Clif @Clif@social.cleverlibre.org

You will probably enjoy these Mastodon facts.
https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-mastodons-1093330

24,798 accounts
+5 in the last hour
+255 in the last day
+1,164 in the last week

Yesterdays's *daily* migration to Mastodon was a record.

The picture doesn't capture fully what happened in the 24 hour period after Musk's 'hardcore' deadline. In that particular 24hour period there were 240 thousand registrations!

A few weeks ago, back in October and prior to Musk being in charge of Twitter, there were only a few thousand daily registrations to Mastodon.

@mastodonusercount
#twitterexodus #riptwitter #Mastodon #MastodonMigration

Hello new people! 👋

If you need help getting started on here, have a look at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips

It's written in non-technical language, it's a beginner's guide.

If you can't find the answers you want on the site, @ me or message me.

Mastodon is different. It's polite and friendly. There's a different code of conduct (look up some of the basics), a slower pace. It's not a sprawling, hectic shopping centre in a grim industrial park on the city rim; it's a pleasant village street with artisanal shops and cafes. Take your time. Be nice.

One of the dumbest things a smart person can do is to start thinking they’re smarter than everyone else.

19 November 1911 | A Pole, Stanisław Drabikowski, was born in Iłża. A carpenter.

In #Auschwitz from 30 June 1941.
No. 17487
In 1942 he was transferred to Mauthausen and then to Dachau. He survived.

#history #worldwar2

Hello, worlds! read the inaugural issue of my newsletter, Countless Worlds: https://elakdawalla.beehiiv.com/p/22-nov-iss01

Photo: A view of Saturn's weirdly smooth egg-shaped moon Methone against black space, processed from Cassini (NASA/JPL/SSI) data by Jason Major

Meanwhile at #cop27 …

It's hard to overstate how much fuel the failure of the DOJ to hold the former WH occupant accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection & theft of classified documents (among others) causes the MAGA crowd to aggressively assert he's done nothing wrong. That is: No charges=No Crimes.

Edition 003 of The Polycrisis newsletter is out. It’s about COP27, of course.

But it’s really about: 1) climate finance is a north-south issue so it’s more about cost of capital than defining assets and aligning flows. 2) the economic advantage of RES means we can stop conceptualising collective action as the core problem of international action on cutting emissions. It’s domestic political economy that matters. https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/collective-action-and-climate-finance/

Eventually the entire petrol/gasoline sector will be stranded. Just like coal fired power plants they won’t suddenly stop, however, but will become less and less economic to operate, prompting calls for govt bailouts, buybacks, fights over remediation (those stations are very polluting), and no doubt lots of dumb recrimination. All very foreseeable. https://twitter.com/daveregrets/status/1593761982695763968?s=12&t=iq6JqUa-fuSn27qYAuJpgw

Through the burning of fossil fuels, humans have released more carbon into the atmosphere than is contained in all of the plants currently living on Earth.

More than half of this has occurred since 1990.

We are transforming the Earth and the atmosphere on a truly massive scale.

Reforestation, and other natural solutions, will never match the scale of the problem without substantial emissions reductions.

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Carbon #CarbonDioxide

So far, it seems that #COP27 is an even bigger failure than COP26:
💀 25% more fossil fuel lobbyists than COP26 - the largest delegate group
💀 best outcome might be avoiding backslide from COP26
💀 even weaker language on ending fossil fuel subsidies
💀 sponsored by Coca Cola

Lots of great #climate #journalists on here, with more turning up all the time. #followfriday
@emorwee
@yessfun
@kateyoder
@rachelramirez
@Kmac
@adrs
@Trailanderror
@nijhuism
@katearonoff
@Teresalchin
@prosaaquino
@uprootproject
@brookejarvis

This is a great morning read by Gabrielle Kuiper on the need for effective science communication - and the need to go beyond science communication - in the age of climate crises.

#scicomm #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/19/time-is-running-out-we-must-call-out-the-vested-interests-propelling-the-climate-crisis?CMP=share_btn_tw

We're new here. Please keep away from the scaffolding while we paint and remodel. 😎