Mike McCulloch

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Vancouver, rad dad, husband, son, brother, and human.
#T1D pumping with #AAPS, learning to #DIYLOOP.
I sing, play guitar, bass, and drums for fun.
I've worked many jobs from radio and online news, to manual labour, and bus operator.
Let's preserve the planet 'cause there's no place like home.
Mike McCullochNov 22, 2022
Eugen RochkoNov 21, 2022
There were two notable moderation incidents on mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the past 24 hours that I would like to address. In the first, a post was wrongfully removed due to a report claiming it contained a dogwhistle, and in the second, a person was wrongfully suspended due to a report claiming it's an impersonator. Both were undone and apologies issued.
Mike McCullochNov 22, 2022

Going into the 72nd hour with my omnipod dash tonight. It should beep into the final 8 hours sometime around 4:30a.m. Fingers crossed I can get back to sleep!

Do any other dash users aim tl use up that 8hr grace window to get a "free" day every three pods?
#T1D #omnipod

Mike McCullochNov 22, 2022
I moved to @law-and-politicsNov 22, 2022

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Another win for the Democrats and voting rights 🎉

What happened was this: In 2021, Georgia Republicans passed a law shortening the early voting period. Only one Saturday remained for early voting in the runoffs.

Secretary of State Raffensperger said early voting can't be held that day because state law says it is illegal on a Saturday if there is a holiday on the Thursday or Friday preceding it.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-appeals-court-allows-saturday-early-voting-in-us-senate-runoff/NNQ4B7DY25ARVGXK7AQPNBDSMM/

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Mike McCullochNov 22, 2022

Hmm, just realized the instance I joined is €1.5 a month after the first month. Not that it isn't a fine instance (mastodon.green) or that I'm trying to freeload, but perhaps I should use this as an opportunity to move to an instance that is more closely suited to my location (Canada) or interests outside environment?

Any input on where to go? I'm not necessarily opposed to paying a part of the freight, either, just curious if there is a more suited inst. for that kind of dough.

Mike McCullochNov 22, 2022
vladspaceNov 22, 2022
If you're migrating to #Mastodon keep in mind
@ResPrivacy (from the 🐦 site):
Beware of These Privacy Risks Before Migrating to #Mastodon from #Twitter
https://restoreprivacy.com/mastodon-privacy-issues-risks/
Beware of These Privacy Risks Before Migrating to Mastodon

People migrating from Twitter to Mastodon should keep a few privacy matters in mind when posting or communicating on the new platform.

RestorePrivacy
Mike McCullochNov 21, 2022
Roxi Horror 💀🌸Nov 20, 2022
Living well is the best revenge. The second best revenge is carefully removing plants from someone's garden & replacing their lawn gnomes with slightly larger lawn gnomes so they appear to be growing in size from eating the plants.
Mike McCullochNov 21, 2022
Show threadTunguskaNov 21, 2022
@McCulloch
My best suggestion? Call out the instances in question and their admins, and encourage others to do the same. Instances that show a pattern of racist moderation and don't change course when called on it should be blocked, defederated, and generally rendered irrelevant. Mastonauts in general need to get loud about demanding an inclusive Fediverse, like right now, and shine a bright light on offenders.
Mike McCullochNov 21, 2022
I like mastodon but am concerned about recent developments into moderation practices that appear to target racialized people.
That's not going to work in the long run to build this community into a network of users to rival the giants.
Do I have a solution? Not really.
I don't think it's scalable to ask racialized people to walk on eggshells with self censorship, or CWs, or to do huge amounts of research into which instances are welcoming.
Mike McCullochNov 21, 2022
Jim BurtonNov 16, 2022
A 1912 view of the big trees in Stanley Park, the Seven Sisters, long since cut down. Photograph by Rosetti Studios, Lionel Haweis, proprietor.
#stanleypark
#vancouverbc
#bigtrees
#douglasfir
#britishcolumbia
Mike McCullochNov 21, 2022

If you're still on twitter, have you noticed more right-wing figures and thoughts being served in your feed and in the comments though you do not follow these circles?

I think Musk has ordered changes to how the site serves content.

One example, I have never even looked up Andrew Tate on any website, and lo, I was served a Tate tweet today. Also, many prominent accounts were forced into following newly reinstated Trump.

Very quickly, twitter is not twitter anymore.