Mastodawn

Alex Plank Jul 2, 2023

Kate Starbird Jul 2, 2023

In ~2014, my colleague & I argued that social media (esp. Twitter) had become part of the critical infrastructure of disaster response. People were turning to Twitter during crises to share information about impacts and resources. Disaster responders were using the data shared there for situational awareness, and were communicating in real-time with their constituents. Today’s events underscore just how dangerous it is for society to come to rely on private platforms as critical infrastructure.

Alex Plank Mar 30, 2023

He broke the law and now he’s going to be facing the consequences. #trumpindictment

Alex Plank Mar 19, 2023

Show thread

le kendall

Mar 19, 2023

Zeugma!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis

Zeugma and syllepsis - Wikipedia

Alex Plank Jan 26, 2023

Show thread

Anthony J Leonardi Jan 26, 2023

"It is noteworthy that two of twelve SARS-CoV-2-positive children had a previous laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, dating back three and five months prior to tonsillectomy, indicating that they had prolonged or persisting SARSCoV-2 infection."

Alex Plank Jan 24, 2023

Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏 Jan 23, 2023

I think I must have written 10,000 words over the past three days. Which sounds great, save for the fact that less than a few hundred of them were for the novel.

Busy times. All good. I seem to run on an #ActuallyAutistic cycle where I'm on fire for three to six months and then mostly useless for six weeks. December and the first part of January were those weeks.

I love the smell of Napalm in the morning.

Napalm. What an innocent-sounding, evil, evil word.

Alex Plank Jan 23, 2023

While traveling recently, I was talking with a woman who happened to be one of the only other people wearing a mask.

I commented on this and she told me she’s had #covid *six* times because she believed that she’d be fine without a mask since she was vaccinated.

She knows the vaccine helped but wishes she hadn’t been lead to believe that the vaccine made masks unnecessary. Now she wears a #mask everywhere. #longcovid

Alex Plank Jan 2, 2023

Steve Silberman Jan 2, 2023

I'm going to say something unfashionable: Stop shaming folks for seeking "reach" in social media, *particularly* if what they create is substantive and generally good for the world. I've been a freelancer almost all of my life. The advent of social media enabled writers like me to talk directly to interested readers and build communities. If you have a corporate gig, "reach" may seem like a frivolous luxury. For freelancers, it's a necessity - the only job security we have.

Alex Plank Jan 2, 2023

trendless Jan 2, 2023

It doesn't matter what you were right about: if you advocated for fatalism, nihilism, 'hoaxism', or any other form of ignoring the pandemic and letting it rip, you were wrong.

#COVID #COVIDIsNotOver #MaskUp #BetterMasks

Alex Plank Jan 2, 2023

Show thread

Camille (they/them)Jan 2, 2023

2/3

Do you have any tips for how to manage the balancing act of symptom tracking? Sometimes I get to a point of thinking it’s not worth the spoons to try to keep a record, but it feels like they could be important details

#ActuallyAutistic #NEISvoid #SymptomTracking

Alex Plank Dec 19, 2022