Alan Avram Shteynberg ☑️ @absolutus@qoto.org

This was the song my grandfather used to sing to me as kid. He used to sing it with his army buddies during World War II.

A Warrior Bold

In days of old, when knights were bold,
And barons held their sway,
A warrior bold, with spurs of gold,
Sang merrily his lay;
Sang merrily his lay:
"My love is young and fair,
My love hath golden hair,
And eyes so blue, and heart so true,
That none with her compare.
So what care I tho' death be nigh,
I'll live for love or die.
So what care I, tho' death be nigh,
I'll live for love or die."

So this brave knight, in armor bright,
Went gayly to the fray;
He fought the fight, but ere the night,
His soul had pass'd away,
His soul had pass'd away.
The plighted ring he wore
Was crush'd and wet with gore,
Yet ere he died, he bravely cried,
"I've kept the vow I swore.
So what care I tho' death be nigh,
I've fought for love and die,
So what care I, tho' death be nigh,
I've fought for love, for love I die
I've fought for love,
For love, for love I die."

--Edwin Thomas & Steven Adams, Published 1912

Crypto Writer and Tech enthusiast. Former Tech Librarian.

Trying to jumpstart the West Michigan Blockchain Association.

see wmblockchain.org
also blog.xtrabytes.global #introductions

Is there a suggestions account for #mastodon? Might be helpful to have white as default background - as its easier on the eyes. And the unpin is hard to find for beginners. So they believe they are stuck with four columns. #mytwocents

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

-- The Hollow Men, T.S. Elliot

These are the last few stanza's of the poem from which the famous phrase comes. I love these stanzas! Good poem overall, worth a full read: http://www.shmoop.com/hollow-men/poem-text.html

#poem #poetry

The following is a #poem / #poetry I wrote 6 years ago. I have never been all that great at poetry but I wanted to share all the same.

==The Mage's Tavern==

In misty lands that the pale moonlight brings,
There stands a tavern where it shines and it sings.
In this warm place eternal laughter does flow;
with a smile for each of the winds that will blow.

To seek this land out less must be so much more,
then set yourself free to drift to night's shore.
The familiar road finds unfamiliar friends door,
filled with mirth, merriment, magick, and lore.

When ready to pass open wide wooden gate,
a cool wind then blows that shows one their fate.
The room there well lit by passion's great fire,
it's smoke will hang thick from our love's own desire.

There in the sky dances god borealis,
and there on the bar sits the bust of the Pallas.
But never there seen is the raven of yore,
for only the wise can be king evermore.

There in the corner stands a gargoyle's head,
where out of it's mouth flows hot earthen lead.
Into a dirt cup it's flow does seek end,
but as shining gold it does then transcend.

The food and the drink shared to all those around,
Not one to the other was any one bound.
With plates of clear manna that did sparkle white,
and cups of ambrosia kept full through the night.

Here pixie's dust used in shakers to fill,
and surely dragon tails do remain in there still.
For what fool would eat from a dragon's great tail,
only to have all of their passions fail.

Moon's magick glow fills the room well dispersed,
While time's wanting path remains untraversed.
The moments found here are well unrehearsed;
The truth is abound, not found interspersed.

In this place here exists just the one,
Embrace silver moon, to become golden sun.
Odal reunites ancient gods of the night,
to let us be one, so we shine with their light.

LOVING MASTODON! SHOOT TOOTS NOT BULLETS

@mastohost how do you add a flag to your name? i see some users w/ their name + a flag. like 🇺🇸 but when i try that in the name box it doesn't do the emoji.

As more exiles flock here let us remember that the revolution is in our hearts or it is nowhere- we shall not grow fat on influence like the tootlords of old, but welcome and help our comrades achieve ever greater heights

Lots of privacy concerns about federation making the rounds again, here's the non-technical tl;dr

Don't assume that the stuff you post here is perfectly secure. A dedicated attacker can get access to even stuff marked private. Most of us won't have too much to worry about, but if you've been targeted before then exercise the same caution that you would on any other public platform like Twitter or Facebook.

lolol old people amuse me :)

Right, well, I guess another joke before bed wouldn't hurt.

Why did the invisible man turn down the job offer?

He couldn't see himself doing it.

Thank you and good night.

This is the house crests of the Three Magii from the bible (the three wise men). It is c1490 though the crests of course were known much farther back than that. This comes from two separate sources, the other being a painting "The adoration of hte Magii".

Notice that one of the crests is effectively the moon and star seen on islamic flags. This is no coincidence, Islam and Christianity have always been closely linked.

Wow, huge new user surge on the qoto.org mastodon instance I'm running. I just want to welcome all the new users. Have fun and lets grow, learn, and encourage each other together. 🎉 🎉 🎉

(Bonus pic of cute doggo).

Pro-tip: when on a diet weight yourself in pounds when you loose weight, and kilograms when you gain weight.

fuck no i take it back. boosting your own toot should be called tooting your own horn. this is the revised canon

So there appears to be a HUGE influx of new mastodon users. Any idea where this is coming from? Was it media.

@dirkprimbs I guess thats also why my cross poster (into twitter) broke huh? sucks for them, good for us.