Kim Possible @KimPossible@freedom.horse

I heard a rumor that some people get on the internet and tell lies

stood in the pacific ocean. went on a ferris wheel. took a picture with an astronaut.

*squeezes a peach until all the juice runs down my arm*

I need to rethink my Twitter brand as my use of 'Say Goodnight Gracie' has failed to connect with millenials in an appropriately ironic way.

Ugh don't ask for chopsticks at a sushi restaurant, it's so pretensious. Just throw them up in the air and catch them in your mouth like a normal person.

If somebody smiles at you on the street be sure to report them to the police

This podcast is brought to you by Ovaltine. Mmm, mmm Ovaltine

I went on a ghost train ride as a kid and proudly told everyone afterwards that most of the monsters looked like Mum when she stepped out of the shower.

Got a reply, from a fellow journalist, in the birdcage:

"My job is not to have opinions. My job is to be as factual as possible about what is happening."

Nope. So much nope.
Our job is to have well-informed opinions, be aware of our natural bias, and relay to our readers what is happening/has happened honestly, relying on as many facts and accurate information as we can access.
The myth of "objectivity" in journalism gives you fake news.

@OutOnTheMoors that trail of thought is also what leads to faux balance with Nigel Fucking Farage being on TV endlessly, and climate change deniers being invited to climate change debates, etc

@OutOnTheMoors A person without human input is just a job waiting to be automated away.
Dry factual reporting and “balance” quota-filling doesn't ever win awards.

everyone in my mentions now criticizing me for bringing up the concentration camps and how i find the aversion to talking about stressful topics on mastodon to be suffocating right now even though i put it all under CWs is PRECISELY what i'm talking about

i fucking KNOW you don't want to engage with this so Stop Engaging With Me Engaging With It To Tell Me To Stop

DICTIONARY: the word "boggled" can only apply to minds
ME: I would like boggled eggs please

ProPublica has obtained smuggled audio from inside america's concentration camps for children.

wherein there are just uncountable numbers of small children crying and CBP officers make fun of them for it; joking "we have an orchestra." and a 6-year-old girl is given a choice between eating and calling her aunt to tell her where she is.

listen and feel your heart break. this is what's happening right now

https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy

Wrestling with the hard-bitten protagonist I've spent the last 300 pages torturing over my writer's glock, both of us trying to end the story our way.

wow oh wow these white masto hot takes about not owing anyone your effort and "there's a world outside of the us" and "we come on mastodon to run away from the fact that we're complicit in white supremacy and imperialism how dare you remind us of that"

i wish yall would shut up, sometimes.

dance like everyones watching but you are still confident in your abilities