Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

Corporations that regard employees only as costs to be cut rather than as assets to be nourished are making a huge mistake.

Exhibit A: Elon Musk.

I bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?

Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.

Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.

Leavitt’s work is still used today. So next time you hear about famous men in #science share her remarkable story.

#Tumblr posts that they will be adding #ActivityPub to connect to the #Fediverse ASAP... #Mastodon

Welcome to America, where “pro-life Republicans” spout hateful rhetoric and advance legislation that leads to senseless acts of violence against the LGBTQ community.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

@rbreich It's the "Some Lives Matter" movement, essentially.

New doorknocker fitted 🦇😊

Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.

We don’t know who leaked the Supreme Court opinions to conservative groups, but one justice certainly doth protest his own innocence Alito too loudly.

Perspectives.

You know you are in a pretentious fine dining place when you can see more of plate than food.

In every single case, the Scooby Doo gang discover a human is behind the mystery, not ghosts or mummies or whatever. Yet they start each new case believing the villain is a supernatural being. Every time. Not once do they say “maybe it’s an old man like last time”

We call on the European Council to take the necessary decisions to allow Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia to become full Schengen members.

Their citizens must enjoy the full benefits of Schengen without further delay.

Hrvatska je spremna!
България е готова!
România este pregătită!

More info: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_6945

We have decided to create an account at Mastodon. We need time to learn how this platform works but also how to synchronize our work here with the Twitter account.

Thank you all for joining us here. No matter where we are, the mission stays the same. We are in social media to commemorate the victims of Auschwitz and educate the world about the tragic story of the camp.

Lmao.

The one thing i noticed thats missing, esp. if you are a previous user from the budgie themed site, is there is a lack of really good #conspiracytheory here. So.

#glasgow botanical gardens is a cover up for the 19th century crash of a time traveling #federation starship. Specifically, a constitution class starship. The evidence is there if you just open your eyes.

everybody should have 1 harmless conspiracy theory they believe in. this is mine.
#startrek #silly #fakeconspiracy #joking

“I alone can fix it” didn’t work in the White House, and it didn’t work at #Twitter.

"You up?"
4th century, BC

Interesting fact of the day: The first archaeological evidence of instruments, a flute, was **not** made by humans, in fact, it was made by a neanderthal and is 60,000 years old.

#history #archaeology #music

I've been working in the de-centralized social media space for 5 year now!

Thought I'd pause and reflect on what's happened from my perspective:

1. My basic reason for getting started was the death of organic social media
2. At the outset we looked into several possibilities: blockchain, NFC, self-hosting, mesh networks, etc.
3. Initially I wanted to build P2P networks, not client/server federated networks
4. Self-sovereign identity was top-of-mind