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Mastodon's funding has nearly doubled since last Friday. People really stepped up.

I consider this a success.

Even if you didn't donate, we started a conversation about donating.

PLEASE BOOST: Within a day of raising awareness about Mastodon's funding, we've moved the needle on Patreon in a big way

Some Comparisons:

* Yesterday, Mastodon was receiving $21,000/month
* Today, it's receiving $28,000/month -- that's an increase of $7,000!
* Yesterday, 4,720 patrons were donating to Mastodon
* Today, 6,968 patrons are donating to Mastodon

Let's continue this work. Donate, and get the word out!

(Oh, and if you can, send your instance some bux too.)

https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

This 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast & Still Flourishes Today: The Power of Resilience

https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/this-392-year-old-bonsai-tree-survived-the-hiroshima-atomic-blast-still-flourishes-today.html

Any other left-leaning #floridians here? I know we are a rare breed, but let me know!

👋 hello, Earth!

After passing behind the #Moon earlier, #Artemis1 has swung back into view from our perspective here on Earth and re-established communications with the Deep Space Network.

This is the image it sent back (credit: NASA).

Read more about this burn manoeuvre at the mission blog here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/11/21/orion-successfully-completes-lunar-flyby-re-acquires-signal-with-earth/

Chromium 108.x landed in latest Brave Beta - Some new flags to play with

Biggest change will be vertical tabs among internal structure changes.

Does #netneutrality    lower fiber investment by 25% as economists claim? I'm not convinced and neither is @ofcom. This graph from an earlier version illustrates my concern. AU and NZ just started building their national fiber nets. See addendum 2 https://rudolfvanderberg.medium.com/request-for-retraction-of-netneutrality-and-high-speed-broadband-networks-evidence-from-oecd-d33ce2f8b749

Lately I’ve been making some #PolymerClay things for flying #Pride flags when you don’t want to fly an actual flag (or wants to accessorise!). I’ve made several different types for #Ace and #nonbinary people too. If you’re #Trans and like these, please let me know - you can have one if you don’t mind paying for postage (I don’t mind posting overseas, but it can be cost prohibitive from Australia)

(Decided after I felt a little flat today to throw some good into the void.)

(RT @cphoffmann )

📢 Call for Papers 📢

Working on digital resignation, privacy cynicism or related concepts? This Special Issue of Big Data & Society may be for you 👇

🗓️Deadline for abstract submissions Dec 19!

https://www.digital-participation.org/fileadmin/webcontent_cfdp/Abbildungen/Call_for_Papers_-_Special_Issue_BD_S.pdf

@giuliaranzini
@NoraADraper
@JoeProf

Whenever I hear an autistic person say "ok, so" during a conversation, I get very happy, as I am about to learn an entire semester's worth of information in the next 15 minutes.
The most wonderful phrase.

A quick reminder that, with things in upheaval on social media, you can use the moment to reset your behavior. https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/social-media-mental-health-break/ new #MidRange

“All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.”

Voltaire, born on this day in 1694, on the art of being undefeated by hardship https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/08/07/voltaire-on-life/

The Walkmen - Heaven ❤️

This is the final song in How I Met Your Mother, and it's one of the best! 🤗

This line has the lyric, "Remember Remember All we fight for" This makes me 😭

https://watch.whatever.social/watch?v=zk-WqJl4l_Q

#NowPlaying
#HIMYM

Beware Psiphon, CIA tech tool to assist, fuel global protests

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/11/18/692977/Beware-Psiphon-CIA-tech-tool-assist-fuel-global-protests

Since pmos doesn't track users and it's been a while since I did this poll. Let's ask it again with all the new mastodon users :D

Do you daily drive a #postmarketos phone?

autumn at its best 😍

#photography #nature #red #lightpoetry #mft #autumn #NatureArtwork

One minute you’re a happy-go-lucky lactobacillus and the next you’re pro-biotic yogurt.

This just following a shooting at a Queer club in Colorado, hosting a drag event.

Libs of TikTok are stochastic terrorists and have blood on their hands.

Ancient octopus pots from Minoan Crete. Made about 3,500 years ago. The artists who painted these pots were inspired by #nature and loved what they saw! Look at those faces! 🐙 👀 ❤️

#archaeology