I think thune shows exactly how little they are going to matter. the gop panicked since they caught the truck and had to do a secret ballot to get the establishment, next in line guy in place. if the fix wasn’t in, they could have held a regular vote. instead all we can do now is hope that the party that has no spine, suddenly grows one.

These Senators know how much power they have

right, none. the fix has been in for a while now, this train’s brakes have failed and all we can do is hang on.

Uhm, you know what a metaphor is, right? I’m not talking about actual paths here.

how is it that everyone seems to have forgotten about this: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

trump owns the judicial branch and they put him above the law.

right. I feel like the world is desperate to pretend we aren’t standing on the shoulders of giants. who wants to reinvent everything, every time. use the paths already there and find shortcuts along the way, then mark them and leave them for the next traveller.

that is the eventual plan.

right now I consider my fediverse and self hosted stuff as my ‘real’ profile. bluesky falls into the same category as linkedin, a necessary evil for my ‘professional’ profile.

So no, I won’t be leaving mastodon (or lemmy).

I have never been an accelerationist but have a feeling it may be our only path forward from here on.

Note- not a plan, will see how things go. Not terribly hopefully atm though.

Sigh, here we go again. I jumped on board because it’s where my friends are. Was pleasantly surprised that most of my old twitter follows are already there. Still, given the history I’m being careful and ready for the next enshittification exodus.

I wish folks would just embrace self hosting and decentralization but we obviously love to make the same mistakes again, and again, and again…