Birds are more like ‘feathered apes’ than ‘bird brains’ | Jeremy Hance 2016
Society wants you to feel ashamed of yourself
Algorithm expert Cathy O'Neil has written a new book that shows how the tech world and society generally feeds off the idea of shame | Allison Arieff
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/29/1053985/society-shame-book-review/
Manchester Mill celebrates local press paywall profitability
Politics: Sunak, money, power
As one of the UK’s richest people, Rishi Sunak’s rise to power brings into focus the corrosive effect of wealth on our democracy | Emily Horner
#Bylines #RishiSunak #MoneyAndPower #Politics
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/its-time-money-cant-buy-power/
With Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock has declared war on archaeologists.
Are Elon Musk and Liz Truss related?
#UKPolitics
#RIPTwitter
People from the Other Place.
This tool will find the Mast accounts of your Other Place followers/followees. The other one I've seen only finds people who cross post, this finds them ALL
Bravo, Sussex Bylines are the latest to join Mastodon, please give them a follow
And please give a follow to our other Bylines that have joined Mastodon so far 👇 👇 👇
@northwestbylines
@YorkshireBylines
@northeastbylines
@BylinesCymru
@WEBylines
@BylinesScotland
@centralbylines
And of course
@bylinetimes
I propose mastodon servers should instead be called 'neighborhoods'
you can pick a cul-de-sac, or one near a bunch of bars & nightlife with a lot of character, or something in the countryside, or a giant condo complex. benefits and drawbacks.
and you can move, and when you do, your address gets automatically updated in everyone's Rolodex.
thx to @emilyriederer ! whose tweet made this thought click for me—even if they don't change the name, I feel like I get it now.
The biggest growth industry under this government is food banks. What in the world is going on?
https://northeastbylines.co.uk/austerity-2-0-and-food-banks-a-dystopian-nightmare/
I'm a Celeb
Matt Hancock is not a celebrity: Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice stand up against Hancock’s appearance in the jungle | Helena Mullin
#ImACeleb #MattHancock
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/lifestyle/culture/calls-for-matt-hancock-to-be-removed-from-the-jungle/
a few things you can do to make your content accessible:
- use image descriptions
- when you post videos, make sure they're captioned and/or add a transcript. transcript is really the only accessible option for deafblind folks
- when you link a podcast, do also link to the transcript
- don't put more than 2-3 emoji in your username (incredibly annoying for screenreader users)
- use CW's where appropriate. make sure they actually describe what the content is about!
For those of you who need a graphical explanation of how the fediverse works...
QT: https://glaceon.social/@Impzbot/109365524051459359
A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
QT: https://qoto.org/@STORM/109260056830000449
#RIPTwitter - Well it's not dead yet...
However I'm less interested in the life/death of Twitter and much more interested in the surge on Mastodon...
...and the potential of the whole fediverse going forward. Not only is there a different sense of community here, but also there's a lot of opportunity to innovate on our own terms -- and THAT feels like a lot of fun to me.
Should We Boycott the Qatar World Cup? https://novaramedia.com/2022/11/14/should-we-boycott-the-qatar-world-cup/ via @Novaramedia
Escapee from Elon Musk's Twitter.