@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦

I go ding when there's stuff: Writer on STEM, politics, music, film+tv. ex PBS & CBC, fan of science & reason, enemy of BS, US+CDN dual citizen, husband & dad.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a tremendously embarrassing moment, people are leaving Donald Trump’s rally as Donald Trump is in the middle of his speech. Even MAGA is tired of Donald Trump’s BS. Retweet so all Americans see this embarrassing moment

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

I'm now on Bluesky as well as most other things https://t.co/FJOrpFIKgh

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

That would be an interesting last minute twist.

[Tom Anderson @myspacetom]

@elonmusk Depends who you get to run it ! 🤔

[Snoop Dogg @SnoopDogg]

Should I run Twitter ?

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

@elonmusk If this was an election, the networks would have called it already

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

IMPORTANT: @elonmusk's new policy preventing linking to competitors is in DIRECT VIOLATION of European Union rules.

Penalty can be a fine of up to 20% of Twitter's annual revenue

https://t.co/Wu1dU4JRn7

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

FYI https://t.co/5ryRDGPNQD has a handy script that will quickly scan your twitter follows for Mastodon addresses.

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

Already 47k people following ElonJet on the platform Elon doesn't like.

[Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet]

PSA

You can still follow @[email protected]

On a better platform

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Took me almost 9 years to earn 30K followers on Twitter.😳

Earned 30K on Mastodon in just over 9 weeks.🤯 (And virtually no Nazis trolling me.😎)

Come on in. The water’s just fine.

[Justin Ling (Has Left) @Justin_Ling]

If you see this page, it is bullshit. Hit 'continue' (But verify the link just the same)

There is no security risk to Mastodon. This is anticompetitive behavior by Musk — because he's not a capitalist, he's daddy's special boy.

(Also, follow @BrandyZadrozny on Madtodon.)

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

Noticed a flood of new people showing up / following on Mastodon so I figured some kinda fucked up shit was happening over here. Do feel free to migrate, the weather is fine on the non-profit, ad free, Elon Musk free alternative. Miss you all ... well most of you.

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

Checking in again. Who should I be following on Mastodon?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Hate speech on Twitter has jumped since Elon Musk took over, researchers found.

Musk “sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” the head of one of the research groups said.
https://t.co/G7G2oZ89BB

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

Mastodon is actually going really well ... once people get over the initial shock of 'not really exactly what I'm used to'

[Mastodon (@[email protected]) @joinmastodon]

Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

Trying to scrape back some of the money he's losing on Twitter by hiking Starlink prices for people in Ukraine.

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

Meanwhile, @elonmusk's Starlink is hiking rates on Ukrainians, who are cut off from heat and electricity.

https://t.co/3NMOqzUDBe

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

@EcoFlowTech Why are you still advertising on Twitter?

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

@XboxCanada Why are you still advertising on Twitter?

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

How secure a Twitter replacement is Mastodon? Let us count the ways https://t.co/A2lsqKpjQk

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

@JCVIM @[email protected] see you on the other side, I hope.

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

Because it's a list, it won't include ads and it won't include anyone who isn't following back - so of minimal benefit to Musk, or Twitter. I'm not going to be on, at all, often. (The Twitter app is gone from my phone). Mastodon will be my go-to place to talk about ... whatever.

[@[email protected] 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @justinsb]

The end of Twitter, for me, will be something of a strategic withdrawal - I'm building a (private) list of people I know or have interacted with frequently but who are not leaving Twitter (at least not yet). And I'll only visit that (short) list.