Notices by Brendan Halpin (bthalpin@mastodon.social)

@br00t4c He doesn't control everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack_defendants

A comparison of interest in climate-change disasters, measured as Wikipedia editing interest:

1: LA fires
2: Valencia floods (death toll approx 1 order of magnitude higher)
3: Derna dam collapse in Libya (death toll *at least* 1 order of magnitude higher than Valencia, perhaps 2).

Two sorts of explanation here:
1: Where WP editors are (e.g., many fewer in North Africa, probably lots in California)
2: What WP editors think is interesting (the whole world is fascinated by Hollywood, LA, etc)

The Bluesky I see is rapidly shaping up as most of what my Twitter was, lots of social scientists, Irish posters and shitposters, news, etc.

However, my presence on Mastodon is probably going to allow me to do something I never managed on Twitter, which is to have one nerdy, shitposting persona and one more professional one. I used to get told at conferences that I was "remarkably concerned with Brexit" etc, and used to worry about what some of my more po-faced followers thought of me.

@cstross @davidleeholcomb @pluralistic Heinlein did "grok" (which was fine for a while)

@glynmoody

Hey get outa the way, old Don Trump
You spent way too much time on the stump
Campaign's ending & the Prosecutor's winnin',
an' Ol' Don Trump jus' stands there lookin'