James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

it is Wednesday my dudes

*burps my end of year presentation*

Dovetailing my recent post, @adamdavidson via @niemanlab: "Even if #Mastodon were to remain #Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon #journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, #ElonMusk and their staff decide all these major journalistic questions." ~ https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/can-mastodon-be-a-reasonable-twitter-substitute-for-journalists/ ~ #news #journalists #socialmedia #tech

A castle in Italy has braille etched in the railing that describes the view for blind people🤎

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

For the record, releasing Trump’s tax returns in 2016 might have saved our democracy six years of pain and trouble. Every presidential nominee should be required by law to make their returns public.

All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.

Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.

Washington Post will be creating their own instance. They will add #mastodon accounts to journalist profiles.

Institutional #journalism embracing the #fediverse is important.

#commodon #journodon @communicationscholars

On how many Mastodon hosts do you have an account? (Please boost for wide sampling, thanks)

#xmas 2022

It is that time of the year. The Wreath of Khan.

1. This high school English teacher is trying to ban 150 books from school libraries in Florida

I talked to her to find out why

Buckle up

This one gets a bit wild

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This has been making me laugh for days idk why #meme #memes #funny

A tidy summary of A Christmas Carol

You’ll all be delighted to know that the winter solstice will be occurring at precisely 4:47 pm today (for those of us in the Eastern Standard Time zone). Plan your appropriate ritual accordingly. Here in Ottawa, the sun rose at 7:39 am and sets at 4:22pm, giving us a mere 8 hours and 41 minutes of daylight today. Tomorrow, we’ll have a whopping 2 seconds more. #solstice #astronomy

I only needed to open the last 7 presents I'd wrapped before I found the one I'd left the scissors in this year, which is nice.

Sir John A Macdonald during the Pacific Scandal of 1873 when his telegram to Sir John Abbott asking for another $10,000 in campaign funds is discovered:

Surprise, surprise... It was Plymouth Brethren schools seeking to erase LGBTQ and women's rights from the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.

Worth noting those schools receive public money.
Worth asking, why?
#CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cmhr-schools-lose-fight-censored-tours-1.6684879

"Twitter rival Mastodon has grown eight times its size in a matter of weeks, going from approximately 300,000 users in October to 2.5 million in November, according to a blog post by the platform’s founder, Eugen Rochko": As Twitter backlash grows, rival Mastodon reaches 2.5 million monthly users | CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/tech/mastodon-twitter-usage/index.html