Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Braverman linked to UK’s emergent American-style religious right
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/braverman-linked-to-uks-emergent-american-style-religious-right/

The involvement of Palantir in our confidential medical records is a really bad news https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/13/controversial-360m-nhs-england-data-platform-lined-up-for-trump-backers-firm

Banksy’s new works in Ukraine. Genius. #banksy #artist #art #ukraine

📣 For fellow Mastodon rookies - I understand that ‘favouriting’ things doesn’t amplify them to your followers in the way that ‘liking’ would have on Twitter

So if you want to share something, you need to ‘boost’ it

Trying to get my head round a different threshold for sharing things on here!

#TwitterMigration #MastodonRookie

So here's my #introductionpost - 👋 I'm a presenter and journalist at the BBC, where I also present the weather in Welsh 🙂☀️⚡️☃️Snow is my fave weather, I also love ☔️. I've also made documentaries on #gaming and I've just written a book called Playing with Reality: Gaming in a Pandemic:
https://renardpress.com/books/playing-with-reality/

Heddiw aethon ni am dro i Fairbourne ar hyd y llwybr Mawddach. Gadawon ni'r prif lwybr a cherddon ni yn agos at y foryd. Yn Fairbourne bwyton ni cinio yn y Penrhyn Bar & Grill. Roedd o'n flasus iawn. / Today we went for a walk to Fairbourne along the Mawddach path. We left the main path and walked close to the estuary. In Fairbourne we ate dinner at the Penrhyn Bar & Grill. It was very tasty.

You will never regret being kind

In my brief decade in British journalism, stories initially called ‘conspiracy theories’ by other journos

Phone hacking
Daniel Morgan
Vote Leave electoral cheating
Cambridge Analytica
Russian interference
Tufton Street
Steve Bannon
Hedge fund donors

Jeremy Hunt is saying we cannot max out the national credit card this morning. This is total nonsense. There is no national credit card. Instead it’s the job of government to make the money we use. And since it can always make that money it can never max out on credit.

We're looking for academics/PhD students who've recently migrated from Twitter to Mastodon, are currently doing so, considering it, or who don't intend to. We're interested in finding out about people’s opinions on migration & the differences between Twitter & Mastodon. If you wish to take part in our online focus group, please complete our initial survey https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_enXPA3rLdSdJsCG, which also includes further information about the research. Please boost! 🔁

I posted this my first day here then got self-conscious about self-promotion and deleted. Anyhow if anyone is working on a book that might fit this series I’m co-editing for Oxford, “Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture,” please consider submitting!

https://www.bigger6.com/oup

#LitStudies

Self-introduction: I teach in the English department at Lehigh University. I started out doing primarily Postcolonial literature and Modernism, but over time I’ve added interests in Global Cinema (2018 book on Mira Nair) and have developed a number of digital collections on South Asian and African American topics. One I am particularly proud of is “African American Poetry: a Digital Anthology”

https://scalar.lehigh.edu/african-american-poetry-a-digital-anthology/index

Hi, I’m Kaeli Swift, your friendly neighborhood corvid expert. I love talking about crows and fielding questions so feel free to shoot me your queries!

Ok, professional intro out of the way… WTF is this platform, how does it work, why can’t I find my scicomm peeps, IDK what’s going onnnnnn truly this feels like I came to class late and am joining and in-progress group assignment

Hey #Astrodon 👋! I just made the move here so let me give another #introduction.

I am a post-doctoral #scientist at #NASA #Goddard and Uni. of #Maryland. I study the insides of #planets and their orbits. I live w/ my wife in a tiny apt in #virginia.

Science Interests: #exoplanets, #venus, #mercury, #moons, #io, #enceladus, #triton, #tides, #dynamics, #habitability.

Personal Interests: #stargate #sg1, #wine, #beer, #running, #criticalrole, #boardgames, #ttrpg, #fountainpens, #cooking, #baking

It's much cheaper and easier than you think to start your own server on here.

If you use "managed hosting", it means the hosting company does all the techy stuff like installation, upgrades and maintenance.

The cheapest Mastodon server through managed hosting costs around 8 US dollars a month.

I've done a website all about using managed hosting at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

...and here's a long article about making your own Mastodon server:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps

#Mastodon #Fediverse

Intro toots seem to be a thing.

I'm Mark. You may know me from my work in software security (currently Matillion, formerly Mozilla) or hobbies (I keep chickens, make stuff and play music).

I'll mostly post about hobbies. Occasionally work.

I am an Australian writer, formerly on Twitter and now trying out Mastodon. I use these social media platforms to stay connected with the wider coimhearsnachd na Gàidhlig as well as the writing, neurodivergent and transgender communities. I mostly retweet (retoot?)

Fiù 's nach eil ach droch Ghàidhlig agam, bidh mi ga cleachdadh nuar as urrainn dhomh. Mar a thathar ag ràdh: "cleachd i no chaill i!"

#introduction #mastodaoine #writingcommunity #Gàidhlig

Here goes: an #introduction! I’m an #editor at #SUNYPress, acquiring in #GenderStudies, #QueerStudies, #LatinAmericanStudies, #LiteraryStudies, #education, and more more more. My home field is #modernism and I wrote a book about modernist #womenwriters and thinking about the #gift in post-WWI literature and the social sciences. Trying to fight the good fight on behalf of #UniversityPress workers. Here to boost #labor issues and organizing in #HigherEducation.

New exhibition about people who found sanctuary in Wales after fleeing from central Europe due to the National Socialist dictatorship will be on display at Aberystwyth.

Amongst those attending the official opening will be 89-year-old Renate Collins, who fled Prague on the last Kindertransport train to leave Czechoslovakia before the Second World War broke out.

As I am #Czech, it means a lot to me. Diloch, Cymru. ❤️
https://nation.cymru/culture/nation-of-sanctuary-wales-hospitality-to-refugees-fleeing-the-nazis-remembered/