I’m in Texas. Couple of years ago we went to a small town west of Fredericksburg. I saw several there and that’s the only time I’ve seen them in Texas, but i have seen two maga trucks in the city and maybe 5 in rural areas. I was in Dana point, CA this summer and I saw several hats there. Weird, but I’m in a pretty blue bubble. 80 percent of the yard signs around me are blue. Well…80% of the house with signs have Harris/Walz. 20% of the houses with signs have like a dozen signs out.

I tried bluesky (bs?) for 5 minutes. Clicked one thing, saw the comment “Sunsets are my love language,” and realized that these are not my people.

We were just taking about those today. My husband had aTRS-80. I had a C64 - played BC’s Quest for Tires for hours!

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

Check out the auntie network on Reddit or Facebook.

I thought Glenn Beck was satire. Watched it several times and then one day … wait, that’s not a joke?

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.

Only if you man in it a “you people” kind of way - like y’all need to stay with your own kind- or something like that.

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?

As my mom would say- I woke up on the right side of the dirt.

Cool. Can you explain what that is, please? And what’s the white stick thing?

They’re so cute!! My DIL doesn’t want to see her family for Thanksgiving so we rented a house out of town for the weekend. It has llamas and I’m so excited to just sit and watch them. I hope i get to pet them!

Nice fucking kitties

I have to fax docs a lot. Couple of years ago we started using stonefax so it’s like an email. I wish the faxing was the worst part - most take 1-3 calls to the doc to get them sent back.

I would say this a thousand times before i would say snap.

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!

“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.