lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

As a writer I firmly believe that lazy proofreaders should face a firing squid or be sent to the electric choir.

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.

I see a lot of people talking about how Mastodon "Feels like the Internet I remember from 20 years ago."

That's no accident. That's Federation. That's UseNet, IRC, Email, Message Boards, etc. What do they all have in common?

Federation: Users congregating around watering holes of common interest, but still being a part of a larger whole.

THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WAS DESIGNED TO BE. And I am HERE for it.

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is" - Thomas Szasz
#zen #meditation #quotes

Chichen Itza when it was discovered in 1892 vs Present Day.

Here's my #introduction :)

I'm a PhD candidate working at the intersection of #sleep, #memory and #MachineLearning. I'm currently on a mission to uncover #MemoryReplay and #MemoryReactivation in humans using #MEG data. Besides that I'm a #python enthusiast, #OpenSource advocate and I think #OpenScience is the proper way to do science. I'm doing all of that at the Central Institute of Mental Health with @GordonFeld

#introduction
This account is dedicated to sharing the #Buddhist teachings found in the#suttas of the #PaliCanon. The main website, https://ReadingFaithfully.org has lots of tips and tricks for reading the suttas as well as free #ebooks of suttas. https://Daily.ReadingFaithfully.org website can send a selection from the suttas to your inbox or other social platforms, including here on Mastodon.

#Buddhism #RealBuddhaQuotes

#Introduction:

I'm passionately #Ecocentric, and do my bit as a volunteer #LitterPicker.

I'm also interested in #Railways, the #Weather, #LocalHistory & #Wildlife.

Having been bullied at school for not displaying typical male traits / interests, I now take an interest in #Equality & #Wellbeing.

I'm a #HighlySensitivePerson who as a result is a #Perfectionist & an #Overthinker, suffering from #Insecurity, #Anxiety, #Depression. I shy away from physical social contact, preferring tranquility.

#introduction Hi everyone, just got here from Twitter. I head the Biopsychology Lab at the Psychology Department at University of Cologne.

We use computational and cognitive neuroscience approaches to better understand the mechanisms underlying decision-making and learning.

More specific issues we study include mechanisms underlying problem gambling, and everything dopamine.

So how does this work, I just click "toot"?

Taking a break, for at least two weeks, from #social #apps completely. #Mastodon is a lot more addictive than #twitter in my opinion because there are so many obscure #servers and #instances to discover. And this place is gonna be a lot noisier than usual for a while, and probably #discord and #tiktok as well.

Create yourself a bubble that encourages you to become the person you want to be.

Two Towers. #iceland #reykjanes #sky #desertlandscape #towers #mountain #blackandwhite #bwphotography #photography

#DogsOfMastodon
Yip!... Yip!... Yip!
OK, come to bed.
Yip!... Yip!
Ok, I'll make a pit stop so I'm very much not in your way.
Yip!... Yip!...
I'm goin' potty! Don't wake momma (@mikmaqpeek)!

She waits patiently for me to finish, find she did her business on the mat and for me to clean it up... Tilly, not my wife... silence until I creak open the pantry door. She's right there waiting for her 'in case I snacked' breath freshener. She normally doesn't snack, but the freshener treat is a tradition. Hopefully. Tilly scarfs the treat and vanishes while I put the box away. My place in my own bed is occupied. She permits me to slide in. I'm warm.

I'm ordered about by some 4.5kg of dawg. Spoiled so rotten she smells bad. And I love her.

First mince pie of the season

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

Nelson Mandela

#Quotes #Empathy #EmotionalIntelligence

"Throw away your status hang-ups. Forget about being respectable in society's eyes. Much of your money now is probably spent to give you respectability. Don't be embarrassed to do things that save money.Begin to drop out of the rat-race. Think of those things you despise most in the establishment and begin to remove yourself from them. Don't support them or contribute to them any longer."  ~ Arthur Gish
#SimpleLiving #RadicalChange

That means: help other people who are nervous join! Respond to introduction posts! Punch nazis!

You are fantastic. You are an elaborate tree house with WiFi. You are the slow-blinking of a happy cat. You are a capybara curled up in kaleidoscopic sunlight next to a strained-glass window depicting a moss-crowned fennec fox goddess.

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration