mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Associate Professor of Political Theory, working on animal rights and the ethics of political disobedience. Liberal. Cosmopolitan. Tweeting in a personal capacity.
Ok, Mastodon is officially a lot more awesome than I had realised. There's a federated server for everyone who's really into bitcoin, and, yes, it is full of people who are as awful as you can imagine. But, with one click, you can block the entire domain! 12.8k thousand crypto weirdos filtered out in a click. Amazing.
This morning, I've been looking at the history of the first anti-cruelty law enacted anywhere: the Ill-Treatment of Cattle Act (1822) , aka Martin's Act. Richard Martin, MP for Galway, first presented a petition to Parliament against animal cruelty from the inhabitants of Camberwell. The Times reported Martin describing an exhibition fight between a monkey & a dog.
Massive surprise that authoritarian, corrupt, & human-rights-violating Qatar is claiming that sport shouldn‘t be politicised & that democracies are arrogant for criticising them.
Mastodon would really benefit from better threading. Or rather, I would really benefit from threading.
Whilst I‘m enjoying being here on Mastodon so far, the experience would be better if mastadon.online worked. Sadly, it‘s very slow, prone to errors & timeouts, & the local & federated feeds don‘t function. Hopefully it‘ll improve soon. Alas, scholar.social is closed to new users.
@meandmarmalade@kith.kitchen @NRDSLR@mstdn.social - it a post from the instance pops up in your federated feed, you can click the three dots (bottom right) and will see an option to block the domain.
@meandmarmalade@kith.kitchen @NRDSLR@mstdn.social I think so. In this case, it‘s https://bitcoinhackers.org/about