ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I just got my official November audiobook sales statement: thanks to the chaos at Twitter, my sales tanked.

It's not just me: it's every writer, artist, freelancer & small business that relied on Twitter to connect with customers & fans.

Please step up & support the indie creators in your life while we rebuild & reconnect with our people. It's hard, we're tired & we're hurting.

Buy, review, tip, recommend, connect elsewhere. Keep us going if you want us to keep going. 🙏❤

#Writers #Artist

At a wildlife rehab facility I met two crows that said, "caw" in a human accent. They said it like a human reading the word "caw" aloud. The tech shook her head and said, "they're making fun of us. People say 'caw' to them all day, so they've started impersonating us." I <3 crows

Fine. I'll be House Speaker.

#artjanuarycalendar #JanuaryJoy #photography

French Lace floribunda - pale pink buds open to very sweet-scented creamy blossoms. The bush is in a large container, stands over 10 feet tall and spreads to 6-8 feet in summer. It perfumes the whole garden.

"Teachers are as trapped by having to command as students are trapped by having to obey.

The masters are enslaved by their power.

Teachers need to move away from the front of the classroom and even consider the question: does the classroom have to have a front?"

"The Other Ways Project", Alan Kaprow and Herbert Kohl

Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

From my garden June 2006, hens & chicks. #januaryjoy

I love quince blossoms. They are the first to bloom in Spring and sometimes they surprise us with some late blossoms in the fall. #2023AYearForArt #AYearForArt #JanuaryJoy
#Art #Artist #IrisRichardsonArtist #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #ArtJanuaryCalendar,
#mastoart#FreeShipping #GiftIdeas#FediArt #FediGiftShop https://iris-richardson.pixels.com/featured/peach-quince-flowers-iris-richardson.html

At my local library, a little girl dropped her library books into the ‘return’ slot, waved and shouted “GOODBYE BOOKS, HAVE A GOOD DAY AT SCHOOL!” and my heart grew three sizes 🥺

For #WaterfallWednesday, how about some pictures of one of my favorite lace cap hydrangeas: the pure white Hydrangea macrophylla 'Fuji Waterfall'?

#JanuaryJoy #gardening #GardenDesign #GardeningMastodon #GardenersOfMastodon
#plants #hydrangea
#GardenHour #FujiWaterfall #FlowersOfMastodon

Pretty spring flowers for #JanuaryJoy to brighten the dark days of winter. This is a light pink azalea from my garden taken several years ago.
#flowers #FlowerPhotography #SpringFlowers

Come join myself and @NinjaGuyX this afternoon for a multiplayer #livestream using Remote Play Together as we kick shell in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge on #SteamDeck

❤️ Boosts appreciated ❤️

⏲️ 2pm ET
🌐 https://youtu.be/zfAjg3Odmz8

#TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles #TMNT #Steam #ShreddersRevenge #indiegame #indiegames #GamingScarrmy #videogames #gaming #gamer #streamer #streaming #youtube #twitch #giveaway

@alasaarela @ceoln Besides which, the way federation works, your small instance won't bother fetching all the data from a massive instance until the time when some particular post or whatever it is is requested. No instance needs to host a full mirror of the entire fediverse, there's no point in that, it's not how federation works.

#fediblock equel.social

Administrated by and on behalf of tech entrepreneurs. advocating for a VC backed takeover including metrics driven feed algorithms. All accounts on this site are tied to LinkedIn accounts.

Receipts in thread:
https://equel.social/@alasaarela/109553882021683216

This epic "colossus" sculpture was erected in the late 1500s by renowned Italian sculptor Giambologna as a symbol of Italy’s rugged Appenine mountains. This mountain god, named Appennino, stands 35 feet tall within the Villa Demidoff in Tuscany. Wow!

700 million years ago, a kilometer-thick layer of ice covered the entire planet. Fossils from this “snowball Earth” are scarce, but scientists are imagining the weird animal life that existed back then anyway, @chrisbaraniuk reports for @hakaimagazine: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/01/sturtian-marinoan-gaskiers-snowball-earth-animals/672571/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1610731585623425026

Geo folks: Does anyone know of papers that have worked out the stratigraphic connections between the units containing exceptionally preserved faunas in the Jurassic of China with similar aged beds in Mongolia and the Transbaikal region of Russia? Preferably in English, but beggers can't be choosers. (Diagram from Liao, 2022)

BREAKING: Scientist Creates Monster Made Of Teeth, Is Stunned When Monster Bites

The year 2022 ended on a sad note with the passing of Martin Ravallion, one of the most influential economists working to measure (and reduce) poverty around.

If you’re just learning of Ravallion’s work, here’s a micro-summary of each of his 15 most cited (per year since publication) articles.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/work-martin-ravallion-round-influential-research-exceptional-poverty-economist

Rest in peace, Professor Ravallion. My gratitude goes out to you for your leadership and your research.

Vox Media says it will no longer run ads from fossil fuel companies, "kind of formalizing" a policy the publisher has had in place since early 2021 (Ryan Barwick/Marketing Brew)

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2023/01/04/vox-media-formalizes-ban-on-fossil-fuel-ads
http://mediagazer.com/230104/p14#a230104p14