lobster @Lobster@social.cleverlibre.org

If you want your social media neighbourhood to resist gentrification, you could make it harder for the gentrifiers through one unique trick:

Decentralization!

Specifically by:
1. Creating accounts on small instances.
2. self-hosting your own instances.
3. Connecting with encrypted peer-to-peer messengers
4. Creating communities built on open protocols -- not platforms

Reactionaries can gentrify one space. They can't gentrify all of them!

I do have bones

A colourful sunset with reflections behind a skeletal hedge on Porlock Marsh at a high spring tide, Exmoor National Park. #Exmoor #ExmoorNationalPark #PorlockMarsh #photography #landscapephotography #sunset #sunsetphotography #southwestcoastpath

Cool, so riding an e-bike actually is viable when it's -22°c out. All I really needed was a balaclava. Though I should probably get a ski mask too, so I can go longer without my eyelashes freezing...

Funny thing - people I spoke to today kept bringing up concerns about slippery ice. On the contrary, ice is only slippery when the friction applied can melt the surface. At -22, bicycle tires aren't about to melt ice. The traction was amazing.

A fun thing about working public sector in NYC is sometimes there are situations where the interpreters need interpreters.

This is how the morning begins here: a child was injured and civilian homes were destroyed as a result of artillery shelling by Assad forces backed by Russia targeting the town of Al-Bara, south of Idlib, Syria.

I'm hearing some other servers are blocking mastadon.social. True? Maybe I need to migrate servers? (Although idk how.)

Moss with water drops - after yesterday's frost today we have a heavy dew/frost melt.

#mosstodon #moss

Ignoring the pandemic doesn't make it go away. All it does is disproportionately shift all of the burden of the pandemic on to the people who are the most vulnerable and have the fewest resources.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today

*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like you blinked and then it was gone?

#midjourney #aiart #aiartist #psychadelic

Remembering Keith Haring today. Great artist.

The Iconic Keith Haring | Life, Work and Top Collaborations

https://www.allsole.com/blog/lifestyle/the-iconic-keith-haring-life-work-and-top-collaborations/

#art #painting #KeithHaring

Like a little kid 🦝

Every day is a day of learning how to live-- how to flow with the natural rhythms of the universe.

I am/you are/we are an integral part of the living #Earth, just like the birds and trees I can see outside my bedroom window. The tragedy of the human condition is that this, our fundamental state of being, is so easily forgotten.

Every day is a practice of remembering who I really am.

Who we all are.

Morning Mastodon.

RNLI lifeboat reflected in harbour.

#Photography #Fotografie #Art #ArtAdventCalendar

Mr Pinks House, Lewisham.

I have always loved this house and it inspires me #lewisham #artist #storyteller

#vss365 Very Short Story

A sharp rock cut his toe as he looked over the cliff. Friends waved from below. They swam in a sea so blue the horizon ceased to be. Three wet steps and he leapt a great swan dive.

He soared ever higher as the wind rushed by. The rock, the cut, everything vanished in perspective. With a splash he plunged into the sky and came up laughing.

What to do about trees

acrostic poem by risa bear (shonin) in What To Do About Trees (2016)

#poem #poetry #acrostic #gardening #homesteading #orchard #orcharding #FruitTrees

Stop looking at me
Keep your dirty eyes off me
I'll cut you, tater

#haiku #poetry #hungry