Dr. Abbie 🌠 @alstev@scholar.social

Don’t skip sleep to get things done.

As you progress through Pride Month, remember that more and more, Pride is a profitable event for big and small content creators as well as big, monolithic companies.

There are many people out there are looking for your gay dollar and nothing else

Advertisers are not your friend, just because they are appealing to you for a cause does not mean they are not actively profiting for their own benefit

Be careful who you purchase from, or even better make your own expressions of pride

Seriously, these option names seem really confusing to a new or non-savvy user.

I'm thinking they could be:
Broadcast - Public timelines, followers, profile, and boostable

Personal - Followers, mentions, profile, and boostable

Followers-Only - Followers, mentions, not boostable

Direct - Mentions Only

Don’t skip sleep to get things done.

Try an app for your phone and computer that reduces the blue light on your screens at night.

Meditate for 10 minutes. Try a guided meditation if you have trouble staying focused.

I'm slowly migrating things off of Google. Google scares me so much in how much they know about us through their search history.

@InvaderXan
Dutch supermarkets are selling "insect hotels" so everyone can put them up and encourage pollinators.

I worry a lot about how invested we are in our identities being tied to e-mail addresses that are controlled by big corps who give away that service for free for some reason

Strong Bad on Birdsite: For April Fool's day this year, I wish Bubs would feed all my sbemails into his discount neural network and see what kinda insane, eyeball-covered gold it would spit out."

Me: as it turns out, i have access to a discount neural net

http://aiweirdness.com/post/183868402192/discount-strong-bad-emails

Lake Retba in Senegal is a salt lake which is naturally bright pink like strawberry milkshake.

The colour comes from microbes which use a type of photosynthesis which evolved separately to the kind that plants use. The chemical machinery those microbes use is rhodopsin – the same stuff which is found in your retinas, allowing you to see.

#NoFoolin

Technically, bananas are berries and strawberries are not.

#NoFoolin

Sharks are older than trees. 🦈

The first plant species which can be considered a real tree is known as Archaeopteris, and it evolved about 350 million years ago.

The first sharks evolved 50 million years before that!

#NoFoolin