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Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)

Casey Newton followed up on the viral “Desperation Score” food delivery hoax. He got in touch with the original Reddit poster who shared an Ube...

If you boosted that Uber Eats story about the "desperation score" and all the terrible metrics the company uses to manipulate their drivers, you should read and boost this. It was fake. It was AI. I don't remember if I boosted, but just in case, mea culpa. Here's the truth about the lies. View quoted note →

I'm so in love with my cat that I saw she had peed in the litter box and was overcome by affection just thinking about her. #TheLadyCatherine #CatherineLadyDarlington #LadyCatherineOfDarlington #CatsOfMastodon To be fair, this is the cat in question:

I see other sick people wearing eye masks in bed, and my first thought is sympathy for their pain. My second thought is jealousy for their ability to tolerate anything touching their head when they're lying down. I can barely take the pillow. 🫩 It's a regrettable but human reaction to compare your situation to others. From what I've seen and read, long covid is at least as disabling as my stupid brain thing, and in many cases, it's much worse. The sympathy always wins out, but I have to admit my second reaction, too. Bah.

Hey, I'd just like to remind people that they can be nice. You can correct people without being mean. Look over what you've written. If there are words there whose only point is to be bitchy, consider deleting them. You don't actually have to make someone else feel small to make yourself extra correct or whatever you're trying to do.

My beautiful queen Venus, who loved to sleep on me. We got her when she was 13, and she lived to about 20. Look at that panther face, heart nose, and white whiskers. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon #BlackCats

This is one of those nights when, nailed down by the headache and unable to get any peace because of the roaring in my ears, I wonder if it's worth it to keep trying. I may never get better. It could be a long slide down from here, losing my hearing and sight and who knows what else. Will any future joy be worth the pain? The sensible answer is yes, that now that I have a known and accepted diagnosis, I will keep getting treatment as needed and available. I may not get cured, but things will sometimes be better and sometimes be worse, like things are for most everyone. I'll get more answers, too, now that I've gotten into the hospital system here as someone legitimately ill, instead of spending all my time trying to get taken seriously. Maybe I'll even have a day here and there without a headache. But tonight is one of those nights, one of those days, where I want to give up. I won't - I'll fight it - but I want to rest.

My babies. #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #TheLadyCatherine #CatherineLadyDarlington #TheLadyCatherineAndNibbler #catstodon #nibbler

Dressed up to finish wrapping presents. #christmas2025 #GayApparel

I saw my first Los Angeles coyote on the way home from an art supply run today! They were trotting on the sidewalk on Oakwood and disappeared around Martel. After I kept walking, a man pulled over to warn me about the coyote, but I told him they had turned up the street. What a nice neighbor, though. The first coyote I ever saw was in Whittier, which is in northeast L.A. county, but this is my first urban coyote in the county. Most of the coyotes I've seen were in San Francisco. I don't really want them in my neighborhood eating our stray cats, but it does feel like I'm finally being welcomed here.

I am rich with cat. #TheLadyCatherine #Nibbler #TheLadyCatherineAndNibbler #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon #CatherineLadyDarlington #LadyCatherineOfDarlington