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After the #TeslaTakedown protest in Tucson today, a group went to the iconic "a mountain" and hung an upside down flag
Hanging upside down flags on local iconic landmarks should happen everywhere. After the one in Yosemite on El Capitan, the meaning is widely recognized. It is an easily reproducible meme-action.
"A Mountain" flag protest up close for scale.
I'll have more #TeslaTakedown pics from Tucson later.
#TeslaTakedown #Tucson #Protest
This is a large, busy intersection with people lining both sides of all four cross streets. Constant honks and waves from vehicles going by. I don't have an estimate on the number of people, but it was quite a respectable number and a very lively crowd.
Tangential: as an experiment, I posted the same OP photo, the aerial of the flag on the "A" on my infrequently used Instagram account. As of just now: Mastodon: 87 shares, 88 likes. Instagram: 10 likes.
Granted, I have half as many followers there and haven't been following new people for quite a long time and don't engage much there, but corporate slop aside, that's one of the reasons. If you're not willing to aggressively attention-farm the algorithm, you don't exist.
Edit: 32 hours after OP:
Instagram: 14 likes, 1 share, 1 troll.
Mastodon: 112 likes, 105 shares, some nice comments by actual people.
Nice to see! Must say american protesters are very civil about it. In most european countries the protesters would probably glue themselves to the road blocking the whole intersection. Or pile up tractors and hay bales over the road.
@Mikal I do similar measurements occasionally and every time Mastodon gets way more engagement than other systems. So why, you might ask, does the myth that 'No one uses Mastodon' persist? Simple: it's because Mastodon uses the 'nofollow' tag, which means that the engagement can't be measured remotely. You have to actually participate here to see it.
I do that with new blog posts, by posting here a couple of days ahead of any corporate social platforms. There may be some random organic traffic, but when I post here and there's a sudden spike, I can pretty much assume virtually all of that comes from Mastodon. After that, compare Instagram and Facebook, if I decide to post there. Occasionally, Facebook will cause a big spike, but never as much as fedi.
Again, I don't even try to work those other platforms because I dislike their very existence, but that's what it is and I'm not willing to work for free for a billionaire who could decide to delete me.
@Mikal is that the place with rock art at the top?
Maybe? I've never heard of any, but it also wouldn't surprise me.
@Mikal the place I am thinking of has a lab where Paul Martin (the megafauna guy) used to work. He took me up to the top as a nice place to eat our lunch and showed me the petroglyphs. If there is a lab he could have worked at (at about 9 o'clock) then there should be petroglyphs at the top. This was 1989 or thereabouts, so likely the A was not there.
That's Tumamoc Hill, the slightly larger hill adjacent to it. I got to interview Paul many years ago for a small project. Just recently got a tour of the lab and the collection up there. Lots of amazing work happened out of that lab! Didn't know there was petroglyphs up there.
@Mikal That's a bit of my thing. But he took me up there because it was a nice place to go and we were talking extinction. He was one of the nicest people in the broadly defined disciplines I have belonged to. I asked him about his polio once and he said that he had found that there are many more people/giants whose shoulders you can stand on if you are nice to them. Great contribution.