So much for law and order…
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It’s almost noon and I’m having such a hard time getting going today. It’s so nice to see folks on Mastodon reaching out and lifting each other up, sending support and love around. We’ll get through this if we can keep that up.
I was staring around my office, dazed, and it occurred to me that I couldn’t remember the last time I watered my plants, so I did that. Now one of them is making slight squelching noises. If we could record the noise and amplify, we’d probably hear the word “FINALLY”.
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Sonnet 055 - LV
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
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So I had an odd experience the other day.
Someone told me I was being a reply guy. The thing was, they were replying to my post—I was not replying to them. And I think to be a reply guy, you have to reply.
I think what this person wanted was to reply to me, and just have me shut up while they dispensed with the truth bombs. But I assume that if you’re talking to me, you probably want a dialogue. Otherwise, why be in my mentions?
These executive orders collectively take the U.S. away from acting on climate change and risks (nearly 15 orders), attack efforts related to racial and gender and LGBTQ rights and equity, are disastrous for health and science and cybersecurity, and remove the U.S. from many global collaborations and alliances.
Dangerous and dark.
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#autocracy#democracy #usa #civilrights
Dangerous and dark.
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#autocracy#democracy #usa #civilrights
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered asThe White House
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Look, if Elon Musk is banning the word “Democrat” from Twitter Search, it’s about god damn time that the Fediverse improves its social discovery game.
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Amidst my worries about the acute and severe dangers to humans, especially those in marginalized communities, and the world, I still enjoyed this stunning sunrise along my run this morning in Barcelona.
#running #runnersofmastodon #sunrise #amanecer #barcelona
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I don't know how many times I need to say this but I had nothing to do with 'saving' him!
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is been a while since you've "reached out" publicly, just one well placed lightening bolt would see a good few hundred years of people not misrepresenting you. Just saying
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🎍🍊FIRST TEA & FRESH STARTS🍵🙇♂️
Hatsugama (初釜) is the first tea ceremony of the year. As it's a busy time for us in the teahouse, there's little chance for a proper celebration, so instead the youngest members of Camellia hosted an informal gathering to celebrate 'new beginnings'.
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Tea ceremonies can often seem like sober and sombre affairs, so it was really nice to take these more candid shots of how fun the tea gathering was.
As a team we are rarely together, so events like this are important.
The young members made for fantastic hosts.
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What on earth is Nao-san doing with smoking pipes?
Fear not, she hasn't taken up smoking...January 13th was 'Tobacco Day' (たばこの日)😒, and so it's a good chance to show you a 'tabako-bon' (煙草盆 'tobacco tray').
The pipes play a symbolic role in the tearoom.
#Japan #煙草盆 #Kyoto #teaceremony
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Originally the host of the tea ceremony would offer the tabako-bon (煙草盆) during breaks in the gathering, but nowadays it is **mostly** presented as a gesture for guests to make themselves comfortable.
'World No Smoking Day' (世界禁煙デー) falls on May 31st🤔
#teaceremony #茶道 #Kyoto #京都
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The tabako-bon (煙草盆) contains everything you need to prepare, light, smoke and put out a pipe (even cigarettes).
As you would expect, each tea school has a slightly different take on the tabako-bon.
This particular tray belongs to Nao-san.
We've received more offers to acquire our platform/assets.
We belong to the people.
Our Kickstarter is launching soon, help us prove that we, the people, can build healthy and vibrant communities, without being controlled by vested interests who don't share our values.
Recent events have proved how vital these open and federated platforms are, help us continue building for the people.
Spread the word ✨
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Publish every offer! Make it a into a game to see which slimy rich dingdong gets the top score! 😀
buyers will be impressed by your growth but what they do not understand is your growth is predicated on your legal status.
The minute it becomes the tool of investors we leave.
The minute it becomes the tool of investors we leave.
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Street traders, Dublin (1927)
Photo: Keystone View Company / Library of Congress
[Is that George's Street? EDIT: yes it is]
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Wimpy Bar, London (ca. 1970)
Photo: Walter Silver / NYPL
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And I'd stand there and watch the cook/chef/whatever, cook my burger and fry my onions right in front of me, and then slap a bit of cheese[1] on it. And that age, any greasy food tastes amazing!
1. Not that sliced processed shit. Actual 'cheese' 🙂
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Global wealth inequality growing worse —
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h/t @breadandcircuses
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#WealthInequality #poverty
Billionaires growing richer faster than ever, says Oxfam
Oxfam said trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade, as the richest 1% now own 45% of global wealth, while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 per day.Deutsche Welle
💵 💵 Business As Usual 💵 💵When the bottom line means more than the poverty line, when stock and bond futures are more important than our futures, when the investment climate counts for more than the actual climate, this is what you get…
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#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Billionaires growing richer faster than ever, says Oxfam
Oxfam said trillionaires are expected to emerge within the next decade, as the richest 1% now own 45% of global wealth, while 44% of humanity lives on less than $6.85 per day.Deutsche Welle
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San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 - residents of Japanese ancestry registering for evacuation and housing, later, in War Relocation Authority centers for duration of the war
#SanFrancisco #Calif #Japanese #JAPANESE #JapaneseAmericans #WorldWarII #WestCoast #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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In music:
one octave = 8 keys
two octaves = 15 keys
Music math is stupid.
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The Pentagon removes a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a corridor of the building filled with paintings of all of his predecessors. nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/poli…
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They are such small creatures 😛 "The world needs more manliness," say the bitch boys who can't see a dead man honored or a respected enemy respected and have to tear down their pictures like babies.
How we treat friends now — trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate
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#USpol #USpolitics #HumanRights #Afghanistan #refugees
Exclusive: #Trump admin canceling flights for nearly 1,660 #Afghan #refugees, say #US official, advocateNearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. #military personnel, are having their flights canceled under Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official & a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.
#immigration #law #HumanRights
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Thou shalt accept, DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.
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Actress Máire O'Neill in "General John Regan" at the Hudson Theatre (1913)
Photo: SCRC Virtual Museum at Southern Illinois University
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After reading her interesting biography, I'm guessing the Hudson Theatre was the one on Broadway in New York.
#Discourse has an #ActivityPub plugin that federates your posts there to the #Fediverse.
So if you’re running Discourse, you may want to enable that.
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ActivityPub Plugin
:discourse2: Summary Discourse ActivityPub allows you to publish Discourse posts via ActivityPub so they can be read on services that support ActivityPub such as Mastodon.Discourse Meta
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Great North Road Garage, Edinburgh (1981)
Photo: Paul Graham / Museum of Modern Art
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With Big Social sucking up to Trump, it’s becoming more clear that politics there is dictating content.
This is why Tom Allen believes now is the time for the Fediverse to shine.
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IT Essentials: From Facebook to Fediverse
As the world’s biggest social media sites bow to political pressure, is it finally the Fediverse’s time to shine?www.computing.co.uk
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Do you think there's still potential out there for the classical Fediverse (i.e. independent servers powered by ActivityPub)? There's so much hype about Bluesky these days...
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Also, it’s a strange experience looking at this film poster because, when I first watched this film when I was six-years-old, I perceived Diane Keaton as “mom”.
And now? I’m like, “Look at how Diane Keaton had it going on with that business attire.”
Time really sneaks up on you.
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Just in case you didn’t think the oligarchy is real.
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Business, tech CEOs attend Trump inauguration: Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk
Trump's inauguration drew a number of business and tech CEOs, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and even TikTok CEO Shou Chew.Bryan Metzger (Business Insider)
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The #RideauCanal this morning, now rated "fair", which is still pretty rough for skating.#NCC open data: ncc-ccn.gc.ca/places/skateway-…
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Every day, we work to build an inspiring capital that is a source of pride for all Canadians.National Capital Commission
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The right path.
#photography #photographie #fotografie #fotografia
#Art #landscape #Girvan #Scotland #Monochrome #blackandwhite
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How is Pixelfed an alternative to TikTok? 🤔 I thought its growth was caused by Meta's new policies, not the TikTok ban (cause of the growth of Rednote)
You all died in 2016. And yes, this is Hell.
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With Anthony Santander about to become a Blue Jay, unless he’s content to toil on some west coast purgatory factory like the Anaheim Angels, Pete Alonso should come crawling back to the #Mets, hat in hand, like Dirk Diggler did to Jack Horner in Boogie Nights.
(And they should take him too, provided it’s on their terms)
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San Francisco, Calif. Apr. 1942. A scene at the Wartime Civil Control Administration station where the first group of 664 persons of Japanese ancestry from San Francisco, registered before going to War Relocation Authority centers
#SanFrancisco #Calif #first #Japanese #WorldWarII #California #DorotheaLange #American #USWar #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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The Darkling Thrush
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
So little cause for carolings
Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
And I was unaware.
-- Thomas Hardy
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雪の夜の京都
#tokyocameraclub #shrine #kyoto #japan #winter #night #snow
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Chinatown.
#london #streetphotography #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography
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Friendica & Bluesky
Is there a friendica/bluesky bridge that does the same thing as the mastodon/bluesky bridge? Let's one follow bluesky accounts on friendica?
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Mastodon/Bluesky bridge should work the same for Friendica.
But there is more. There is a Friendica-specific "bridge" to Bluesky, which connects your Bluesky account to Friendica. This makes Friendica a Bluesky client, so you will be able to interact with any Bluesky account (not only these who opted in to federation to Mastodon) - as you will interact with them as a Bluesky user.
Go to Settings → Social Networks. Do you see "Bluesky Import/Export"? If not, ask your admin to add it.
The same thing can be possible with Tumblr (which does not even federate!)
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Thanks! Unfortunately that add-on is not installed on friendica.world -- at least not yet.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement
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Steak-osaurus? DNA analysis suggests 57 different varieties. 😜🤣
Outside PPG Plaza, courtesy of the the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. #Pittsburgh
#photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #dinosaur
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Here we go.
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in reply to Chris Trottier • • •Interesting insights, although I'm not sure I fully agree on that last point.
I agree the Fedi needs new and better platforms.
But it *also* needs really great versions of platforms that already exist.
As close to the existing platform's UI as possible, with good onboarding.
As in, you can put the Fedi-Facebook and he'll know how to use it, because everything looks the same, is called the same thing, works the same way, and is in the same place.
Why BlueSky has managed to notch up 20 million users is simply because it's done a really good job of looking and working like Twitter, circa 2018 or so.
The character limit's the same, quote tweets are the same, the UI is the same, it's well polished on both the web and mobile.
When you sign up, you're on the main instance. You're not given a screen of 50 possible PDS hosts or custom feeds.
And the starter packs are a great touch for on-boarding.
There's an argument in that for a Mastodon fork that's as Twitter-like as possible.
From there, people will over time branch out to the
... Show more...Interesting insights, although I'm not sure I fully agree on that last point.
I agree the Fedi needs new and better platforms.
But it *also* needs really great versions of platforms that already exist.
As close to the existing platform's UI as possible, with good onboarding.
As in, you can put the Fedi-Facebook and he'll know how to use it, because everything looks the same, is called the same thing, works the same way, and is in the same place.
Why BlueSky has managed to notch up 20 million users is simply because it's done a really good job of looking and working like Twitter, circa 2018 or so.
The character limit's the same, quote tweets are the same, the UI is the same, it's well polished on both the web and mobile.
When you sign up, you're on the main instance. You're not given a screen of 50 possible PDS hosts or custom feeds.
And the starter packs are a great touch for on-boarding.
There's an argument in that for a Mastodon fork that's as Twitter-like as possible.
From there, people will over time branch out to the Akkomas and the Friendicas and the Hubzillas.
And on the Fedi, a rising tide raises all ships. More people using clone apps mean more people to interact with on unique apps.
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in reply to Now at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au • • •@ajsadauskas That onboarding process you would like can’t happen because there is no scale to allow everyone to arrive on one server.
On November 2022, Mastodon wasn’t referring people to other servers merely to decentralize but because mastodon.social could not handle the rush of registrations.
Same deal now with Pixelfed. The main server, pixelfed.social, can’t handle the demand for registrations. Therefore other servers must pick up the slack.
The reason Bluesky can handle 20M accounts is because of VC money. They got millions of dollars to make it happen. Whereas Pixelfed barely has over $1,000/month.
Mastodon
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.socialNow at @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •Good points on the need to spread the load around.
That said, I know of several people who were going to sign up to Mastodon, but were put off when they were told to choose a server.
Likewise, on BlueSky recently I spoke to someone who was having second thoughts about making a @pixelfed account because of the list of servers. (I suggested to her to just sign up directly at pixelfed.social, and she did.)
Surely there's a better way to manage onboarding? Perhaps ask people their country and language (and even state for the US) and assign them to a different default server based on their answer?
Anyway.
My main point is that having Fediverse apps *both* that closely resemble a big social service, *and* new novel concepts, is beneficial.
So perhaps a fork of Mastodon that looks as much like old Twitter and BlueSky as possible, and also another fork that adds its own new features?
Perhaps some other new Fedi apps that closely resemble Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
At the same time, I have a few ideas around what some new Fedi platforms could potentially look like...
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Unknown parent • • •@oblomov @dansup True, all of this would be a lot easier if servers themselves didn’t have to store our identities.
Ideally, it would be nice if we could just store our identities on our devices, backing up our data with our own private relays. But that would also mean retraining people about how accounts work.
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Unknown parent • • •@luca @dansup @oblomov Here's another way it could be implemented...
On the homepage, there's two buttons: "CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT!" and "Choose a specific instance".
If you click on create your account, you're presented with two pull down menus: Select language (listing any languages associated with a particular server) and select location.
In many cases, you'll be allocated a default server based on your language and location.
Some languages — Esperanto for example — might only have one server. Others — English, French, Spanish, etc — might default to a different server based on your country.
Some countries may be broken down into multiple regions (eg "Australia: NSW, Qld, ACT, NT" "Australia: Vic, SA, Tas" "Australia: WA")
If your country doesn
... Show more...@luca @dansup @oblomov Here's another way it could be implemented...
On the homepage, there's two buttons: "CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT!" and "Choose a specific instance".
If you click on create your account, you're presented with two pull down menus: Select language (listing any languages associated with a particular server) and select location.
In many cases, you'll be allocated a default server based on your language and location.
Some languages — Esperanto for example — might only have one server. Others — English, French, Spanish, etc — might default to a different server based on your country.
Some countries may be broken down into multiple regions (eg "Australia: NSW, Qld, ACT, NT" "Australia: Vic, SA, Tas" "Australia: WA")
If your country doesn't have a server, then you'll be allocated one in a nearby country. For example, if there's no instances in Turkmenistan, you might be allocated to one in Turkey.
You're then asked to choose your starter pack.
On this screen, you're asked to choose a topic that's most of interest.
Based on which starter pack you choose, your account will follow prominent accounts and popular hashtags on the topic.
And in some cases (eg if you chose USA/English), it will also influence which server you default to.
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Unknown parent • • •Luca Sironi (temporaneo x BS)
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •@dansup @oblomov
#bluesky web login page is well done, you can choose another server, but most people, won't even notice or care.
But 'flagship' / load could be at least partially distributed.
Such a login page could be done if we don't believe each of thousand instances has really a different culture or values.
If all , or most, or the top 10 instance admin, choose to use a standard set of moderation rules, the official client could pick up round robin from a list of big, established, institutional instances, when creating an account.
Leaving the possibility to change that to your own little club, if you know what you are doing.