rgesthuizen @rgesthuizen@qoto.org

The 4 traits lucky people have in common, according to author of ‘The Luck Factor’

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/29/traits-of-lucky-people-according-to-psychology-professor-and-author.html

#luck #success

Every year at Christmas now I think about Christmas 8 years ago when I nearly died with my wife, child and in-laws.

I share this every year over on the Bird Site and will share it here now.

It was Christmas Eve. 9 year old was just 1. We were staying at my in-laws who had an acreage just outside Red Deer at the time. We went to bed a bit late but the night was good. 1 year old wasn’t up too much.

The cities we build are making us lonely. Here's how we can fix that. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8029371/the-cities-we-build-are-making-us-more-lonely-and-isolated/?cs=14258

Absolutely not day dreaming about the beauty of slime molds.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2022/12/02/julia-banks-right-wing-liberals/

How right-wing religious takeover started in Victoria & spread
‘Busloads of people arrived.
I asked 1 of my fellow moderate colleagues who they were.
“The Mormons, Pentecostalists – the religious right. You know – the stacks (aka branch-stacked members)”’

If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending

(This is a repost of a tweet of mine from 2014 but I figured it might as well live here too! Original: https://twitter.com/astrokatie/status/518697246305439745)

Mastodon doubled its user base from 3 million to 6 million. Unfortunately, yesterday Mastodon.social was overloaded, and new users could not create a new user account. Fake space Karen is still blocking mastodon links as malware, which is false.

Most of the accounts suspended on Thursday by #ElonMusk as part of the #twitterpurge, including #journalists, will awake Saturday morning to find their account reinstated following a reversal by Musk on Friday night #Twitter.
The question becomes, will those journalists who were suspended who also set up accounts on #mastodon elect to stay on this platform or go back to almost exclusively twitter?
We are committed to staying in this community personally and posting #news and #breakingnews

Up ahead: “Three Forks.” The spot where I’ll drop a set of samples that the #MarsSampleReturn missions could bring back to Earth for closer study. This first set is full of diverse rocks that could help answer if life ever arose here.
Learn more: http://go.nasa.gov/3YrmL2l

Um - surely mortality risk for all living things is an entirely IRREDUCIBLE 100%?

Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:

Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell

Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan

Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa

Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee

Tony Webster
@tony

Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder

#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?

I recently had my iPhone stolen while on a business trip in London and, through the wonders of Find My, have been able to track its journey in the past few weeks. I found it to be a fascinating insight to what appears to be a rather sophisticated phone theft operation and thought I'd share!

JoinMastodon official account has been banned on Twitter.

Seems like someone’s getting worried?