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Mastodon Day

Friday November 18, 2022 - An Incredible Day In Internet History

You were here.

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users an hour. Almost a quarter million migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

Pulling on the corkscrew of life: Why my cats are lyonized (and you may be too)

http://corkscrewoflife.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-my-cats-are-lyonized-and-you-may-be.html

(some basic #cat #genetics and an interesting discovery made by the Cambridge geneticist Mary Lyon (and I've fixed the underlying html now so it should display properly))

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide...'

—@adamdavidson

This literature clock is the most wonderful thing I’ve seen in a long time. Checking the time becomes a moment of pure joy 😍

https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com

With the Twitter reinstatement of the former US President who attempted to incite a fascist coup after losing an election, now would _really_ be a good time to stop cross-posting your Twitter RTs here.

If you feel that cross-posting is the only way to maintain a presence here, please consider limiting it to original posts without mentions or RTs, to avoid cluttering timelines with Twitter URLs. Thank you kindly for your consideration.

I just dipped into Twitter to read the fantastic news that the Snowdonia National Park Authority has voted to use the original Welsh names Yr Wyddfa #YrWyddfa and #Eryri rather than the imposed English #Snowdon and #Snowdonia. It's a massive win for reclaiming our #Welsh cultural heritage. I honestly can't believe the amount of hatred, abuse and racism in the Twitter comments from English people. I've no idea why they are so angry that another country wants to use its own language. #Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

#introduction
Hi, I'm Marianne aka Noodlemaz!

I'm a #science communicator based in #London town; been back in the country a year after a stint in California.
I'm in the Ready Singer One #choir of nerds, we do music from games/movies/TV.

My PhD was in #cancer #biology; molecular pathology of cancer specifically.

I love #games, nature, sci-fi, friends (hi!), music etc.
Destiny | Xbox: Noodlemaz#8188

My neglected blog is here: https://noodlemaz.wordpress.com/

Thanks for following :)
#Introductions

This is stolen from r/GCSE. It's actually quite a fun problem! I don't remember there being anything as fun as this on GCSE papers in my day.

(It really ought to say that the circles have the same radius, but hey. It's obviously impossible if you don't assume that, so it's not unreasonable to expect a student to deduce that they must assume it.)

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

Coprolite may not be my favourite fossil. But it's a solid number two.

The UK Govt wants to "sunset" laws that derive from EU legislation. Top of their hit list in Employment Law seems to be the Working Time Regulations 1998. You probably won't have heard them referred to in that way. The Govt prefers the "Working Time Directive" which is the piece of EU legislation that the Regulations implement. That is not accidental. They would rather you thought we were "ridding ourselves" of EU law than that they were considering removing UK employment rights. 1/n

New Definition:

PAT testing - to pat down your pockets before leaving home to check you have everything you need (wallet, phone, keys, etc).

Usage: "luckily I PAT tested before leaving the house, otherwise I would have left my work pass at home"

#ImSorryIHaventAClue

Time for a snail race. Place your bets.

Someone asked me today about my plans for the Fall and it took me a moment to realize she meant my plans for the Autumn and not the collapse of civilization.

One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.