Steve Foerster 🇩🇲 @stevefoerster@mastodon.oeru.org

#FreePiotr Markiełaŭ, and all other political prisoners in #Belarus.

https://ftn.media/student-leader-and-civil-rights-activist-piotr-markielau-sentenced-15-days-prison-belarus

I'm no fan of centralized commercial social networks, but giving politicians the power to block them is a cure far worse than the disease.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-23/solomon-islands-set-to-ban-facebook-for-sake-of-national-unity/12910786

#uspol The difference in a nutshell.

It worked out!

JFC, if I were a narcissist, my goal in life would be to get as much undeserved attention as Jamie Dimon.

The bad news: frost is coming and I have all these tomatoes that are still green.

The good news: I also have a salsa verde recipe.

Wishing everyone well on International Students' Day. Never stop fighting for a better future!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Students%27_Day

And it dovetails well with Glenn Greenwald's observations about modern day book banning: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-death-of-free-speech (2/2)

#uspol I never thought Bill Maher would perfectly summarize my view on anything, but his bit about why Democrats did so poorly on Election Day is a grand slam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgrZAPUvKyA (1/2)

@corbin given your browser related travails this evening this may amuse you.

I'd been planning to get rid of Chrome for a while, and Mozilla finally pushed me to do so -- by sending me a fundraising email so out of touch that in a fit of pique I installed Brave.

If you're more emotionally invested in who succeeds Alex Trebek as host of Jeopardy! than who succeeds Daniel Craig as James Bond, friend me.

#nottheonion https://reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27P2N2

#uspol I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the same people who don't believe that climate change is real or that pandemics are real also don't believe believe that election results are real. 🙄

Wow. Every once in a great while my ancient knowledge of MS-DOS batch file syntax still comes in handy. And today was one of those days.

At last, the #uspol news you've been waiting for.

https://etcanada.com/news/709849/kanye-west-concedes-2020-presidential-election-sets-his-sights-on-2024-instead/

I'm too busy for #NaNoWriMo this year, but I just wanted to say good luck and happy writing to all of those giving it a shot! Remember: no rules, just write! 📚