Alan Avram Shteynberg ☑️ @absolutus@qoto.org

Lots of privacy concerns about federation making the rounds again, here's the non-technical tl;dr

Don't assume that the stuff you post here is perfectly secure. A dedicated attacker can get access to even stuff marked private. Most of us won't have too much to worry about, but if you've been targeted before then exercise the same caution that you would on any other public platform like Twitter or Facebook.

lolol old people amuse me :)

Right, well, I guess another joke before bed wouldn't hurt.

Why did the invisible man turn down the job offer?

He couldn't see himself doing it.

Thank you and good night.

This is the house crests of the Three Magii from the bible (the three wise men). It is c1490 though the crests of course were known much farther back than that. This comes from two separate sources, the other being a painting "The adoration of hte Magii".

Notice that one of the crests is effectively the moon and star seen on islamic flags. This is no coincidence, Islam and Christianity have always been closely linked.

Wow, huge new user surge on the qoto.org mastodon instance I'm running. I just want to welcome all the new users. Have fun and lets grow, learn, and encourage each other together. 🎉 🎉 🎉

(Bonus pic of cute doggo).

Pro-tip: when on a diet weight yourself in pounds when you loose weight, and kilograms when you gain weight.

fuck no i take it back. boosting your own toot should be called tooting your own horn. this is the revised canon

So there appears to be a HUGE influx of new mastodon users. Any idea where this is coming from? Was it media.

@dirkprimbs I guess thats also why my cross poster (into twitter) broke huh? sucks for them, good for us.

I went to order my afternoon latte and my barista asked me about Mastodon.

Seriously. This actually happened.

All he knows is that I sit in his coffee shop all day working on something having to do with Twitter and that there's a bunch of bad news about Twitter today.

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Hi everyone!

Nice to see some friendly faces in here!

This is my first Mastadon toot and I don't understand it yet so I'm just going to pretend like this is Twitter and share something funny..

Alex Jones is a disgusting human being, with a disgusting message. I in no way support anything he has ever said; I do however support his right to say it.

I also support net neutrality and just as an ISP runs its own private hardware but can not sensor the content over its network (if net neutrality is enforced) I see social media in much the same way, it should be protected from censorship.

It is scary and ironic how extremist liberals called for InfoWars to be censored while in the same breath ridiculing anyone on the right who claims fake news is a real problem.

Even when both groups agree they still refuse to admit it.

I want to introduce everyone on the qoto.org instance to our newest moderator: @arteteco

I really appreciate him helping out. He also posts cool DIY projects so consider following him.

Me: What ya doing?

Alan: Reading!

Me: Oh nice, what are you reading?

Alan: Cat pictures

::long pause::

Me: Ummm, looking at cat pictures isnt reading.

Alan: Well they have captions

@absolutus

Today's dinner. Cheese stuffed beef (goat and young Dutch farmers cheese) and then some homemade Mac and cheese with 4 cheeses (young farmer, old farmer, goat, cheddar) and a no carb, no calorie pasta. Literally the best Mac and cheese I ever ate or made.

Best yet. This is DIET food. The whole meal has 3 carbs and almost all of our days calories is this one meal. To eat like this and say I still rocked the diet with really low calorie count is pretty damn epic. 35 lbs lost eating this stuff!

Today's meal was effectively just every shellfish known to man.