CJ @flsounds@qoto.org

Elon Musk foreign ties worth looking at, Joe Biden says

The plot thickens, as they say.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63579775

#BBC #News #ForiegnTies #SaudiArabia #ElonMusk #joebiden

Just to give you an idea of how bad the whole "we block anyone who doesnt block who we block" has gotten, someone sent me this:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/74474015

I would **love** to give M.A a script that goes over all the instances in the fediverse and alerts them of every instance that doesnt follow the exact same block list as them and spit it out. I'm sure they will realize they have to block 99% of the fediverse... its getting laughable at this point.

Here is where you can find information about the pesticide testing requirements for cannabis in Canada:

https://canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/drugs-health-products/cannabis-testing-pesticide-requirements.html

I really have to say, of all the mass exodus onto this server we had over the years, this is one of the best. the quality and kindness of our new users are absolution exceptional. I appreciate all of you and welcome to the sane part of the internet!

More strike action in the UK, this country is heading for disaster.

PCS strike: 100,000 civil servants vote for walkout

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63586107

#BBC #News #Vote #CivilServants #Strike

Has anyone here contemplated using Roblox for work?

I manage remote software development teams who have never met face to face and I find that bringing people out of their shells is difficult, and activities like icebreakers can be invaluable for this.

Roblox games are very varied and the platform seems very flexible. And it got me thinking that maybe these icebreaker activities can be gamified. Imagine a Roblox game being used to estimate stories for a sprint for instance.

Anyway, does anyone know of anyone who has done this? I'd love to know how they found it.

#development #agile #gaming #roblox

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened." (Doug Adams)

For anyone interested, we have a chat room and matrix server for QOTO. Its usually not very active from now until about 10 hours from now, but the rest of the day me and a few people are active there.

Anyway, if anyone wants to join us and get a free account on our matrix server (it federates too so you can talk to and join rooms on other servers) then please do so, you are all welcome.

Here is the room, just register then follow this link:

https://element.qoto.org/#/room/#QOTO:qoto.org

Here we go, it’s #introduction time:

I’m currently a second year #neuroscience #phd student at the University of Pennsylvania! Broadly interested in #vision and #computation with my current research studying higher-level vision in the #treeshrew with the goal of learning about visual #development 🧠

I also love talking/reading/posting about #environmentalism and #sustainability 🌎, hanging out with my dog 🐕‍🦺, and playing soccer ⚽️

Looking forward to (re)connecting with other scientists on here!

My #introduction here:

I am 24 yo student of #communication Science at the university, also I have a #computer Science technical degree.

I have +5 years of experience #developing technology, mainly as developer but right now more into product.

I’m really interested about how technology affects our behavior trough communication.

If you're trying to find some of your favorite Twitter people who've migrated... @DataDrivenMD has made an awesome tool:
https://fedified.com

Fedified.com is a list of Twitter-verified accounts that have moved to Mastodon. This is a hand-curated list, so it's updated a few times daily. @DataDrivenMD https://fedified.com/

You can find people like @mollyjongfast @taylorlorenz and me. ☑️
#fedified #twittermigration

I remain genuinely and pleasantly shocked that in the course of 10 days or so, we all just went, “no way, eff this, we’re going to @Mastodon”, and now we’re just here and people are so nice and writing alt-text in their images and sharing great stuff and using content warnings and everything. Obviously none of this would have been possible without years of work by #Fediverse / #ActivityHub devs that came before. Even so, this is really something, no? 😃

End of my first real day on Mastodon. Found some people I know or follow elsewhere. Had a little fun. Now it's time to ignore the things I can't do anything about.

I created this account a couple of years ago as an experiment, but I never used it. Now seems like an exciting time to try it out, so here's a short #introduction. I'm a #csharp developer with a strong interest in #hamradio. I love to build, tune, and test antennas. I also have a mildly insane #gardening problem: my girlfriend and I grow bananas and citrus here in Dallas, TX, which requires building greenhouses around our most productive plants each fall. At work, my whole team is into #accessibility and I'm especially interested in secure #programming techniques. If I can catch myself or a co-worker making a mistake in the OWASP Top 10, I feel especially vindicated. If you hear me on the radio, you might notice that I'm walking the dog while I'm talking to you, or you'll hear our lovebird chirping in the background if I'm indoors.

Big Halo Infinite update right now. I'm assuming this is the winter update. #gaming

If you were following me on my old instance, please make sure you migrated here.. And that is a sentence that would've made NO sense to me 5 days ago.