lakoma @lakoma@qoto.org

Rewatching this video of Matt Hancock makes me so angry.

He tells the select committee "There's no evidence that a shortage of PPE provision led to anybody dying of covid."

How dare he!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-57426153

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

For all it's advantages and faults, #Mastodon was not built to be a *new* Twitter. It was built to be *not* Twitter.

That distinction is important.

Back on the bird site, there was too much going on. I felt like I didn't have anything to add since it had all been said twenty times before I opened my mouth. It's a little quieter here and suddenly my mind has space to think.

There's a Rumi poem that's kinda like that, but I can't find it again. Something about how he feels so loud while writing, but when people are there he is very quiet and says nothing at all

Many nurses simply cannot afford to eat - or feed their families - on the wages they receive

What else can they do but strike?

You can’t eat claps

Solidarity ✊

#UKPolitics #NursesStrike #CostOfLivingCrisis #FoodBanks #JoinAUnion

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/10/nurses-among-rising-numbers-of-workers-using-food-banks-research-shows

Are we safe here? Is the Musk man gone?

Disgraceful. Nurses were earning more in 2010.

This is your daily reminder that you have millions of friends and allies in the EU.

Also, Mastodon too has its share of trolls, sock puppets, shills, and other discourse parasites. They have no right to your attention.

Remember to #ShrugAndBlock to keep the site safe and supportive. Reports seem to make more sense here than on the bird site, so do make the effort if and when you have the energy.

https://mastodon.world/@SuneAuken/109312676973053848

Here liking (favouriting) doesn’t promote the post you’re liking to others. It’s a nod to the writer (which is nice). If you want others to see the post it use the boost (equivalent to RT) function.

Well, I’m slowly getting a little more confident and paddling out deeper into the Mastosphere. Trousers now rolled up to the knees and the water not feeling as cold…

Ok, #TwitterMigration folks, I see a lot of people asking, "How do I find people on other servers on #Mastodon or the #fediverse.

Well, here's my #Feditip of how I went from 1 person alone on robot.rodeo to having almost 2,000 interesting people to follow in about 8 months...

A thread... 1/x

#JoeBiden says that Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter owner #ElonMusk’s ties to foreign countries are “worth being looked at” over national security concerns.

The president was asked about the world’s richest person’s financial and commercial connections to the likes of China and Saudi Arabia and whether he viewed the South African-born billionaire as a threat to American security

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/biden-elon-musk-security-threat-b2221788.html

Quote from #Musk: “The best way to understand what’s going on with Twitter is use Twitter”. Correct, that's why I'm now here.

Hi all. Can any other #blind people recommend an #accessible #mastodon app for #iOS? I'm trying to find a good one that works well with VoiceOver.

Amazing beauty of the cosmos.

If you've arrived from the Other Place, this is good tool to find people you followed over there who have moved over here.
I'm going to use it once a week to refresh and merge. It's a great help and makes this place feel like home already.
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/success

Leading Brexiteer and former Boris Johnson advisor, Lord David Frost, has now gone to work for the Tufton Street, climate-change denying, fossil fuel industry-funded, so-called think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation.