Well it took a few minutes (and a couple of restarts) to get my phone number moved to the new esim; it has taken a full day for my account on the web site to finally start working. You would think that they would be better at adding a new customer.

Finally had time to switch mobile carriers, there were a few delays but it seems to have worked…except I can’t create an account with the new carrier because I’m not getting the confirmation emails.

The randomly selected Mastodon instance was randomly offline early this morning. Down for maintenance?

Social networks need to prioritize user safety over enabling harassment. Calling harassment “free speech” isn’t fooling anybody.

I am still watching the local COVID case trend, it seems to have leveled off instead of continuing to decline.

Just made a commitment to support my randomly selected Mastodon instance with an annual Patreon contribution.

For the moment I plan to retain (but not use) my bird app account. I’m slowly building up my Mastodon follows and adding more RSS feeds to my newsreader, using Feedly to search for interesting sources.