Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

@antares @boazbaraktcs@sigmoid.socialoh, wow. i'm aware of Kiwi Farms and their aggressive harm. This is a great #usecase of how #Mastodon is being built and for whom.

setting up shop here is like marrying into a family—there's history! learn it.

as opposed to star gazing at celebrities on the bird site—and pining for attention and an autograph.

#SpaceKaren Mission Accomplished!

“How [else] are they going to get the word out? Sadly, Twitter is still the only real game in town,” said Vivian Schiller, a former president of NPR who also served as Twitter’s head of news in 2014. “Don’t get me wrong, Musk is a thin-skinned erratic hypocrite, but he’s got us over a barrel,” she added, until another social media platform comes along to rival it.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/17/musk-twitter-journalist-suspension-media-react/

#media #Twitter #TwitterMigration #TwitterBan

I want my instance moderators/admins to #fediblock instances that are owned by cryptocurrency investors or that are poorly/not moderated, even if it means I lose a follow/follower or two.

Just fyi. #openinformation

#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech It’s time for me to update by “Free Speech Tropes” post, written previously for Popehat and Atlantic, that identifies common slogans/cliches/arguments about the First Amendment that are wrong or misleading — like “fire in a crowded theater” and “hate speech is not free speech.” I have some new ones to add to the mix (like “it’s in the school handbook so it’s not a First Amendment issue”) but taking suggestions for other common bad arguments/tropes/slogans.

I suppose it’s the nature of the beast, but mathstodon.xyz seems to be dominated by people on the Pure end of mathematics. If you’re working in #AppliedMathematics or #Physics — give me a shout so that I can follow you!

Boosts for reach would be very much appreciated.

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/

@mike Nice! As in many cases, it turns out that doing better accessibility work makes the thing more accessible to everyone, not just the original target audience. 😃

Please consider writing your hashtags in upper camelcase so screen readers have a chance at figuring them out.

#whyistayonmastodon sounds like an giant undecipherable mess of sounds.

#WhyIStayOnMastodon reads out "Why I Stay On Mastodon" 😄

(Reason #44 I stay here: my previous requests like this have been generally well-received, proving that most people are awesome.)

Overhead shot of the train derailment in Collegedale - from r/chattanooga

When humans have important experiences, such as we have in school (either as a youngster or a parent), those will bias our beliefs about the experience for others. We assume everyone’s experience in school was like ours. (It was not—even for classmates.) We assume that everyone should learn what we learned and how we learned it. (This may be true, but it may not be true.) As a result, many adults pursue work in schools with the intent of replicating the structures and instruction they experienced, but that may not be what all students need.

One magical thing about #hashtags is that they provide an opportunity to reach a whole new audience every time you toot. Following people is still very valuable, in many ways, don't get me wrong, but the number of people who follow me (for instance) is much, much smaller than the number of people that might see my posts when properly tagged.

You're going to spend a full year at a remote Antarctic research station. Oddly, you're allowed to bring as many books for pleasure reading as you'd like, so long as all by the same one author. Which authors' books will you be taking? (Reply for "other." #fantasybooks #fantasy #DresdenFiles #Malazan #WheelOfTime #Cosmere

@ronklogan I agree. I'm not so much a Free Speech absolutist as I am a strong censorship skeptic. There is great power in proclaiming that something cannot even be spoken, and my first instinct is always to question how that power will be abused.

The very first meme I made on Mastodon and if I do say so myself, it’s aged pretty well. #elonmusk #twittermigration #twitter