1/2 Dear World: Now is a good time to get off social media that’s becoming any combination of “less useful”, “less safe”, or “less fun”. I’ve been on Mastodon for 3 years and am convinced that right now, in late 2025, it’s the best place to go. Come join me. Here’s why.
@BBenedict33 Although it’d be great (and you'd probably get more interaction) if you did this on Bluesky and/or Mastodon rather than Elon’s plantation. But, thanks anyhow.
Hey, we just moved out of this place after 27 years and it's for sale now: https://t.co/C8Q23PYhae - if you're house-shopping in Vancouver, and interested in the Main/King-Ed/Cambie/16th region, take a look.
#Vancouver
@thomasgermain Wow, I was there then. Early search engines? UUCP and/or Usenet? Standards organizations, surprising successes and hideous failures? VRML last century? Netscape vs Microsoft? Early blogosphere, technorati and klout and so on? RSS feed-format wars? etc etc etc
2/ It’s an anthology of writing from people who were arrested protesting Canada’s awful “TMX” pipeline project. I’m an arrestee/ contributor & co-editor…
Hey, X-folk, long time no see. It’s not unlikely that you soon will be (or already are) looking for an alternative online home. The choice isn’t that easy, and one candidate (Post) just shut down.
here are smart words on where to look: https://t.co/NMxe5siLUT