Romegeorgiaman @Romegeorgiaman@qoto.org

The https://qoto.org mastodon instance I run has had to increase server size twice this month to keep up with all the new users! A good problem to have really. We have enough funding to support server costs for a few years too!

Welcome new followers,
i love u all

A Sound Card Before Its Time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17779741
#hackernews #tech

Trevor Noah blasts Strzok for starting GoFundMe to pay his legal fees: "There are cancer patients on that site"… https://t.co/natrFQ2Bwu

the US government should spend the 90m they were going to spend on trump's military parade on literally anything else besides defense spending.

Pretty wild and a really cool idea.

India Builds Solar Plants atop Canals to Save on Land, Water

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/india-builds-solar-plants-atop-canals-to-save-on-land-water/

r u better than twitter ? if yes rt this

There are a million reasons why fat shaming is terrible, these are just a few. The same reasoning as for the plastic problem: blaming consumers, while producers really play the biggest role:
* Why our food is making us fat: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat
* The Behind-The-Scenes Marketing Tricks That Make Food Irresistible: https://foodbabe.com/the-behind-the-scenes-marketing-tricks/
* Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away From Bad Diets: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/
* Food firms could face litigation over neuromarketing to hijack brains: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/25/food-firms-may-face-litigation-over-neuromarketing-to-hijack-brains
#fatshaming #obesity #obesophobia

OMG this is just the nicest sweetest thing ever! So much <3

Mastodon will either become the next big social media (I have like 20 followers so things are going well) or it will become the social media that time forgot and edgy people will write creepy pasta with the title "Mastodon.social Has Really Changed - Big Spooks" that is my 100% factual opinion