Mike McHargue @mike@robot.rodeo

Ed Yong’s articles about covid have consistently been helpful to me, so this was calming and useful to read. It lays out both the causes for concern, and how public health is in a better position to deal with monkeypox to start with

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/monkeypox-outbreak-covid-pandemic/629920/

alien 1: in summary, the humans have nearly rendered the blue planet uninhabitable. The only plan they appear to have is to migrate to the red planet.

alien 2: can they breathe the atmosphere of the red planet?

alien 1: no.

alien 2: is there material there they can eat?

alien 1: no.

alien 2: can the plants and animals of their planet live there?

alien 1: no.

alien 2: is there liquid water there?

alien 1: no.

alien 2: lol wtf?

alien 1: lol idk

Total Lunar Eclipse Coming!

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/total-lunar-eclipse-may16-2022/

Posts on Mastodon, also known as Toots, have a privacy setting.

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Pick the privacy you want before you publish a toot, as you can't alter it later (unless you delete the toot).

You can also choose a default privacy setting in your account settings. New toots will automatically use the default privacy unless you change it.

On the website, go to Preferences > Other > Posting Privacy, choose the default privacy you want and press "Save Changes".

On the official app, go to ⚙️ Settings > The Boring Zone > Account Settings and then log into the website.

#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Privacy

Thoughts after my first week on Mastodon...

When you post something on Twitter, it feels like stepping into a spotlight.
And you are aware that it might burn you. Anxiety.

When you post something on Mastodon, it feels like wandering through the house at night, slowly beginning to see
the soft glow of a candle. Everything's a bit blurry, but you probably won't get hurt.
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People post more things that are important to them.
A lot less outrage.
So that's nice.

#Twitter #Mastodon

Assumptions...

Good quote here in this Wired article on what #Twitter can learn from #Mastodon:

"As with this latest surge, those who arrive on Mastodon servers are joining an experiment in whether communities can function better with self-moderation, and by self-organizing into like-minded groups. The answer, it seems, is that they can—but not without some trade-offs."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-masatodon/

Good news: Learning way too much about operating Mastodon at scale.

Bad news: I am now developing opinions. We have a lot of work to do. I am excited to contribute to the project.

Yet another reminder that not all women have uteruses and not everyone with a uterus is a woman.

@mike @iamdoon Exactly!! I'm so frustrated trying to explain why the CWs need to be used to people who are IRL colleagues. It just makes sense!

@mike 100%

CWs are one of those paradigm-changing things that one wonders how in the world we managed without them previously.

(one could argue that we didn't really "manage" I suppose, at least for a healthy, non-toxic, non-inflammatory definition of the word)

@mike Nor to make an exit from corporate social media!

Boy am I ever glad I made the same move...my emotions are intense enough as it is - I certainly don't need the algorithm to make things worse.

fuck

I have this really sinking feeling that a bunch of people who were fighting against anti-trans bills and the "don't say gay/race/trans" bills are going to suddenly forget about these things and pivot solely to abortion, leaving a bunch of people to suffer in the process as these bills go largely unopposed by those with the most power.

Now seems like a good time to remind all my uterine pals that there are drugs which you can get in advance that will allow you to safely manage an abortion at home basically undetectably up through nine weeks, and with some risks for detection up through twenty weeks.
A solid overview:
https://thenib.com/self-managed-abortion/
Also if you are using software to track your periods, now might be a great time to switch to a pen and paper method, or consider just lying to Apple health, that’s fine too.