Eubie Drew (QOTO 🦣) @EubieDrew@qoto.org
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- 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
In this :Twitter: thread, near the end, @kamilkazani@twitter.com explains, by analogy, the reversal of decades of #American #Conservative #policy, w/o mentioning or referring to #Republicans at all.
tl;dr Stalin's agenda was Stalin, the #Republican agenda is about power.
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RT @kamilkazani
I noticed that the American discourse tends to hugely exaggerate the role of ethnolinguistic factor as the driving force of state/nation-for…
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1600939230175580164
@fuzzychef Can someone show me one of these tolerated members or posts? I can't find any.
#QOTO.org seems to have become famous for being famous, without a history to back it up.
Rumor has it.
FYI: M6n.io is blocking qoto-org. Initially we were just "silencing" them. However, successive actions by the instance admins have boosted that t...
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If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏
Thanks to anyone who can do this. It is really appreciated! This server is small but will be hosting several #peace #SocialJustice and #Humanistic groups, so it is for a good cause.
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Close up of a dahlia #flowers #dahlia #closeup #photography August 2022
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My husband's funny.
We just got a puppy and he asks: "when are we putting up the Christmas tree?" @Nickrizzo
For good or bad, #Twitter was an authentic #hivemind / #crowdsource.
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I want to be happy here.
But my Black friends keep getting banned for doing justice work.
Or just... Existing.
At a much quieter volume than I do.
If people didn’t know me or who I’m connected to, would I be gone by now too? 😔
How do you exist in a world where your cultural norm is frowned upon?
Why do I always have to compromise with the oppression dynamic
or get removed? 😭
It’s painful.
And there’s no reason to it.
And all the “solutions” include bowing to that same dynamic.
UPDATE:
#Pleroma instance public.garden appears worthwhile.
My <a rel="me" href="https://qoto.org/@EubieDrew">Mastodon</a> account
If you really want to understand #Russia, #Russians, and #RussianHistory, you have to closely follow @kamilkazani (#KamilGaleev). It takes some effort, but it is worth it. I hope he realizes someday he needs to be on #MastodonSocial.
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National Divorce
Within the next year Russia will spiral into a deep political crisis. There is a nonzero chance that it may scale up existing separatist tendencies leading to the …
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1600551806429544452
Comparing :Twitter: to :Mastodon:
Pretty much everything I valued at #Twitter has moved to some extent to #Mastodon. So why do I still visit?
I've come to realize that the main factor is simply scale. The content quality on the pachyderm 🐘 is an order of magnitude better, but also pretty thin when looking at any sufficiently narrow subject.
And, in the other direction, your audience reach is more engaged, but much smaller. (That's actually a feature, not a bug, for me.)
I do NOT feel in touch with the world when on the #Fediverse, compared to the #birdsite 🐦 . News eventually arrives, but hardly instant.
So a long way to get to asking:
Are most of the shortcomings of #distributed #socialmedia just about scale? Can we grow into a more satisfying experience.
Or perhaps, there by dragons?
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My three favorite things are eating my family and not using commas.
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We all have to make decisions about who we are and who we want to be, and if we aren't mindful of how we treat others and why we do so, the decisions get made thoughtlessly and the environment becomes toxic. Mastodon is an opportunity for Twitter expats to reexamine and reframe our relationship with online life in hopes of leaving behind the parts of the old community that were harmful - but it's also a responsibility to do so. I truly don't want this place to become that place.
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I keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.
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now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it
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When a superdense, concentrated mass forms a black hole, the laws of physics around it change, giving rise to an eldritch zone where the normal rules don't apply. When corporations form a concentrated industry, the laws of economics likewise change.
Take copyright: when I was a baby writer, there were dozens of comparably sized New York publishers. The writers who mentored me could shop their rights around to lots of houses, which enabled them to subdivide those rights.
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Remember, start your passwords with a comma to fuck up the CSV of the inevitable breach dump.
- 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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