Working on another story for The Guardian about Mastodon, a kind of update to my last one (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/01/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk-takeover).

Hoping to speak to users / admins about how your experience has been over the last few months here. Still loving it? Less excited? Something else? DM me or email [email protected]

Left some used chemicals filtering for disposal* over the long weekend. Normally it's a dense brown sludge, but a few extra days left this lovely #fractal pattern. Very reminiscent of #Escher 's #hyperbolic images.

* converting iron chloride solution, which can't go down the sink, into iron carbonate (not oxide like I said!) which can go in the bin

#science #art #accidentalArt

One year on. I hope and pray for this. Xxx

Ukraine's Banksy stamps feature art of Putin in judo match - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64774717

#Admin #IndieWebSocial

Given all the crazy happening on Twitter this morning, where Elon is shutting down free SMS Two Factor Authentification, putting it behind a paywall, it seems like a good time to post this:

This server and all Mastodon servers have built-in Two-Factor for free - and we strongly encourage everyone to enable this. Here is how.

#2FA

https://sts10.github.io/2022/11/11/mastodon-two-factor-authentication.html

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

I have a low bar for what I consider "A Christmas Miracle!"

It could be sainsbury's having stock of my preferred frozen pizza, or a train not being late, or finding an unopened bottle of wine in the cupboard. Anything really.