*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

Please note the Source -- The Atlantic is a wonderful magazine. Thank you Bernie, time to bring US into the modern day and age.

#Health is an Essential Service, not a profit driven endeavour. Or so it is, in many developed countries. #xp

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/how-much-does-it-cost-have-baby-us/604519/
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RT @SenSanders
Cost of having a baby with health insurance today: $4,500
Cost of having a baby under Medicare for All: $0

We can afford Medicare for All. What we can't a…
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1214612324599898113

Midnite Moonshine. 💕 Even her name is beautiful.

Blue shine on the fur of this gorgeous #BlackCat .

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #xp
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RT @DebbieMidnite
Me has not been on de twitter for awhile. Mama wuz in de hospital at Christmas! Her had a fing called numonia. Her wuz vury sicky. Her couldn’t breethe! Her is finally better, fanks to de good care, snuggles, & kisses me give her! Me mak…
https://twitter.com/DebbieMidnite/status/1214433198370967554

Sharing a tip and recommendation for music lovers everywhere...

"This is my go to for finding good stations. I have found a bunch of really good ones that don't have any commercials and very few station calls. "

http://www.internet-radio.com/

Thank you, friend... OP : https://twit.social/@souldessin/103443647347663966

Found at another instance, a fellow user suggesting a way to use the FULL width of our modern laptop/desktop screens.

A big pet peeve of mine, if you know me. (got mine running and quite happy)

Here's his/her suggestion :

"Another tip is to use the the browser addon Stylus and then add a userstyle like https://userstyles.org/styles/154943/mastodon-variable-width-variation to make it fill whole the screen. You have to edit the userstyle to include your instance though. "

OP at : https://mstdn.io/@shellkr/103405434903544190

Have you ever seen or heard of the Altair 8800?

Tech historians and #retro #computing people know. Important, fist personal computer ever.

Original at his post : https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jebug29/103439876154972389

Jess is rebuilding one, and I just found a pic, cropped here for size (Bytes, I save them).

One of 4 screencaptures in a post I just enjoyed reading, showing the impact of the Spanish users migration to Mastodon, just before the New Year.

Here, the user numbers and posts count for Mastodon.social in the end of December.

RT from https://mastodon.social/@ilich/103397049212895023

Return to School, yeah. Drag.

One for @realcaseyrollins

#cats #mastocats #BlackCats #CatsOfMastodon #xp
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RT @CatDisapproval
Back to school blues.
https://twitter.com/CatDisapproval/status/1214164482768982017

Cilla is pretty! 💕

#cats #mastocats #CatsOfMastodon #meow #xp
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RT @OutwoodsCat@twitter.activitypub.actor
Teachers were back at school today. I welcomed them back in my usual sedate, professional manner. They were powerless to resist! #CatsOfTwitter #cats #backtoschool
https://twitter.com/OutwoodsCat/status/1214245626218733568

* When you discover your Instance is blocked. *

After creating a new blog post, I prepare text for announcing it. This is posted at my main instance, and later I visit other accounts, search for that Status URL, and boost it from there.

In one case, I could not find the status on that normal search. Odd. What is going on?

A search for my user profile at Qoto did not bring ANY results either. It dawned on me that something was amiss...

On today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/when-you-discover-your-instance-is-blocked

Australian Bushfires.

Satellite photo by NASA, shared on Twitter.

Shocking, the extents of these fires!

RT of https://mastodon.social/@iamabhigyan07/103434384209063240

Amazing. Just found this at https://www.hatthieves.es/

We got have a copy, so borrowing it. Gracias!

An animation of what a Black Hole might look like. Trippy.

Just found on #Qoto hash in Twitter. End of October, less than two and a half months ago. User count, near 3,000.

Currently, over 6,500, and growing.

We are still looking for volunteers and talent to join Staff. A mod based in _Asia_ would be ideal for Time Zone coverage. #xp
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RT @DocFreemo
Seems #QOTO is getting about 11 new users every day, more or less consistently.

We are growing fast and I think its t…
https://twitter.com/DocFreemo/status/1188761501294686208

This one goes for friends in Fedi.

@thegibson
@TechnicolorRainbow

#art #cyberpunk #Bladerunner #xp #scifi
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RT @AheadLooms
Luminous, Samuel King https://buff.ly/2tfhO2A
https://twitter.com/AheadLooms/status/1213792375035879424

Australia burning, climate change hitting. Thank you for your action, Patrick! #xp
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RT @_CharleeGirl_@twitter.activitypub.actor
This is Patrick Boyle.

Since the fire has passed through Mallacoota this amazing, selfless young guy has been out searching for injured wildlife. This is one of 7 koalas he's saved so far

The world needs more Patrick's ❤️

#AustraliaBurning #AustraliaBushfires
https://twitter.com/_CharleeGirl_/status/1213024974090326016

New #Slowly free limited time stamp. Nice design and colours, get yours before January 6.

#writers #penpals #friendship #letters #xp
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RT @slowlyapp
❝ #Epiphany is celebrated 12 days after #Christmas on 6th January and is the time when Christians remember the Wise Men who visited Jesus. ❞ … Quoted from whychristmas?com

✨Epiphany Celebrations Around the World
🇪🇸🇨🇿🇧🇬🇬🇷🇷🇺🇲🇽🇺🇸
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/06…
https://twitter.com/slowlyapp/status/1212972133350965248

Another gem found on fediverse.space.

The Stats for any instance include "Insularity" -- the percentage of all created messages in the instance which are directed to users in the same instance.

I had seen this mentioned, and now confirmed it.

This is what Defederation looks like. Not pretty.

From : https://www.fediverse.space/instance/gab.com

Ever thought of Who and How we connect to #Fediverse neighbours?

** Map and Stats from : https://www.fediverse.space/instance/qoto.org

Visit and zoom in and out for more detail, it's mind boggling. Ctl-+ or Ctl-minus to change map scale.

Larger size to see details: https://i.postimg.cc/7hgB65ny/Qoto-Connections-Map-Jan4-2020-1593x799p.jpg

And I am happy to see I have made a personal connection -- TeDomum.net Write.freely, my blog's home. Is on the map! 😃

* Is it Important, which Instance you are in ? *

Once again I had an enjoyable conversation, earlier today. Achso was there, and we continued a conversation from a day before. We discussed different things, and specially how choosing an instance to fit your needs and preferences is important.

My thoughts on the matter, and a detailed list of some instances I frequent.

On today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/is-it-important-which-instance-you-are-in

Wasn't me only, Todon.nl shows some downtime earlier at fediverse.network.

Their stats show it online, although not for me yet.
Nice to have these tools.

https://fediverse.network/todon.nl/checks

Hola amigos de España, hán visto que teniemos algunas opciones de Crossposters para tracer conteúdo desde Twitter y hacia Mastodon?

Hay várias, para nosotros ahí en Qoto.org recomendaria una llamada Moa -- https://moa.party

Gratuito, solo tienes que elegir algunas opciones y tus posts en twitter puedan aparecir ahi. Con todo el texto, imagines y un enlace al original.

Muy bueno, lo uso yo mismo.

* Puente Moa está a https://moa.party

* o veas la traducion a español ahi : https://www.translatetheweb.com/?from=en&to=es&dl=en&ref=trb&a=https://moa.party/

[ captura de pantalla traducida al Español, gracias a Bing Translator ]

#YoMigroAMastodon #crosspost #Espana se cambia a Mastodon