@austern

No longer on Twitter. You can find me on Bluesky as @austern.bsky.social or on Mastodon as @austern@sfba.social

 Palo Alto, CA
lafstern.org/matt
Joined May 2009
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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: @[email protected] or @austern.bsky.social.
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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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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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Yeah, I've been thinking about that quote recently too.
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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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Even when it's eight letters, the answer is still always OREO.
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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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I just voted. Have you voted yet?
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... 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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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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Maybe I should give Mastodon a try too.
James Gleick@JamesGleick28 Oct 2022
This is a Mastodon “quick start guide.” It’s not as simple as Twitter, yet. Still … blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/0…

Mastodon quick start guide

So you want to join Mastodon and get tooting. Great! Here's how to dive straight in.

blog.joinmastodon.org
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I'm afraid I haven't read Volume 4A yet, but I still thought I needed this.
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There's a cat head in our closet. (I suspect the rest of the cat is in there somewhere too.)
It would be interesting to see a similar diagram of the US.
Simon Evans@DrSimEvans31 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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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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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
Senator Alex Padilla
@SenAlexPadilla20 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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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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(photo is from Bahnhofstrasse in Zürich)
Matt Austern (@austern.bsky.social) retweeted
Kingfisher & Wombat@UrsulaV10 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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