ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Time for a proper #Introduction! 😎 👋

As my name suggests, I am a fan of #ScienceFiction! I was raised on #StarTrek, but I love all kinds of #SciFi and #Fantasy!

I joined here earlier in the great #TwitterMigration, so I'm still rather #NewHere.

I've also been a member of a few fandom message boards over the years, particularly one called #ExIsle! (Ask me about it sometime. 😎)

I also have lots of other interests besides fandom, that I follow & boost!

Hashtags to follow soon! 😃

Why is anyone surprised when the same people who believe in talking snakes and Noah’s Ark believe in QAnon?
Magical thinking is a cancer.

It is important to know your rights.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Me three weeks ago: man, it's great so many tech folks are here, but it's gonna be a nightmare to get (non-tech) journos over here too, and they drive so much of the discussion value on Twitter

Today: lmao, well

Mastodon is going to be a little slow loading for a bit. Try to have some patience. For many that came before us, they were patient when we arrived over the last month or so. Let's do the same and respect that with massive upheaval for some, comes with inconvenience for others.

My Mastodon app feed is loading slowly. Why? Because thousands of others want what we have. This is a good thing ☺️

#twittermigration #mastomigration

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

a disheveled girl stumbles out of the datacenter wearing nothing other than a loincloth fashioned out of cat5 cable, carrying a spear made out of a pipe and a shaved down SFP+ module… she just screams “kubernetes!” and scurries away, back into the data forest

she is… the feral software engineer

If you got suspended from birdchan today look on the bright side. You're here just in time for #BlackFriday on #BlackMastodon

Can confirm, twitter blocks links to berlin.social as well.

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

If there is no war on Christmas, I'm going to feel pretty silly standing here with this bayonet.

Do you ever have the sinking feeling that you are competing for attention against a tiny, plastic, glowing rectangle in the hands of the person next to you? And you try to be flashier and louder than the distraction on their palms but change your mind because you don't want to interrupt?

Yeah, but what a great tweet to go out on!

So if you want to deactivate your Twitter account but don't know how apparently the simplest way to do it is to mention @elonjet?

Everything he ever said about 'free speech' was nothing but lies and bullshit. Unfortunately, many fell for his hot garbage spew.

So Elmo doesn’t really believe in free speech.

‘Twitter abruptly suspends more than half a dozen journalists’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.

And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.

More: Three men were sentenced Thursday to serve a minimum of seven to 12 years in prison for providing material aid to terrorists and being members of a gang in connection with the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen #Whitmer. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/12/15/three-men-sentenced-in-michigan-gov-whitmer-kidnapping-plot/69709773007/

Oh dear. MTG just got called out by none other than Steve Bannon after she let slip the Godfather-inspired nickname House Republicans have for themselves.

That's not the flex you think it is, Marge. 😂

https://www.comicsands.com/greene-gop-mob-nickname-bannon-2658969050.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

It is possible to find your inner power.
It is possible to forgive.
It is possible to clear the mind.
It is possible to throw out the bitterness in the deepest bin.
It is possible to let fresh air pass through your lungs one more time.
AFFIRM YES
(📸 Christian Kuntz Photography)