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
Tomorrow will be my 1 week anniversary on mastodon. In honor of that, here's Liza doing a sploot for #caturday
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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
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.
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
@Sarahw @quay @indri This seems like concern trolling. I should hide any discussions of racism because a hypothetical Black woman might not want to read that? I’m sure Black women follow me on here and I’m pretty sure they are aware that I discuss racism. If this hypothetical Black woman didn’t want to read about racism I’m pretty sure she would just skip social media because BW are one of the most targeted groups around. Highlighting racism is a public good.
POLL: If you've been on #Mastodon for over a week and used it each day, how likely are you to go back to using Twitter on a regular basis?
Boost for a larger sample size please.
Insect, but weirder than most
Friday Flyday!
Here’s a Richardia hammerhead fly from an Ecuadorian cloud forest.
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.
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