This time tomorrow I will be Liù in Turandot! My fourth Puccini role in less than 12 months. 🙀 (First was Mimì in La bohème, second Floria Tosca in Tosca, third Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly.)

#opera #ILoveMyJob #operaSinger #turandot #puccini #Liù

Hello Canadians!

If you are looking to join a Canadian instance of Mastodon(Which there are many great ones) you are more than welcome to join https://mastodonapp.ca which is open for new registrations and not experiencing any delays.

#canada #canadian #mastodon

J'ai fait une petite vidéo pour aider les gens qui arrivent sur Mastodon. Des trucs et astuces pour rendre l'utilisation de Mastodon plus agréable. J'en ferai peut-être d'autres si je sens que ça aide.

https://youtu.be/g-cTr1tQej4

#TwitterQuebec #FediQuebec #twittermigration #Mastotip #Feditips #quebec #francais

Fun fact: I don’t enjoy being #barefoot on stage, ever. Stages are dusty and dirty, sometimes there’s spit on it or nails or screws or splinters. I look as if I like having naked feet because I’m acting. The director decided my character is childlike/carefree/innocent/vulnerable/sexy.

I don’t mind that people share photos of my feet, I just wish they wouldn’t convince themselves that I share their fetish!

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#opera #operaSinger #stageLife #footFetish #barefootAtWork

I gave a #LandBack lecture in my #foodsystems class yesterday. I always start with a perspective on what was here before 1491, and share data from this study.

Students are always *stunned* by the data from this paper, which estimates that 56 million #Indigenous people died by 1600, 90% of their population.

They are also always stunned to learn that the disruption of land use was so great it changed global #climate.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261

Currently Masto.host is experiencing the highest volume of traffic that has ever reached the infrastructure.

The service is partially degraded and I will be doing fast upgrades on the platform.

These can lead to partial downtime, errors and large delays in support requests.

Really sorry. Doing the best I can on my end. Hope you understand. Thanks.

For those who don't know, Bookwyrm is basically a better, federated Goodreads. Because it speaks ActivityPub, you can subscribe to someone's Bookwyrm feed from directly in Mastodon and see the book reviews they post!

https://joinbookwyrm.com/

Also there are 2 spots remaining in the Bookwyrm patreon to pay $40/mo and support the project in a huge way *and* have @tripofmice run a server for you and 50 of your bookwormiest friends: https://www.patreon.com/bookwyrm