Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@social.cleverlibre.org

Is anyone else having a really bad dwarf infestation this fall? I swear, it gets cold and the little devils come swarming into the cave. It wouldn't be so bad if I hadn't already eaten enough them to give me indigestion. I suppose I could try canning…

Musk claiming that a lot more people are engaging on Twitter is like me claiming that a lot more people are stopping by to look at my new house after I set it on fire.

Enemies to lovers

Just got a msg saying that Google are 'sunsetting' an analytics function. What an utterly bloody pointless bit of euphemism! I mean, sure, lie to the kids about where the hamster ended up but do we *really* need to be protected from the wrenching emotional impact of a bit of code going out of date.

Admit it, Google. You took it down to the end of the paddock with the shotgun and a shovel.

Initial impression of Mastodon…

@bioinformagic

Considering that we are comparing elephants and mastodons here we would need to go a bit more in details before depicting how big such a concert would be.

Based off the data found on Wikipedia a male mastodon had a max height of 3.25m, where as Asian elephants average at 2.75m and African elephants max out at 4m.

Now if we say a toot is dependent on the trunk length and the normal character amount on other instances is 500, then that would convert to 131.07 elephants. Though this assumes that we are talking about African elephants who are the same height as Mastodons.

If we calculate the trunk to height ratio for the living species we get 0.6364 for Asian elephants (trunk: 1.75m) and 0.5334 for African elephants (trunk: 2.1336m). Multiplying this with the height of the Mastodon will give us 1.7336 for African elephants and 2.068 for Asian elephants. Finally we will multiply the elephants by the ratio of estimated Mastodon trunk length to exist trunk length and this gives us about 107 African elephants or 155 Asian elephants.

So to answer the unasked question of "how many elephants are in the concert?" the answer is either 107 African elephants or 155 Asian elephants.

@SteveZissou

My name is Fernando Salvaterra, I'm a freelance map maker and illustrator from Brazil.

Exploring Michigan libraries (or lack thereof) using OpenStreetMap (Day 8, #30DayMapChallenge)

It’s only a toot if it comes from the Mastodón region of France. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling fart.

Testing to determine if Mastodon strips exif metadata from images.

This image has all metadata including GPS coordinates embedded. Will download from this post and re-check.

Catwalk, featuring a lot of pipes and cables.

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.

@ejoftheweb @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates
The German Data Commissioner is advocating that all public bodies should leave Facebook (and presumably Twitter) and use open platforms instead.

Various German bodies and authorities have already created their own Mastodon servers, as have many EU agencies and the Commission.

https://mstdn.social/@TheEuropeanNetwork/109307607062425853

why are people titling all their posts about mastodon etiquette as boring things like “for mastodon newbies” when “mastodos and mastodonts” is right there

Every #Mastodon admin right now.