Alex M. Stein

@alexmstein
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Storyteller, filmmaker, lover of the Northern Lights.

You might know me as @coldfootfilms from Twitter.

Sorry to like your post from late April 2023.

I just remembered I have an account here.

Friends!

I've got a piece of (flash) creative nonfiction that's up on Red Noise Collective today.

Check it out at https://www.rednoisecollective.com/the-open-road

open road — ‎

I've been ignoring the elephand (app) in the room in hopes that the Blue-Bird-Hellscape would improve.

But it hasn't happened... so I'm likely to be spending more time here (and on other alternatives).

Hope you are all well!

Also, I went to Iceland in late February and the Aurora was insanely beautiful.

I just saw John Oliver's latest web clip about the talking garbage cans of Malmo, Sweden. And it reminded me of a random fun story sorta, kinda connected to Malmo, which I'm going to tell here now, because I'm procrastinating from writing something else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkvQywg_uZA
Trash: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)

YouTube

Twitter can ban whoever it wants to. It's a private company & has no obligation to platform anyone. That said, kicking people off for mocking the CEO is a disastrous business model for a business whose only value is the community it's built.

That this purge is being pursued by someone who already announced that he's open to running the company into bankruptcy is... a fact people shouldn't overlook.

I logged briefly into Twitter and apparently posted one of the last links to a Mastodon account before they stopped allowing them on Twitter. The link triggers a safety warning, but 30 minutes later it wouldn’t have even posted.
I guess the bird app banning journalists has made folks flow here today (and slow everything down).
Mastodon is perfect for GenX because we’re all just roaming from house to house totally unsupervised and unless something goes really wrong nobody cares #GenX
Looking to connect with all #UglyDogs #MusherTwitter and #AlaskaTwitter folks who migrated here.
Any #uglyDogs on Mastodon?