Alex M. Stein

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

You might know me as @coldfootfilms from Twitter.

@mivox Have I really not been on here in 19 months? Apparently so.

Hi!

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.

@SpookNein @charlesgaba @Gargron Wow... that's kind of crazy.

Not surprising, but still...

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).
@pgeller Good to see you here, Pete!