Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org
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- http://twitter.com/EubieDrew
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- https://spore.social/@EubieDrew
Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #𓅪𐃘𓃰
Joined Nov 2022
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RT @LibrarylinM
What do you think is the most important quality for a leader to possess?
https://twitter.com/LibrarylinM/status/1596297041004892160
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There's a bot that works much more easily that @PleaseCaption.
It's just following @alt_text
It points to me with a DM every time I do not use #AltText. Eventually doing alt text became habitual for me.
Keep telling everyone to follow @alt_text
Here is it's self-description:
An automated friend who reminds you to caption your images. Follow to opt in, unfollow to opt out.
@skanman Most people can not handle complexity. The best we can hope for is for them to understand the concept of the #politicalcompass
*posts not points
There's a bot that works much more easily that @PleaseCaption.
It's just following @alt_text
It points to me with a DM every time I do not use #AltText. Eventually doing alt text became habitual for me.
Keep telling everyone to follow @alt_text
Here is it's self-description:
An automated friend who reminds you to caption your images. Follow to opt in, unfollow to opt out.
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I do like it here on Mastodon, but the huge influx of people from Twitter means there are far fewer image descriptions than from even a couple of weeks ago. I’d love to tell every one of them about this, but quite frankly there are so many I don’t have the patience. I’d dearly love it if apps could block posts unless an image description was added to every photo, but I suppose that’s too much to hope for. I’m feeling really excluded from so many conversations. It’s getting as bad as Twitter.
Perhaps hitting the litter with anti-chew spray (do they have that for cats?) would help, but do not overuse it and drive the cat away from using the litter box.
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@freemo regarding the character limit on #qoto I think it must be WAY MUCH lower. May I ask about his decision of yours? I believe if someone is willing to publish a useful and/or interesting post which is more than 2-3 paragraphs, it must be in a blog and not here. You can host a separate Writefreely instance for that purpose. For myself, if something is useful and long enough, I would write a blog post where it's very easy to find for myself and the others. Also Writefreely does the SEO very good so people could find my useful content easily using search engines.
There's a supplement you can buy that appeals to dogs but makes their poop unappealing to dogs that like to eat poop, including their own. Must be available for cats too.
It worked perfectly for my long-gone rat terrier. Sorry, I do not remember the product name.
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Very good point. We would need a similar poll from an origin point with a conservative following as a contrasting example.
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@EubieDrew quote attributed to Vladimir Lenin, "The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope."
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One thing I’m learning is that community leadership (aka good moderation) is so rare, when I talk about it, some people literally have no idea what I’m talking about because they’ve never experienced it. And that’s pretty sad.
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Amazing how one dedicated schmuck can ruin your experience of an entire social network.
Which is why “you can just block people” is not sufficient. It’s like trying to be a gardener with only pesticides.
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I really need to take the time to write more about this. The rise and fall of blogging as a lot to teach the fediverse, and I was deeply involved with that (I worked for Blogger and Technorati). I sincerely want to see the fediverse succeed, because we’ve tried the alternative and we all know it sucks.
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Same thread on a Mastodon: https://birdsite.tcjc.uk/users/kamilkazani/statuses/1596497181644562435
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Black twitter right now reminds me of just how deeply contingent black communities — digital and physical — are upon the whims of white people.
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Missing alt text:
A poll you have voted in has ended.
How would you describe yourself politically?
Please vote, comment, and BOOST (very important)
Thank you.
Poll results:
0% Right Wing
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2% Right of Centre
44% Left of Centre
46% Left Wing
8% None of the above
4,215 people voted. Closed
Very good point. We would need a similar poll from an origin point with a conservative following as a contrasting example.
Missing alt text:
A poll you have voted in has ended.
How would you describe yourself politically?
Please vote, comment, and BOOST (very important)
Thank you.
Poll results:
0% Right Wing
·
2% Right of Centre
44% Left of Centre
46% Left Wing
8% None of the above
4,215 people voted. Closed
- Inactive 🐦
- http://twitter.com/EubieDrew
- Activist 🐘
- https://spore.social/@EubieDrew
Interested in #PlanetaryScience, #Exoplanets, #Astrochemistry, #Astrophysics, and #ClimateScience.
Sometimes send curated cross-posted content from my Twitter acct, #𓅪𐃘𓃰
Joined Nov 2022
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