Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

I’m having a tough time stomaching news organizations presenting their complaints about Musk as a matter of morality or ethics. If it were, they’d be off that platform so fast it would make your head spin. Instead, they are enabling Musk by giving him free publicity on their own sites (covering his antics), creating “drama” by begging him to do this or that, and desperately hoping they won’t have to think creatively about how to replace whatever revenue they would lose by dropping twitter ASAP.

New underwear is expensive but at least they last 18 years.

Musk unsuspends some reporters on Twitter. Outrage was quick and furious, but without exception, these media organizations kept using Twitter to promote their latest stories. Their official accounts tweeted at their usual busy paces Thursday night and into Friday night, when Musk allowed some of the suspended journalists to return.

Some of the media organizations have opened Mastodon and Post accounts, but the codependent relationship between the news media and Twitter is still strong.

Constructive things to say to journalists: join Mastodon, encourage your audience to have their conversations here, report on Mastodon, add Mastodon to your news org bio, make a video explaining how to use Mastodon, ask lawmakers if they will be joining Mastodon
Not helpful: You are a fascist just like Elon Musk for not immediately deleting your Twitter and giving up the audience you spent 15 years building. It’s all or nothing, right now.

Good morning to readers. Hello from Ukraine.
Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but a barrage of missile strikes plunged much of the city into darkness over the last twenty four hours.
Forecast calls for a low of 24 degrees F in the capital tonight.

That thing where you see someone you know scientifically has joined Mastodon but they are using it as a professional networking presence and you're like, I am so NOT saying hi... 😎 If I wouldn't talk to you about personal stuff if I met you in person I'm not following you professionally here. It's weird, I'll blather into the wind and to complete strangers, but the rules are different when I know your CV and we co-authored papers together decades ago. (Don't get me wrong, my close collaborators I'm happy to follow on social media, they know I'm a nut in real life. And non-professional strangers don't give a hoot--we're all nuts online.)

@CanadianPaintings
There is happiness & joy throughout Mother Nature
Mark Anthony Jacobson - Ojibwe
2016

Is it possible to get info on whether people have interacted with my boosts on #mastodon? The notifications about my original posts give me some feedback about whether the people that I connected with on here find my posts interesting, which I think is essential in building communities. Without getting similar info on boosts, it feels like I'm at a party where I can talk to people but whenever I try to retell a joke I can't hear if it made the people around me laugh or not

I don't know whether Kori Michele has migrated to the Fediverse yet, so I'm sharing an epic post of theirs

#bisexual #pansexual #trans #TransWomenAreWomen #TransMenAreMen #NonBinaryIsValid #NonBinary #enby

Live footage of me watching my husband tiptoe past an overflowing trash can

An ICU Nurse created this wreath from Diprivan bottles which were used to sedate Covid patients prior to intubating & putting them on respirators - each had a "religious exception" to not be vaccinated. She kept the bottles to create this wreath & make an eye opening statement.

First post on this social network. With a picture of the Moon taken through my telescope a few days ago. Hello everybody and welcome to share informations about astronomy and space... And our lovely planet.

Journalists reinstated should take a stand and not return to Twitter. Returning only serves to feed his purpose.

UPDATE: Apparently #Mastodon blocking by Elon's #Twitter is continuing at this time and some reporters currently not reinstated.

An archaeologist in the year 2235 opens up a sealed tomb to find it filled wall to wall with Funco Pops

@dcjohnson nothing quite says “privileged exceptionalism” like Libertarianism.

A little known secret on the Internet is that if you came to a stupid question, you are allowed to scroll past insted of making fun of the author in the comments.

On to the chapter about the Year of Terror (Baigais Gads), 1941. Interestingly enough, this time period is like a huge hole in my family’s history. I don’t know anything about how this year went for my grandparents. Everything I know is from the German occupation onwards. Thus, this is probably going to have to be one of the parts of the story that I have to make up. 😬 No pressure or anything.

Happy #Caturday from #George and #Washy #cats♥️🐱

A few words on alternative platforms you might be considering:

- Tumblr: still exists, now run by Automattic, the WordPress crew -- decent folks. Not my kind of thing but seems to have found its niche, might even interoperate with Mastodon some day.

- Cohost: good vibe, good people, feels small-scale Tumblr-ish. Run by a "not-for-profit software company".

- Post.news: funded by early Twitter investor Andreessen Horowitz. Nonsense micropayment scheme. Avoid.

- Hive: security nightmare. Avoid.