Notices by Dave Mason (davemasondotme@mastodon.social)

Why did the sandhill crane chicks cross the road?

📅 March 2025
📍 Central Florida
📸 Fujifilm X-E3
Lens: Fujifilm XF 70-300mm ƒ4-5.6 R LM OIS WR
🎛️ ISO 1250, ƒ/5.6, 1/1000 s, 300mm
Filter: UV

#Photography
#Birds

Headline: DOGE Privacy Act Requests

Me: Like many of you, I feel frustrated that the Democrats haven't done more to push back against the current administration. But when they give us an opportunity to act, we should take it. My letter goes in the mail tomorrow. Will you mail a letter too?

https://jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

#DOGE
#Privacy
#Surveillance

Ugh. I got a 'churchy', scripture-filled holiday card from a relative. It included a $100 Mastercard gift card.

I donated all of it to the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

#Atheism

@eff
Thanks for the reminder! (I donated today. 🙂 )

P.S. The web site needs more Mastodon/Fediverse! (And less Google+ 😏 )

I saw a toot from another Mastodon.social user that appeared to have bold text, italic text, and possibly different fonts.

Does our Mastodon.social server support markdown now?

#Mastodon

The in-game automatic review is interesting. I noticed it for the first time during a Sunday game, and I'm seeing it again during the Monday Night Football game. New for this season, I presume?

#NFL
#MNF

Did Rudy Gobert just launch an air ball from point-blank range?
#NBA

The deed is done. Debian is installed. Windows is gone for good.

30 years of Microsoft OS experience down the drain, because they can't not be capitalist dicks.

What a waste. 🙁

#Microsoft
#Linux

It's hard to imagine #StackOverflow made their decision without considering the fate #Twitter and #Reddit suffered. That they willingly chose to burn the remaining goodwill they had with their users is bewildering.

Right now, people are having active conversations here on #Mastodon about an #ActivityPub / #Fediverse replacement for SO.

Old school strategy that seems lost in the sands of #NBA time. 🏀

Two fouls on Bam.
Go post him up and get him in foul trouble.
#Celtics

It feels like there have been more fumbles into the end zone/touchbacks this season than ever before.

#NFL
#Baltimore
#KC

@Jerm
And Reggie Miller just said the same thing. It's maddening. Either it's a foul or it isn't. Made/missed basket should have nothing to do with it.

This year's #NBA playoffs has seen a lot of late whistles where it looks like the official waits to see if the shot goes in and then decides to call a foul when it doesn't.

As fans, we really like that. 🙄

It's great that you're all here. It really is.

Now start posting on a regular basis, please!

@Flipboard @dw @onthemedia @politico @ProPublica @RollingStone @STAT @TheConversationUS @theconversationau @TheConversationAfrica @themarkup @thenation @longreads @restofworld @thetyee @VICENews @VOANews

And if you haven't already, please verify your profile links so we know that you are who you say you are.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification

@Flipboard @dw @onthemedia @politico @ProPublica @RollingStone @STAT @TheConversationUS @theconversationau @TheConversationAfrica @themarkup @thenation @longreads @restofworld @thetyee @VICENews @VOANews