Ross Martin @[email protected]

The last couple of days at Mastodon have been refreshingly pleasant compared with the mostly doomscrolling I’ve done here for the last few years. Interesting, witty, kind, and brilliant folks. Not that those folks aren’t here too, but they get lost in the ads, promos, and noise.

@KLucasMcKay @KateElliottSFF The Sparrow was my first thought. Amazing first novel. The sequel, Children of God, didn’t wow me anywhere near like the first. Read The Sparrow twice.

@BraveBosom @MightyCasey @ePatientDave @ReginaHolliday @ekeeleymoore @stales @fredtrotter @itsthebunk @janoldenburg @DrSimpsonHSR @TheLizArmy @GraceCordovano Hey. I’m in DC this week. Do you know if Casey is taking visitors?

Our Saturday night show isn't just great music @ipoasis - @theroughandtumble also makes great STUFF. We here at FocusMusic feel like we need to take a deep dive into Mallory's paper-nerdery to truly appreciate her bookmaking... (tickets at focusmusic.org)

Saturday night with @theroughandtumble at @ipoasis in #GaithersburgMD or ONLINE - honest Americana "Teeny tiny folk band. Two big dogs. One hamster. One camper" - tickets and info at focusmusic.org

@AshaRangappa_ I'll follow you on Mastadon!

@Colin_Hung @abnermason @ajwcarter @CCHL_CCLS Living in Mastadon these days. rossmartin@toad.social. Just popped over to see what’s happening here. An incredibly important topic — Thanks, as always for hosting. Some great wisdom in the feed.

@abnermason @ajwcarter @CCHL_CCLS Thank you for joining tonight's chat Abner. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! #hcldr

I have to head out, but thank you for a wonderful chat, #hcldr. Thanks, @Colin_Hung, @ajwcarter, and @CCHL_CCLS for your work leading this. I hope everyone enjoys the holiday.

I've been figuring out Mastodon, so I figured I'd share a list of tips and other stuff I've discovered in case it's helpful for others. 🧵

@davidgoldiner @LeeMifsud @ZoeSchiffer Type it in an LCD calculator. Turn it upside down. Read it. (Like you did in 4th grade)

@LeeMifsud @ZoeSchiffer what does this mean?

NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/

Meanwhile on Mastodon…

@jennycohn1 @davetroy Followed you there... Folks, I'm toe-dipping on Mastodon (and now know how to spell it) at @rossmartin@toad.social.

I just signed up on Mastadon via ⁦@davetroy⁩’s server, toad.social. Please follow me there (and here). Thank you! @jennycohn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">toad.social/web/@jennycohn

@NatriceR Seems a trend. The mastodon.social server appears to be closed already.

I hear plenty about Twitter’s new CEO without following him. So I unfollowed him. It took two tries hitting the unfollow button for it to take. (As in: twice I had to hit the Following button, then the Unfollow link, which made the link go away.) Anyone else have this experience?

Hey, @Google — Can we have Google+ back please?

@LolaOgunyemi Love this! It’s such a remarkable journey — I’ve especially enjoyed the audio book and the voices selected to represent your words so beautifully. Congratulations!

@doc_b_right at #AMIA2022: The AMIA DEI task force was created in 2021 after the 2021 Informatics Summit session generated a negative member experience when the precision principle was not applied. That member generated a response in the organization to make change.

Congrats, @subhaairan! What a journey it has been! Hope I catch a glimpse of you this week!

@charlesornstein This could be @kairyssdal’s new favorite object of hate. But maybe not until they try to put it in a latte…

Eww

@amalec Thanks. What the speaker really said (that I didn’t quite capture) about U+I was to block dedicated time in your schedule to do.

Pearls at the #CMIOWorkshop at #AMIA2022: Richard Schreibner reflects that once you get more than five (hospitals in a system, docs in a practice), you reach an inflection point for complexity and governance becomes critical.