Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲 @mguhlin@qoto.org

"Scientists and advocates have told the Guardian they have become unnerved by a recent resurgence of debunked climate change denialist talking points and memes on Twitter, with the term #ClimateScam now regularly the first result that appears when “climate” is searched on the site."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/02/climate-change-denialism-flooding-twitter-scientists

11% of COVID-19 survivors have residual lung damage, study finds https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/12/11-covid-19-survivors-have-residual-lung-damage-study-finds

As we watch Elon Musk slide into rightwing radicalization in real time, I’m reminded of this 1941 piece by Dorothy Thompson.
“Who goes Nazi?”

In short: it is the people who love money and status and power that are at risk.
Those who resist the urge are the people who have a solid family life; a job they love for the work, not the money; a moral framework based on pluralism and equal access to opportunity.
Worth a read. #nazi #Twitter #liberal

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

“I’m going to stay and fight”

No you’re not. It isn’t a battleground. It is owned by one man who will do what he likes as long as he can and he’s able to continue to do so because you are creating statistics he is using to sell ad space and make it look like the platform is more active than ever.

You are enabling him, even with your “fighting.” Wake up. That’s what he wants. It HELPS him. You’re literally working for the man free of charge. #birdsite #twitter #TwitterMigration

Hi Mastodon! My name is Kennedy Sessions and I am a Metro Reporter for @Chron. I cover all things #Houston and #Texas including #Transportation, #Politics, and interesting things happening around town. In my free time, I like to hang out with my friends and family, travel as much as I can, and read my worries away. #introduction #introductionpost

My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.

We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.

Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!

Download it here:
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Instead of #writing my #book I wrote about #notwriting my book. I have a #substack where I chip away at what is between me and other words by making more #words. Please subscribe it's totally free! #scholar #research @litstudies

I called my substack Professor Tompkins Is Out of Order because someone I find really stupid once said that to me in a meeting and it was too funny not to steal and put to work.

https://outoforder.substack.com/p/words-become-sentences-become-paragraphs

@albinanigans, this thread seems relevant to an educational webinar I just came across: Dr Thomas Philip notes that education is inherently political, and as teachers lead the many microinteractions in the classroom they “can ask themselves: Who benefits? Who is marginalized? and What are the implications for who students become and who we become as a society?” Those are important Qs linking politics to life more generally. https://digitalpromise.org/2022/11/29/learning-relationships-and-power-attending-to-each-moment-of-teaching-as-pedagogical-possibility-toward-equity/ #edu #edutooter

Like the mastodon, I inhabit a place of extinction. Taínofuturism is about refusing the colonial narrative that the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean have vanished. A universe can be spoken into being. My fiction is words that are worlds & futures of Taíno flourishing. Journey to the archipelagos of the nightsea with my short story, "Somnambulist", published by @ReckoningMag

https://reckoning.press/somnambulist/

#writersofmastodon
#sciencefiction
#fantasy
#indigenous
#taino
#speculativefiction

There are people on this platform who want no politics.
We didn’t move over from Twitter to talk about kittens everyday.
We needed a place to carry on our work. To carry on fighting injustice, racism, misogyny, antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ hate. Because these things are important no matter what platform we are using. That was the whole point of our #twittermigration
We don’t have the privilege to be quiet.

All the talk of leaving the birdsite vs. staying on the birdsite to “fight” makes me think of Barry Lopez:

“The amount of energy that goes into the defeat of an enemy is energy that would be better spent in doing something that makes the enemy irrelevant.”

Hi everyone! I just migrated from another server, so I guess I’m due another #introduction ! I’m a #PhD candidate in #Medieval History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. I study the queens of Portugal, so you can expect lots of #queenship and #academicchatter from. I have a baby #kitten and a crazy passion for #books and #tea !

If you are outraged about Congress' handling of the railway strike, join me in demanding that President Biden sign an executive order guaranteeing at least seven days of paid sick leave for railroad workers.

If these workers are vital to the economy, why not treat them as such?

@edutooters our book is out and needs a journal review! Please let us know if you can review #50teachertips

Don't worry, instructors: I found a blurb for your syllabi to warn the students off using ChatGPT to write essays.