Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

My heart is broken for Colorado Springs.

LGBTQ+ people are nearly four times more likely than non-LGBTQ+ people to experience violent victimization.

And Anti-LGBTQ+ emboldens extremists to violence.

This must end. Now.

Our celebration of sunlight begins on December 23, 2022 this year!

(I previously tweeted at https://twitter.com/SunOfStockholm but Elon & Trump ruined everything.)

I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.

It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.

It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.

Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.

How freakin' cool. A #meteor was picked up by EarthCam's CN Tower webcam in #Toronto.

Several hours before it hit, David Rankin at NASA's Catalina Sky Survey spotted the object, and Michael Busch started a thread: https://mastodon.online/@michael_w_busch/109368965024525842.

As the night unfolded: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/c8ff042_probable_impactor/95129080

EarthCam archives about a day's worth of video, so you can still catch it here: https://www.earthcam.com/world/canada/toronto/cntower/?cam=towerview. Tap Archive, select the 3-4AM clip and scroll to the 3:25:56 mark. #astronomy #space

I don’t understand why people think Mastodon is difficult. It seems pretty straightforward, and the separate servers are no biggie. I’m enjoying this fresh start here, like moving to a new apartment!

I wonder if we can get https://runyourown.social/ to be the next banned url on twitter

STOP USING YAML FOR NEW THINGS
STOP USING YAML FOR NEW THINGS
STOP USING YAML

We had advertising-supported media for generations - centuries - without mass surveillance. The problem with advertising isn't incentives - it's impunity.

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Ok #fediverse gays: I’d like to connect my instance to a relay or two. My understanding is that the nice and safe ones are private. Who runs a nice queer-friendly nazi-free relay and would be happy to have my instance connect? Boosts appreciated :)

The internet wasn't intended to be 3 websites with enough power to turn us into doomscrolling zombies, sway public policy and lead to the collapse of democracy.

Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners https://b.mamund.com/3Abe2aa

it is fascinating to watch Wardley's #pioneers #settlers #townPlanners constrcut playing out in the #mastodon world right now.

#twitter #migration @swardley@twitter.com