Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org

Public Notice

Lots of reports of crypto spam attacks coming in from multiple instances today.

Seems like the bad guys are getting kinda worried about Mastodon.

Instance admins are taking this very seriously and working hard to fend off the attacks.

What can you do? If you see a crypto scam post, don't engage with it. It's just a bot anyway. If you mute, block and report the post it will help administrators isolate the attacker account.

We got this!

#CrypoSpamAttack

If I favourite but do not boost, there's something about your post that makes me think that you don't want it shared or other people wouldn't want to see it.

That might be because I like your gross or edgy humour, but I know not everyone does, or because your images have a missing description, or because I know you're having a tough time and my words are inadequate and I want to say "I see you there, hang in there", or because I think your post might attract the wrong sort of comments

The Seattle Symphony's rendition of Baby Got Back, featuring Sir Mix-A-Lot himself, that you didn't know you needed in your life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w59e20ijOpE

Dear Mastodon plebs.

I'm having a party this weekend to celebrate a job I got last year. You're not invited (obviously!) cus you're all scum, but if you want to feel part of things feel free to line the streets around my gaff and wave at my rich mates as they arrive. Maybe all say a few words at 3pm on Sat too, in honour of the occasion or summit.

There is one thing though, I need you all to pay for it. So if you can all fire me over a tenner, that should cover it.

Cheers. Now fuck off.

All of the spam accounts have been suspended, reports queue cleared, IPs and e-mail domains used in the spam wave banned. We're continuing to monitor the situation and analyzing the pattern.

We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)

Hey everyone — If you are getting crypto spam messages from off server today please remember to REPORT them to our/your Mod team - then BLOCK the account(s). 🚫

This is a fluid situation and I’ll post again if further action is taken here at #MstdnGames.

Thanks!

Los Angeles Times reported about Justice Thomas' gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-04-06/the-times-reported-about-justice-thomas-gifts-20-years-ago-after-he-just-stopped-disclosing-them

saw this posted with no alt text so reposting :D

Please join me in blocking the Fox News bot account.

@FoxNews@press.coop

Thanks for creating a place of integrity here!
#Retoot

I hope Jack Smith sends this man to arrest Trump.

You know what's great about Mastodon? Putting effort into writing a long thread and waking up to the Self-Appointed-Mastodon-Police telling you that long threads are an "inappropriate" way to use Mastodon.

No. There are plenty of ways to uses Mastodon. Not everyone needs to use it the same way, and no one is required to follow your imagined rules.

Don't like what I post? Unfollow and block are free.

When men refer to themselves as ‘Alpha males’, I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, are filled with flaws and are generally not fit for the public.

The guy that invented godzilla just said that "godzilla" is pronounced "jodzilla"

It happened. I was going to buy the cutest cute map print scarf on Etsy, but then saw that it was Mercator projection and changed my mind 😅 #nerdAlert #mapstodon #GIS #maps

Where my dymaxion projection scarves at?? 🗺️

Poll: Since #ElonMusk reinstated overtly #NeoNAZI accounts on #Twitter what's your relationship with the #BirdSite now? (Poll for folks who *ever* opened an account, obvs!)

(Please boost for a wider poll.)

Turns out the existence of an "alpha" wolf is a myth.

It was based on old/bad experiments, conducted when unrelated wolves were thrown together in captivity.

In actual wild wolves, packs are just families. There's no dominant alpha battling for the top spot -- and in the rare cases there is, it's an alpha *female* wolf.

Insert obvious implications for the use of this term in human societies.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/