that somewhere?

“Why is there so much yarn everywhere?!”

Two weeks later when the weather cools off - “Can you make a hat for me?”

My husband always says, “Stop biting me!” but I think he’s faking.

Where are you coming from? Nasa in Houston is cool. Galveston is close- it’s not the prettiest beach, but it’s fun. San Antonio - i think it’s the best Texas city - Alamo, tacos, etc. New Orleans for music and beignets - if you stay overnight, I’d get off bourbon Street before midnight - last time i was there the late night crowds had increased leading to more fights.

ETA - Austin is ok, but If you go a little west of Austin, you’ll be in Hill country which is pretty. There’s a little german town called Fredericksburg. It’s kind of fun and may have their Christmas decorations out. Near Fredericksburg there’s Alstadt Brewery and Garrison Brothers whiskey distillery. Garrison is really nice with rocking chairs around fire pits and you may see deer and burros. Free to visit, you can buy whiskey samples by the flight, they have food there now too, I think the tour is about 20 bucks.

Behind the Bastards podcast does shows on both, i believe.

Period expected in 2 days can mean it’s time to change your water filter or clean out your fridge or whatever. And the symptoms can be used to mean something else

The waste of it kills me! We make a good living and we do a lot of fun things, but we have friends that have and spend a lot more than we do. Sometimes it bothers me that what gets thrown away on crap is more than what a lot of people make.

Here they call them $30,000 millionaires - people who are living beyond their means in nice apartments uptown, driving expensive cars, bars, etc. - everything on credit, which will crash later, instead of living a regular ok life today. It’s an old term so its now likely $60k.

We don’t have time for a hand job.

Grab a test prep study guide - GED, SAT, … You can probably get a super cheap one at a used book store.

I like money.

The speculation I saw yesterday was that after Ukraine falls, next are the baltics, Moldova, Poland, Taiwan, and South Korea.

There have been several polls. We’re older and more female than you think.

I met a guy named Sam Pate. He was a radio man and was live during the JFK shooting. He said that at that time the drains were big enough for a person to easily slip into. He said the real shooter escaped that way and was on his way back to Chicago before Oswald was arrested.