RT @[email protected]

At the end of this A&E shift:
- I’ve seen >30 patients in the back of ambulances
- still 15 patients outside
- longest wait outside currently 6hrs
- longest wait for a bed from inside >30hrs
- patients waiting in ED for bed right now >80

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Lucie_Cocker/status/1608626312503259137

To all Mastodon-admins: seems like there's an attack on all instances by troll accounts. Servers get slow because of it.
They use thousands of subdomains of activitypub-troll.cf. My 'pull' queues skyrocketed.

I now blocked the domain activitypub-troll.cf and all is back to normal. Please check if you're hit too.
#mastoadmin #fediblock

RT @[email protected]

The front pages of the Metro, i, Financial Times, Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Mirror, Daily Star and Sun all appeared in "The Papers" section of the BBC News app this morning.

But this one, from the Guardian, did not. I wonder why?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1595718187932418051

Folks have mentioned that Twitter is an extremely important space for sharing #protest news across the world and as a result we should keep preserving it despite the takeover.

I get it, I am #Iranian, I have relied heavily on twitter for news sharing re protests in #Iran over the years.

But what you are missing is that those same activists and protesters are MOST vulnerable to the new Twitter regime. Misinformation campaigns will be easy, and #Putin/#China/Islamic republic will use it.

2005: Rupert Murdoch paid $580m for Myspace.
2009: he sold it in $35m.

2008: Bebo was sold for $850m, to AOL. The founders later bought it back for $1m. It was regarded as one of the worst deals ever made in the dot-com era.

2013: Yahoo paid $1.1bn for Tumblr. 2019: they sold it in $3m.

Elon Musk paid $44bn for Twitter. If history has taught us anything it's that this isn't going to end well… when there wasn't a viable business model in the first place.

#Mastodon #Twitter #TwitterMigration

RT @[email protected]

A word @[email protected]. If you don’t want accusations of lack of impartiality, don’t say union members “stage a walk-out.” It’s illegal to walk out. Strike action is the result of a legal process. It doesn’t allow downing tools & walking out. @[email protected] I welcome your feedback.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/matwatkinson/status/1596052781776965634