Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
Andy Lowry
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All of the spam accounts have been suspended, reports queue cleared, IPs and e-mail domains used in the spam wave banned. We're continuing to monitor the situation and analyzing the pattern.
Andy Lowry
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We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)
Andy Lowry
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Hey everyone — If you are getting crypto spam messages from off server today please remember to REPORT them to our/your Mod team - then BLOCK the account(s). 🚫
This is a fluid situation and I’ll post again if further action is taken here at #MstdnGames.
Thanks!
@kevin_church
Ah. Well, THAT was disconcerting. Very sad. Yet another example of what happens to some people when they get too much power. I'd like to think that it couldn't happen to me, but I have no way of knowing that.
Thanks for the link, that was a good long-read article.
@kevin_church
Uh-oh... what happened to Whedon? Really liked Firefly and Dollhouse. Has he been up to no good behind my back?
It's the same here. Nobody at my oncology center has had a mask for about three months. (Prescott, AZ)
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RT @TheCartelDel
Today I learned wtf a "Hurdy Gurdy" is.
I know Middle Age instruments demand godlike craftwork but this thing is ridiculous levels of complex. I thought I didn't like folk music, until I heard the bass drop on this Hurdy Gurdy track.
@RobertMaguire
Bear McCreary made great use of one in his theme for Black Sails:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIRzgbe2jo
@janamarie
At first glance, I thought "licorice allsorts, yum!!"
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Los Angeles Times reported about Justice Thomas' gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them
@LifeTimeCooking
I'll fire up the fax machine so you can send me one!
Andy Lowry
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saw this posted with no alt text so reposting :D
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Please join me in blocking the Fox News bot account.
@FoxNews@press.coop
Thanks for creating a place of integrity here!
#Retoot
@jeffmartins@masto.ai
Good on you! He's my favorite teacher in the US. He has a few dharma talks on Youtube, if you want to see him in action.
@vickyveritas
As an Arizonan, I do a lot of that. Lots of really interesting things just laying on the ground, like quartz and such.
@megabreadvanchannel@mastodon.world
I love those so, so much. I've only ever seen one in real life and was really taken with it. Those and the DS series always grab my attention when I see one on TV or something.
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@brianvastag
Though I subscribe to the Post, I missed that great story. Thanks for the link!
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
