Glendon Mellow @FlyingTrilobite@mastodon.social
EvoPunk Artist. Flying Trilobites, Tattoos, #SciArt, Social Media, and Cycling. 1/3 of Symbiartic. Scientific American contributor. https://glendonmellow.com
When you're exploring people's toots on Mastodon and like a ghost of the past, "we think you may like these Pins" rolls across your notifications
I should use Pinterest more. It's a visually based medium after all and that's what I do.
Morning awoo
Here's some #sciart for your fresh eyes.
My character Trilobite Boy, the teen with a trilobite head. Painted using ArtRage.
Idea: What if different #mastodon/gnusocial instances had different focuses? e.g. "This one is for poltics", etc. Then you could talk about politics there.
reading a bunch of comments about Mastodon on tech news sites about how it "will never succeed" or will go extinct. Problem is, that defines Mastodon's success in the metrics of Silicon Valley VC. The point of Mastodon does not appear to be a growth -> exit -> brand vehicle strategy that Twitter has been struggling with.
I'm having a good time here. Isn't that success enough?
Wonder if there's a use case here for different domains targeting different communities. Like, what if I made a musicians' Mastodon instance?
#Mastodon update: Admins can now easily close registrations with a custom message. In other news, I have closed registrations to mastodon.social for now ensure a quality of service for all existing ones, and to promote other federated nodes.
Need more #art, #illustration, and #sciart peeps on Mastodon. Please enjoy this scientific illustration of a Trachys Jewel Beetle I made while I loiter over here.
https://mastodon.social/media/vk524Jb49UfEezboU9E
So Mastodon has a lot of cool features but you can't tag an image with its creator. Attribution is cool. Mastodon should be cool. #copyright #sharing #MastodonWishlist
Pink Parasaurolophus. #sciart painting by me. https://mastodon.social/media/kjaK80JvGDlsiPBoO-E
Desperately hope more of my #scicomm and #sciart peeps join soon, I'm only following @JustinLing and @sarahjeong so far
Ah, there, we go.
https://mastodon.social/@FlyingTrilobite
I'm still new enough I can't figure out how to share a link to my Mastodon profile on Twitter #NOOB
As you settle into Mastodon, be sure to learn the lingo:
- "toot": a tweet
- "tusking": starting a pointless fight with another user
- "woolly": going viral, as in "wow, that toot really went woolly"
- "extinction event": when a whole instance goes down
Need to start reppin' #sciart on this here new platform. Here's a fictional winged trilobite. https://mastodon.social/media/Y1lPo6NVBxnXLCvXFZo
