Slainte @Slainte@mastodon.me.uk
Sometimes, A Bad Day is just that.
Today I talked with an American and a British colleague about how much student debt they have and I am so happy I studied in a country where education is free.
BASIC computer language is 53 years old today. Retweet if BASIC was your first computer language? #ThisDayinSTEM http://bit.ly/2qxeFnU
10 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY"
20 GOTO 20
...without a significant number of people I follow on other social media platforms adopting mastodon, I wonder if this will actually take off. I like the twitter format, but the people I would like to see engage here seem fine over at other spaces. In some cases, it's that they have the audience there to discuss things with.
The year is 2023. Every program on your computer is now an Electron app, running vulnerable out-of-date versions of Chromium and consuming 500MB of memory each
Today's the day the global population hits 7.5b
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Not everything that is older is better...this one is DEFINITELY better. When the first episode of Columbo premiered, 'Prescription: Murder', it broke the mold on police shows. Not before or since has a show managed to give away so much, so early, at the beginning while still holding our attention for an hour and a half. There was never a question of "whodunnit'" here. . .they showed us right up front. No the real mystery was in watching Columbo wear down a suspect until they give themselves up.
You're here. Do your thing, just don't care for heaters. Actually, they can boost you, with their comments.
ET TOOT, BRUTE?
How it feels on a new Mastodon instance http://i.imgur.com/Sxcdhb8.jpg
https://anticapitalist.party/media/rLlQorCvdHN_wnoUOJQ there is an enviably simplistic kind of stupidity that was required to make this photo and not realise that all of these photos were taken in a capitalist country
This is not a metal band :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
#Trump 'US drops 'largest non-nuclear bomb' in Afghanistan in area populated by Isis members... The Pentagon said the strike was the first time the 21,000lb weapon had been used in combat operations... The weapon is known in the US Air Force by its nickname MOAB, or "mother of all bombs". MOAB stands for massive ordinance air blast... Retired Lt. Col. Rick Francona told the broadcaster the blast would “feel like a nuclear weapon to anyone near the area"...'
Anyone has any idea how to log-in on multiple instances, on Tusky?
When you find Jamiroquai dropping a Billy Idol reference on an album in 2017, you realize you're not quite dead yet.
Twitter: talks about everything
Mastodon: compares Mastodon and Twitter
Toot! First noot ever
