pretentious7 @pretentious7@mathstodon.xyz

one of the beautiful woodpecker friends i met earlier. it was not shy at all even though i was pretty close to it.

Imperceptibly, over the last month or so Mastodon has gone from a niche place where I feel like I'm shouting into a void, to a social place where interesting and varied things are being posted in a live stream and random posts of mine actually get a react or two.

I know it's highly personalized but this feels like Twitter circa 2007. Which means we gotta get real serious real quick about moderation/spam/abuse/discovery/curation tooling.

@GNUxeava also why you should move away from any platforms hosted in the US

US export control law basically means you're, as a company, *legally bound* to ghost someone who has any connections to Iran

people bragging about how many hours they work smh

Plitvice Lakes were a good idea on New Year's Day. None of the people, all of the beautifulness.

Iceland has also been a great trip of birb observation and playing with creating a mini series of photo featuring them and the ocean while they fly.

It was a great (great as in it took many hours) challenge. Under the rain, the snow, the sun and against the wind.

#iceland #photography #birds

#DOFH excuse #5:

Cloud outage due to sunny weather.

Meanwhile, Jupiter is happy looking awesome

@thumb I'll be boosting them onto this account, but it's: https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/video-channels/alexbuzzbee_channel

how was everything even tangentially related to oberon the most beautiful thing ive ever seen (these are the ceres and lilith workstations, thanks eris!!)

Silicon Valley's hunger problems grow during a time of record profits - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/silicon-valley-s-hunger-problems-grow-during-time-record-profits-n1251760

It's not great that the people universities are prioritizing, undergraduates cause $$$$, are being treated terribly.
I encourage everyone who is an undergrad to have some grace for their professors, staff, and grad students.
A lot of grad students may have to drop out because funding isn't being renewed and their research can't happen because of covid.
Faculty, staff, grad students are now having to teach their children as well as do their regular jobs.
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But why?

Not only because they're a monopoly, but more so because they're a monopsony. The only buyer in town. And that brings even greater power over entire supply chains, the ramifications of which quickly spread out and compound.