ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Kind of sad to see people complaining about #Mastodon rather than celebrating it's open source nature. Isn't this the future we want for social media? A future where we are not the product, a means for collecting data to sell and for engagement with ads. Don't we want to form our own communities instead of being reliant on giant for profit companies? This does not need to be just a samey alternative, it can be something new! And I'm hopefully it'll go that way...

#introductions I am Robyn! I am just a working class gal from Philadelphia. I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Maryland. I specialize in Sociology of Law with a focus on #CriticalRaceTheory. I use qualitative methods to study protest, police and the racialized social state. I love #horror #history #photography #crafts #Buffy #SchittsCreek #Podcasts #GoodConversation

#Tumblr posts that they will be adding #ActivityPub to connect to the #Fediverse ASAP... #Mastodon

Seeing people with coding ability commenting on features they want in Mastodon, many of them framing their insights as if there is a bug.

Almost all ideas I have seen so far could be implemented in a client or a relay. For ones that can't, there are pull requests. For ones that are declined, downstream forking is feasible.

It's #OpenSource & based on a truly open standard, #ActivityPub. How about we frame ideas positively & look for places to contribute? This is not a walled garden run by VCs.

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday!

Roman Mosaic of #Selene and #Endymion from the Imperial period. It was found in the city of Castulo, near the modern Linares in Spain.
Note Selene's cute lunar horns!

#DayOfSelene #GreekRomanArt #AncMed #MosaicMonday #mosaic

Our #introductions - we’re a #podcast on the toxicity in #Academia and how to survive as women, first-gen, racialized scholars in academia. We started by asking why are there so many assholes in academia and have been going strong since! Listen to us at academicaunties.com and wherever you get your pods! #AcademicChatter

Wrote some irate thoughts on Musk and Trump, for The Atlantic.

"This entire incident is terrifically stupid. The story revolves around the whims of two wealthy and self-involved men who enjoy nothing more than public attention. It is an enormous waste of everyone’s time, and I resent having to think about it."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-twitter/672195/

The worst of the misleading and inflammatory rhetoric is on the right, but it's not only on the right. It's in the mainstream as well. It's in the New York Times, it's in the Washington Post, and most likely, it's also in your local paper.

If you're a journalist, odds are its in your organization, if they cover trans issues as a controversy or a both sides issue.

It has killed already, and it will continue killing us.

7,332,428 accounts
+2,378 in the last hour
+87,777 in the last day
+618,917 in the last week

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Which of the following is the correct formula to find current?

#NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #EngineeringProfessor #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #BlackInEngineering
@BlkInEngineerng

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To commemorate the end of the season of #samhain transitioning into winter, I have republished some older material on my blog on the #Cailleach The #Gaelic crone goddess of winter!

https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Cailleach-W7W1GIC5D

#pagan #polytheist

I work for Scholastic as an executive art director in the hardcover picture book group. I had been using Twitter as a discovery tool when searching for new illustrators. I plan to post my future open calls here!

In the meantime, if you’re a #kidlit #illustrator, I invite you to fill out my #illustration contact form: https://bit.ly/LaRossa_Illustrator_Contact

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Curious: does the labor movement have much of a presence on the fediverse?

I imagine that eventually there's going to be a server on here that caters directly to creative writers. That won't replace the publicity function that Twitter's served over the last decade, but it could reproduce--for me, at least--those very early "cocktail party" days. If that happens, notify me for Happy Hour.

#introduction Howdy! My name is LottaContinua and I’ve been involved in fandom since age 12. I have #auhd and other #mentalhealth disorders. My main fandoms are #StarWars, #thebeatles , #disability activism, #sexwork , #poetry, #autism advocacy, and I mostly write SW #fanfiction. I will probably mostly post about #StarWars and how #AdamDriver is ruining my life on a regular basis.

I might need to take a crack at a #Mastodon primer. Every guide I‘ve found is unnecessarily long and gets buried in the weeds before it steps foot in the garden.

If you’ve seen one that manages to keep it anywhere near short n’ sweet, please share. But I’m getting inspired.

Hello!

I would love to get some conversations going about #meditation. I'm not sure how well this platform supports such things, but the best way to find out...

I started a practice some time in the mid 2000's. I kept it to short (10-15m) sits, but managed to make it a consistent habit within a year or two. I like Headspace and similar meditation apps as a starting point, and recommend them to people if the topics comes up.

Around 2018, I started with [The Mind Illuminated](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/wiki/index/), which is a more structured approach based on the book of the same name. This involved longer sits (20-60m), with some clear guidelines. I feel that my sense of equanimity improved dramatically around this time, and many facets of my day-to-day life along with it.

While I did reap significant benefits, I did not progress through the stages outlined in the book. This led me to a more metta-based practice called Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation or [TWIM](https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/wiki/twim-crash-course/), which is my core practice now. This has raised my baseline level of happiness quite noticably, and has also driven more "moral development" in terms of how I see the world and my place in it.

Does anyone else here follow one of these practices? Anything you'd care to share about your practice?

#TheMindIlluminated #TWIM