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• Post #3807966

  Someone please explain stupid wars to me. I'm clearly not smart enough to understand stupid wars. The strait was open before Trump's stupid war. Then Iran blocked it. Then we blocked it. Then Iran opened it. Then we blocked it again. Then Iran blocked it. So now we want to open it. Is this all just so no one knows we're losing? https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-trump-strait-hormuz-f8d20baa977b2162ba235a1bbfd4246f

• Post #1918361

  South Carolina's population is 55% women. Their last governor's race went about 55% Republican. Their 46-member senate has 30 Republicans in it. Three of those Republicans are women. Those women opposed and blocked a total ban on abortion in South Carolina in 2022. All three just lost primary races for this year. To men. Next year, the Republican majority in the South Carolina senate will have no women in it. Not one. This is not equality before the law. https://apnews.com/ar...

• Post #1128723

  Your long-time good friend gets drunk one night and posts a short, blatantly racist item online. The next morning, they realize what they've done, delete the post, and post an apology with no excuses. Your response is to...

• Post #1128722

  To my fellow USA'ns about to do their taxes: I have used Turbo Tax in many prior years. This year, I used FreeTaxUSA. It was cheaper, faster, easier, and 100% online.

• Post #1128721

  Well. The fascists do lose sometimes. https://apnews.com/article/hungary-election-orban-magyar-trump-1a4eb0ba6b94e0c80c3cd18bd36254ab

• Post #1061579

  How sad is it that one of the "historic" aspects of the Artemis II mission is that it is the first time humans have returned to the orbit of the moon in over 50 years? https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/artemis-ii-launch-photos-b87b2d017672b6dd323ccf9c224c4909

• Post #1014164

  Bless you, Justice Jackson. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-colorado-92b34295f9ef497a4a1cbeb56c9b74c6

• Post #1014163

  This hurts. It hurts because I had posters of the Apollo missions all over my walls in the '60s. I had my own "mission control" with two TVs, a tape recorder, a short wave radio, and a typewriter on TV trays in an arc around a chair in my bedroom. One of the high points of my life was meeting Col. Buzz Aldrin. I will NEVER forget seeing Armstrong step off the LEM. And tomorrow, I will be out at a party when Artemis II lifts off, because... I just don't care a...

• Post #1014162

  Happy 100th Birthday, Amazing Stories! (Actually went on sale, March 10, 1926, but its first issue was the April, 1926, edition.)

• Post #1014161

  Professional soldiers must be hating life these days. https://apnews.com/article/kid-rock-nashville-helicopter-army-suspended-4c836ebc661bce8aa4e4d5ae5b98a246?__vfz=medium%3Dstandalone_top_pages

• Post #1014160

  I'm a Navy brat. April is The Month of the Military Child. So hug a brat this month. (I could use one myself, actually.) https://militarychild.org/

• Post #1014159

  For no particular reason, I'm choosing today to get an early start on a JOMO weekend. Boring Artemis II can do its boring free-return ballistic trip without my constant supervision. Trump can murder more Iranians without my witnessing. The climate can get worse without my knowing by how much. I'll be building a better world over here in my own corner. Same as if I were reading the news. #JOMO

• Post #1014158

  Day Two of my long JOMO weekend. I haven't looked at the news, and I know Trump sacked Bondi, he committed another criminal attack on civilians, and farmers are hurting from the war raising fertilizer prices. If you have Mastodon, you don't need to read the news. If comes to you. #JOMO

• Post #1014157

  Easter candy.

• Post #1014156

  Personal best! https://www.nytimes.com/shared/v2/mini-xwd.html?d=2026-04-07&t=15&c=622d7bab0736146571805d4b737531dc&smid=url-share

• Post #1014155

  The oath of a commissioned officer in the United States military does not include sworn obedience to the president, while the oath of enlisted members does include it. I hope our officers will be thinking about that tonight. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-if-iran-does-not-make-deal-2026-04-07/

• Post #1014154

  What kind of hubris does it take to start a war by attacking another country first, see that country retaliate by closing a shipping lane, then offer them a ceasefire, and take credit for it when that means they reopen the shipping lane they were never planning to close in the first place? https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-07-2026#0000019d-6a6d-d842-addd-faff4e760000

• Post #734599

  Worldwide belief in the classical "God" remains fairly high, depending on (of course) what you mean by that word/name. How about Mastodonians? I believe in...