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2 Dec 2024
I'm done here. I don't like what Musk has become (or maybe what he's revealed himself to have been). I don't like what Twitter is now. I don't want any part of it or to support it in any way. You can find me on Mastodon or Bluesky: @austern@sfba.social or @austern.bsky.social.
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16 Dec 2022
I'm done here. I don't like what Musk has turned himself into (or maybe what he's revealed himself to have been all along). I don't like what Twitter is becoming. I don't want any part of it or to support it in any way. You can find me on Mastodon: @austern@sfba.social.
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20 Nov 2022
Always cool to see someone I know in a NYT crossword puzzle! I assume you've already seen it, @ScottWesterfeld, but tagging you just in case.
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20 Nov 2022
Yeah, I've been thinking about that quote recently too.
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14 Nov 2022
Finally signed up for my Mastodon account: I'm @austern@sfba.social. I'll probably lurk for a while, to get some idea of how things work over there, before I post anything.
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12 Nov 2022
Even when it's eight letters, the answer is still always OREO.
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11 Nov 2022
The hotel where I was staying in NYC had a "Crypt Gallery": a bunch of computer art, with solicitations for NFTs of them. Strangely enough, I was able to resist the temptation to "buy" any of the NFTs.
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7 Nov 2022
... And I've just gotten a notification that my ballot had been received and counted. I like getting that definite notification to close the loop.
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1 Nov 2022
Got a late start on the Halloween decorations this year, but we did find time to put up at least a few spiderwebs and skeletons.
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28 Oct 2022
Maybe I should give Mastodon a try too.
28 Oct 2022
This is a Mastodon “quick start guide.” It’s not as simple as Twitter, yet. Still … blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/0…
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21 Oct 2022
I'm afraid I haven't read Volume 4A yet, but I still thought I needed this.
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10 Oct 2022
There's a cat head in our closet. (I suspect the rest of the cat is in there somewhere too.)
10 Oct 2022
It would be interesting to see a similar diagram of the US.
31 Jan 2022
Today seems like a good day to share this amazing graphic of UK land use
(I estimate solar farms cover less than one tenth of one percent of the UK – 0.08%)
carbonbrief.org/qa-will-engl…
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3 Oct 2022
My cousin @zoezolbrod just published a piece in Salon about our great grandparents, the things we recently learned about them, and her relationship with family history. It's a good essay, even without the family connection.
salon.com/2022/10/01/my-grea…
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3 Oct 2022
One surprise from my great uncle's memoir: contrary to what I'd always believed, we don't know for sure that my great grandparents were killed in the Holocaust. It's the likeliest guess, but their children never found out for sure. Their names aren't in the Yad Vashem database.
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Matt Austern (@austern.bsky.social) retweeted
20 Sep 2022
Today is #VoterRegistrationDay! It's a great opportunity to ensure your voice is heard in our political process.
Make sure your information is up-to-date and accurate. Register to vote or check your status here: registertovote.ca.gov/
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18 Sep 2022
I know it's a perfectly normal word and I know what it means, but I still get juvenile amusement from seeing a store window loudly proclaiming SCHMUCK.
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Matt Austern (@austern.bsky.social) retweeted
10 Sep 2022
I made another weird little comic thing, hopeful and a little bittersweet, about conservation after the apocalypse. A topic near and dear to my heart, Lord knows. (Technical notes in another thread, linked at the end.)
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