Matt Rubin

@mattrubin
217 Followers
213 Following
256 Posts
Hi. He/him.
LocationPittsburgh
Twitterhttps://Twitter.com/mattirubin
Me @ Union.Placehttps://union.place/@mattrubin
Me @ Kolektiva.Socialhttps://kolektiva.social/@mattrubin
hello mastodon i'm going to try using this again i guess
idc what your platform, if you send me an email asking me to donate to your campaign so you don't miss an arbitrary goal you set with no clear organizing need defined, especially if the motivating emotion is guilt, worry, or fear purely about missing a fundraising goal,

over the holiday visiting family I learned cooking homemade pasta is considered a very impressive level of cooking skill despite like many pastas being not all that difficult or time consuming to make

which makes me wonder, what food best optimizes the relationship between level of impressive cooking being high as possible and the skill/time being as low as possible

truly, how the hell does anyone in December 2022 go around masking without a mask over their nose thinking they're doing it right
So another Twitter feature seems disappeared? Browser version is not showing any option to save drafts

very smart people on Twitter: nobody will use Mastodon its too complicated

joining Twitter in 2011: so I text 160 characters to the number 40404 and it posts on a website? and it texts me other people's posts on the website? and if i like someone's post I repost what they said but say RT first? and if i

Musk just reinstated the Twitter account of one of America's loudest Nazis.

He knows exactly what he's doing.

The nightmare scenario -- the fascist right taking over major media companies -- is getting more and more real. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-reinstates-neo-nazi-andrew-anglin-account-1234640390/

Elon Brings One of America’s Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter

Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin has been reinstated to Twitter under Elon Musk’s new policies for the platform.

Rolling Stone

In America’s rush to build the #nuclear arsenal that won the Cold War, safety was sacrificed for speed.

#Uranium mills that helped fuel the weapons also dumped #radioactive and toxic waste into rivers. Thousands of sheep turned blue & died after foraging on tainted land. #Cancer wards across the West swelled with sick uranium workers.

The government bankrolled the industry but didn’t have a plan for the toxic byproducts of this nuclear assembly line.

https://www.propublica.org/article/uranium-mills-pollution-cleanup-us?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The Cold War Legacy Lurking in U.S. Groundwater

For the first time, ProPublica has cataloged cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed to fuel the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Even after regulators say cleanup is complete, polluted water and sickness are often left behind.

ProPublica

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

Pro-tip - if you enable the "Advanced Web Interface" in Mastodon, you get a very TweetDeck-like experience 👨‍🔬