@JoshuaACNewman I remember making those in high school. Mr. Wizard showed how to make them in one of his shows. He used bits of canned sterno instead of a candle.

@georgetakei I'm very curious to know what the UK's reception to ALLEGIANCE will be. Sometimes, the cultural differences fall flat, like the BILLY ELLIOT musical's story failing to resonate with American audiences.

While many in the US know of the camps (mom had a high school girlfriend who was relocated), it may not be known outside. It certainly isn't taught in schools as part of history.

@Paulie Was able to login to Twitter via a private window and to my Mastodon host but the site didn't find any mastodon accounts mapped to my followers.

fedifinder.glitch.me/

didn't have that problem. It found many hits.

@Paulie @georgetakei
I haven't been able to get that site to work. It doesn't recognize my Twitter login credentials.

fedifinder.glitch.me/

worked for me instead.

If you download your Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.

So here's a Python script to convert a Twitter archive to markdown or other formats: github.com/timhutton/twitter-a

Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.

@dianeduane oh my. I'd forgotten which one was blonde. I thought it was Herewiss with his forge-enhanced arms.

@georgetakei I suspect people want the list of followers from twitter with matching accounts on Mastodon. Since they can be on lots of different machines, there isn't a 1-to-1 mapping for that. Makes writing a porting tool hard.

That's why I initially walked away from Mastodon when the twitter mess started. But I'm back.

YMMV (you mileage may vary or whatever they say now in UK)

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

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