Hi, I’m Kaeli Swift, your friendly neighborhood corvid expert. I love talking about crows and fielding questions so feel free to shoot me your queries!
Ok, professional intro out of the way… WTF is this platform, how does it work, why can’t I find my scicomm peeps, IDK what’s going onnnnnn truly this feels like I came to class late and am joining and in-progress group assignment
@myownpetard
They're gonna end up being called Petra.
Tomorrow will be my 1 week anniversary on mastodon. In honor of that, here's Liza doing a sploot for #caturday
@LibyaLiberty
Yay!
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There was just an ad on YouTube where #PostMalone was promoting #MagicThe Gathering as something to do with your friends on a Friday night while you #drink and hang out. With your cool homies. Like. I'm confused. Can anything just stay unpopularly geeky?
So someone wrote a whole-ass thesis about #fandom #antishippers. It's a compelling read, describes a first-person experience of the birth of the movement, debunks current antishipper claims about #proshippers, and proves that they've always just made shit up to justify harassment over ships.
https://at.tumblr.com/ms-demeanor/amazing/ym8a0v7dclvv
@bloodwrites The original instance I was on (that I had an account on since 2018) turned out to be owned by an anti (of a kind). I yoinked my account to a new instance. None of that shit. No watering down actual crimes. Yay incest shipping (Boondock Saints here).
@grantbogle You can but it doesn't seem like there's much action on many of them. At least on my instance under Follows and Subscriptions there's an option to follow hashtags and feeds from other instances.
I give up. There's thousands of #slash pieces involving my faves from #Inception. Nearly ten thousand. That's not including the weird side trends of Bane and John Blake, etc.
If you look at everything #KeanuReeves has done? It's not even half that. I'm seriously confused. I adore Hardy and #JGL (faves!) but this is a very weird #fandom quirk.
@MatroidGirl
I will take screen shots when I get home!
McMaster University Medical Centre is diverting many urgent surgical pediatric patients to adult sites due to PICU, ED, and inpatient pressures on staff. Kids >16 and over 50 kg will be affected.
This is malpractice waiting to happen. Kids are not small adults. Peds surgery is a specialty for a reason. This is in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. #pediatrics #MedMastodon
@drupad I miss trends because I learn a lot about different parts of the world and things I'd never have learned about without them.
Clinical Lab Medicine / Med Scientist • SciComm • Ex-IT • Queer Non-binary She/Her • Gen X • Old enough to be your mom because I was online in the 80s.
#MedSci #Science #Vaccines
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#Geopolitcs #Nonproliferation #Nuclear
#MCU #Inception #Fandom