Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

Japanese Bonsai trees

Whilst our little instances are too small to appear on the JoinMastodon page, we still adhere to the covenant that those sites do, including giving 3 months' notice of the instance closing so our users have time to migrate

That's it, the Twitter account is gone. I couldn't keep a clear conscience and stay there, even with it not being my main account. I'm sure there are plenty of people who can ignore Musk's actions but the way he's treated people who worked for him and the kind of people he's replatforming - I can't.

Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.

7,185,878 accounts
+4,399 in the last hour
+173,665 in the last day
+571,560 in the last week

Much like cars over the decades, watches have generally become larger and chunkier too.

#Casio’s first Databank Calculator watch, the DBC 600 released in 1985 and Casio’s (to date) last Databank Calculator watch, the DBC-32D, released in 2004.

#VintageWatch #Design #VintageTech

Thanks to Elon’s obsession with retaining employees who contributed the most lines of code, I keep getting reminded of a classic Hindi play from 1881, Bharatendu Harishchandra’s Andher Nagari.

Andher Nagari (darkness / ignorance city) is ruled by Chaupat Raja (literally, useless king), who ordered that vegetables and sweets would both cost a taka a ser (or a penny a pound) in his kingdom.

A fat monk sees this and decides to stay in the city, stuffing himself with expensive sweets sold at a penny a pound, though his guru warns him to move on, it is dangerous to stay in a place ruled by such a king.

The final act is that when a wall collapses and kills someone’s ass, the king orders the house owner to hang. He blames the builder who built the wall. The builder blames the bricklayer, who blames the guy that poured too much water into the cement. When the water guy is brought in for hanging, he says he was distracted by the police chief who was marching his men down the road. So the police chief is sentenced to hang.

Problem is he’s skinny and thanks to the king all the ropes are tied in the same standard noose size, too large for the man’s neck. So the king orders them to hang the first fat man they see, and that is the fat monk, who is rudely shaken out of his sleep after a big lunch.

As the monk is about to hang, his guru arrives and begs the king to hang him instead, because, he claims, whoever hangs in the city on that day would be reborn as its next king.

The king believes the guru and .. sentences himself to death.

@gpowerf Love that little PC Engine you have there! I've just got hold of a tiny Retroflag/RetroPi SNES, its definitely the cutest gaming device Ive ever owned (and it knows it!)

At lunchtime today I snuck into Dixons and on their display ZX Spectrum typed:

10 PRINT "LORD ARSE WOZ ERE ";
20 GOTO 10

RUN

Then ran away laughing. I might have been high on Vimto.

#Mastodon features that #Twitter doesn’t have:

* Temporary muting (e.g. for a day)
* Self-verified URLs in the profile
* Hiding spoilers etc. via content warnings
* URLs must start with protocols (fewer false positives, e.g. in code).
* Everyone can edit posts (in v4+).
* No ads (which doesn’t come for free = donate if you can afford it)

More obscure: I like that you can search for post URLs to “transfer” them between accounts.

I ran @coprolite9000's program and got this. See #bbcmicrobot hashtag for more.

Using this platform made me realise how I came to accept exposure to cruelty & hostility as part of the deal of being able to talk to you. The clicks algorithm is not necessarily our connection master. How refreshing to be reminded of that.

The good news: I finally found a cure for impostor syndrome

The bad news: it requires someone else to pay $44 billion and takes about 3 weeks

Everyone on twitter right now #twitter #tech #technology #twittermigration

Hi Mastodoning Mates. Any chance you could boost me a bit as I'm struggling to find folk I originally followed on the Twitter. Is that how this works? I'm ASD and find new systems like this and written-instructions a major headache and very confusing.