Daily Mastodon trending topic report:
1. You’re using it wrong in many ways that personally offend me
2. This place was better without any people
3. Open-source software
4. You’re being polite but not in the way I prefer
5. The Fediverse (“fedora universe”)
6. Should we de-federate Toyota if they start a server?
7. Top 20 Fediverse alternatives to Wikipedia
8. Historical evidence that Hitler invented quote tweets
9. Cats
10. It’s weird how people create accounts but don’t stick around
"#Pride is in part what people make of it. A pride march can have a social justice agenda. Or it can have a pro-Trump agenda.
Yet pride’s history is a story of a radical break with right-wing and even middle-of-the-road gay and trans politics. Pride rejected respectability and discretion.
Traces of that history probably survive in your local pride march. Look for the people who are not worried about alarming the straights."
https://theconversation.com/from-gay-nazis-to-were-here-were-queer-a-century-of-arguing-about-gay-pride-78888
#PrideMonth #GayPride #LGBTQ
The chef's-kiss gracenote to this...
Churchill never said this quote. It appears to be from a fantasy volume related to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, put into the mouth of "Elminster of Shadowdale"
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/03/24/enemies/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1604960538148360192
“Tonight, there are unconfirmed reports coming out of Moore County, NC of three substations being shot up with firearms simultaneously to cut power to a drag show. Reportedly, nearly 40,000 people in Moore County are currently without power.”
@philippsteinkrueger @ct_bergstrom
A shitpost on Mastodon should be called a Tusker Dü.
This is especially for folks just discovering The Conversation on #Mastodon - but anyone curious about the world will find it interesting and informative reading.
We've collected 8 of our most popular articles of the year in links, and in a downloadable PDF.
Among them:
🦟 The science of mosquito magnets
🔭 The search for super-earths
🌋 Why we can't just throw all our trash into volcanoes to get rid of it
All written by experts.
https://theconversation.com/a-sampler-of-our-most-popular-articles-of-2022-195535
#Journalism #Science #SciComm #News
What are the best accounts on here to follow for keeping track of court decisions? This was SUCH a helpful aspect of Twitter for me.
I know @chrisgeidner and @imillhiser are here.
Other ideas? #LawFedi #Courts #News #TwitterExit
Just a reminder to folks that are here from bird site, please include your mastodon handles in your profile over at twitter so folks who follow you can migrate here.
Fedifinder here doesn't just help you track your followers over to here, it'll also tell you if it can find your account in your own profile to help *your* followers too
The tool looks for your mastodon handle in either:
1) Your display name (tho locked you're verified)
2) Your bio
3) Your pinned tweet
Chris Coleman
The Conversation U.S.
David Dayen
The Rude Pundit
WeedenKim
jwz
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Leah Litman
Pwnallthethings