Notices by Brian Vastag (brianvastag@sciencemastodon.com)

She's mad because I said this was her new profile pic.

#cats

ICE to FIFA: Fuck your tournament and your fans. Attendance will probably be shit.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ice-club-world-cup-soccer-immigration-rcna212942

Journalists like to have a record of their work, and I follow a lot of scientists here who post long threads explaining their research. Archivists and other scholars also want a lasting record of work they do. So if the fediverse isn't for that stuff, they'll continue to be elsewhere.... The counter will be that anyone can start an instance and run it for as long as they want...but there is a cost in time, expertise & money to do that. It's a big barrier.

I find it interesting that the most common response I got yesterday when I realized I couldn't migrate posts to another server (mine is going bye-bye) is that the fediverse is for ephemera. Which, ok, most of my posts fit in that category, although some don't, like threads shared thousands of times that I sometimes send to people in the chronic illness/disability communities outside of mastodon. If this network is only for ephemera, it's not for anything serious. #fediverse

@wulfric How is having an archive of my posts on my computer anything remotely like having entire conversations publicly available online?

@wulfric My original post said "I can't migrate my posts"?

The word "migrate" is the key here.

My server is shutting down and I can't migrate my posts? JFC now I hate mastodon.

#fediverse

I have threads with reporting in them, with tips for people with long COVID, and other stuff I want to keep. If anyone knows how to migrate posts please LMK.

I guess it's my fault for using mastodon for years without knowing all of my posts could go POOF.

So the "strength" of the #fediverse is decentralization but somehow that means when a server is shut down everything on it gets lost forever? I am struggling with this...like why would anyone use this network??? I might be done here.

https://erinkissane.com/notes-from-a-mastodon-migration

Germany puts its business criminals in prison, in the US they get put in the Cabinet.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/26/four-vw-execs-found-guilty-in-trial-that-transformed-europes-auto-market/

My friend was bit by a...gopher.

First time I've ever heard of such an injury. If I were the urgent care doc, I'd bite my tongue to prevent Caddyshack jokes.

The US Director of National Intelligence isn't very intelligent and you can bet the people working for her are extremely aware of this.

https://www.wired.com/story/tulsi-gabbard-dni-weak-password/

A Kiwi named Steven Adams just dominated an NBA playoff game and I thought he was new but he's been playing for over a decade lol.

Me - not really an NBA fan I just watch it.

#Sports

@mattl I haven't been on the job market for a while but why would a recruiter need that info?

Sen. Van Hollen posts picture on bluesky sitting at a table with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and this message: "I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return."

https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3ln2gcpf6js2m

#USpol

I like to take photos of the landscapes & wildlife here on Kauai, so here's Hawaiian monk #seal H92 (they're all tagged). About 1400 of these seals exist today & NOAA has done a great job increasing their numbers of late. They dig these face trenches in the sand to cool off but it's a good metaphor for a lot of things these days. #photography #animals #mammals #Hawaii #beach #ocean

My relative who votes straight GOP every election in North Dakota has spent decades inspecting meat for USDA.

There goes his job....

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans/

An NBA player (Damian Lillard, Milwaukee Bucks) has been cleared to play just 3 weeks after being diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis, a blood clot in his leg. This is a remarkable timeline (months of treatment with blood thinners is typical) and I'm sure many physicians are skeptical about him being OK to play.

#sports #NBA #medicine

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44718151/sources-damian-lillard-cleared-deep-vein-thrombosis-blood-thinning-meds

For people still wearing N95s and the like: The federal office that ensured masks met the N95 or KN95 standards has been destroyed. So any masks sold in the US could well be counterfeit or inadequate.

https://www.ems1.com/public-health/hhs-cuts-eliminate-niosh-respirator-certification-staff