Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

Just a reminder that MeerKAT’s image of our galactic center is absolutely gorgeous

NEW
Neutrinos allow access to the depths of an active galaxy
More : https://cutt.ly/gNN66sT
Hubble image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1068. Credit: NASA/ESA/A. van der Hoeven

🚨 EXPOSED: Google took $10.9m dollars from Big Oil to appear at the top of search results for terms like “eco-friendly”.

Our groundbreaking research reveals how Google enables Big Oil’s greenwashing.

@google must #BreakUpWithBigOil

👉 http://counterhate.com/greenwashing

As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight?cookieSet=1

These are my greatest fears. #PotentialRiseOfDisinformation.

"The layoffs included a number of people who were scheduled to be on call this weekend and early next week to monitor for signs of foreign disinformation, spam and other problematic content around the election" #politics

Twitter refugees: if you are leaving Twitter for good, do NOT deactivate your account, just set it to private and leave it.

Otherwise you risk squatters taking your name and exploiting your reputation, manipulating your followers, or coercing you into buying it back from them.

Bots smell the blood in the water; let's not leave them chum.