Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

It’s #FollowFriday so I hope folks utilize the hashtag to find my account here!
Give me a boost! Maybe if I can show some of the big accounts on Twitter that it’s possible to grow sizably and quickly here, too, they’ll migrate over!

Thee rocks. #iceland #photography #water #trees #frozen #LongExposure #BlackAndWhite #bwphotography #calm #reflectionphotography

I must confess, I’m struggling with the 500 character and spaces limit and trying saying anything more detailed with that amount. I resource to abbreviation, numbers and ampersands. Still… The 500 limit is only about 1 paragraph. That’s funny coming from Twitter with a smaller limit, but has the ability to chain posts in a thread. I know some instances allow more space, although I hate to change instances. I like it here. Does anyone have suggestions, or maybe instances that have bigger limits?

Imagine telling your spouse they had the chance to divorce you eight years ago and they backed down. So now you won't *let* them try again.

By declining Scots the chance at #indyref2, the Supreme Court has just made Scotland's independence more likely. Unions work when all parties are free, valued, and engaged.

You can only sell off the family silver once.

The temporary windfall from selling public assets comes at the expense of a community permanently losing parks, housing, libraries, sports facilities and much more.

Future generations deserve better.

Public trust in politicians has fallen to its lowest ever level, according to a new Ipsos poll.

- Just 12% trust politicians to tell the truth.
- Nurses, doctors and teachers among most trusted professions.
- Journalists only narrowly more trusted than estate agents.

US Supreme Court order allowing House Democrats access to Trump's tax returns was with NO dissenters. This sends a message to Trump not to look to Supreme Court to save him from criminal prosecution.

What is the advice on #threads in #Mastodon? I'm seeing a number of people replying to themselves tweet-style with post after post, and it just fills up my home feed.

The journalist Grant Wahl was trying to enter the USA- Wales game wearing a LGBTQ T-shirt. He was detained for 25 minutes by #qatarworldcup security and banned from the stadium.

This happened despite the assurances from the FIFA that #lgbtq flags and t-shirts would be allowed in #Qatar.

Looking through old images I came across this one I took in 2010 in the Grand Canyon, back when I lived in the US. Before I visited I thought "ok, it can't be as spectacular as people say, they must be exaggerating". Boy was I wrong! It's impossible to convey with words or images the sheer size of this landmark. #LandscapePhotography

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.