Echinocentric @Echinocentric@social.cleverlibre.org

Honestly moving to Mastodon from the bird site feels like I just switched to PBS after years of exclusively watching a reality TV show called, I don't know, EXTREME HATEFEST: ORGY ISLAND or something.

Like, yeah, of course it's going to be a little jarring but trust me it's better this way.

Happy Hanukkah, friends! Wishing y’all peace, laughter, and joyous memories! 🕎💜

"In a study from the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Professor Audrey van der Meer confirms that a keystroke on a keyboard lacks the creativity of handwriting and won’t challenge memory the way that writing by hand does."

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/11/23/why-writing-by-hand-is-still-the-best-way-to-retain-information/

#memory
#productivity
#psychology

Long ago, in the Kalōpā Native Forest, on the Big Island of #Hawaii, a tree fell in a mossy woods.

It may or may not have made a sound.

Sometime afterward, someone came through with a chainsaw and cut it to clear the #hiking trail. The rest is #Mosstodon history.

Dear @elonmusk@twitter.com

I would like to report @Telsa@twitter.com for this clear violation of Twitter rules.

These rules are very important and made by you, our benevolent leader.

I trust you will be suspending this account shortly.

All the best.

-- Judd

Dear @elonmusk@twitter.com

I wanted to draw your attention to this tweet, which mentions that you have an account on a competing platform that is too dangerous to name.

Please suspend your account until this dangerous situation is resolved.

Thank you sir.

-- Judd

"When CBC News tried to establish how many children had died from flu in Ontario, three different provincial agencies refused to provide figures."

"Public" data in Canada, folks.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/child-influenza-deaths-1.6687187

Who can possibly imagine what Elon's politics are? He's so complicated and "savants" are notoriously inscrutable. 😂

Had fair maps been in place in Ohio and Utah, as well as additional Black-performing seats in place in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana, Democrats may very well have retained control of the House.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-gerrymandering-helped-republicans-win-the-house/

So much for freedom of speech on Twitter.

There's a lot of discussion about #birdsite and #journalism right now. While we are still having ongoing discussions about how best to handle our presence there, we can say confidently that we plan on staying on Mastodon indefinitely, barring unforseen circumstances.

In just about a month, we've very clearly seen the value in our presence here, for reaching new people and having great conversations. Here's to the future of the fediverse! #SocialMedia #TwitterMigration

My Mastodon home feed is now faster and more interesting than my bird acct. I also use lists.

Musk is either utterly ignorant or deliberately lying. He keeps making the claim that anyone who noted sites where the information was that revealed his jet's movements (all based on public data, irrespective of his other claims), or apparently even mentioned that such sites existed in the context of a news story, has revealed his jet's actual location. This is utterly untrue. Either he knows this and is just lying for his own self-interests, or he has revealed yet again that he's as much of a "super genius" as Wile E. Coyote. Perhaps both. Meanwhile, the new subreddit devoted to his jet now has over 118K members. Great work, Elon.

I did it!! #twitterfree Deleted all my tweet history, deactivated my account and blocked the app and website on my phone.

@therobburgessshow Oh my gosh, "Last Christmas," which is a terrible song and not at all the way organ donation actually works.