James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

Little intro - Hey I’m Mikey - I’m a UK based illustrator and linocut printmaker who specialises in the spooky! I love folklore, horror and mythology so that’s mainly what I talk about. You can find out a bit more about me and my work over on my site + IG.

CEO pay at America’s largest public companies is up 1,460% since 1978.

Talk about inflation.

when u boost yr own toot

Me: (butterfly lands on my head)

Anti-trans person: There’s a caterpillar on your head

cyclops is the sound a depressed horse makes when it runs.

do cardassians lay eggs

Hearing that Chad is being abused by the user community infuriates me beyond all capacity for patience with people.

This is a Social Media platform for Pete's Sake. It's not a life-or-death service. When it's working, enjoy it, when it's not, take a damned break and relax and wait for it to be fixed.

If you want a corporate experience with customer service people paid to take your shit, go back to Twitter.

Today in 1807, Joseph Brant died. A Mohawk military and political leader, he fought for Britain during the American Revolution & established the Six Nations Reserve in current Ontario on land gifted to him by the government for his war service.

#Ontario #History #Histodon #Histodons #Canada #Canadian #Indigenous #FirstNations

https://canadaehx.com/2021/12/11/joseph-brant/

People who came here from Twitter, are you still using the bird site?

In a sane world, the possibility of over 800 mass shootings in a single year would be incomprehensible and intolerable.

#StarTrek if anyone doesn’t get this reference, Google “WKRP in Cincinnati Thanksgiving.” 🖖🏽😁

The time I climbed a volcano in Guatemala and took some of my all time favorite photos. Shot on a Sony a6100. I can’t wait to go back with my upgraded gear

If you're mad about what a billionaire is doing to destroy Twitter, wait until you hear what billionaires are doing to destroy the planet.

It's #NationalHousingDay.

Just a gentle reminder that the average life expectancy for people experiencing homelessness in Canada is still 34-47 years old.

Housing
literally
saves
lives

Wow, not only have the MTA taken down the problematic "You Do You" anti-mask signs, they have now reinstated signs encouraging New Yorkers to mask up!

Thank you to high risk and disabled New Yorkers and groups like Mandate Masks NY and Brooklyn BCID for testifying at MTA meetings.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #NewYork #PublicTransport #BringBackMasks

So a new thing happened. A paper we submitted got rejected by a journal after automated plagiarism detection. It turned out two students in India had plagiarised our preprint and then published online reports. So we've been accused of copying them. Fun.

A German law requiring social media platforms to promptly respond to reports of hate speech — and in some cases remove illegal speech within 24 hours of it being brought to their attention — looks like it will provide an early test for whether Elon #Musk-owned #Twitter will face meaningful legal consequences over how recklessly he’s operating the company.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/elon-musk-twitter-netzdg-test/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=YW5kcm9pZC1hcHA6Ly9jb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuZ29vZ2xlcXVpY2tzZWFyY2hib3gv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAImg41GA-NJNFwOpfN0edIS2NmiIaUwuMSN5_9nVe1sAee8VJZCtjj1Wcrs45so95uCHLTucnLjCeX_rWEO3BnNiJUONktWt9P1E32m3l_tsFjMxDLJ1WbG12BIitLZ3l8O-EZaz9PuTPKkUNvpGhKGFwoKqsBmJMapjmUQr4Uyg