I may be spending my Friday night at the ER because I have been staggering into walls all week, but in a small victory, I did not yell MOTHERFUCKER in front of the only child in this section of the waiting room. I'm almost certainly going to be fine, but things are going amiss in this tiny head of mine. My guess is that my intracranial pressure is high again - my recorded blood pressure is 20 points higher than usual, which is what was happening last year, before the IIH diagnosis/surgery.

Hey hivemind, is there a way to temporarily mute a server? Every once in a while, a server's user base gets enthusiastic about something that I find annoying, and I would rather just let them have their fun more privately and continue to enjoy them the rest of the time. I'm definitely the crank here, I want to make clear that I know. TIA! I did actually check Feditips first, but I didn't find any server-level mute directions.

We do like to joke about generational and geographical gaps here on social media, and mostly it's in good fun. But I will say that sometime in your life, someone will blithely joke about world-changing events in which people you knew and loved were killed, and you will remember that time in 2025 nobody who cared about you told you how awful the things you joked about really were. Like anything important in life, this isn't about hate grifters or campus speakers. It's about plagues you survived, so they're done now. Wars in countries that may no longer exist, or that you never heard of, so you whistle past that graveyard of millions. We all do it at some point and to some degree. But the bigger the disaster, the more likely you will run into someone for whom it's not a historical graveyard for millions, but a grave marker for their baby sister who didn't leave enough of a body to bury. And then you will have the choice to apologize and ponder why you make funnies about mass death, or gather support from other callow youth online so you don't have to feel or think. I've watched a lot of people make the wrong choice lately, and I'm going to continue to let most of you boil in your own broth. But please do better. It really does come back to you.

It's somewhat distressing how many of my selfies these days are taken lying down. 😕

I just got my head and one shoulder off the bed and my body said NOPE. 😂

My sweet little angel baby kitty girl. ❤️ #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #TheLadyCatherine #CatherineLadyDarlington

We have come to believe Nibbler was not actually named after the Futurama character, but rather a character trait. #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Nibbler #blep

These motherfuckers have got to be stopped. Already they're picking a war with Venezuela because reasons, and these brainrot macho misogynistic racist transphobic scumsuckers are now trying to rename the Department of Defense because Pete Hegseth the Fragile feels like a pussy being on the defense. Can we just carve out a little area to keep the terminally macho, like Hegseth and the Tate twats, away from actual human beings? We'll give them their own intranet that doesn't actually link up to the internet, but they don't require input anyway. They can just tell each other their stupid ideas about what makes a man and how to be strong, and maybe we can break the cycle that creates monsters like that. #USPol #Trump #PeteHegseth

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Trump to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War

When confronted with the possibility that making the name change would require an act of Congress, Trump told reporters that “we’re just going ...

My poor Nibbler. He was having a nice nap on my lap, but he must have had some disquieting dream. He woke up, then stared at me for a full minute with an expression on his face I haven't seen before - like he didn't know me. He got over it and seems back to normal, but he's not back on my lap. I wonder if he was dreaming about his first family? Just in case, I told him how much they loved him but couldn't bring him with them, and that they made sure to find him and TLC a good home where they'd get spoiled by cat-crazy homebodies. He didn't seem convinced, the poor pook. This photo isn't from today's lap nap, but I can't tell a cat story with no cat, can I? #Nibbler #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop