D. A. Swafford

@d_a_swafford
29 Followers
41 Following
26 Posts

(𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴)

Pharmaceutical Chemist. Here to talk about drugs/science/music/medicine with a side of geopolitics and open source intelligence.

Yet another Twitter refugee.

This is my best friend, Spice. When Twitter broke she actually went outside and rolled around in the grass (and then ate and puked some of it) instead of immediately switching to mastodon.

Spice is smarter than I am.

So I guess with Twitter bricked I’ll have to re-install NextDoor to get my fix of snarking with people I don’t like all day. 👍🏻
Could use suggestions for #cbrn accounts to follow? Or servers that cater to such interests?
Photos from Turkey showing how intense the recent earthquake was. The Anatolian Plate shifted 3.5 meters, which is well visualized in these images.

Confession: I’ve sort of ignored mastodon in hopes that Twitter would implode. But… it looks like that hope may not pan out.

Since basically all functionality seems to be locked out over there, I am back over here to cast my musings into the void. I suspect I’m not the only one.

Anyway, here’s my cat.

Celebrating 30 years of kitty friends: My first cat, Sparkles (circa 1992) and my current buddy, Spice.

His stupid jet is legally required to broadcast it’s location.

Aside from a small community of aviation nerds, no one would be paying attention to his jet if he hadn’t made such a big deal about.

Elon ‘Free Speech’ Musk Un-Suspends Accounts of Journalists Who Criticized Him

Twitter has reinstated the accounts of prominent journalists who had been critical of Elon Musk, who paints himself as a champion of free speech.

Rolling Stone
Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:
You should see the paint damage this cat has caused by jumping into my car.