II is important to remember what the trial against Hong Kong pro-democracy activists is about: They are accused of organising #democratically in order to have a chance of winning a majority in #LegCo elections! How dare they! CCP must controll everything! https://on.ft.com/3JGa8Lm

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/bueti/status/1635936420131897345

The difference between the #US and the #UK: The UKPM is fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a social media posting. The former #POTUS, #Trump, is walking free after leading a #coup to overthrow the #democratically elected new president. #LOCKHIMUP! #TraitorsSupportTraitorTrump

#Republicans = Increased US #deficit

An equation that is always true in every possible interpretation.

Republicans first bill in the #HouseofRepresentatives increases the deficit by $114B, per Robert Reich @rbreich

Republicans first bill in the #HouseofRepresentatives takes money from the middle class and small business and distributes it to the wealthy and corporations.

Fortunately the #Democratically controlled #Senate has an industrial paper shredder waiting for #GOP House bills.

This is an experiment. I used a random toot readed round here as a single #prompt :

"" There is a #conversation about a proposed #gathering of #collectively #cooperative #democratically run #mastodon #instances ...""

( #midjourneydiffusion model, and some seeding )
#stabledifussion
#stablehorde
#aiart
#promptsketching

@tchambers Thinking long term, I'd love something like a couple or a few opt-in, #democratically governed #algorithmic feeds; one for global events or #politics would be great. I.e not having to search/subscribe to hashtags for each new event. Subscribing to #ChinaProtests hashtag works right now (+ the changes you suggest), but this kind of bespoke & individual solution doesn't work at the scale we need it IMO. (I rarely argue for increases in scale!)

It has come to my attention that there is a grave problem with the #fediverse - specifically #mastodon #instances

The #admin has zero accountability for their actions. Who admins the admin?

Instances are little #autocracies. Some will have despots in control.

The only difference - we can leave the instance (as the owner of #scicomm likes to remind me)

We need instances that are #democratically #accountable The #citizens should be making collective decisions how to manage the instance.

It has come to my attention that there is a grave problem with the #fediverse - specifically #mastodon #instances

The admin has zero accountability for their actions. Who admins the admin?

instances are little #autocracies. Some will have despot's in control.

The only difference - we can leave the instance (as the owner of #scicomm likes to remind me)

We need instance's that are #democratically #accountable The #citizens should be making collective decisions how to manage the instance.

RT @drqvortrup@twitter.com

#Democratically it is untenable that #Scotland cannot hold an #IndyRef2 . While the decision is legally correct, a second referendum should be allowed, as it was in #Quebec in 1995. For the full story see my @ManchesterUP@twitter.com book 'I Want to Break Free', see: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526166050/#:~:text=In%20this%20refreshing%20new%20book,entering%20the%20Eurovision%20song%20contest.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/drqvortrup/status/1595360693942992901

⚡️ @myepapp also helps you to keep track of public documents published by the #EuropeanParliament. This way you are always informed what your #democratically elected #MEPs are working on right now.