So I've been a kinda crappy mood--rainy Sunday type of day--and decided I'd see if I can actually attach a rowdy #RoryGallagher song as I test my Mastodon abilities. It's a Shin Kicker day...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GazzTFxXGeE&ab_channel=Tadhg46
@questauthority
I should have said "Petition for ..." but I got overly excited.
Thanks to @marcelias and the Elias Law Group
@questauthority
There's your writ of mandamus! https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-cochise-county-election-certification/
Cochise County Board of Supervisors (Arizona, of course) continuing with election denialism and threatening to not certify the election. @marcelias
I am just dying right now! ☠️
HOW was this done last year- and I missed it? 😳 #StarTrek #AllIWantForChristmasIsQ #Christmas 🎄
An interesting interview with Arlo Guthrie about Alice's Restaurant and the Masacree. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-history-alices-restaurant-180967276/
Not that I'm dancing or anything, but one of our schools has a broken water main so we're out until next week...#NoSchool
Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.
Oh for God's sake you LOST...YOU'RE A LOSER. Now go make millions on a Fox News gig.
RT @KariLake@twitter.com
Shouldn't Election Officials be impartial? The guys running the Election have made it their mission to defeat America First Republicans. Unbelievable. https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1592178760698265603
Okay this might be a long post
One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.
With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you're new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:
### Tips:
- Choosing a home instance isn't as importance as it seems, don't overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You **always** have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
- Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
- You’re supposed to "boost" AKA "reblog" toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
- Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
- If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
- Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. **Keep it in mind**
### Useful tools & resources:
[Twitodon](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/trunk) -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
[Fediverse.info](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS ](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android ](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)
Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux
I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over
Math and science teacher at elementary and middle school levels. Dragging my school into participating in the County #sciencefair.
Parent to 2 cats and 2 dogs, which are always shedding and I hate to clean.
Usually just #lurking.
Teacher, parent to 4-pawed children, and know just enough to be dangerous. Litigation disaster tourist--just along for the ride.
Navy spouse in the mountains of AZ.
#rorygallagher is the most underrated, unknown guitar god of all time.
The name is how I always understood the line from #T-Rex #bangagong instead of the actual "diamond star halo."