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"Hermaeus Mora (sometimes spelled "Hoermius", "Hormaius", "Herm'us", or "Herma Mora"), the Daedra Prince of Forbidden Knowledge, the Demon of Knowledge, the One Who Knows, the Master of the Tides of Fate, Gardener of Men, Prince of Fate, Lord of Secrets, the Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge, the Golden Eye, the Great Eye, Ur-Daedra, the Abyssal Cephaliarch, Old Antecedent, Scryer, He Who Records All Knowledge, Inevitable Knower, Lord of Fate and Knowledge, also known to the ancient Atmorans and Bosmer as Herma-Mora, the Woodland Man or "that which speaks in the wastes," to the Ayleids as Hyrma Mora, and to the Khajiit as the Tide King and Hermorah, is a Daedric Prince whose sphere is forbidden knowledge, hidden shoals, whirlpools, and sudden squalls, destiny, and the scrying of the tides of Fate, weaving his way through the past and future as read in the stars and heavens, and in whose dominion are "the treasures of knowledge and memory"." - UESP Wiki #ElderScrolls #daedra #art
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"Clavicus Vile, also known as the Prince of Trickery and Bargains, the Consummate Politician of Oblivion, the Master of Insidious Wishes, and Child-god of the Morningstar, is a Daedric Prince whose sphere is the granting of power and wishes through ritual invocations and pacts. He is seen as one of the more "sophisticated" of the Daedric Princes, and often appears in the guise of a jovial Skaafin, a race of horned Daedra that inhabit the Fields of Regret, his realm in Oblivion.
Clavicus Vile is also known as Nycot. According to some, this name was created by the mortal Nycotic Cult, who didn't have the knowledge to properly read the Daedric alphabet, misreading the first five letters of Vile's Daedric name as "Nycot" upon mistaking the runes for Tamrielic letters. However, the name was used by a Skaafin to refer to Vile over three hundred years before the cult's prominence." - UESP Wiki #ElderScrolls #daedra #art
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"Boethiah (sometimes spelled Boethia or Boet-hi-Ah), known as the Prince of Plots, the Daedra Prince of Cruelty and Torture, the Dark Warrior, Deceiver of Nations, Queen of Shadows, Goddess of Destruction, Hunger, and Fount of Inspiration, He-Who-Destroys and She-Who-Erases, Boethiah the Schemer , The Dark Mistress, and called Boethra by the Khajiit, is a Daedric Prince who rules over deceit, conspiracy, secret plots of murder, assassination, treason, and unlawful overthrow of authority. This sphere is destructive in nature, and Boethiah's destructiveness comes from inspiring the arms of mortal warriors. The Dark Warrior has been described as "cold" and "impersonal", "cruel", and one of the more "demonic" of the Daedra lords. Worshippers are known to hold bloody competitions in Boethiah's honor, battling—even killing—each other, for Boethiah is said to care only for their blood." - UESP Wiki #ElderScrolls #daedra #art
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"Azura of the Crimson Gate, also known as: Queen of Dawn and Dusk, the Mother Soul, Moonshadow, Mother of the Rose, Queen of the Night Sky, Twilight Queen, the Rim of all Holes, the Cosmic Severer, and called Azurah by the Khajiit, is a Daedric Prince whose sphere is dawn and dusk—the magic in-between realms of twilight—as well as mystery and magic, fate and prophecy, and vanity and egotism. Azura is one of the few Daedra who maintains the appearance of being "good" by mortal standards, and reportedly feels more concern for the well-being of her mortal subjects than other Daedric Princes." - UESP Wiki #ElderScrolls #daedra #art
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Amazing news. London woman off insulin for Type 1 diabetes after a single dose of experimental manufactured stem cells ctvnews.ca/health/article/woma… science can save lives and i hope it will be available to everyone soon 😎
Amanda Smith celebrates the day, August 1, nearly two years ago, when she stopped taking insulin to manage her type one diabetes, just a few months after getting a dose of experimental stem cells as part of a study.
I was going to send this to my type 1 diabetic wife until I saw this: "But there’s a tradeoff. The patients, however, require immune-suppressing drugs for life, so that the immune system doesn’t destroy the cells."
My wife had adult onset type 1, after an autoimmune reaction wrecked her pancreas and damaged her thyroid gland. Her immune system is already primed to kill these cells. They have to do more work and figure out how to make the body see the new cells as "self".
@chrisod @not2b I've had T1D for 37 years and I'm right with you on the skepticism. Not eager to have my immune system suppressed when we have measles outbreaks and government-enshrined vaccine denial... The autoimmune response *is* T1D and it needs to be solved.
"The next step is for someone to produce stem cells that don’t require immune suppression, by either genetically engineering the cells or encapsulating them to make them invisible to immune attack. Several pilot studies are underway."
Managing immune system response itself is going to lead to treatments (possibly cures) for a whole range of conditions. Curing diabetes could cure more than diabetes.
@fluffgar I heard they're working on a "vaccine" to teach body to stop attacking parts of itself, currently targeting lupus, this has potential. Encapsulating cells has an issue that cells have certain lifetime, and after they die, it's the immune system clearing them away to make room for new ones - which we stopped from accessing them. As for making cells immortal, there's a name for that - cancer, so willingly implanting them is risky.
@chrisod @jpshoer @not2b without a doubt, the industry prefers management over a cure thanks to $$$. If your wife is only getting 7 days out of a Medtronic sensor then that strongly suggests she's on the old generation sensors. If she gets the opportunity moving over to the tandem t-slim with the dexcom CGMs is the way to go. I use G6 sensors still because I use a hacked transmitter. But the g7s come on in 30 minutes. And they last 10 days without batting an eye.
@thegorf @chrisod @not2b Closed loop CGM + pump is night and day from when I was a kid, for sure! Sometimes, though, I fear the incremental pump, CGM, and algorithm improvements are leading to a treatment dead end. My top issue with my own diabetes management is infusion sets, and there's so little effort improving those! Perhaps something implantable is the answer. I still want a cure.
@jpshoer @chrisod @not2b 46 years here. I've been following the transplant research for years and was nearly a research candidate. Gene therapy to correct the autoimmune response is where the gold is. In the meantime better pumps and CGMs make life pretty easy. Gone are the days of pork insulin and 5 shots a day. I've been hoping to see an implantable pump for several years now.
you forgot to mention the most relevant fact and the actual reason linux users in this space care is that the doctor did all his scientific research on a Linux computer.
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Let there be light! This is Bryn Celli Ddu, a neolithic burial site on Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Wales, aligned to allow the sun to reach the back of the chamber at daybreak on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. #SummerSolstice #midsummer #longestday
Let there be light! This is Bryn Celli Ddu, a neolithic burial site on Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Wales, aligned to allow the sun to reach the back of the chamber at daybreak on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. #SummerSolstice #midsummer #longestday
Let there be light! This is Bryn Celli Ddu, a neolithic burial site on Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Wales, aligned to allow the sun to reach the back of the chamber at daybreak on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. #SummerSolstice #midsummer #longestday
Let there be light! This is Bryn Celli Ddu, a neolithic burial site on Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Wales, aligned to allow the sun to reach the back of the chamber at daybreak on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. #SummerSolstice #midsummer #longestday
Let there be light! This is Bryn Celli Ddu, a neolithic burial site on Ynys Môn (Anglesey), Wales, aligned to allow the sun to reach the back of the chamber at daybreak on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. #SummerSolstice #midsummer #longestday
Any house that needs AC is somewhere hot, right? Or it wouldn't need AC in the first place?
So there's at least some sunshine, right? Or it wouldn't be hot?
So the AC is powered by the house's own solar panels, right? Because there is no conceivable reason why not. So, why should the city care how much you run your AC? You'll just be exporting a bit less power, on a day when there's more than enough power to go around anyway.
@TimWardCam friendly reminder that most people in cities rent our homes and many of us (probably most idk) live in apartment buildings 😕 I'd use solar panels if I could
@raphaelmorgan @TimWardCam And in the meantime, those nice country folk don’t want the big solar arrays situated near them because they ruin the view …
@mtconleyuk @raphaelmorgan My answer to that (I've been in the planning business as a councillor) is "if you want to keep your view the same then all you have to do is buy it and refrain from developing it (and hope that you don't get CPOd because development is in the overriding public interest.)"
@TimWardCam This is why I say all new housing should be required to have power generating capability. Maybe geothermal for apartments instead, or both.
If only we had this foreign communist thing called "government regulation", where the AI companies were required to drastically reduce usage during power-shortages...
@a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist EVs on dirty electricity are still better than gas cars, since power plants are more efficient than your car is.
But yes, greening the grid is a required step that needs to be moving a lot faster.
Melon Tusk, the 'green tech innovator' of electric cars, solar roofs, and batteries solved the AI draining the grid problem by illegally running a bunch of heavy polluting gas generators. Everything is ok now.
Tesla is setting the gold standard for innovation, performance, and most notably, sustainability. Tesla’s Supercharger network is often cited as a testament to its commitment to making green technology accessible and convenient.
Companies like Nissan, Honda and so on use this observation for their serial hybrids.
What entirely spoils these cars: Their tiny batteries and no charging port. So even for the typical daily 40 km round trip they need fuel even though you could conveniently charge them from your roof for these short distances.
@a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist not even power plants are needed, a diesel generator as the one in the article above will do, to make it more efficient than an ice.
Writing this from Berlin, Germany. Guess we can agree that this city and its suburbs got a pretty decent public network with even the most remote places seeing regular service. S-Bahn run at 80 to 100 km/h. Trams and metro at 60 km/h. Still you barely reach an average speed of 15 km/h when using public transportation, because of the delays and detours. Cars move here with an average speed of 30 km/h.
@nicemicro @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist More walkable cities with public transit is lovely. But that's simply not viable for large swaths of the country, especially areas that are not cities. And even if we committed to it, it will take decades to rebuild all our cities to not need cars. EVs are a necessity and even in the most optimistic case will be for decades.
Your vitriol towards people with their own wheels is counter productive.
@a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist an EV is still a car, has tiers that make noise and microplastics, take up space, require half of your city covered with tar.
If you cared about the environment, you advocated for public transit, that is the most energy and space efficient way to move people around.
EVs are a scam to make selfish people who want the government to subsidise their luxuries but also want to feel like they are doing something good.
Well, and I really don't like the fact that cars are so much faster, but 30 km/h is the benchmark to met for people to change from cars to public.
Well, and then there is the cost: Once you wasted your money on a private car, the PV charged electric car drives almost for free, while public transport is 4,70 € per trip. Get another persons in your PV car and safe money; even with acquisition and service.
@taschenorakel @a_e_sayapov @firstprimate @fuminghumanist yes, but the fact that the default assumption is that "you already bought a car" is very silly. Most of us aren't born with a car, and while the 4.70 euros would be a bit much for my liking (I spend 2400 KRW on a single trip (~2 euros) on a bus that is as fast as cars. But, paying 4.70 would probably still be less than your vehicle expenditure.
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Not too sure what these guys were doing on the roof of the Hydro in Glasgow today, I'm just glad it wasn't me - not just because it's been the hottest day of the year so far, but also because the very thought of it sets off my vertigo!
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Can you use a single Fediverse account one more than type of application? For example can you use a Mastodon account to log into a Lemmy client or do Lemmy clients require an account on some Lemmy instance?
It depends on the client, some of them are designed to work with lots of different account types. Fedilab ( @apps ) is designed to work with many account types.
However, if you use an account type on a client not designed for it, you may not be able to access all the features of your account. For example you can use Pixelfed accounts on Mastodon clients, but you won't be able to post more than four pictures at once as this is the limit on Mastodon.
If you want to upload videos to PeerTube or do livestreams on PeerTube, you will need an account on a PeerTube server.
You can usually sign up on a PeerTube server by clicking "request an account" at the top of its website. Not all of them are open for signups though. More info at:
I'm new to mastodon and I just picked a random server. I'd like to post various types of content and reach people. I've seen there are servers that have something art-related in their name, others seem to be gamedev related and so on. Is it important what server I post from? Will people of any server be able to engage with my posts, no matter what server I post from? What would be a more fediverse way of posting different types of content? Making accounts on different themed servers?
Most people only need one account, because their account can be followed and interacted with from other servers. That's why we can talk, even though we are on different servers.
If you're new, you probably don't need to worry, you're on a stable general server so you should be able to post whatever content you want (as long as it's within server rules) 🙂
Themed servers are for accounts with a particular focus, but many servers are general.
No, they're totally different social networks with no connection or common standards. You might occasionally see "bridged" posts from other social networks, but these are basically just copying posts over rather than being a direct connection.
However, there are third party social media management services which let you post across multiple different social networks including Mastodon etc:
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I’m hoping to find (or initiate) a good spot for sharing music releases. I’m a music producer with a large network of artists from the Netherlands. It would be an honour carve out a little place of the fediverse for everyone to share their work and connect to fans.
Any ideas would be much appreciated, as I’m still in the ‘hey, what does this button do?’ phase of my fediverse exploration
For sharing music, maybe the best option is PeerTube? It was originally designed for video as a YouTube style thing, but it also lets you upload audio files (with optional artwork).
People on Mastodon etc can follow and interact with accounts and videos/audios on PeerTube. PeerTube can also be followed from podcasting apps such as Apple Podcasts.
@Ismellamuskus The first step - imho - would be to simply attach a sound file to one of your posts. ...and the main goal of your journey is to have an instance that automatically verifies your artist (and tech) collegues.
The local feed of that instance would be interesting from a journalistic point of view...
@Ismellamuskus - Thinking of it as a "server" limits your thinking. An "instance" is your neighbourhood, filled with social networking possibilities. Technically both are software solutions but don't underestimate the human difference.
"Professional" is nice, but the main test to clear is to avoid being a tombstone. It is better to make simple posts than referring to a dead web site, no matter how fancy the design is.
@vattuvarg I see, so my instance right now is waag.social. Does that mean I’d have to ask the moderators to verify me and my posts?
For now, it feels like Mastodon might not be the best place for music as most posts seem pretty quiet and text based. Perhaps you are aware of instances or apps that are louder? 😇
Verification usually works by having a link to your account on a trustworthy website (for example @torproject is verified at torproject.org so we know their account is genuine).
Maybe I'm missing something but I'm not sure how HTML file uploads on Mastodon would help with that? 🤔
@tips runs a multi language account (EN and JP), but somehow it allows to subscribe to only one of the language streams. Is it a generic fediverse feature?
Mastodon had discussions on its Github a while ago about having multiple language streams on single accounts, but AFAIK it hasn't happened yet. Usually Fedi accounts do this by having two different account addresses you can subscribe to?
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When people talk about the "survival of the fittest" or "the crime of empathy," I want clips like this to be pressed into the sides of those people's self-serving dumbfuck heads until they cave in.
This is literally survival of the fittest in action though. It's never about the individual, it's always about the group. The group that teaches the best habits benefit just as much as the group that perpetuates a beneficial mutation.
Compassion *is* a trait that benefits a population, otherwise we never would have developed it enough for it to survive generations. And we wouldn't see it in animal populations like this.
(but whenever I see a clip like this, I hear Vala in my head [Stargate] and laugh again at her hilariously wrong line ... "Because you are also a Tortoise"! 😂)
Survival of the fittest was coined by Herbert Spencer, an enthusiastic supremist and eugenicist. Darwin never spoke in those terms, calling it "Natural Selection." The reason it's bullshit is "fittest" is a misleading term. Natural selection is survival of the barely good enough. Anything better, Ma Nature no care she lazy!
And who cares if we're better or worse at surviving? That's how they get you to stop people from surviving, for the crime of not surviving. If they won't survive, you don't have to help step on them. But if you do that, the ultra-wealthy will benefit greatly from your self-destructive obedience to their lies.
Like, would you only show compassion because it benefits a population? No, you show it because you're not a fucking asshole, and you like people! Maybe it benefits the population, but that'll work itself out, doesn't need our attention.
@USSJoshuaNorton I always contradict people who use "fit" to mean "muscular and physically powerful" in everyday speech, pointing out that the worms in dung are evolved to perfectly fit their ecological niche.
@spacehobo @USSJoshuaNorton Well yes. The literal meaning of 'fit' is 'best adapted', fitting in with their environment. This is also the Darwinian meaning. Keep pointing it out!
@USSJoshuaNorton I'm the kind of neurodivergent that makes empathy not work right and let me tell you this shit is not beneficial. You should celebrate your empathy because if society was entirely people like me it wouldn't work at all.
@jaystephens @USSJoshuaNorton At some point while I was homeless ~7 years ago I realized that individual humans don't survive alone so if I wanted to not freeze to death in an alleyway somewhere I had to at least learn to pretend to understand how other people feel. Since people can't read minds (as much as many would like to believe empathy lets them) my motivations are unknowable to them and if I act in the way I think an empathetic person would their brains fill in the blanks and perceive me as feeling empathy even though in reality I'm not feeling anything.
Me masking my ASPD is pretty much entirely for the sake of avoiding social punishment. It's a lot of conscious effort to pay attention to facial expressions, tone of voice, and all the other indicators of someone's emotional state to try to figure out how they're feeling but in the past few years I'v
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@jaystephens @USSJoshuaNorton At some point while I was homeless ~7 years ago I realized that individual humans don't survive alone so if I wanted to not freeze to death in an alleyway somewhere I had to at least learn to pretend to understand how other people feel. Since people can't read minds (as much as many would like to believe empathy lets them) my motivations are unknowable to them and if I act in the way I think an empathetic person would their brains fill in the blanks and perceive me as feeling empathy even though in reality I'm not feeling anything.
Me masking my ASPD is pretty much entirely for the sake of avoiding social punishment. It's a lot of conscious effort to pay attention to facial expressions, tone of voice, and all the other indicators of someone's emotional state to try to figure out how they're feeling but in the past few years I've found people I can be honest with and they still care about me even knowing what I am and getting to have friends is pretty tight. I still can't share in anything they feel which means I can't form meaningful emotional connections so it's a pretty lonely life even with people who care about me around.
Seeing books like Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power" sell well or politicians talking about the "sin of empathy" honestly baffles me because I can't imagine why anybody would want to self-impose the kind of emotional isolation I don't have a choice but to live with. Division of labor and interdependence are the things that made our species successful in the first place. If you look at the evolutionary arms race that shaped our species, humans are really squishy and pretty bad at everything that isn't innovating new ways to throw rocks or working together. Even if it doesn't come naturally to me, I still have to figure out how to fit into the mold of my species if I want to succeed.
@USSJoshuaNorton Darwin himself wrote in 'The Descent of Man' (1871) that morality is not uniquely human, but rather a naturally occurring trait that has developed from social instincts. He described that compassion, care for others and cooperation are present in many animals and have been further developed in humans through intelligence, language and reflection.
He described that societies with strong emphasis on morality and cooperation would have an evolutionary advantage.
There are so many sayings that get twisted in this broken way. One of my favorites is "blood is thicker than water" used to justify abusive family dynamics. The whole phrase is "Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb." and it literally means the opposite of what it's been twisted into — that connections forged in difficult circumstances and shared experiences are stronger than that of genetic relations.
@DavidM_yeg @USSJoshuaNorton to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps was originally an example of something that is not possible, not some expression of rugged individualism
Absolutely! I also don’t understand why and how on earth scientists STILL believe that animals are incapable of things like empathy and emotions. (I’m taking an animal behavior class and this drives me crazy that they insist that you talk like this). I grew up in the woods basically and I didn’t have to anthropomorphize other animals to see how they dealt with life around them. They definitely had feelings and emotions.
It's religion—specifically a pernicious strain of christian dogma that holds that only human beings have "souls" (a prerequisite for "going to heaven", the main value proposition Christianity relies on to sell itself to its believers). If animals are automata with no interiority and no emotional states it's okay to eat/abuse/experiment on them. Otherwise it opens an entire can of christianity-specific theological worms.
@cstross I agree with that completely.I’ll add that it makes it more “convenient” for animals to be on a different level than humans (my humble opinion is animals are far superior in most things).Honestly, I’d have to argue that animals have souls too & have things like guilt & grudges.😹 Yeah we’re not some “fallen angel” we’re just another animal that likes to go into “abstract thinking” & communicate that with other humans.
Their very tribalism defeats their own argument of individualism but then you can’t logically argue against an irrational argument.
In fact the whole individualism ideology is exactly an attempt to break your tribe so their tribe can dominate.
Hypocrisy by design. Like many things, it’s an ideology reverse engineered from a desired outcome. That outcome is to justify not supporting poor people, especially when they are Black and were made poor by having their stuff stolen by white people.
As always with America, the root of the nonsensical stupidity is racism.
Video speaks volumes toward what's NOT going on in the🌏today.
As far as I know, animals (in general) are peaceful/nonviolent; they kill their prey to eat ~ To Survive, or they kill to protect themselves/their own when attacked.
Some people though are prone to violence/ARE violent ~ killing out of hate or to abuse power/claim domination ... then, individuals like this constitute entire NATIONS💔
The world REALLY needs to reflect on your post, TY for sharing❣
People who cite Darwin rarely have read Darwin, at least that's my experience. The old dude would have looked at the video and then he'd said that the SPECIES is very well-fit for the environment as it has evolved the capability to assist struggling individuals.
When will those freaks finally get that evolution deals with species, not with individuals?
@zappes Actually, no, Darwin wouldn't say that. Natural selection is about individuals and families, not species. "Species" is just a human construct.
The really interesting story is how that leads to cooperative behaviour like this. Go look up "kin selection" and the book "The Evolution of Cooperation".
@R1Rail Exactly, turtles as a species survive better when the individuals help each other. This is exactly how 'survival of the fittest' works.
Humans are absolutely the prime example of this. In most ways we are inferior to many animals, worse sight, smell, hearing. Not as strong as our primate counter parts.
Our two real advantages are opposable thumbs and the ability to co-operate effectively. And so we have come to dominate the planet.
“Survival of the fittest” is ignorant on multiple layers. Firstly, it reduces the whole process of evolution to simplistic “war of all against all”. Secondly, it ignores the fact that empathy and altruism are also products of evolution, therefore they have certain evolutionary benefits, as nicely portrayed in the video.
In fact I was interested in the etymology of the phrase, after reading this, and apparently the first appearance of the phrase is the German Reinhart Fuchs/Reynard the Fox... anyway I will definitely bear this in mind the next time I hear the phrase misused 👍
Survival of the fittest people are weird and delusional. They imagine a lot of things.
There is no survival, no one survives. Not even historically. Some people become stories.
There is no prize at the end, or ever, for accomplishing things. They're not, and humans as a whole are not, going to get a gold star for mankind's milestones like they seem to think.
“To Share........... or to shaft: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns
“To Share........... or to shaft: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.--Soft you now! The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember'd!”
@amiserabilist Animals Peering Over The Edges Of Things While Looking Furiously Grumpy are the best animals 😍 (esp that owl, I would very much like to be friends with that owl)
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here's another macro moth shot from EMF2022. was hanging out on the wall near my lighting installation in the early morning, and needed some time to warm up on my hand before it could safely fly away.
@MiniMia if you have an issue with an image of an animal just existing, I recommend the use of filters for the name of that animal, and then therapy to get over your phobia.
We did it! Thanks to your support, we achieved all three of our fundraising goals for developing features in the PeerTube application! We now have the...
No, this campaign was purely focused on the mobile app!
But anyway, it's in our plan to develop a complete migration process at some point... we just can't say when for now since it's a lot of work and our roadmap for the next year is not complete yet!
@jrp Okay! Just in case you didn't know, there is still a feature to import/export your account to another PeerTube platform. You save all your videos this way but you'll lose your followers.
We know that's not enough for some people but maybe that's good enough for you. 😀
The Scottish Languages Bill (2025) haes gid throu an PASSED. Scots is noo an official leid ae Scotland, alangside an equal tae Gaelic an English. A muckle thanks tae ilka activist, supporter an spikker fa hiv focht sae hard. 🎉🥳🍾🏴
The Scottish Languages Bill (2025) haes gid throu an PASSED. Scots is noo an official leid ae Scotland, alangside an equal tae Gaelic an English. A muckle thanks tae ilka activist, supporter an spikker fa hiv focht sae hard. 🎉🥳🍾🏴
The Scottish Languages Bill (2025) haes gid throu an PASSED. Scots is noo an official leid ae Scotland, alangside an equal tae Gaelic an English. A muckle thanks tae ilka activist, supporter an spikker fa hiv focht sae hard. 🎉🥳🍾🏴
The Scottish Languages Bill (2025) haes gid throu an PASSED. Scots is noo an official leid ae Scotland, alangside an equal tae Gaelic an English. A muckle thanks tae ilka activist, supporter an spikker fa hiv focht sae hard. 🎉🥳🍾🏴
Many years ago I was camped out at a paid site in Greece. The owner woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me to help translate for a new arrival. I asked what language he spoke, and was told English. "But _you_ speak English, we're speaking it now. Let me go back to sleep." He finally dragged me out to see the new person. continued
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The Scottish Languages Bill (2025) has PASSED. Scots is now an official language of Scotland, alongside and equal to Gaelic and English. A huge thanks to every activist, supporter and speaker who have fought so hard 🎉🥳🍾🏴
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To make a very long story short, I am forty-one and became interested in opera in February of this year. I had been listening to operetta for several years by this point, with special attention to the works of Ivor Novello and Franz Lehar, always preferring original cast recordings, or at least older ones, when possible. Even now, all of the opera singers I like were born prior to 1923. I am interested in learning how to sing for pleasure, and possibly for performance, though not in full operas, as I am totally blind and I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that. I would most likely be singing Neapolitan songs, Italian art songs, a few English parlour songs, and some arias that I enjoy. I am untrained and my voice type has not yet been designated. However, , this is a post that I made reguarding my own discoveries about my vocal range. To summarise, I am a woman, but I feel most comfortable singing in the tenor range and would prefer to stay there. I don't like how high composers force contraltos to sing.
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To make a very long story short, I am forty-one and became interested in opera in February of this year. I had been listening to operetta for several years by this point, with special attention to the works of Ivor Novello and Franz Lehar, always preferring original cast recordings, or at least older ones, when possible. Even now, all of the opera singers I like were born prior to 1923. I am interested in learning how to sing for pleasure, and possibly for performance, though not in full operas, as I am totally blind and I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that. I would most likely be singing Neapolitan songs, Italian art songs, a few English parlour songs, and some arias that I enjoy. I am untrained and my voice type has not yet been designated. However, , this is a post that I made reguarding my own discoveries about my vocal range. To summarise, I am a woman, but I feel most comfortable singing in the tenor range and would prefer to stay there. I don't like how high composers force contraltos to sing.
I adore the tenore di grazia voice type and also enjoy lyric tenors. My favourite singer is Tito Schipa, and I wish to learn what he taught, or at least, what he learned. I have the ten exercises that he recorded, including short narrations for each. I wrote about them here, with a transcription of the Italian and an English translation. This way, you will know the school of thought that I am attempting to follow. The one thing I cannot find is the booklet that came with said exercises, which offers more guidance than the record.
Since Schipa left little behind, I began researching his teacher, Alceste Gerunda. It is true that he technically started with Giovanni Albani, but hardly anything is written about him at all in Schipa's biography, and it seems that Gerunda was the one who gave him all of the exercises in any case.
I learned that Gerunda was born in 1847, and that his teacher was Saverio Mercadante. Neither left books, exercises, or published notes. But I found the school where Gerunda taught prior to opening a private one in his home. It has since become a library. They have two books on him that I want and that may shed light on some of his teaching practices. These are "ALCESTE GERUNDA E LA SCUOLA LECCESE DI CANTO" by Silvia Mandurino (ITES 1969) and "IN MEMORIA DEL MAESTRO ALCESTE GERUNDA NE L'AVVIVERSARIO PRIMO DE LA SUA MORTE" by Giulia) Lucrezi (Palumbo.
Perhaps, there are anecdotes within them that can help me. They may also have the books that he used to teach, assuming he used any. I have written to them asking if they could assist me, but haven't yet received a response.
In the meantime, I am trying to find information about the pedigogs of his time, so that I can at least learn the ideas and methods that he may have passed down to Schipa. But, of course, there were as many schools of thought as there were teachers. To make matters worse, Gerunda and Schipa themselves appeared to differ in their teaching style. While the former would tell the latter when he made mistakes in exercises, Schipa seemed to just give them and play the piano without giving much commentary. Ironically, Mercadante is said to have taught like that. From what I understand, if I did follow the regular bel canto style, I would need to work on notes, then scales and arpegios, then ornamentation, then songs/arias, all of this taking many years. It seems that Schipa didn't work on breath control, individual notes, tone, tamber, and so on with his students but went straight to vowels and scales. I don't know if this is from his own teacher or if it was his personal philosophy. I have definitely heard of the breath-first and larynx-first schools of thought, so it could stem from there.
People keep saying that i need to see a teacher, but most charge $100 or more per lesson, and at that rate, I can't afford more than two lessons per month. Plus, I want to find someone who knows the old ways, not modern ideas and terminology that I will need to unlearn. As it is, I am already studying harmony from "Harmony its theory and practice" by Ebenezer Prout, and Italian from "An Italian conversation grammar" by N Perini. It's just voice that is giving me a problem.
@petrnuska Just thinking out loud, but @mcmullin, this may perhaps be more your wheelhouse than mine. I’ve been to some operas, and have talked to some singers who were going to study at Trinity College London. It’s a very specific performance and vocal style. In direct response to the post, I’ve also sung in a choir with a female tenor and a male alto, so some people will happily judge purely on vocal range and passagios. That said, true low contraltos can be absolutely amazing.
@cassana @petrnuska I’m afraid this is not my wheelhouse at all! It’s clear that @dandylover1 already knows much more than I do about her area of inquiry. But there are many choral singers and a few opera singers on here who may be able to help. I know almost nothing about classical vocal training except that it is very much an oral tradition, probably not something you can learn from books, and potentially harmful to try without guidance.
@cassana @petrnuska So even if it’s just the occasional lesson, it would help to have a teacher at least point you in the right direction and check on your progress. As far as voice types go, it’s not that unusual for women to sing tenor parts especially in choirs, and in the solo repertory you mention, I think pretty much anything goes. So by all means, sing where you sound good and feel right.
@Cassana 🍻 @David McMullin @Petr Nuska Just to clarify. I am absolutely not against finding a teacher, even if I can take only a few lessons. My problem is finding someone who actually has the knowledge that I seek. From what I have read, modern training and pedigogy is quite different, even if people sing the same repertoir. Just listening to the older versus modern recordings demonstrates this. I don't want to learn certain things, only to have to unlearn them later. I also recognise what was said about the voice and working alone. I highly doubt Schipa's exercises will damage my vocal cords. They are extremely simple and don't strain them. My question is, what do I do after that? And of course, having a professional pair of ears to guide me wouldn't hurt either. I wonder if I can, perhaps, upload myself doing the exercises and receive suggestions that way.
@cassana @petrnuska It sounds like what you really need is a teacher whose pedagogical lineage preserves the old methods you’re drawn to. I have no idea how to find such a person. But I imagine it’s possible that there are “modern” teachers who do know about this and could guide you in it, even if it’s not what they offer most of their students.
@David McMullin @Cassana 🍻 @Petr Nuska Yes. This is exactly what I am seeking. I am also really hoping that someone at the Bernardini Library responds to me within the next week or two. They may not even be able to help me, but at least I'll know I tried. I also wrote to Seth Riggs, who actually studied with Tito Schipa, but that was a few weeks ago, and he never responded either. That, though, is understandable, given that he's in his nineties and extremely famous.
@andijah @mcmullin @cassana @petrnuska I would add that many good teachers would be happy to have one or two trial lessons with you to find out whether they can meet your needs, and the best would be able to say "I'm not the right person for you, but my colleague so-and-so might know someone."
Another option is finding modern singers whose style you like and asking who they study with.
Two lessons a month might be okay if (and only if) you are diligent in practising on your own.
I can’t comment on your spesific question about style, but I recognize the feeling of being most comfortable in the lowest part of my vocal range. I started singing lessons with a new to me teacher last fall, and asked if we could work especially on the lower end, since before, all my teachers had seemed to just to want to push me to sing higher. Turns out that working on the chest register has really helped me feel more comfortable singing higher up as well!
I also recognise how hard it is to find a teacher that you really can trust to guide you in the right direction. But I think you might need to take the risk of learning a few wrong things along the way while you seek your goal. Learning a skill isn’t a linear process anyway.
I know I could have done exercises for ever by myself and not gotten to where I am now after just one school year of lessons. So having a couple try out lessons with different people I think really is a good idea. They may know other people again who they can point you to.
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Yes to this. Taking it "off your brain" and onto paper is the anxiety fix you've been looking for. Now, finding that paper later? Let's fight that battle tomorrow friends.
That's me done with the Quantum Break. Didn't quite finish the game. Wasn't enjoying the annoying fight at the end so just found a video of what happens. Bit more abrupt than I was hoping. Thought we might get an episode to round things off.
Can you help Cats Protection in Orkney with its vital feral cat neutering work?
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands. As feral cats are wild animals, it is not possible to tame them after the age of eight weeks old, so the charity runs a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) programme to humanely capture them before…
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands.&nb…
Can you help Cats Protection in Orkney with its vital feral cat neutering work?
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands. As feral cats are wild animals, it is not possible to tame them after the age of eight weeks old, so the charity runs a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) programme to humanely capture them before…
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands.&nb…
Can you help Cats Protection in Orkney with its vital feral cat neutering work?
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands. As feral cats are wild animals, it is not possible to tame them after the age of eight weeks old, so the charity runs a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) programme to humanely capture them before…
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands.&nb…
Can you help Cats Protection in Orkney with its vital feral cat neutering work?
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands. As feral cats are wild animals, it is not possible to tame them after the age of eight weeks old, so the charity runs a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) programme to humanely capture them before…
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands.&nb…
Can you help Cats Protection in Orkney with its vital feral cat neutering work?
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands. As feral cats are wild animals, it is not possible to tame them after the age of eight weeks old, so the charity runs a Trap, Neuter, Return (TNR) programme to humanely capture them before…
Cats Protection Caithness, which also covers Orkney, would like to recruit some more Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Volunteers to help with the vital work of helping feral cats throughout the islands.&nb…
It’s kind of rare for a show to get this much of a warning that their show is ending. So not only has the third season not yet aired (July 17), the fourth season is in production, and finally they’ll get a truncated fifth season of 6 episodes (instead of 10). I should hope they’ll be able to wrap it up nicely in that case.
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