Over the weekend I got really choked up over the potential loss of Twitter. I've been there since 2007 and my big breaks into #journalism and connections to so many #depechemode fans came courtesy of that beloved bird app. So here's to building community and fresh starts. Come say hi!
Welcome to the 22 new users to this instance TONIGHT, and & for many of you, welcome to the #Mastodon & the #Fediverse.
Promise this will be different than Twitter for those of you migrating on the Elon news. We're working to make it BETTER than what all the closed, centralized ad driven, spaces.
Welcome to this ride, glad you are here.
The rough edges are there, but so is the promise of building something that will grow to outlive all the closed silos...
I wrote about my probably lifetime struggle with mental illness, bullies and social media back in 2019 in a blog entry called Kernel Panic https://vmstan.com/kernel-panic/
Suppose this link and thread should be part of my #introduction series. 📌
Before the snow came, Wedge Pond, Kananaskis, Alberta. A favorite spot for sunrise in the Rockies #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #Alberta #Kananaskis #sunrise #RockyMountains #WedgePond #reflection
When only the very best will do: SSHTNNY SMIRIING! #midjourney #AIArt
#corgi pic from #staugustine this afternoon. #NoDogsAllowed in the old Spanish fort. Off to #canaveral tomorrow for the launch of #artemis
I didn't follow the FTX disaster, Today in Tabs has a good and humorous summary
https://www.todayintabs.com/p/magic-bean-dad
I wrote a nano tool that tries to extract the #Fediverse accounts of your #Twitter followings: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
It searches for the patterns @user@host.tld, user@host.tld and host.tld/@user in the screen name, description, location and URL field. It displays them to you in the correct format for easy copying as well as a CSV download that can be imported to #Mastodon.
Known issue: Mail addresses are included as false positives because people write their handle without a leading @: name@host.tld
#NewInstance! 😀 so another #introduction:
Hi there! 👋 I'm a #scifi #writer and #artist based in #Calgary, #Canada. I love #reading, #space, and loading #Linux on unsuspecting #computers. My #fiction has appeared in the journal Nature and various magazines and anthologies. Would love to connect with other #writers, #artists, and... anyone! So follow me for a #followback!
#introductions #TwitterMigration #artist #writing #ScienceFiction
Me in studio and some of my #paintings ⬇️
Nearly at 29,000 words! :) #NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo 2022, Fling Twenty-Four https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/nanowrimo-2022-fling-twenty-four/
I've been on mastodon for a minute but really starting using it regularly for the past year or so. here's an #introduction for all those checking #twittermigration for people to follow
I am a #writer of #FlashFiction #horror and #haiku #poetry I am an #artist and sometimes I make #music
I'm looking to follow #journalists #historians #scientists #artists #writers and #musicians and people who post about #bikes #PublicTransit and #LitMags
j'apprends le français
All original #artwork on this feed is available for purchase and #licensing.
please contact me here:
http://katherinemontalto.com/contact/
Get my #art on stuff in my store
http://katherinemontalto.com/category/store/
Support me here:
https://liberapay.com/KatherineMontalto/donate
https://paypal.me/KatherineMontalto
https://ko-fi.com/katherinemontalto
#ScifiPrompt Most people picture portals as doors. An ornate, carved door, perhaps, in an unexpected place - like the wall of a graffiti-strewn alley. Or some might imagine an opalescent shimmer hovering between trees.
But portals often manifest as a sock lolling out of a drawer like an insolent tongue, just asking for a casual, irritated tug. They never come loose the way you expect.
That’s why I should’ve been more careful when I saw that teal scarf wrapped round the lamp post.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.