Emma

@yeomans
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Times journalist, previously at Masthead.social
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Hey @Gargron, I emailed you this morning about maybe grabbing a quick interview for the Times about Mastodon but figured it might be more appropriate to contact you on here! Would you be up for a chat about your aims for Mastodon and what does/will differentiate it from birdsite etc? Would be superb to hear from you as I'm writing about creative challengers to older social media, and Mastodon is the perfect example.
Theresa May has danced onto a stage to ABBA, we are living in the sitcom version of a country
(my story)

If you're went to a state school and want to be a lawyer, you're going to outperform your peers at work - but you'll still be slower to progress in your career and more likely to leave the profession.

Young lawyers say they're under pressure to drop working class accents and adopt middle class speech and interests - or face feelings of exclusion and not fitting in.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/working-class-lawyers-being-held-back-by-city-culture-8c977dlbx

Working-class lawyers ‘being held back by City culture’

Lawyers educated at state schools progress more slowly and are less likely to be retained by firms despite being consistently rated as better performers than their peers, a study has found.

I just saw someone make a comparison between students using jazz hands rather than clapping, and people dying in WW1, as if "Would you rather die in a war, or accommodate deaf people" is a reasonable question to ask
Sometimes I spend a week or two away from Mastodon then come back and am pleasantly surprised by the niceness of it all
a dog is allowed to do crimes. even if you want to stop a dog from doing crimes, you can’t
Look at this snoot
I have a day off so I'm borrowing a neighbour's pup for the best day ever #Mastodogs

Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence.

We're going to live in a very weird world man.

https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack

Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA

Researchers planted a working hacker exploit in a physical strand of DNA.