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People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration

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UPDATE: Here's the latest chart.

We're now at 14,000 new users joining per hour.

By the end of the night, we might have 7 million Mastodon users.

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Timeline cleanse: This baby elephant messing around with an on air reporter is totally adorbs 🥰

(h/t Sheldrick Wildlife Trust)

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RT @MarinaPurkiss@twitter.com

Yes, the UK is hostile to foreigners…

But at least we look after our own

Oh wait…

(Spoiler: look low, very very low)

🐦🔗: twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/stat

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After having to learn some New Video Stuff for a work project I decided to get some practice in, and as it's a #dreich day in the #Scottish hills I thought I'd play around with a memory of #summer.

This is #Strathy #beach on the north #Scotland #coast.

It's glorious.

Here's 10 minutes of the view from our picnic spot crammed into 15 seconds, with some additional scribbles.

Next time I am definitely going to take a #kite

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Given that we are rapidly trying to build community here…

Can I ask you to do two key things:

1) Reshare other people’s posts - so your timeline is rich with other people’s posts for anyone browsing your content to discover.

2) Follow, follow, follow. That goes for following those posting good stuff - and also following those that follow you (as much as practically possible/sensible).

If you do these things, you’ll help us all network up at fast pace - and we all grow our voices & reach. ✌️

The red carpet went down a treat, doubling nicely as a turtle-blanket :)

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So the lad bought himself a Minecraft Turtle Base to play with. It came with a bunch of stickers which I dutifully and carefully applied for him. One was absent...
The pictures on the box showed a red carpet section on one platform.
There was no corresponding sticker.
He was (briefly) unhappy about this.
Mary has knitted him a red carpet for the turtle base out of Softyak wool.
I hope it's soft enough for his small plastic turtle...

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I take off my blindfold. Before me is a gory tableau of death and destruction, bodies strewn across the landscape. The piñata is unscathed.

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Thoughts on parenting small children 

#parenting got so much easier when I discovered my #children fear a slow thoughtful academic lecture from me over any other possible consequence.

wall-climbing lobsters?
organised playground equipment has come a loooong way since I was a small

This seems to be working, yay.
Fingers crossed it stays up...

mastod1.ddns.net

Mastod1 be nice. (sorry, closed for new registrations after a bunch of 'commercial/spamming' accounts jumped in - rule 3 on site)