New #LossAndDamage fund is major win for #climatejustice movements 🎉But pitiful progress on emission cuts, & Global North hasn’t delivered urgently needed finance. Until agreement on keeping fossil fuels in ground, our foot remains on accelerator on road to climate hell #COP27
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1594261703231000578
Thoughts on "followers", "influence" and true human connection
I'm still battling with my old mindset that more followers are better. That I want "influence" and reach more people.
I don't. In the past years I arrived at the conclusion that people don't change their attitudes when they're yelled at by strangers on the internet. Science is with me here.
I was a happy camper here before November 2022. I enjoyed talking about things I love, the things that happen in my life, my struggles. I want to keep doing that. I don't seek an audience. I seek connection and compassion, as that's what I'm offering.
So no. I don't look for more followers or more influence. I want true human connections that need time and effort. I, like most of us, was trained to mistake the number of followers with people with whom I have a connection.
This is worth unlearning.
also I took the super lazy option for mastodon setup, digital ocean 1 click. Will probs move things off eventually but didn't want to commit that much time till I knew I was actually hanging about/using it
I've not done *ANY* #tech work out of work hours for such a long time and my rustiness is showing; but it's nice I still can't just do the thing I logged on to do, upgrading postgres settings, ubuntu distro and messing with some cache config while I'm here... Ssh-ing into a server is like going to the super market for some bread and coming out with a trolley full of stuff you didn't need
Mention of alcohol
@RachAirStailc that is an impressive level of planning/self care! I honestly thought staying "on the wagon" would make things easier the day after but age seems to have more of an impact than the hangovers used to
Just starting the justweb.dev #mastodon update so if I'm gone for a while I've goofed up :p
BREAKING from the CWU #StandByYourPost:
ROYAL MAIL TO WALK AWAY FROM TALKS TO SETTLE STRIKES FROM MONDAY
When the weather's this rotten it's best to stay in and curl up on the sofa (if you can) as expertly demonstrated by #HRHZeldaTheCat
UPDATE: no need for further boosting. Thank you everyone!
My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,
"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."
https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1593726621340426241
Our "work with us" page: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
Hi! We're an international network of social science scholars focused on understanding the cultural and institutional dynamics of the political conflict over climate change.
You can read more about our work, and read the latest research from our scholars on our website https://cssn.org/
Anyway
This sounds like snark but it's not
If you're on mastodon dot social or dot online
Leave that instance and get on a better one
They are de facto unmoderated instances due to their sheer size and many many instances have them limited
So for example, if someone from m dot s replies to this, I won't see it
Ever!
I made the switch to a #fairPhone4 about 8 months ago and on the whole it has been "fine" but the camera is really a pain, it can barely focus (even in good light) and it takes around 3-4 seconds from pressing the button to actually taking the image. By which point my cat has inevitably moved or stopped doing the cute thing i wanted a photo of :/ anyone found a way of making it less janky? #phoneProblems #android #ethicalConsumer
When it spins round it looks like the silhouette of an island with a particularly rugged coast line :p so much so @ecogof@twitter.com asked me which country it was the other day #birdSite
My well worn #birdSite pop socket (freeby from recruiter) fairly accurately represents the current state of erosion pretty well #popSocket #deathOfTwitter
Got a day off so listening to a book while doing some #housework and #HRHZeldaTheCat is very interested in it!
Listening to The Wake Up by Michelle MiJung Kim (@mjmichellekim@twitter.com) - it's a good book and has made me think a lot about what my "activism" should look like, especially around what I am willing to give up in order to achieve equity/equality - comfort, convenience, career progression, wealth...?
Work in tech \ Concerned about most things \ Alcohol free \ #Vegan \ United Tech & Allied Workers Union #UTAW #sewing #scottishGreens
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