Maricela Potoc @maricela@qoto.org

What did the scientist say when he found two helium atoms?

HeHe 🕺

#puns

Difficult day. So I just wanted to share my favorite data visualization with #mastodon - migration patterns of birds varying with air temperature using community science observations. I hope this helps with the Sunday scaries too 🥺

ℹ️ Visualization produced by https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/bird-migration-patterns-western-hemisphere/ (more details on data and methods too). #dataviz #weather #climate

Seen several "put content warnings on politics" posts and I don't know how to tell white people that 90% of all life is politics. You're asking people to hide the stuff you find unpalatable and that's not a reasonable thing to expect other people to do for you.

PLEASE BOOST: Right now Mastodon is only receiving appr. $21,000/month through Patreon.

This is not enough to handle the 1 million new accounts that will be made this week.

Currently, only 4,720 patrons are donating to Mastodon.

However, if everyone chips in $2/month, this will ensure the continued survival of Mastodon!

Be a hero! Donate now! https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

👏 Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia are ready to fully participate in the #SchengenEU

An enlarged Schengen area without internal border controls will make Europe safer 🇪🇺 ~ @YlvaJohansson

Добре дошли ! 🇧🇬
Dobrodošli ! 🇭🇷
Bine ați venit ! 🇷🇴

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EUHomeAffairs/status/1593884532905754624

And here’s my earlier piece about the Tesla bot, a feminized black android designed to do menial tasks and be “easy to overpower”

https://www.wired.com/story/history-disturbing-resurrection-black-androids/

A very inaccurate system for identifying talent might select 90% men, and 10% women. As that system of identifying talent gets more accurate, the percentage of women selected will float towards 50%.

More good news: the more impacted a group was by a less accurate classifier, the more benefit that group will receive as the classifier becomes more accurate! It's most powerful where you need it the most.

Thank you @SpeakerPelosi for being a role-model not only to the American people, but to women in politics across the world.

You always showed dignity, strength & relentlessness.

You have always been a true friend of Europe. The people of Europe are grateful.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EP_President/status/1593320737779159043

https://t.me/liveukraine_eng/1048 ⚠️🇵🇱⚠️First video from the site of the explosion and missile crater in the Polish village of Przewodów, Lubelskie Voivodeship. Video is clarifying this as an actual attack (VIDEO) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia #Poland

There's something oddly comforting about the idea that "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product," namely, the corollary: "If you can afford to pay for a product, you won't be the product." But it's bullshit. Companies don't make you the product because you don't pay - they make you the product because you can't stop them.

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After Sofagate, now Baligate… Again we make a fool of ourselves on the world stage.

High time to stop this and create a single EU leadership !

https://www.corriere.it/esteri/22_novembre_14/michel-sgarbo-von-der-leyen-g20-6e441ba2-639c-11ed-bcf5-ba13826ce8c8.shtml

For a few #Defaidodon more

#Qoto has a 65.5k char limit on posts. Crossposting readily separates them into threads on Twitter, but what do other Mastodon instances, with their 500-char limit, do with them?

Amazing chart on the growth of Mastodon.

Graphic by @estebanmoro

In recent years, we became too comfortable letting #Twitter define journalism & media. Algorithms often dictated the narratives we collectively paid attention to.

Absurd trends were covered by news outlets & ballooned into major stories while we missed so much real substance. And the quick takes of uninformed politicians & bad actors were forced upon anyone participating in the network.

It was bad for democracy. The #Mastodon model makes me hopeful we can do better. #twittermigration

See what I've done on my Twitter profile? I share my Mastodon account name.

If you want your old Twitter connections to know who you are on Mastodon, you should do the same.

Tools like https://fedifinder.glitch.me connect Mastodon users to their Twitter pals' new accounts on Mastodon by using this info

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Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, 'Treatment is simple. Go on twitter, great clown Elon Musk is destroying his reputation and all three of his businesses with increasing erratic behaviour and incompetence, the schadenfreude will cheer you up!’

‘But, Doctor…” says the man…