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I'm mostly here to pooptoot (shart?) about transit, cats, and politics. I'll try to keep my local politics to my other account (see below)
Local Politics Account@alex

Thanks to the magic of having installed ethernet in my office, my microwave doesn't disrupt video calls to my desktop anymore!

#OldWifiHardwareProblems

@piatpod This is kinda a big deal.

BIG NEWS: OUR DONOR HAS AGREED TO MATCH EVERYTHING OVER $100K NOW. KEEP ON GIVING. IT WILL ALL GET DOUBLED.

Vulgarity For Charity 2022 #VFC2022

Give to @modestneeds by Thursday night to get your donation matched dollar for dollar. Current total is $130k x 2 = $260k... and counting!

Tell me something cyclists and public transport users understand, but motorist don’t get.
I’ll start: building more cycling infrastructure and funding better pubic transport actually improves driving.

Only FOUR days left to get your donations in for Vulgarity For Charity 2022 #V4C2022 to @modestneeds.

Fundraiser ends 11/24/22 at midnight ET.

Today, Nov 19, is International Men's Day. Let's review how to celebrate the days for each of the most popular genders:
Mar 8 -> Women's Day -> Smash Patriarchy
Jul 14 -> Nonbinary People's Day -> Smash Patriarchy
Nov 19 -> #InternationalMensDay -> Smash Patriarchy
@MegaMichelle
Megawoke: Driverless trains
If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden
Leaving Twitter's Walled Garden

This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on privacy and security on Mastodon, why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and how to make a Mastodon account. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.A wave of people have announced that they're leaving...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Hi all, I'm seeing efforts by different disciplines moving out of twitter to reconnect on Mastodon. Lets try to do this for urban/housing twitter!

Please fill out this form if you are a journalist, student, practitioner, or scholar of cities, urban planning, housing, urbanism, etc. https://tinyurl.com/yuxu77kv

And, if you want to see the list, the spreadsheet is here: https://tinyurl.com/5n7fkus7

Please circulate/boost in your networks! #urban #twittermigration #housing #cities #gentrification