Ag Terrane @agterrane@qoto.org

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

Reposting given so many new folks are joining #Mastodon today:

Welcome! You’re going to like the #fediverse.

- Start with an #introduction about yourself & say hello 👋

- Share content you’re passionate about to meet others with similar interests. Hashtags will help you find them faster.

- With a few exceptions (just block them) this is a pretty friendly place.

- Be patient as instance hosts adjust to the #TwitterMigration.

I’m glad you’re here.

(1/3) 🚨📢 New paper alert!
Focused on the #HundaleeFault, one of the faults involved in the complex rupture sequence from the 2016 #Kaikōura #earthquake.

"Hundalee Fault, North Canterbury, New Zealand: late Quaternary activity and regional tectonics"
https://t.co/a6jBqjrUdv

A collection of polished “lumps of #stone” found in a burial mound near Stonehenge more than 200 yrs ago are a 4,000-year-old #goldsmith’s #toolkit.
Microscopic reanalysis of the axes & shaped cobbles has revealed tiny traces of gold & wear marks, showing they were used by a skilled #BronzeAge craftsperson to hammer & smooth sheets of gold.
#archaeology

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/16/archaeologists-find-near-stonehenge-ancient-goldsmiths-toolkit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

16 December 1942 | SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered the deportation of all remaining Roma and Sinti from the Third Reich territory to concentration camps.

January 1943 RSHA instructions specified that they should be sent to Auschwitz.

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Learn about the fate of some 23 thousand Roma and Sinti deported to Auschwitz.
See our online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz/

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Listen to the podcast about their story: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-7-the-fate-of-Roma-and-Sinti-in-Auschwitz-e15lgul

#Auschwitz #Roma #Sitni #history #ww2 #NeverForget

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

A re- #introduction I guess… I’m a transplanted New Englander (#celtics, #redsox) living in the East Bay #sfba. I #hike, #run, #bake, still watch #TheSimpsons, play #ukulele, and make #geologicmaps (#geology, #geomorphology, #tectonics) mostly in the #Mojave desert. I also dabble in cosmogenic nuclide #geochronology to learn about the timing of #Pleistocene #glacier retreat and #landscapeevolution. Earth Science in the Public Service. Toots are my own and not endorsed by any organization.

Heeey so how’s everyone doing? Having a real one tonight?

*hands out blankets, popcorn, and beverages of choice*

For no particular reason I will also share this guide I wrote for #Twitter expats getting started on #Mastodon 👀

https://medium.com/@erinfulmerwrites/navigating-mastodon-a-user-guide-for-newbies-dbd453782b4e

Remember folks, be kind to your neighbors, mods, and instance owners but no quarter for fascists.

May the servers be robust 🙏 🖖

I asked ChatGPT to explain "machine learning" as a grumpy old man.

#archaeology #landscapes from #lidar 28

Camp Ojo Caliente #NewMexico was established as an outpost of Fort Craig in 1859, and was quickly abandoned in 1861 at the beginning of the Civil War. It was reoccupied from 1879-1882 during the later Apache Wars. The first shots of Victorio's War were fired near here when a band of Apaches attacked the garrison and made off with their horses.

In the image, the camp is on the right and an older Pueblo is on the left.

#ArchaeologyLandscapeVisualization

Why do I have two water glasses?
This is why:
#catsofmastodon #CatsOfInfoSec

The cats’ visits were not unpleasant. Well, except for Milo, better known as Murderball. A weighted blanket is one thing, Murderball laying upon you is another thing, but together they are like being pressed to death by some inquisition.

This week the cats have taken to visiting me in the night to slumber next to me. One by one they come, cat by cat, paw by quiet paw, in some foreordained order forestalling conflict. At first I thought it was the inexorable force of my personality finally working upon them, orienting them to their rightful places as faithful companions and helpmates. Can any rough beast resist me?

But then I remembered I got a new weighted blanket and apparently they like it.