teresa toro

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I often participate in a performance series called The Bushwick Book Club. Writing songs from books means I get to combine two passions: reading and songwriting. I am also on the board of Epiphany, a small literary nonprofit based here in NYC.
The Bushwick Book Clubhttps://www.bushwickbookclub.com/
Epiphany A Literary Journalhttps://epiphanyzine.com/
Eric Carle: In Memoriamhttps://www.ericcarle.art/

Despite how sharks are portrayed in movies and reality tv, here’s what to remember 🦈

Sharks kill 5-10 humans each year.

Humans kill ~100 million sharks each year (and that’s a conservative estimate).

Many species are now threatened with extinction.

Don’t fear sharks. Protect them. #SharedPlanet

Hey everyone, I've put together a little wiki page that aggregates links on:
• How to Use Mastodon
• Tools for Leaving Twitter
• Lists of People on Twitter by Interest, Recommendation, or Verification
• Data About Mastodon

https://github.com/DanielSchuman/Policy/wiki/Mastodon

If you have ideas for what to add, just let me know or edit the wiki yourself (if you can).

Mastodon · DanielSchuman/Policy Wiki

For my policy work. Contribute to DanielSchuman/Policy development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
As exciting as it is to see people coming to Mastodon, I am hoping to see the next big movement which will be when people understand that the main benefit of #decentralization is that you can get to control how you interact with the network and that the power can lie within the client. The more we treat the servers as mere relays of ActivityStreams, the better.

@baratunde I followed one of my favorite Twitter personalities to Mastodon, and joined the same server they did. It's worked out okay so far.

There's a list here: https://joinmastodon.org/servers

But my personal opinion is that the best strategy is as follows:
1) Bootstrap by joining a server that your friends (or failing that, people you follow and respect) are on.
2) Get the lay of the land by following people (especially your admin/mods) and hashtags.
3) Be willing to move, especially early on.

Servers

Find where to sign up for the decentralized social network Mastodon.

@epiphanyzine is now here – welcome!

@litsubmissions and all: Submissions are now open for our Spring/Summer 2023 issue

https://epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

#writersofmastodon
#litmags
#litmag
#writinglife

Epiphany a Literary Journal Submission Manager

Submissions are currently OPEN for the Spring/Summer 2023 Issue of Epiphany, in the categories of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. The deadline for submissions for the next issue is January 1st, 2023. We are offering everyone who sends us work a free digital subscription to Epiphany. If you submit work to us, the code for a free digital subscription will be included in our initial response letter.***Submissions are currently OPEN for the 5th Annual Breakout! Prize in the categories of poetry and prose. This year's guest judges will be Safiya Sinclair and Meredith Westgate. Each winner will receive a $1000 cash prize, publication in the next issue of Epiphany, and a print subscription to the magazine. All contest entrants will also receive a free digital subscription with the code included in our initial response letter.***Submissions are currently OPEN for work to be published exclusively online at Epiphany. All digital submissions will also receive a free digital subscription with the code included in our initial response letter.We hope that when you read Epiphany, you'll get a sense of the great variety of stories, poems, essays, and genre-bending work that we like, and the recurring themes to which we keep returning. We hope that you'll enjoy and connect with the work of your fellow writers, and that you'll feel you're a valued part of our community, rather than just another lonely writer sending your beloved work out into some unsympathetic void.  We hope you'll see what makes us different. We hope you'll feel you have a stake in our endeavor.***Digital subscriptions are also available here, which includes access to the current issue. The digital issue is available as .epub, .mobi, and .pdf. Everyone who submits work for online publication will receive a complimentary digital subscription to Epiphany. Join our mailing list to keep updated on submission period news.

Quick note to anyone who follows my other account FediFollows, it has moved to a new server.

If you're already following it should transfer your follow automatically, but just in case it hasn't you can follow here:

➡️ @FediFollows

If the account is new to you, it suggests interesting people to follow on here every day, and has a website at https://fedi.directory

Fedi.Directory – Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse

This tweet made me laugh SO HARD because there are people who care about #RIPTwitter and then there are people who do not give a shit.
Someone gave me great advice when I started here. Don’t be a wallflower, just scrolling through your timeline. Boost the posts that made you stop a moment. Say hello to others. You’ll be an “old-timer” in a few days. Don’t just follow all the same people who are like you. Use your filter to not see topics that wear you down. Visit other countries through their photos. This place is what WE make it. Let’s build a real community. #newbies #welcome

Any moment now, as Christmas and (American) Thanksgiving get closer, people will start posting suggestions of things to donate to food banks and 'Reverse Advent Calendars'.

I can't stress this enough:
Just. Give. Money.

Food banks can usually get more bang for their buck than you can.
They'll probably be able to give you a tax receipt for money, but not for cans.
And it lets them buy, store, and distribute food in the volumes they need and can handle.

(Please boost to make sure people get the message.)

#FoodBanks #FoodInsecurity #Christmas #Thanksgiving #Charity #JustGiveMoney

@sugar88111 There's tons and tons of new accounts here. It takes us time to find you. Please make it easier to see you. Use MANY hashtags like #Cats #CatsOfMastodon and your interests such as #Catio . People will see you & boost you. Slow down. These links might help you 👇
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/08/mastodon-quick-start-guide/
Mastodon quick start guide

So you want to join Mastodon and get tooting. Great! Here's how to dive straight in.

Official Mastodon Blog