Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org

Americans should name mass shootings the way they do hurricanes but after Republicans who accept payments from the NRA.

If some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.

@MichaelPorter

Its not an older version. QOTO is a fork with many unique features, as such our version has no relevance relative to the mastodon version.

@digital_carver

On my morning walk, Beautiful crescent moon with Earthshine, and in the other direction, bright Mars.

And me with just my iPhone.

#Moon #Mars #Earthshine

Shocked that teams willingly playing in a tournament with a terrible record on human rights don't seem to have a moral backbone

Greetings. I'm an armchair student of history (not just tech history), but given that I've been involved in the development of the Internet continuously since the early DOD ARPANET days (so, technically before there *was* an Internet) I'm watching the Twitter->Mastodon migration (and the nightmarish, shameful disintegration of Twitter itself) with considerable interest indeed. There is no historical precedent that I know of, and what's happening is even more remarkable given that it has been precipitated by a single chaotic individual in a matter of weeks.

The high speed with which I see social graphs rebuilding here is fascinating, and we can be sure that there are a bunch of PhD theses and books in the future that will attempt to explain all of this for future generations.

Sometimes when you're living through significant historical events it's not obvious except in retrospect, often many years later. What we're living through now with Twitter is clearly significant history, from technology, business, social, and other standpoints.

And even if Mastodon turns out ultimately to be a steppingstone on the way to other social media models able to scale far upward more easily, it is playing a crucial role now in providing a "lifeboat" for Twitter users who are unable to stomach what is happening to that firm with every passing day.

For all its many faults over the many years, we built the Internet to be resilient. And what we are seeing today is that not only has the technology met that goal from ARPANET onward, but thanks to the Internet's vast numbers of dedicated and caring users, even a monstrous train wreck like Elon's Twitter can't bring it (or us!) down.

Thank you all! -L

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.

The Fibonacci sequence - it's as easy as 1, 1, 2, 3!

#Math #Joke

This is the latest Chronostratigraphic Chart from the ICS.

Mayores detalles aquí: https://stratigraphy.org/news/143

#geology #geosciences #Paleobiology #geologynews

@MichaelPorter
Edit is from a newer version of the Mastodon software, #Qoto doesn't run it yet. An update is planned (for this and other features like language tagging), but no specific timelines yet.

Murder, She Wrote ran for 264 episodes, which means that lady who wrote about murder saw at least 264 murders over the course of TWELVE years, and you have to think, man, that's worse than most homicide cops see in the most fractured forsaken neighborhoods of the oldest cities, and I kind of want there to be a scene somewhere in a vault of Angela Lansbury, ravaged by PTSD and propped on a bar stacked with empties, inveighing against the cosmic worth of her species and slurring bitter regrets at a life's work of effectively being a janitor in an abattoir.

Bless you!

2 unarmed heroes at Colorado Springs tackled the murderer and stopped him

400 heavily armed police at Uvalde twiddled their thumbs and did nothing to stop the shooter for 78 minutes

Can you right wing nut jobs stop calling gay people “too woke” and “weak” now?!

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

LADY: My cat won't stop mewling

ME: It's okay, I'm a cat whisperer

LADY: Oh, great

ME {whispering to cat}: shut the hell up

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” 
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

#QatarWorldCup22

Will you affirm the words? 🧡

Did anyone ever tell those kids how to get to Sesame Street?