Paul Nicholson

Hockey fan, photographer, techie, music lover, movie buff, etc...
AKA:
@pwnicholson.bsky.social
[email protected]

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

If you haven't noticed, I'm pretty much not posting in Twitter for now. We'll see if the site recovers and I return.

For now I'm pretty much only on Mastodon occasionally, Flickr sometimes, and lurking Reddit.

#noxp

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

There's even a nice Nashville-specific Mastodon instance set up now - https://t.co/JY99YH014B

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

@NashSevereWx Pls mirror your posts over to Mastodon. Easy to set up accounts. Then use https://t.co/ej58XkJOH3 to mirror the posts. Feed is pure chronological, too, so more helpful.
Don't make us follow you here (I logged in here for the 1st time in weeks just to tell you this)

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

It really is the future. Looks like it to me, anyway.

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

forget to unmute them until months later. The ability to mute someone for just a day or two is big for me personally.
https://t.co/SP1EKqDoJH (2/2)

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RT @[email protected]
OMG - I just realized Mastodon has the ability to mute people for predefined periods of time. I've wanted this feature for years. Too often I've muted someone I really like because they're live tweeting an event or something like that, only to (1/2)

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

Jinping.
https://t.co/RI3h2dDWyv muyixiao ZixuWang_News
https://t.co/QGZsAujx8y (2/2)

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RT ChuBailiang
Protests spread to cities around China on Saturday night, reflecting rising public ire at the country’s Covid controls, with some in a crowd in Shanghai directing their fury at the Communist Party and its top leader, Xi (1/2)

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RT @[email protected]
Mt. Rainier casting a shadow upwards across the sky.
https://t.co/RpizNUywq9

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https://t.co/OCXBzKqEkn #twitter #twittermigration #tech #technology #elon #TwitterMigrate
https://t.co/fuwl30Bzs8 (2/2)

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RT @[email protected]
Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly ALL previously banned Twitter accounts — to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts. The decision will have dangerous consequences, particularly for vulnerable communities. (1/2)

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RT @[email protected]
The many branches of the #fediverse (#Mastodon instances are but one) ~ via https://t.co/n2jvVCTI0M ~ #SocialMedia #community
https://t.co/sJ7VMcAeLd

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advertising companies.
https://t.co/vsvnu63cU7 (2/2)

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One of the things about Tumblr and potentially Flickr adopting ActivityPub is that it brings the feeling of mid-2000s internet back, when we had APIs and were encouraged to build cool new interconnections. Before the web was stolen from us by (1/2)

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Chuck Jones nine rules for how the coyote and roadrunner functioned.

So cool.

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

#space
https://t.co/XTlmlDwYWD (2/2)

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RT @[email protected]
The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.

More details: https://t.co/O6FCyFKPg1

#astronomy #nasa (1/2)

[Paul Nicholson @pwnicholson]

photo of a flower you like.

My god. It's like a dream. We're living the social media dream, Mastoblasters!
https://t.co/wBJYe5a7nO (2/2)

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RT @[email protected]
Wait a second...

There's no algo feed here, right? So there's no algo penalty for posting low engagement content? You don't lose visibility if you want to rant about how burritos are inferior to other tortilla-encased foods, or if you share a (1/2)

[Rand Fishkin (follow @randderuiter on Threads) @randfish]

Look, I'm just saying...