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Software Engineer. Listener of Podcasts. Father to one human and 2 Australian Shepherds.

I enjoy politics and fall into the "hate the policy not the person" camp. I don't plot well onto the US political spectrum--a moderate, libertarian leaning voter.

Was on Mastodon 1 day in 2021 but didn't use it in earnest until 2022.

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So what are our Twitter-Mastodon strategies people?

Which one best describes you?...

Please re-share for larger numbers.

On Twitter mainly, but with a backstop here
13.6%
Half Twitter (for fights), half here (for love)
12.7%
Mainly here - but keeping Twitter account in case
41.1%
Have deleted Twitter and only on here
32.7%
Poll ended at .

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.

Experiment: Ayn Rand, yay or nay?
Yay
2.2%
Nay
97.8%
Poll ended at .
I like how it's OK to break social norms when it comes to #Thanksgiving leftovers. Shrimp Bisque for breakfast, sure. Prime rib, why not. All in an effort to reduce #foodwaste

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

On top a rocket! 🚀
The Boston Public Library (USA) has digitised its collection of legacy vinyl (crackle and hiss and all) at the Internet Archive, and it's the absolute epitome of a 50s–70s library record collection.
https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Glass is heavy. Remember people not only are trucks a lot bigger than a car we are multiple times heavier. We can't stop on a dime. We need space to stop ( about the length of a football field in good weather ). So please give us room to slow down or meneuver. If you don't you you could end up the hood ornament on an 80k lbs vehicle. #trucking

If you need some #scifi #comedy DUST on #YouTube has a good one. About 20 min.

https://youtu.be/9JK8cY1-UOY

Roller-coaster couple of days. Made an offer on a 1 acre property. It was accepted. Home inspection revealed mold, termites, window and roof issues. Almost ready to punt on this property unfortunately.