Notices by Virginia Murr (virginiamurr@mastodon.social), page 2

@feditips

A bit of extra advice from someone who researched fake nets (including bots) for years ... usually the good/helpful bots will have the bot creator identified in the account's bio. (Sometimes with links to their other accounts/work.)

@tayfonay @freemo

Yep. Not sure what the procedure was, but I had a gyno procedure which gave me debilitating migraines (the stroke-mimicking ones w/slurring of words, etc.).

My experience: I had migraines early in life but they were periodic and not debilitating... but then at age 19 my gyno gave me a hormone-based shot to treat my endometriosis. Within hours, I had the most skull crushing migraine of my life. After that, all my migraines were skull-crushing and they became chronic.

@mmasnick @mastodonmigration

Yep, I get that. But, it's his "baby" and it is my understanding that he is still on the Board. So, day-to-day activities or not, it's his.

@mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze @GottaLaff

Wowzers. Mr. "Musk is the only one who can save Twitter ... and RFK< Jr. is a great presidential pick Dorsey"?

Listen, I get that platform harassment sucks (have had death threats against myself & my *kids* while on Twitter ...) ... but if a person left Twitter for principled reasons, embracing Dorsey's platform (where there *will* be harassment as well) as a fallback makes no sense.

I don't get it. Truly.

@ryanhoulihan

You are not alone. 🤗

@ryanhoulihan

Saaaame.

My 12 yr old wanted to watch Iron Man 2 yesterday -- in which Musk has a cameo (I had no recollection of). I had to pause the movie so I could cuss (in a PG-13 kinda way ... "friggin jerk" etc.).

I was irritable through the rest of the movie. Can't help it. I loathe the SOB.

@ryanhoulihan

She should be disbarred for egregiously unethical behavior. Period.

I had to stay away (as much as possible) from the media on this for personal reasons, but I did see Depp's texts about killing Heard and what he'd do to her dead body. Nothing else mattered toward forming my opinion.

Anyone who can say what he did is an abuser. And those who passively (or actively) stand by him perpetuate an abusive culture, thus I see them as no different from him. They can all fuck off.

@dznz

One of the worst for me was that they offered for advertisers to target KIDS "during moments of psychological vulnerability".

Targeting emotionally vulnerable kids.

For profit.

Here's the 2017 article from Wired: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/welcome-next-phase-facebook-backlash/

@thomasfuchs

Nailed it -- at least in my case. Gratefully, I found sign-up via .social to be incredibly easy.

Had "picking servers" been required, I very likely would have passed. Single, working mom here ... I don't have much leisure time and I do not consider social media to be a necessity.