Could be cheese. Oh wait, that’s the moon.

Exactly, we shouldn’t even be at this point. Russia should be a windswept wasteland.

Oh I don’t doubt people were killed.

It’s just describing them as being martyred puts a bias on the article. I’m inclined to see it as a.propoganda piece.

The whole thing is bad enough as it is without stirring up religious hatred even more.

I’m always wary when an article tells you that people have been ‘martyred’ when describing casualties on one side but not the other.

They’ve usually got an agenda to push and numbers will be exaggerated and not always the truth.

Didn’t think anyone would subscribe to Pocket - a good proportion of the links require external subscriptions.

Sorry, but am not going down that route. Unless you’re telling me all the links to externals become free.

IIRC I tried a free trial of Premium but still had to subscribe to Medium etc. That put me right off. I might just as well subscribe to Medium and forget about Pocket.

Eddies in the space time continuum.

It’s too late to change things now, but we shouldn’t have used the term ‘sailing’ for vessels without sails.

Saying that, I’d like to see Zuck sailing off into the sunset.

Or the edge of the world, and count the turtles all the way down.

I (currently, may change in the future) use Mastodon via Vivaldi Social. For me I find Mastodon as a whole rather ‘clunky’ and often when trying to reply to a post get the ‘need to sign in with xxxx.social’ message and that just puts me off using it. I don’t want to sign up on lots of different instances or whatever they are called. This may be what stops more people taking it up. I may have missed a setting somewhere that allows this, but it’s not obvious. Not come across any issues with moderation.

Don’t use Pixelfed, had a look but not that interesting. Then again I don’t use Instagram and never have used TikTok.

Haven’t used FB for years so can’t comment. Never really used Twitter.

For me Beehaw seems to have it just right.

The only other social media I use is BlueSky. I know it’s not the fediverse, but it’s much more polished and easier to use than Mastodon.

Five and a half years ago. People can change a hell of a lot in that amount of time. I know I did.

Yeah I get that, it’s why I don’t use FB anymore. I keep WhatsApp for close family though. They’re is no other option. And dont tell me to use text. Doesn’t cut it.

This. The average user doesn’t want to know about the workings and ‘All that technical stuff’, and why should they?

They want to click an icon and have everything and everyone there. They shouldn’t have to swap instances or what have you.

I put Mastodon on a back burner as it’s just too clunky (for me at least) and am currently interacting with people from all over on BlueSky. Half the time on Mastodon (various apps/instances, web, or browser) I couldn’t even log on.

BlueSky will probably go the way of others. Yes, there is a troll problem, and you need to be wary. But I had the same to a lesser extent on Mastodon.

In the end, I’ve had to accept my relatives, work, and old Army colleagues will never be on there, I’ve become resigned to that and keep a WhatsApp account for that reason.

Right, so we just trade in our relatives for some new ones.

That’s the attitude that puts people off.

Freeeeeeeedom!

some of which will hit earth

Hopefully in one particular spot.

Joking aside, if there is going to be a lots of debris hitting us, I wonder how much warning we’ll get.

Also if it does hit the moon, what are the chances of mankind realising once and for all that we are on a small fragile rock zipping through space and we’d be better off taking care of it instead of petty bickering about what toilets people are using?

I won’t hold my breath.

No doubt emboldened by trump, because he’ll throw Taiwan under the bus at the first opportunity.

Horrible places run by horrible people.

I though this was an Onion article.

Holy crap! They’ll be looking for chimney sweeps next.

Iran or Saudi deal harshly with sex offenders* don’t they?

*Or just anyone really.

Lloyd Bridges clip from Airplane springs to mind.

UK here we don’t want him.