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DELETE * FROM twitter.tweets WHERE creation_date >= $now;
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UK politics 

This is really worrying. Arresting journalists just for doing their job is something we would expect in Putin's Russia or Xi's China.

We should really not be seeing this in a western democracy.

pressgazette.co.uk/three-journ

@sciencebase I had an unused floating account on an instance years ago but never did anything with it. Now I have impetus.

Subtoot 

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a metric megashitload of opprobrium, snark and derision, apparently.

In my opinion, criticisms of mastodon being unusable by the general public are over blown.

Meta: Mastadon vs OtherPlace 

@trinsec Exactly this. I never understood why something liked/hearted/favourited was—to use the modern vernacular—boosted to that person's entire audience. Is it *really* that important it requires promotion?

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

Meta: Mastadon vs OtherPlace 

And thankfully there is no annoying “you should follow these random accounts and celebrities” and “give us your address book so we can annoy your friends and colleagues too” bull ever ten posts.

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Meta: Mastadon vs OtherPlace 

One thing I love about :mastodon: is the fact that they explicitly give you the controls they denied you on the b**dsite.

For example: I can filter *everything* with a keyword. This semi-worked in the , but not reliably, never for adverts, and not for the other crap they forced you to see.

Someone in a group called Twitter “$8chan” 🤣

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

Hold up. We have a 512 character limit here on Mastodon! Can’t wait to see what people code with it :fediverse:

We need better dogs. I just asked the one in my office if she could please make me a sandwich, and she looked at me as if I'd asked her to cater an entire seven-course banquet!

@jumile Ooh, bad luck. Well done on promptly being a good netizen, though. 👍

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