Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

@seekingsrishti Hello! Welcome to Mastodon!

As Twitter kicked me out of the so-called digital town square, I'm trying to embrace the open source Mastodon with high hopes.
Please say hello and help me to navigate through this new app.
#newbie #hello #India #twitter

Reddy Kilowat promising #fusion in the 1950s

@nuclearhumanities @sts @histodons

The cousin booty humper is always getting in trouble!!!😂

You can support free speech or your can support an authoritarian billionaire using his wealth to silence journalists

You can't do both

John Mastodon does not have a private jet, traveling as he does by e-bike, bus, or train. The JohnJet account though wildly popular is is largely inactive.

Trump stole the images for his NFT trading cards from stock photos and Amazon.com

Republicans stole the images for their “Commitment to America” platform from Russian stock photos

Too dumb to be original

Too evil to care

John Mastodon: The Man, The Legend, The Retraction

#Pitch

@courtjezter @BlackAzizAnansi and yet… we don’t hear much “centrist” GOPs distancing themselves from any of this. Their silence is deafening.

#Mars and #Uranus tonight from my balcony, near Paris, through my telescope (180 mm in diameter, 2700 mm in focal length) with a camera ZWO ASI224MC.

Bushtits don’t stay still for long and they often look at me like I’m interrupting something.

Elon's takeover of Twitter was heralded by his fans as a renaissance for free speech. But the reality of Musk’s content moderation revamp has been defined by the billionaire exercising his own petty grievances. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/twitter-suspends-account-tracking-elon-musk-private-jet-1234647211/

The father of the man accused of killing 7 people at a parade in Illinois has been charged in connection to the attack https://cnn.it/3FAxsa7

Sunset on Mars captured by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.

Source: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07997

@RIDDLES

John Mastodon is just a figurehead; the real work was done by Ernestine Toot. he’s recently been trying but failing to erase her legacy.

Mediaite right wing writer Isaac Schorr misread the Twitter account @joinmastodon as "John Mastodon," and referred to him as the founder of the platform in his article https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy-and-fear-all-the-way-down-at-twitter/ #tech #twitter #twittermigration #twitterexodus #news #media

@jpanzer @lauren

we need to be much more strategic about this

everyone seems confident that they know what will happen, but this confidence is misplaced

since there are multiple possible scenarios, and the optimal response is different for each scenario, some formal scenario planning would be useful here

1) many smart people think it's obvious that the site will soon be offline due to technical failure, or offline due to bankruptcy, or both

if this scenario occurs, then abandoning ship and finding a new home right now is probably the best response both individually and collectively

2) other smart people think it's obvious that the site will stay up, but it will be dominated by #fascist disinfo, indoctrination, recruiting and organization

if this scenario occurs, then leaving now is best for my individual satisfaction and mental health, but allowing fascists to build strength uncontested is not the optimal response for everyone collectively

3) another scenario is that 10% of the 450 million active users pay for a blue check, the site survives financially and technically, and 90% of celebrities, journalists, politicians and normie users stay

if this scenario occurs while the remaining 10% of us have exiled ourselves, all those normies will incubate in the right-wing game mechanics of the new twitter, a supermassive media engine of right-wing indoctrination

so we really should think this through, not just what happens now, but what happens next

A girl wandering in the rain. Location Osaka Dotonbori. #followfriday #cyberpunk #streetphotography #photography