Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org

All those journalists banned on Twitter...and all the news organisations you work for - can you pls just set up on mastodon permanently. Short term transitional pain for long term gain.
#Mastodon #Twitter #Banned #journalists

@Pwnallthethings Elon is so great at driving people to new places. He should start a car company or something.

Consider how suddenly there is a spike of #TwitterMigration as soon as Elmo bans several journalists, and their media orgs complain publicly.

Clear indication that if media orgs decided to move away from , others would follow.

And sure, these media orgs are now between a rock and a hard place, having to potentially leave their presence there built over a decade. But they put themselves there, by promoting walled gardens for a decade.

They have some reckoning and introspection to do.

Hope these newcomers remember to respect the customs of their Mastodon elders (people who have been here for six to eight weeks)

If you're new to Mastodon/Fediverse I suggest making an introductory post with #newhere and/or #introduction hashtags.

If you're not new here, I suggest following the same hashtags to welcome our new friends.

#mastodon #tips #Fediverse

Beware those who think "I don't understand" or "doesn't make sense" is the same thing as "must be wrong."

They will try to convince you that their own brand of "common sense" is the only logical conclusion regardless of evidence/proof to the contrary.

Ooops: Tesla stock hit a new 52 week low on Tuesday. Before Elon musk began focusing on Twitter the stock was over $400 a share. It’s now below $160-a 60% drop. Turns out Neo Nazis and other vile trolls Musk has embraced on Twitter don’t have the income needed to buy a Tesla 😀

Even if he hadn’t written three of the most-loved #DoctorWho stories, Chris Boucher would be a legend for just this line:

"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."

RIP Chris 💙💙

Man, why do I feel like shit?
*sees empty Tupperware container that used to hold 2 dozen holiday sugar cookies*
No, like, what’s really the reason
*sees sleep data on phone indicating weird sleep pattern from eating mostly cookies for the last week*
It’s a complete mystery

Something to think about since I'm having to deal with this right now:

As I am having more and more people around me who are stressed over the holidays, I am slowly starting to feel more and more stressed myself... by them. It's easy to see how this can cause a chain reaction, a snowball effect.

So if you are stressed, and that stress is affecting your attitude, try with all your might to not let that negatively impact how you are with other people. Because they might be stressed too, but worse than that, they may also already be dealing with 30+ people who are stressed and maybe they do let their stress affect their attitude.

Don't add to someone else's stress with your stress.

I'm seeing more and more people be short with people, rude to people, some are more sensitive and more easily hurt, and a whole host of other situations come up that just don't happen as frequently any other time. And it all comes back to me to deal with. This causes me stress.
What I'm trying to say is, remember that everyone else is fighting a battle as well, that you don't know about. Don't let your battle add to their battle.

Share kindness and well wishes despite the hard times, because if we can all do that, maybe none of us would be quite as stressed.

@freemo @Gaythia @ufoi Hi, welcome to Qoto! Happy to see a fellow chemist! 👩‍🔬I’m fairly new here as well and I came in without much Mastodon background, but Qoto has been really nice so far.

@freemo @ufoi I didn't have a whole lot of background information on Mastodon or Qoto when I made my instance selection. But I'm happy to be supporting Qoto. I left the birdsite searching for something better and I feel that I have found it here on Qoto.

This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space.

Credit: Eric Brummel
https://www.instagram.com/brummelphoto

#photography #milkyway #space