ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Here’s the first line from today’s #SFF #shortstory: “There are always three: the father, the unfather, and the child.”

This is one of the best first lines I’ve ever read in any story, and Sara S. Messenger’s “Potemora in the Triad” is just getting started, building and building from that masterful opening until you completely and utterly forget to breathe. It's truly one of the most astonishing short stories I’ve ever read. https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/potemora-in-the-triad/

#fantasy #darkfantasy @shortsff @shortstory

Language Cannot Express Truth https://paper.wf/ceoln/language-cannot-express-truth

Hello #Mastodon! I guess we'd better add an #Introduction!

Founded in 1935, the aims of the Prehistoric Society are to:

• Encourage & support high-quality research
• Foster skills & expertise needed to investigate #prehistory
• Disseminate #knowledge about our prehistoric past
• Raise awareness of value of #human prehistory
• Speak out for #prehistoric #heritage
• We produce a journal & newsletters, organise #events (many FREE & online) & give out #grants

#Archaeology #PrehistoricSociety

I had to buy new clothes AND a cat carrier AND a pet ticket to get her home. And I will never have faith in the TSA again. (Not that I had a lot of faith to begin with, but there's "this is security theater" and then there's "YOU MISSED THE LIVE CAT.")

Good night, #fediverse
Wo kommt denn jetzt plötzlich der #schiffssamstag her? ⛴️

#photography #fotografie #novascotia #canada

those congresspeople wanting to abolish standard time are a bunch of amateurs. abolish time altogether, you cowards.

Second Life, the pioneering virtual world founded in 2003 and still going strong at the ripe old age of 19 with 900,000 active users, is now on Mastodon! Here's the official account: "@ secondlife@mastodon.social" (*without* the space in between!). Here's a direct link to the profile: https://mastodon.social/@secondlife.

I consider #SecondLife to be the perfect model of a mature, fully-evolved #metaverse, which many newer metaverse-building companies would be wise to study, emulate, and learn lessons from.

Starting to use Tumblr as a drop spot for doodles, since they don't to terrible things with image compression, aren't run by some dude trying to speed run for Most Terrible Company Ever, and aren't adding to storage costs for a Fedi instance.

https://www.tumblr.com/randomgeekery/702010878190616576/for-something-ive-probably-done-a-hundred-times?source=share

@KarenWyld I am. Also use these hashtags to find many to also ask them. Not all but these age the ones I used. I experienced one person. Reported the person and blocked the person. #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BlackDiaspora #BIPoc #black #blacklivesmatter #blackisbeautiful #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #mena #history #native #PursueBlackJoy #Hispanic

#MastodonTips Privacy

You can control the privacy of each and every post and reply by clicking the globe on the default webapp.

#BlackMastodon

Burroughs' bookcase, Lawrence Kansas 1986
Amazing obsessive analysis of it:
https://realitystudio.org/publications/road-to-interzone/chris-steins-photograph-of-william-s-burroughs-bookshelf/

In about three hours from now, I’ll be spending most of my day observing two spider pulsars with the iconic Parkes radio telescope (remoting in) for my project …. So, let’s try something out ….

If you have any questions about our beautiful Dish or about pulsars, drop them below and I’ll try answer them as best I can during my observing run! A little 🐘 site A.M.A. on pulsars!

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #Astronomy

Whenever someone gets upset about small studio animators making a knock-off of a Disney film, I just ask them, "Well, what about the Lion King?"

And then I tell them about Kimba: The White Lion, and how the Lion King is a rip-off of an anime.

Thereafter, I ask the following question: how many Disney movies are actually based on stories in the public domain?

Why get upset at small studio animators who also make movies based on stories in the public domain?

@abitofzen Don't just do something, sit there.

@chadloder @chopsstephens @fracturedopal The Toot! mobile app for Mastodon is better than the Mastodon original app and allows full edit; including Alt Text edit.

The most blatant of Disney-made knock-offs is The Lion King.

Which was clearly swiped from the anime Kimba: The White Lion—which was originally broadcast by Fuji Television in 1965.

In fact, in an early version of The Lion King, Simba was white!

Mastodon has been getting quite a bit of buzz lately (an overnight success that took six years!) — and if you're curious about the early origin of its underlying protocol (ActivityPub), check out my interview on @Podnews with @samsethi:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5C3N82NIqWa6wJXBhJJDVo?si=VV65aSTDTu2R7Ql6RW__Ng