Zach Lipton 🌮 @zachlipton@mastodon.xyz

My mastrodon TL has a surprising amount of anime, but nobody is relitigating the 2008 primaries over here, and that's glorious.

Hey Mastodon. Science has brought us Mastodon news. 130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton news to be precise.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/mastodon-bone-findings-could-upend-our-understanding-human-history-n751406

I turned my report on Sen. Feinstein's town hall into a Medium post, with some clarifications and additions. There was no leadership, no fight, and the whole thing was pretty discouraging.

https://medium.com/@zachlipton/dianne-feinsteins-san-francisco-town-hall-politics-as-usual-8ec47aeea003

I've seen the Come Sail Away scene in the Freaks and Geeks pilot wayyyyyyy too many times and I can't believe I never noticed before.

Sam takes Cindy's hand right on the lyric "childhood friends."

Now that's great editing and direction.

I went to Sen. Dianne Feinstein's town hall today and it was pretty discouraging. Her answer to basically "will you fight fascism and Nazis" was really just "you've given me an idea," as if this is some kind of novel concept. I really hope she doesn't run again.

My full write-up on MetaFilter: https://www.metafilter.com/166381/We-gave-you-power-we-can-take-it-away-Watch-us#6996302

It's actually pretty impressive that Mastodon got this far before the whole concept of images and laws and liability and moderation and "nothing on the internet is ever as simple as you think because people are complicated" started to become a thing.

Somebody just subscribed me to a Google Group about bible prophecies called toweroftemptaton.

Should I be flattered they think I'm such a big sinner that I need such a thing?

tfw you now have an account on mastodon.social and nothing to use it for.

There was also surprise that many of them were, in fact, hoping to watch the rehearsal of the TV show instead of the show itself.

[on 48th st]

"Really? These people aren't homeless?"
"They're waiting in line for Saturday Night Live"
"You're sure they're not homeless people camping here?"
"It's the SNL line"
"They're here all night?"
"A lot of them are here for days"
"To watch a TV show?"
"To watch a TV show."

Compare and contrast

Twitter timeline: 100% get your war on
Mastodon timeline: people talking about mastodon

Just checked in on birdsite and, I swear this is real, the game theory game is doing a tweetstorm about tweetstorms or something, and I ran away back to here very very fast.

Aside with some beta 3D stuff in MS Paint, is there anything actually for creators in the Creators Update?

instances.mastodon.xyz seems to be down