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A year ago today we launched 404 Media.

Thanks to the overwhelming support of our subscribers, we're very proud and humbled to say that our business and company is sustainable and stable, and more scoops, investigations, stunts, etc are coming in year 2

https://www.404media.co/what-we-learned-in-our-first-year-of-404-media/

Made it to Portland and once again will be asleep by 9pm

Still thinking about the sticker I saw on a guy's hard hat on the bus yesterday that said "OnlyCranes" in the OnlyFans logo design

Kind of want to ask this small Canadian child in the park to elaborate on why Kylo Ren is his favorite Star Wars character

@pootriarch I think he's mostly aluminum so pretty lightweight, maybe grounded in the base with something else

Because I have so little money right now and museums are expensive my day off in Vancouver was seeing Pixel Orca and from a distance the container port

Just saw a bus ad for a jazz radio station that said "don't pay for sax" and have half a mind to call in and say sax work is work

All the suggestions were good but hear me out: instead of that, I go to a botanical garden in the neighborhood William Gibson supposedly lives in on the off chance of a sighting

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Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

@platypus chilly Australia! Vancouver even has a Gastown it's basically Fury Road with healthcare

So hard to keep up with American politics while abroad, in Canada

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Using the fact I'm currently in Canada as an excuse to not follow DNC stuff like I'm 12 time zones away and not just in Vancouver

@aredridel @vruba honestly pretty impressed with Vancouver public transit so far

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.