Chris Carlson @ccarlson71@qoto.org

godetia, beebalm, sweet peas, solidago, mallow, perennial pea, lavender, campanula, snapdragons, mustard blossoms, tritelia, centaurea macrocephala, cornflower, and purpletop verbena from the garden, in a pickle jar

#bloomscrolling

Pls boost so I can show my wife how a toot can go round the world

(we are boarding a long haul flight and will be on the other side of the world when I turn my phone back on, so even with 0 boosts I think this will be a sound demonstration)

#Coffee what else?

#CoffeeTime

#Water pumped from deep underground helps #alfalfa grow at the Saudi-owned Fondomonte farm in the Butler Valley, in western Arizona

Saudi Arabia bans industrial scale farming of alfalfa, to protect its limited water supplies.

So they grow it in a #US desert and ship it back home, using AZ’s scarce water.

Perspective: The prior republican admin even blocked efforts to track the amount of water being used. #Arizona get saudi the fuck out.
#natsec
🎁: read it free

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/16/fondomonte-arizona-drought-saudi-farm-water/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQ5ODUwMjE4IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4OTQ4MDAwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY5MDc3NTk5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg5NDgwMDAwLCJqdGkiOiIzMDBhZTc5MC0wOWY3LTRkYWUtODhkNi04YTNkNDY4YzNmNzEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvMjAyMy8wNy8xNi9mb25kb21vbnRlLWFyaXpvbmEtZHJvdWdodC1zYXVkaS1mYXJtLXdhdGVyLyJ9.ez1ful0d3x4JvXNTYEs9s_7X3dWsNEh_iuxAmSfY9Zg

Such an important observation!

"Ad-driven social media platforms are willing to tolerate monumental volumes of abusive users [because] hate and fear drives engagement, and engagement drives ad impressions.

Mastodon is not an ad-driven platform. There is absolutely zero incentives to let awful people run amok in the name of engagement."

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html

Your occasional reminder that Gary Numan is two weeks older than Gary Oldman.

Re-tooting mainly because it's my favorite photo of Donkey Hotie (who is always hopeful that I have carrots or apples in my pocketses).

#Asstodon
#SummerVibes
#Donkey

A lot of people claimed that LLMs were making them 10x more productive, right? So I guess we should expect some pretty amazing things pretty soon. Can't wait to see what they all come up with.

Up until undo functionality was invented in the late 60s, there was a single universe. Since then, every time someone Cmd-Z’d something on their computer, it created an alternate universe, one in which the task was never undone. Now there are a nearly infinite number of universes.

"Fuck them boats"
Orca stencil poster spotted in Hartford, Connecticut!

If a company can afford to halt operations for months, they had more than enough money to pay the strikers more

Just posted this on the bird site - what is the last straw people need to leave twitter completely? I found my limit. I'm leaving.

For me, paying nazi, misogynistic 'influencers' is too far. I've long been passive on Twitter, but used it to distribute content. I can't do it anymore. The values conflict is too much.

I'd love it if some academics took a stand with me. I'm going to delete my (50K+) follower account on the 13th of August. I'm staying for a month to do a count down and encourage others to #DeleteTwitter.

I don't have a recommendation of where is best to go. Anywhere is better than Twitter and its ocean of hate. Appreciate a boost to build a bit of momentum for this protest attempt

This will only be true for about 14 seconds, but it is a very great 14 seconds

One example of a tiny mistake we caught in time: I accidentally erased a small part of this typewriter when cleaning up the background of the ad. (This is 1/10th of an inch in size.)

Thanks to everyone who explained “plethora” to me.

It means a lot…

“‘There is no excuse for it. Thomas could invite them to his Christmas party and he could attend Christmas parties, as long as they are not discussing any cases. His Christmas party should not be paid for by lawyers,’ Painter said. ‘A federal government employee collecting money from lawyers for any reason … I don’t see how that works.’” #Corruption #ClarenceThomasProblem

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court

“oh, got the soldering iron out? what’re you making?”

“[cheerfully] a mistake!”

The reason Mastodon is better than Twitter is everybody who is funny on Twitter is doing it to build a brand and socially climb and everybody who is funny on Mastodon is doing it because they are deeply mentally ill

David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"

I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!