Flaviu Vescan @flaviuvescan@qoto.org

Today was just a little bit longer than yesterday. Rock on, sun god! Thanks for all the light.

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#solstice #December #winter #snowday #BritishColumbia #beach #snow #nature

The first day of winter is definitely coming in strong! It’s important to find unconventional beauty, even when the land is encased in ice.
#lichensubscribe #mosstodon #ice #macrophotography #magicworlds

Meanwhile at Twitter, Elon Musk proudly rolled out a new feature. Sadly, the timing left a bit to be desired.

Studio Apartment Available:
- Pet-friendly
- Located next to bridge
- No strings attached

You should mask up again, says expert: Tripledemic is 'too fast and too furious' - CNBC https://apple.news/AR51f1ucGRe-BqJ3kaHOmtg

Here's the big problem I have with Mastodon.

- there are far too many interesting people

- there is far too much diversity of interest

- there is a reality of following too many people

- everyone is posting such interesting stuff.

I'm seriously not getting stuff done since my timeline is alive. I am following too many people, but wow, the short little bios just draw you in.

Its' alive!

The wheel turns; the summer ends.
The light departs, the cold descends,
And we are left to hold the light
Against the cold and longest night.

A castle in Italy has braille etched in the railing that describes the view for blind people🤎

stop normalizing the grind and start normalizing whatever this is

Together with our partners at Lighthouse Reports, we analysed over 2,000 conspiracist Telegram channels as part of our joint project to track the spread of QAnon in Europe.
https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/qanon-in-europe-tracing-a-viral-conspiracy/

There's feature I'd like to see in Mastodon, and you might help me advocate for it:

Ability to add / edit alt text in images after they get posted.

I post a lot of photos, often on the fly from my phone. I can go back later when I have a keyboard and time to add titles and captions, but I have not found a way to do that with alt text. If there's a way to do that now, I would love to know how.

#accessibility
@jessamyn

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and Medium, is now on Mastodon

Welcome @biz!

I was a bit skeptical at first, but it feels like Mastodon in now approaching escape velocity.

Made me realize the idea of "micro-blogging" (if you can still call it that) is actually bigger and distinct from the company that popularized it.

I think I might have done this wrongly...

"Likes are not used to surface content to other people in your network, so if you want other people to see something, boost it, rather than liking it."
https://crschmidt.medium.com/mastodon-is-pretty-similar-to-twitter-74556103d58d

So, like/favorite is only to show appreciation for a toot, without making it more visible? I guess I should just use boost as the default.

Journalist profiles on the Washington Post can now include Mastodon links. Here's what it looks like: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/drew-harwell/

Why are grocery prices skyrocketing? Monopoly power.

Kroger brands:
Ralphs
Dillons
Food 4 Less
Fred Meyer
Harris Teeter
King Soopers
Mariano’s

Albertsons brands:
Safeway
Acme
Haggen
Jewel-Osco
Shaw’s
Pavilions

The proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger would make prices even worse.

“You tell Marcy that she can ask someone else to bring snacks to book club next time if it’s going to take three weeks for me to get my dish back.”

[interview]
HR: Can you give me an example of your problem solving skills
Me: I was fired from my last job and now i'm applying for this one

Smiling is showing our skeletons to each other and I won’t do that until the third date.