lizkat @lizkat@talkedabout.social
Not quite as curious as a cat but close enough to get into good trouble now and then.
Every year, Nova Scotia provides Boston with its official yuletide tree as a thank you for the city's response to the 1917 #HalifaxExplosion
An estimated 2,000 people died and 9,000 more were injured.
Aid from #Boston was the 1st to arrive, and the response has not been forgotten.
The #TreeForBoston will leave Halifax on Nov. 21st for its 1,100-kilometre journey to Massachusetts. A tree-lighting ceremony will take place at the Boston Common on Dec. 1st.
Maybe most already know this but...
If you see someone using a Mastodon instance you don't know about but are curious, Just put the domain without username in your browser. For example, just go to mastodon.xyz, retro.pizza, or wondering.shop. This will load the local feed of that instance.
Click "..." in the mobile browser, or "About" by the domain name in the lower left on a desktop browser, and read about the general idea and policies of that instance.
I have put up our Christmas tree. It may be tiny, but I love this little festive corner.
@edutooters Have uou decorated yet, or is it too soon for you? #edutoot #edutooter
2005: Rupert Murdoch paid $580m for Myspace.
2009: he sold it in $35m.
2008: Bebo was sold for $850m, to AOL. The founders later bought it back for $1m. It was regarded as one of the worst deals ever made in the dot-com era.
2013: Yahoo paid $1.1bn for Tumblr. 2019: they sold it in $3m.
Elon Musk paid $44bn for Twitter. If history has taught us anything it's that this isn't going to end well… when there wasn't a viable business model in the first place.
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Here is that same article from @Jelaniya on Apple News as one way to get around the website’s paywall.
Folks on Mastodon looking down their noses at people who choose to be on Twitter still, scolding them for it, is not a very neighborly way to invite them to come here. There are many people still there I value greatly.
1. This is a story in pictures about some drama that took place on our hillside. These momma deer and turkeys were doing their thing together on the hillside. I ran to get my camera and when I came back, they were on high alert.
Role model. This is delightful, for all book people. https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-man-whos-read-every-book-ever-shortlisted-for-the-booker-prize
Looking for another way to follow topics on #Mastodon? Try groups!
You can subscribe to receive posts from the group (e.g., @highered and @edpolicy). To share something with the group, just tag the name of the group in your post.
Bonus #tip: To create a group, just tag a post with "@[YourGroupName]@a.gup.pe" and the group will be created automatically!
Most commonly spoken language other than English or Spanish
2019 ACS data
Graphic source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/most-common-language-spoken-in-the-u-s-map/
A reminder that, amid the pandemic, we cut childhood poverty in half. And then we decided to let it come back. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/politics/child-tax-credit.html #edutoot #edutooter #education
After several cups of #coffee, finally remembered to set up my account here as promised.
Great thing for y'all here is that in this venue my yowls are limited to 500 characters each...
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Not quite as curious as a cat but close enough to get into good trouble now and then.
