Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

"A point was made recently that celebs probably don't give a shit about local cultural norms. Most comedians in particular make their trade by working against established norms."

This is a good point.

We're going to need to push back hard against this kind of antisocial behaviour by celebrities and comedians, to keep the Fedi a nice place to be

How cool is it that you don't have to play mind games with some stupid algorithm when sharing things on here? I can put a link to an external site in a toot and don't have to think about how it might affect anything. Love it.

A new job, a new instance, a new #introduction.

Hi, I'm Jim. 👋

🎓 I study epistemic practices in #ecology and #AI, their tensions and interconnections, and how they help us to think about the roles of #knowledge, #ignorance and #expertise in society. In September this year, I began a two-year postdoc in the Department of Technology and Society at Lund University.

While my research is in #STS, I am not so well embedded in the field. I've previously held positions in #geography, #sociology and #genderstudies departments, and draw on work from #politicalecology, #environmentalhistory, #mediastudies and #culturalstudies. If it looks interesting, I'll give it a read. 📖

My university profile can be found at https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/james-white, and a list of my publications at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6735-3893.

🩳 In addition to academic stuff, I will likely post about 🦄 #parenting, life as an immigrant in 🇸🇪 #Sweden, and my nerdy hobbies: reading and watching 🚀 #scifi, self-hosting 🐧 #linux servers, designing ergonomic ⌨ #keyboards, #foraging for 🍄 #mushrooms, and experimenting with 🍺 #fermentation.

You can find out more about my amateur #making and #coding at https://github.com/jimmerricks.

@FediFollows Moved from Twitter a couple of says ago. Maybe add me to the astronomers list ?

Hello science community, did you achieve something today you want to share? Everything counts, from "Got nominated for the Nobel prize" to "Got out of bed". ✨

#science #sciencemastodon

@HolgerHellinger Your little company? 100,000 people? Hah, you think so small! :) Think Google running one. Think millions and millions of people. Now we’re talking. Yum! Think new proprietary features that Google adds on top that people love. Think embrace, extend, extinguish.

If you embrace the success criteria of Big Tech you will end up being replaced by Big Tech. No one does Big Tech as well as Big Tech. You want to build true alternatives? Embrace the opposite success criteria: go small.

Chief Technology Officer at the American College of Physicians (ACP), searching for an online home for civilized discourse and thought-provocations.

#cto #medicine #engineering

Hi, this is Greta. You are welcome to follow me here, if you prefer planet earth to planet mars.

Here's a random question for you guys!

Do you remember game books? Like fighting fantasy stuff etc? Choose your own adventure kinda jam.
Well, I had a couple as a kid that I absolutely adored. Each bookcase with a blue and red die. One for the hero and one for the enemies. They had faces and swords on them etc.
They weren't separate, they came with the books. For the life of me, I can't remember what they were called. Absolutely no idea whatsoever.
Do you know? Could you share this if not?!

https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html but, no one wants to run their own server https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html. Discuss!

@cwebber I am immensely sorry for the person from QOTO who responded to this and your other post with a middle finger and disrespect. I suspended them for hate speech. I am talking to my other mods to make sure they dont object, but with it being clearly against our rules I suspect their suspension will stick.

Once again very sorry for that uncalled for behavior, he hasnt acted like that int he past.

What is this Federation thing? https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/d62847b6-b803-4985-8b7e-9f905799188c

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.

@gamingonlinux Awesome dude! It's WILD right now. @thunderbird got 1000 new followers in the last 8 hours or so.

Completely blown away by that.

Mastodon is really having a moment in mainstream news coverage. CNN, BBC, TIME, etc.

The influx of users will continue at an alarming rate. Remember to be welcoming, and kind, and positive, and helpful.

This isn't just an opportunity to improve the idea of social media, it's an opportunity to shine a wonderful light on #opensource.

Awesome people from around the world attended the #LibreOffice Conference 2022! Regina Henschel gave talks about Fontwork and shapes – check out the videos, and her thoughts: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/11/07/libreoffice-conference-2022-impressions-from-an-attendee-and-speaker/

My 10 year old Macbook Pro has been resurrected with KDE Neon!

Really all my issues with Ubuntu in the past I think have just been with Gnome, KDE is very slick in comparison.

Looks like this laptop is going to be used for the next decade, whether it likes it or not 😄

Brutal Truth: The most successful people in life are those who are learning, experimenting, failing, and trying again.
#learning