Richard Mischook @rmischook@nitech.online

when peace comes at last, children play on the old battlefields and don't think of what came before them

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

why call it bird site when ‘the fowl place’ is right there and a much better pun

My career as a disabled artist who makes art about my experiences as a disabled trans person can be summed up via an excerpt from the last grant rejection letter I received:

“…while the members of the selection panel felt your art was evocative, accomplished, and beautiful, we collectively felt the subject matter of disability would disturb and upset art patrons. Your work was ultimately rejected because we felt it wouldn’t resonate with the public.”

…My reality.

#MastoArt #disabled

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

I must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less plague and fascism, but here we are.

“Actually, Frankincense was the name of the doctor who created it. You're thinking of Frankincense's monster.” - The 3 Wise Mansplainers

there are hundreds of web sites, even more some say

adulthood means hurting your back when you relax incorrectly

A friend of someone I know is missing in Galway so passing this on, if you can boost would be appreciated 🙏🏻 #missingperson #galway

I am increasingly of the opinion that users on Mastodon who automatically mirror their Tweets here don't understand that they are flooding this space with irrelevant material (like quote tweets; like replies) referencing things devoid of context. It's not unlike someone shouting into their phone on a train: we, the other passengers, only get half the conversation, and we didn't want to listen to any of it in the first place. If we did, we'd be following it on Twitter, not here!

It irritates the hell out of me when cities go to the expense each year of killing and trucking in a giant tree to decorate, instead of planting and nurturing a living one year round.

Especially when their display is in the same spot every year. Like, hello! Dig the hole RIGHT THERE.

You'll never see Romulans posting on mastodon because they are enemies of the federation

Twitteratti in 2008: Twitter is an app interface playground. Everyone is trying these cool new things. So much innovation.
Twitteratti in 2022: I can’t find a Mastodon app that I like. There’s too many. They’re not mature enough. They do weird things. I just want Tweetbot for Mastodon so that everything is the same as it was before.

Jack White has a way with words. I just love him. He told Elon and Twitter goodbye in a way I’ve grown to expect from this creative genius.

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