mccDec 16, 2022

Presenting: "Space Karen".

This is Karen Nyberg, who was a NASA astronaut from 1991 to 2020 and logged 180 days in space between 2008 and 2013. In 2013 while stationed on the ISS she sewed a stuffed dinosaur, believed to be the only stuffed animal ever manufactured in space, out of fabric scavenged from Roscosmos food containers and stuffing from a shredded T-shirt.

Show threadsbiDec 18, 2022
@mcc Also see this: https://twitter.com/kejames/status/1593497948868034560
Dr. Karen James on Twitter

“I was space Karen first, dammit.”

Twitter
Show threadmccDec 18, 2022
@sbi Turns out Ms. James is on Mastodon too! https://mastodon.social/@kejames@mastodon.online/109526967824410441
Show threadsbiDec 18, 2022

@mcc Oh, thank you!

(That's a wild way to link to her profile BTW, which didn't work here. I think https://mastodon.online/@kejames and @kejames should both work.)

Show threadKaren JamesDec 19, 2022
@sbi @mcc I’m surprised just @kejames works. What if there were at-kejames-es on other instances?
Show threadKaren JamesDec 19, 2022
@sbi @mcc @kejames
Show threadsbiDec 19, 2022
@kejames @mcc I think your local instance shortens this for you, even though I wrote the full name.
Show threadmccDec 19, 2022
@sbi @kejames Interesting to me: @kejames by itself shows up for me shortened to @kejames, even though kejames and I are NOT on the same server. I guess this is because mastodon.online and mastodon.social are run by the same organization, so maybe they're secretly the same server on the inside? Hm.
Show threadsbi
@mcc @kejames No, there's no secret cabal behind this. It's just that your instance/client shortens this. I'm on Tusky for Android right now, and in your post I see a version of Karen's handle with, and one without, the link. So the full handle gets shortened visually, but still works as a full handle, whereas your self-shortened one doesn't really work, because it's actually not a valid handle.
Dec 19, 2022 at 8:06amWeb