Hi there. Opening this account as a precaution against the Muskocolypse.
@pkrugman
Welcome! Happy to see you here!
@pkrugman Who knows, I might get a reply. Chances are slightly better here, among 38 followers, than among 4.6M on twitter! Welcome!
@pkrugman Look what I have in common with @pkrugman
@pkrugman welcome. Turns out it's really nice here!
@pkrugman will you post your normal Twitter content here? Cheers. #Muskocalypse
@pkrugman Good to have you, oh Shrill One!
@pkrugman It’s good to see you here! Welcome! It’s different than Twitter but I think in a lot of ways it’s better. #TwitterMigration
@pkrugman Welcome! If you add some hashtags to your bio it makes it a lot easier to find you (on Mastodon searching by name doesn't work).

@pkrugman Welcome professor. That's a good plan.

Some cynic on twitter, just yesterday, said "Yeah, well, let me know when the likes of Paul Krugman or @StevenBeschloss arrive in your New World. Welp…

(FYI, I thought I'd coined "Muskpocalypse" last May, but all alt-spellings are just fine. It's the thought that counts. :)

@pkrugman It’s so fantastic to see the sane people wandering in to the sane forum. Welcome…..and enjoy the calm.
@pkrugman Wow. Without the exact and complete address it was impossible to find you. I still have to adjust to this new site. Looking forward to find all the valuable accounts.
@pkrugman I’m hopeful Musk will protect his business reputation and keep adequate quality control. This despite his bad start. Otherwise the spill over into his overall standing and other businesses (Tesla) will be too high.

@pkrugman glad to see you here.

There will be many more soon.

@pkrugman it seems there is a way to replicate tweets to mastodon son You don't have to write the same thing twice.
@pkrugman welcome Paul lovely to see you here
@pkrugman Hi! Come on in, the water's fine!
@pkrugman Good to see you! Keep us posted on your midterm thoughts. Not the ones about the horse race. The ones about the survival of democracy.
@pkrugman welcome! Is this really you? ;)
@pkrugman hi Paul. Welcome to Mastodon!

@pkrugman

Welcome! Glad to have an additional respected voice here.

@pkrugman I did the same thing. Who knows where this will go. Any economist predictions?
@pkrugman Hello, Welcome, good to have you around here!
@pkrugman Yay! Now i can get my geek on.
@pkrugman welcome. Just gave you follow
@pkrugman Welcome Sir! It took a day for your account to show up in my search results. I am happy to see heavy hitters such as yourself make the transition/migration.
@pkrugman Took a while, but finally managed to activate my new account. I'm still on Twitter. Will you be duplicating your posts here, or just posting on Twitter, unless Musk Hits the Fan?
@pkrugman Hey Paul Krugman,
Why aren’t you in the administration?
@pkrugman Really glad you're here.
@pkrugman Hi. This might be a new start in a better environment. Unfortunately twitter has become rather toxic.
@pkrugman following you here, for the same hedging reason. It feels like a precursor to what we may have to do IRL, if 2022 and 2024 become the GOPalypse. Where do we go then? Holland, Spain, Denmark...?
@pkrugman Great to see you here. I hope you stay around. Even though there’s growing pains and learning curves and whatever, I don’t want to go back to a commercial, algorithm-driven, billionaire-centered social media experience. 😁
@pkrugman ditto here. Watching the twitterverse implode in realtime is about as fascinating as it is sad. There will be case studies written about these days. The finale of this drama is uncertain, but a hard landing is imminent even if a total disaster would be avoided.
@pkrugman Do please follow some of us, Paul.
@pkrugman We are well into the Muskularity…which may lead to Twitter Fall…originally by Tuesday but maybe now Thursday .
Twitter Fall will take 70% of the internet with it via a cascade event
@pkrugman Seems to work so far.
@pkrugman Hi Paul. I’m here too. Look forward to your posts here!
@pkrugman glad to see you on Mastodon! Stopped using Twitter about a month ago and really missed your posts. One of the downsides of leaving Twitter is losing access to the people you enjoy following. Not everyone has or will make the transition. When your name popped up, it was like seeing a rainbow after a heavy rainstorm. Hope you stick with Mastodon and give it some time for your followers to find you!
@pkrugman I came here just two days ago, also. It sort of feels like we're gathering one by one in the old abandoned diner while we wait for the zombie hoards outside to die off.

@pkrugman

Two observations:

1) I’m not sure you’re not impersonating an important economist without clearly specifying “parody”

2) For sure you owe me $8

@pkrugman Looks like you joined a very sensible club.
@pkrugman Welcome to Mastodon, Dr. Krugman! I hope you enjoy it here. I want to be an economist like you someday <3
@pkrugman so happy to see you here. I hope you'll stay and share your wisdom with us on this platform.
@pkrugman me too. I'm not a famous person and I never had a blue check but Twitter seems to be going off the rails with the nuts so I figured I would start an account in Mastodon.
@pkrugman Welcome aboard. Super excited to see my favorite economist!
@pkrugman Thank you for doing so. I'd rather be here than around that Musky odor.
@pkrugman Thank you for coming here! A lot of us want to avoid that Musky odor.
@pkrugman To be fair, the CEO over here is far cooler than any that have been at Hellbird. And it didn’t take Craig Ferguson & John Cleese signing up to convince me to use this one. #TwitterMigration #betterfuture #academicmastodons
@pkrugman
Just make the move. In a little time you'll forget the Blue Bird.
@pkrugman
Seems you have already upset wee Timmy.
Bit of a downer when you find out all your talent, who you hoped would pay you $8/mth, is migrating to an open source distributed service ad-free rival!
@pkrugman
Hi Paul,
I was wondering if, like me, you were reminded of Asimov's The Mule by the chaos Elon has caused over on the Other Site.