Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

In case you missed it, all links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters the link really is.

So, you don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon as they won't actually affect the link's length.

Mastodon does this because it's better for everyone's privacy to avoid link shortener services, it means people can see what they're clicking on, and the link won't stop working if the shortener service shuts down.

More info at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon/

Does pineapple go on Pizza?

Stop anthropomorphising billionaires.

The reason Mastodon is better than Twitter is everybody who is funny on Twitter is doing it to build a brand and socially climb and everybody who is funny on Mastodon is doing it because they are deeply mentally ill

Where could I find a decent ant aspirator shipping to the US? Searching Amazon for pooter is interesting, but not very useful.

A nose sucker would work with a little modification I suppose.

To be honest, the current media attention on the #Threads vs. #Twitter #socialmedia rivalry/competition/'war', is about as interesting to me as two bald men fighting over a comb...

Sitting here in #Mastodon, I really feel disconnected & uninterested in how it all plays out other than as a spectator sport ... for those of you experimenting with Threads accounts I realise this might be different, but having long ago deleted my Facebook account I'm not going to re-embrace Zuckerberg's Death Ship!

Megacorp execs were interviewed about the #WGA strike & were quoted saying their goal was to "break the WGA," and to "drag" bargaining out "until #union members start losing their apartments and homes"

After corporate counsel reminded the execs of *labor laws*, an update was released saying that actually the execs did not want to make workers homeless in retaliation for exercising labor rights because that would violate #labor laws so its all a big misunderstanding

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

WGA writers in Portland, Oregon. You are entitled to free headshots in my studio. Contact me via direct messages should you be interested. Offer valid during strike action. #WGA #WGAStrike

On the left, my original photograph of an acrobat ant. On the right, an image that Orkin just put on their website to illustrate an acrobat ant.

They did not get my permission to use this image. I do not think moving one antenna and flipping the image is transformative enough to consider this fair use.

#Copyright #Ants #FairUse

Spicy open peer review on the new Homo naledi papers over at eLife: https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89125v1/reviews#tab-content

My refusal to participate in the reboot of Mark #Zuckerberg as the internet's Cool Friend should not be taken as support of Elon #Musk in any way, but can we not fall for another smirking fascist with his shirt off?

I’M GONNA YELL A LOT.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your

Canceled two streaming subscriptions today, and made it clear when possible what the issue is.

why should you stop posting twitter stuff? Because it's owned, run, and championed by someone who is normalizing and defending fascists, sexists, racists, nationalists, and predators, and letting them run rampant.
Is that not enough?

I mean, yeah sure, cat memes, and some people are making money with it, and some services are communicating to populations with it. Sucks to lose all that.

But it's not worth the cost, not even a little bit.

But hey if you want to all band together and take it over, nationalize it or similar, kick his ass out and bankrupt him, run out the riffraff and make it a human service that values people over numbers and paper, then sure go for it, good luck, we should have done that with the service and the underlying structure of the internet about 2001, so sure let's do it.

But we're not.

So it's time to say some kind words, remember the good ol' days (whenever those were), and move on.

A fun way to #Recycle

QED rewatch: God Awful Movies - Vaxxed II (2022)

Join Noah Lugeons, Heath Enwright, and Eli for another of those God Awful Movies as they tackle a classic of pseudoscientific filmmaking, produced by Robert F. Kennedy, and starring Del Bigtree.

https://qedcon.org/news/2023/rewatch-god-awful-movies-vaxxed-2?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=gam

"Sandy Thatcher rightly says “It is not the purpose of private enterprises to serve the public interest; it is to serve the interests of their stockholders”. That is precisely why private enterprises must not be handed control over scholarship."

https://svpow.com/2016/03/04/sci-hub-is-a-scholarly-litmus-test/