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@antares@qoto.org
- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
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The #Southwest flight cancellation isn't only affecting travelers.
My #TMS clinic cancelled my daily treatments this week because my doctor is stranded somewhere on the East coast. 🫤
If you are watching the #Southwest meltdown and thinking about the calamity that is caused by needing several days to reposition the system, just remember that the US freight railroad system is *far* more brittle. A rail strike that congress forestalled would have created a similar but much more extensive backlog that would have taken months to unravel. And in case you are thinking "well I don't travel by rail" just remember that something like three quarters of all retail goods do.
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Here is a direct link to the air travel complaint form if you've experienced the nightmare of trying to fly this holiday season:
#southwest #airtravel #Christmas2022 https://airconsumer.dot.gov/escomplaint/ConsumerForm.cfm
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RT @JenniferLudden: Are you a #Southwest passenger stranded by canceled flights? NPR wants to hear from you for a story today.
Please send…
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Our dogs got toys for Christmas, as usual. Leo wasted no time removing the squeaker from his. But I was quite surprised to find a message hidden inside the toy. #Christmas #dogsOfMastodon
Shared with me by an Adjunct Professor:
> Christmas morning is the one time my family buys lotto tickets, for our Christmas stockings. As we scratched them off this morning....
> Prof: Wow. These are not random assortments of losing tickets. These are all **very** cleverly designed to be near misses. Probably someone who makes way more money than I do has invested a lot of time in designing a system that is set up to give you **just** enough hope that you want to keep playing, and don't perceive that the game is rigged and quit....
> Dad: Are you talking about the lotto, or about academia?
A city of a *billion* people. **Oh Hell No.**
Modern cities are the of their very nature dysfunctional communities. I live in a small one with only 2.3 million people and I would go back to a small town like the one I grew up in instantly if economics allowed.
This country bumkin likes places where people actually know their neighbors.
@silverseams I don’t want a small community. I want a vast huge community endless as the stars but made of small communities— where a few feel lik...
Affirmations for those with family drama
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Reminder that if you're feeling lonely today, see this hashtag:
➡️ #JoinIn
There are lots of people (myself included) keeping each other company on there, with all kinds of posts from hot chocolate recipes to historical photos to horses covered in tinsel to just general thoughts and chatter.
You can use the hashtag however you want, serious or fun, and anyone using the tag is welcoming of replies and discussion so it's a great way of striking up a conversation.
See you there! ☃️
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I find it hilarious how there are lots of people pontificating on the value of #QT functionality in #Mastodon like they had a deep understanding of the issue, while their accounts are a month old.
FFS, couldn’t you try learning about a new place and it’s culture before saying what needs to be changed? 🤷♀️
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writing malware that will infect a Kindle and replace all the books with ads for mexican beer. that's right, a novel corona virus
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Just a reminder, there are tons of servers on the fediverse with quote toot feature, and they all follow the same standard. QOTO is a mastodon instance with Quote toots for example. Fedibird is also a very large server that is mastodon based that has the feature. All Misskey servers also have the feature.
So I've been here since April and it feels absolutely surreal to make [a post about the history of Mastodon][1] and have it get so much attention.
I remember when I left phone notifications on for Mastodon because 5 boosts in a month was a viral post, and there would be days or weeks between posting and a reply. That ended the day Musk walked into Twitter HQ.
I'm still a Noob in this space. I just came in the first wave. I hope all you pre-#TwitterMigration people know that I appreciate the community you built for us. #ThankYou
It looks like you run your own instance. Can you check your server logs and see if the GoogleBot or Facebook are scraping your posts?
@freemo do you know if Google and Facebook are honoring the robots.txt on Qoto?
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@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.
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#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/
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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.
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- Pronouns
- It's complicated. IDK. Maybe ze/zim/zir https://pronouns.org/ze-hir
- Degree
- Physics, Cal Poly SLO
- Work
- I fix broken stuff
#Technology, #baseball (Dodgers), #politics, #religion (#Christian)
Joined Apr 2022
