Tom Foale @askquantum@qoto.org

When it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people who’ve been quietly doing this work for years (decades!) ended up being the ones who welcomed everyone over, as always.

Migrated from Twitter to Mastodon but finding it hard to find the folks you used to follow?

Fedifinder can help. https://fedifinder.glitch.me

Cool tool for finding your old Twitter buddies that have moved to Mastodon (and what you can do on your Twitter account to help others find you here)

Please reblog/boost to spread the word. (Liking/Favouriting won’t help)

Energy efficiency has a vast potential for reducing energy demand and emissions.

It is the single largest measure to avoid energy demand in the @IEA@twitter.com Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario.

https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-efficiency

This Twitter thread from @georgemonbiot expresses my thoughts and, I suspect, the thoughts of many who are refugees from Twitter.

https://twitter.com/georgemonbiot/status/1589512608352473089?s=61&t=dn87-9TffFArz13iEmD6pA

“Britain exists in an imaginary state of crisis about immigration…

[But] appalling failures have occurred not because there are too many migrants, but because the government has broken its own asylum system…”

Great read from Nesrine Malik on a “crisis by design, not of arrivals”

#UKPolitics #Refugees #HostileEnvironment #Manston

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/07/tories-myth-migrant-crisis-brexit-immigration-centre

So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.

The issue with Oliver Dowden’s claim that Gavin Williamson sent abusive messages to then Chief Whip Wendy Morton "in the heat of the moment” is that he sent them over a period of weeks (as per the Sunday Times)

And Sunak knew about the bullying complaint before he appointed Williamson to the Cabinet

This story isn’t going away

#UKPolitics #GavinWilliamson #Accountability