Ellis Crawford @EllisCrawford@qoto.org
Scientific #publishing, computational #chemistry and #teaching. #Pedagogy, #education issues and teaching for critical thinking and #equality.
They/them. Trans feminine.
Joined Nov 2022
@ChemProfCramer @pauldauenhauer you are able to get Federated on Tusky. I keep the app around for that if I really, really want to check that stream but otherwise prefer the standard Mastodon app.
@CMSchofield she was a TOTAL PEST this morning. For someone who is supposed to be recovering from an operation, you wouldn't expect it.
Funnily enough, we got some peace when she was given her ipad to play with. Just like a kid.
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I was originally planning on having a much longer lie in after a dreadful sleep but Scone had other ideas. Now up, showered, and about to put the kettle on to get some words on the go!
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I've spent over 15 years building a Twitter network of real value to me.
The changes are actively hostile, destructive, & undermine the premise of the entire system. They take away my investment. Your investment too.
Of *course* the user base is angry.
(good 🧵 from @mmasnick)
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RT @mmasnick
@davekarpf But, instead of taking that fairly straightforward path, which really might have gone over well (I keep noting I'd sign up for Blue if…
https://twitter.com/mmasnick/status/1588789384878657537
@realcaseyrollins oh, that's pretty interesting to know about! Thanks!
I'm not allowed to follow certain accounts back at the moment, which I guess is due to strain on some servers compared with others?
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The whole idea of the town square is that it belongs to the town. No one should be able to buy it. And honestly, they can’t.
Twitter isn’t really the town square, any more than Facebook is or MySpace was.
We are the town square. It goes where we go. No one can buy that.
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My hope is that I'll post my new work here more than I ever did on twitter, but for now here is one of the minis that I'm proudest of! Ala'miaugo from Ignis Art miniatures. #minipainting #miniaturepainting #miniatures #dnd #dndart #cat #ignisart #paintingminiatures
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It's Bandcamp Friday. I'd be happy to know what #music the #sciencemastodon crowd will be buying. Any recommendations?
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So... #introductions
Well, I write books. So far: The Themis Files trilogy (Giant robots, yay!), The Test (Citizenship exam gone WAY wrong), No Kindness Too Soon (Audible exclusive about an alien signal), and the Take Them to the Stars trilogy (100 generations of slightly homicidal self-cloning mothers and daughters). Last book in that series comes out next April.
Other than that, I love toys, costumes, bourbon and rockets. 1 kid. 2 cats (President Laura Roslin and Jyn Erso).
@neuvel my goodness a cat called President Laura Roslin... What an amazing name for a cat!
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"A mastodon being attacked by a swarm of bluebirds, cute mastodon, angry bluebirds, cinematic, by Charles R. Knight"
@clathrin I'm thinking of something else from Sadness (https://sadnessmusic.bandcamp.com/). I recently bought a vinyl version of Leave, which is a fantastic blackgaze album.
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gonna fuck up the historical record and say yes, I absolutely identify with whatever far future queer categories society has come up with. yes I'm that. yeah. yeah. you can apply your contemporary understanding of queerness to me
@trinsec it's been a month for sure!
@garius what is the name of such a beast?
@MOFsoton@mastodon.social oh, the memories of making models of the different types of packing during my undergraduate 🥰
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Scientific #publishing, computational #chemistry and #teaching. #Pedagogy, #education issues and teaching for critical thinking and #equality.
They/them. Trans feminine.
Joined Nov 2022
