An intense "bomb cyclone" storm is pummeling #California today with strong winds and heavy #rain.

Forecasts for the #storm have been dire, prompting cities in the #SFBA to frantically prepare emergency services.

Impacts may include “widespread #flooding, roads washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down, widespread #poweroutages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life.”

Follow live updates: https://bit.ly/3ievG6V

RT @[email protected]

Regardless of what happens with the Speaker vote today, Republicans owe their slim majority to gerrymandering in Texas where based on their share of the vote they should have 21 seats among the Texas delegation instead of the 25 they drew for themselves. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/01/03/razor-thin-gop-majority-in-congress-rests-on-4-extra-seats-from-texas-gerrymander/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ColinAllredTX/status/1610696298759426050

Media people and organisations, start your own Fediverse servers! This is your chance to be in control of what you publish!

By remaining on Twitter you are helping Musk control you and your readers. You used to be in control before Twitter. The Fediverse is your chance to get back that control.

It is really cheap and easy!

Non-techy people go here:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network/

Techy people go here:

➡️ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/

The @TexasObserver has just started its own server, for example.

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She worked with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz on the design and implementation of Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — and was the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

10 PRINT “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”
20 GOTO 10

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration