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Former scienceman, current writerman and postgrad lit student with the OU.

Does a blog here: https://www.patchworkmind.co.uk/

April post-mortem: The rise and rise of Mastodon https://medium.com/@Gargron/april-post-mortem-12e3d141878c

I wrote a little about my first few days using Mastodon

Toot Toot Tweet Tweet https://patchworkmind.co.uk/2017/04/24/toot-toot-tweet-tweet/

#socialmedia #twitter #mastodon

Not quite the #Cyberpunk future I envisioned

#PSA: Don't feed wild animals. PSA 2: Beasts in cities are still wild animals.

Two gulls just flew *at* a little girl on the station to get at her doughnut and then when she had finished screaming, she fed a bit of it to the gull as an offering. They didn't go away, it attracted more of them. They have learned that humans are essentially harmless; quite rightly, no one hits or frightens them, so they come back for more. Don't feed wild animals.

#anthropogenic #biology #ecology #animals

A few years back I read a paper that attributed increased wolf attacks in Yellowstone and Yukon to positive human interactions. They found workers in lumber camps were feeding the wolves. People were attacked by the wolves once people had stopped feeding them, because the realised that humans were essentially harmless. People would stop their cars to feed wolves in Yellowstone. Gulls aren't as dangerous as wolves but still dangerous; do not feed.

I'll link the paper if I can find it again.

A most illuminating post. I particularly found a part on oulipo.social amusing, though I am not such a masochist as to try it ad infinitum!

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/from-witches-to-dolphins-these-are-the-communities-that-make-mastodon-great
by @sarahjeong

#oulipo #noe'seh?

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Not quite the #Cyberpunk future I envisioned
@cypnk @nickfarr yo speak for yourself, this is exactly the #Cyberpunk future that we ought to be envisioning
@cypnk Ummmm. . . .hmm. . . .I. . . I'm not certain. . . .
@cypnk Yes, I'd like to think that they do. 😁
@cypnk According to the documentaries I've seen, they do.
@lambadalambda Now I'm scared to know what kind of documentaries you've seen 😱
@cypnk It's pretty close to the one I dreamed about.
@FilthyLiar Just FYI we haven't worked out "limits" for robots (androids don't really exist yet) so if... er... just don't expect them to be gentle
@cypnk Look, if I can't sic my unexpected, unearned, and incredibly loyal horde of robot followers on people then what even is the point? I'm going to find some way to get them to fight one another, swear to God.
@cypnk But possibly the one we deserve. :/
@cypnk The best sci-fi is always found stuff. 😂