So, on Mastodon (@[email protected]), I can actually truly verify that I'm who I say I am, and I neither had to argue that I'm enough of a celeb to deserve it nor pay anyone $8. I just had to show that I owned the website(s) I claimed as my own.

I've pretty much given up on this hellsite (hint: Mastodon (@[email protected])) but it's worth the odd glance to check up on how Anand Menon is doing at this difficult time.

So how long does twitter take to produce a downloadable archive of data? Is it broken or just overwhelmed right now?

Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! People are voting with their feet. The future of social media doesn't have to belong to a billionaire, it can be in the hands of its users.

So it really is a god-forsaken hellsite now...will the last one to leave turn out the lights?

"we must first be honest about what it is that is responsible for holding Britain back" Hahahahahahahaha DON'T MENTION THE BREXIT!

Hey expressPay please stop sending payment confirmation emails to me. I am not this user, they may have mistakenly given you my email and you are apparently too incompetent to have validated it. (What is it about Ghanaian financial services that lets this happen repeatedly?)

Hey @Boltapp_gh please stop sending me trip receipts for some random customer of yours (I'm guessing he might be called James Annan, but it's not a unique name). I'm sure Ghana is lovely at this time of year but unfortunately I've never been.

Has a single British journalist actually read the SAGE minutes of the meetings around the middle of March 2020? It is hard to reconcile these documents with the claims recently presented to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

fediscience.org/@jdannan/11148…

"He told Rishi Sunak cases were rising". However SAGE was busy telling everyone that R was less than 1! Odd how no-one seems to mention that tiny detail.

I accept that the buck stops with the PM but any talk of the March 2020 lockdown has to start with the plain fact that SAGE was arguing against it right up to the 23rd March.

Important new research on human evolution from Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏: “When humans evolved in tropical Africa, the day lengths were on average 12 hours long." Well I laughed anyway. theguardian.com/science/2023/d…

At last I've found a journalist who is prepared to discuss the revisionism that the SAGE scientists are trying to perform - Christopher Snowdon . Even he doesn't seem to realise the extent to which Vallance is telling complete porkies though. thecritic.co.uk/revisionist-lo…

In this article, Bjorn Stevens ponders on the history of the climate model inter-comparison project (CMIP). He concludes that the @wcrpcmip has become stagnant and neither advances science nor provides high-quality services in terms of projections. 🧵 doi.org/10.1029/2023AV…