Flaviu Vescan @flaviuvescan@social.cleverlibre.org

“One
of the kindest things you
can do,”
said the mole,
" is be gentle
and patient with yourself.”

Whoever did this wins winter.

BOSS: Can I see you in my office?

INVISIBLE-MAN: [sigh] I don't know how many more ways I can explain this to you

For the holiday, a thread on how to befriend crows.

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Befriending crows is a wonderful thing.

I have many crow friends at home and at work. They bring joy at unexpected moments and can rescue a miserable day even without shaking down the dust of snow that Robert Frost described.

This thread is an updated version of one I posted at the bird site in July 2019.

#birding #birdwatching #birds #urbanbirding #crows #corvids #crow #corvid #crowfriends

I hate it

Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief

"The chief executive of one of Europe’s biggest insurance companies has warned that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become “uninsurable” as the disruption from hacks continues to grow."

https://www.ft.com/content/63ea94fa-c6fc-449f-b2b8-ea29cc83637d

The rumours are true, I will be releasing 'The Bible 2' which will be my side of the story.

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived.

His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Sláva Ukrayíni!

Kirkjufellfoss, #Iceland 🌈

I left Reykjavik early morning and headed 3 hours north to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula to shoot Kirkjufell.
We arrived at the famous peak. It was a downpour. My heart sank. Exhausted and still to early to go eat dinner, I took a nap in the car for “a few minutes.” A few minutes turned into an hour.
As I slept, the sun had come out behind me and woke me up. I turned and looked at Kirkjufell. My jaw dropped. Rainbow over Kirkjufell!
#Fotomontag #photography #rainbow

"Google will do to the #fediverse what they did to email".

But this is not email. There's nascent community here, an inchoate shared culture, saplings of governance.

Community creates resilience. That's why Google has not been able to kill #Wikipedia. They tried their hand at building community repeatedly & failed.

Yes, every server is different. But there are clusters of commonalities, shared values & transferable practices. These are foundations we can build on to prevent a GMail scenario.

I am rooting for success for all of us. Friendship is power.

Sorry to *opine* here for a second, but I see a thing playing out with Matrix the way it did for Mastodon (ActivityPub), and tons of other projects before it.

Namely, nobody really gives it the love, care, attention, and support it needs to flourish and be successful before we really need it. So when the time comes that we *do* need it, it looks like a failure.

The time to look into Matrix is now, before Discord fucks up and sends your online life into turmoil (again).

“Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that we have to fight tomorrow.”

Good night everyone!

🌙

#ghibli #studioghibli #スタジオジブリ #anime #goodnight

It's almost 2023, and I'm ready!

True story

Incredibly satisfying read. Fuck all these assholes who crowned themselves the Savers of Society without asking any of the rest of us what we wanted even once https://ez.substack.com/p/moving-fast-and-breaking-things

Take it easy

One of the most shocking things I learned upon moving to Mastodon is that it turns out that on Twitter, I almost never got to see or read the posts of people I actually followed. The shit-post algorithm curated a hellscape for all of us.

Pretty explosive news. "ByteDance, the parent company of video-sharing platform TikTok, found that employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they had been in the same locales as ByteDance employees."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/