Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@social.cleverlibre.org

#Introduction. I'm Izzy. Born in Carlow, lived in Dublin for many years, in Leitrim since 2002.

I came out as a lesbian in 1982, have been involved in LGBTQI+ community building since then. Founding member of Dublin Pride, Northwest Pride & Dublin AIDS Alliance. Resolutely #LGBwiththeT! Writer & speaker, occasional contributor to GCN & The Beacon. Ten years a-tweeting, but ready for a change.

I work in social care with homeless men in Dublin - have done for the past 22 years.

I follow back!

[time traveler returns from mission]

Time traveler: I got bad news I killed Grammar Hitler by mistake

Commander: That aint what we had you go back for do

New word for Christmas 2022

Amazonesia:
When you forget what you ordered.

This is my first post on Mastodon. I’m hoping to find like-minded progressive humans. If you beleive anthropomorphic climate change is real, COVID is not over, masks work, meritocracy is a myth, the Land was stolen and we need to give Land back, love is love, and poverty is a direct result of oppression, please like this post so I can follow you. Together we can make this world a better place. ❤️🌈♾️

A couple of previous essays by way of more personal introduction:

#Cancer #Kairos

https://nymag.com/article/2020/12/i-was-always-terrified-of-wasting-time.html

Well, folks. I'm going to try to do some live tooting / posting of the 1/6 hearing. Let's see how it goes...I've been doing this in the Other Place up until now.

#January6thHearings #congress #DonaldTrump

A partial list of our reporters you can follow on Masto:

•Caroline Chen @carolinechen

•Annie Waldman @AnnieWaldman

•Perla Trevizo @Perla_Trevizo

•Jeremy Schwartz @JeremySchwartz

•Emily Hopkins @emilyhopkins

•Ken Armstrong @bykenarmstrong

•Mariam Elba @mariamelba

•Jessica Lussenhop @lussenpop

•Ellis Simani @emsimani

•Justin Elliott @elliottjustin

•Max Blau @maxblau

•Andy Kroll @andykroll

•Kartikay Mehrotra @kartikay

•Jeremy Kohler @jeremykohler

•Neil Bedi @neilbedi

Who could have foreseen that a white South African who is obsessed with colonizing places would have had such a lack of consideration for a community he ruled over?

@donieosullivan @oliverdarcy

@tchambers
has started a spreadsheet of journos on Masto, You can look there:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit?resourcekey=undefined#gid=1320898902

Just downloaded a desktop client called TheDesk for Mastodon, more flexibility with my columns. Very barebones but I much prefer this

Drombeg Stone Circle.

#StandingStoneSunday

@juddlegum "I'm going to continue making money for Musk until I get banned." is how I heard what you just said. I subscribe to your newsletter, but journalists have to bite the bullet and leave #twitter - it's not a site of free exchange of ideas anymore.

Elon just admitted that Twitter is a publisher of information like the NYT or Washington Post, and this Sec. 230 doesn’t apply to Twitter.

Both Twitter and Mastodon are non-profits, but only one of them is intentionally so.

YES! French official fires warning shot at Elon Musk that new Twitter policy could open up 'criminal liability'

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-twitter-2658980534/

A brand new goal.

I really despise this idea some people have about the need to stay on Twitter "to fight". To fight what? This isn't a war where ground is won or lost. The platform is wholly and unquestionably owned by the person you're trying to fight against. He has shown he doesn't care about loss of advertisers, loss of respect, loss of users. Twitter is now nothing but his personal alt-right cult. The only valid reason to stay is to assist others in leaving. If you're generating any other forms of content, you're simply enabling him to radicalize *your* userbase.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.

The new normal.

As a direct result of #Musk 's #JournalistPurge new users per hour went from about 1000 per hour to 3500 and has now plateaued at around 2000. The network has responded beautifully. Four of the largest instances closed registrations, but things ran smoothly.

What can we conclude from the last 48 hours?

1. Mastodon can easily handle moderate surges.
2. Mastodon has huge untapped capacity for growth due to the large number of small and midsize instances.

#twittermigration