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@users Twitter exodus?

@onlmaps And what is exactly wrong about it?

You could create such a map for any "country"/region and it would look similar.

I see nothing wrong about it. Every geographically-defined audience also will have a specific geographical extent of high/low interests.

@piggo Look, you got it completely wrong. The value proposition is not for it to be re-used. Not even to withstand anything . It's only supposed to be "used". As in "as an event". At the given moment. You see? For a single purpose: to walk away with it.

@piggo Yeah. I was just lazy 🙂 .

Another poppy seed cake. Sort of a classic this one. Yet, one of my favourites.

#cakeposting @hob

@academicalnerd It's always nice to get some good news in the world: somebody feels better than yesterday. 👍

@academicalnerd Well. I feel that too. Sometimes I think these somewhat incoherent, but related thoughts:
1. for most of the history individual people felt like an object of history, rather than fully sovereign agents. In Russia even more than elsewhere, but it holds everywhere. Only the last 100, somewhere perhaps only the last 30 years gave us the opportunity to feel as masters of our own individual destinies. We internalised that feeling and often convinced ourselves that that is "the normal". But what if it isn't? What if it was just an anomaly of history? A bleak world picture there.
1. to deal with thoughts like that, I found stoicism (and perhaps especially it's more modern incarnations) to be a useful guide. Not that I am good on that path, but those thoughts occasionally help. In a way, they are not dissimilar to what me, as a non-religious person observe on most Muslims. They still interleave their speech with things like "insallah", which to me, signals a level of acceptance, if not even fatalism. I find a grain of that in life healthy - to understand that there are forces affecting our life beyond our reach (whether religious or not is besides the point).

Such things occasionally help me to overcome the despair and frustration stemming from lack of control over parts of my own destiny - and BTW, I am one of those who try very very hard to control it 🙂 - yet, in vain so far.

@academicalnerd

> it is somehow liberating

Is it? Sometimes I long for such a world. And it actually exists in places, but one needs to rid oneself of all ambition and fun at work. Then those places do indeed still exist.

@piggo Only for Oracle or IBM to take its place? I suggest: value the enemy you've got there. Not for what it is, but rather for what it isn't, but could become if it weren't there 😄 .

@pony See. Sudoku is not good for plants. 😄

@piggo That must be a highly intelligent plant there doing sudoku.

@pony

@piggo Go ahead. It's an interesting etude. And it's actually a must in geographies without them. And you never know when that skill becomes handy 😄 .

Though the get the final thickness right takes some training... And to get them close to the "supermarket quality" is for me still close to impossible (almost 20 years of trying there!).

On the other hand, my kids would kill for them on Sunday morning, so some Saturday nights are baking time with Christmas in the morning 🙂 .

@piggo

That final line: is that supposed to render on some fedi platform? Very curious about the imagery 🤔

@pony @wolf480pl

@pony "sudoku" 🤦‍♂️

@z428 So you are finally getting into the "cheerful" department 😄

@LukasMurch

Well, that's just the dust cover. The rest of the book presumably survived 😄 . Anyway, The Monks of New Skete == good and useful advice.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

@sahnige

> und ganz aus dem Westen

Westen ist relativ.

Given the Earth is round-ish, to the west of the west lies the east. Somehow. Eventually.

Wilkommen. And enjoy.