Mastodon

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"Mastodon" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Aviva plays in a Mastodon tribute band.

Many species of animals - the woolly mammoth, mastodon, scimitar cat, Arctic camel, brown bear, moose, muskox, and horse — to name a few — moved from one continent to the other across the Bering land bridge.

"Tom identifies as plural, polyamorous, enby otherkin." "Oh, that's a pretty extreme combo even for the cutting-edge SJW standards." "Come on, don't be such a fuddy-duddy!" "I don't know. It sounds very strange to me. I should probably watch more Netflix and spend more time on Mastodon to get used to such stuff. By the way, does he also identify as nudist?" "I don't think it's technically possible." "Why not? Isn't it marginalized enough?" "Because they're also an ardent member of the furry fandom. You won't often see them without a costume."

The skeleton of a 50,000-year-old mastodon comes from Simi Valley, which is today a quiet Los Angeles suburb.

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Mastodon is a federated free and open-source social network.

When, exactly, Europeans first stumbled upon the bones of an American mastodon is unclear. An isolated molar unearthed in a field in upstate New York was sent off to London in 1705; it was labeled the “tooth of a Giant”.

The battery is dying, and Natalia's iPhone charger doesn't fit my mastodon of a phone anyway.

Nor does it work for governance: the policy has become such a mastodon that we can't adapt it quickly enough to different regions or different circumstances.

However, the underlying design of platforms within [The Free Network] such as Mastodon, Diaspora and others ... opens the door to security and harassment problems.

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Since Musk bought the bird app last month, users are looking for ways to access Mastodon, the open source microblogging platform that isn’t quite Twitter but seems to be the closest thing to it, and they’re signing up for its many servers in droves.

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