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@oliverturner New toys. :)

Validating ownership of your website with rel="me" is the new Verified™

@oliverturner Oh, very interesting!

I'm in now, BTW!

Thanks for the offers of invited codes. You're a lovely lot!

@oliverturner Very kind! I'm all set.

I confess ! hadn't realised that people could pass these along. I should have spoken up sooner.

Thank you!

@Robb Very kind! I'm all set.

I confess ! hadn't realised that people could pass these along. I should have spoken up sooner.

Thank you!

@daniel Oh wonderful! Many thanks!

@Robb I'm eagerly awaiting getting to the top of the wait list.

I really like the look of it and am keen to see how it might help me break some bad habits.

@Robb Isn't it wild?! It makes me so excited for even deeper emersion in game environments.

Eye-wateringly cool reflections and detail now possible in Unreal Engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUGqzE6Je5c

This is a lovely account of @loftio's journey to, and experience at #ffConf

https://loftio.co.uk/ffconf2022/

@Casablanca Same.

In fact I’ve quickly reached the point that I’m checking Mastodon first, and then Twitter. And doing the latter less frequently.

I’ll not be posting or engaging over there.

https://votewithyourtweet.com/

@hdv @ppk @seb_ly That’s what they told me too. And was why I was ok to waive my speaker fee.

I think it’s fine to have the *profits* from an event subsidise another, but not at the expense of the participants and attendees. And telling people who’ve paid large sums that they’ll not get the expected facilities is not ok. Trust will vanish and the whole thing will not be repeatable.

@ppk @seb_ly I fear you may be right.

@ppk @seb_ly FWIW, sponsors were approached with the claim that they were expecting 3000 speakers. The only reason to book a venue of that size is if you’re hoping to bring in that many attendees. And Also the only way to avoid just a handful of attendees per talk.

I think this is an example of their reach far outstretching their grasp.

@mikestreety @jaffathecake My suggestion for that is to write/blog first. Writing about things you care about is a great way to crystallise some thinking into a story you might find you want to tell in a conference talk.

@oliverturner @seaotta Genius! I love a good mashup.

@jaffathecake And slowly getting back to attending some events has been lovely.

@jaffathecake Me too. I’ve been mostly MC-ing lately, and I’m ready to get back to doing some talks.

@mxbck @jaffathecake All gems!

Last straw reached.

Terribly sad that it has come to this after I got so much from twitter over the years. But I'm not prepared to participate in Musk's nonsense.

Find me primarily at:

🔹@philhawksworth
🔹https://hawksworx.com
🔹https://hawksworx.com/feed.xml

@nielsim Also a good reminder for me that it's time to turn off the crossposting.

@nielsim Dammit. I do. One more tweet to delete. And repost. You know… for old time’s sake.

I will not participate on Twitter while D*nald Tr*mp has an active account. #VoteWithYourTweet

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