Chikara @chikara@qoto.org

QUESTION: What is the QOTO term for the stuff at the "bottom" of a QOTO page? -- see https://qoto.org/about/more

The internet has a specific vocabulary; and in that context, the Mastodon world has developed its own unique set of terms.

For example, what I'm typing now is called a "toot" in many, not all, parts of the developing Mastodon federation. However, it could have a different QOTO name.

Having established a context for my question, will someone please tell me the QOTO term or name for the recurring collection of hyperlinks which appear on this page at the bottom of the column at the right of my monitor screen?

Is the QOTO term unoriginal or standard across the internet? Or is it unique to this site?

There is similar set of hyperlinks at the bottom of many home pages -- for example, see this familiar format on the German home page (startseite) of the German Finance Ministry (Bundesministerium der Finanze) https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Web/DE/Home/home.html;jsessionid=33C877EB770C338AAB19965031326726.delivery1-replication

QUESTION: What is the QOTO term for the stuff at the "bottom" of a QOTO page?

QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?

@Fslowly tooted this text on Humblr on Oct 19

I've noticed that it's customary to thank followers. But I haven't done it before now

I didn't understand that every kind of feedback in this Humblr site is like a link in the chains I'm struggling with -- slowly

I don't think much about the size of my chain -- or the number of my followers. But I know each of the links in chains are important in ways I need to figure out. This I do care about.

So, thank you -- each of you -- for what you've done (even when I don't "get it" yet)

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In a context of grief, I've been thinking a lot about chains which hold me in the past. I can't distinguish between love and chains. I must let go. I want to hold on. I can't figure it out.

I construed it as a good omen when I discovered an image of chains here. This rope repair in this chain makes it the most important image I've found online in November.

The answer to questions I can't put into words is captured by this photographer. I just have to wait until understanding comes to me.

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@Fslowly tooted this text on Humblr on Oct 17

In my hour of darkness, he is standing right in front of me
speaking words of wisdom, let it be

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I never liked "Let it be," still don't. So I was puzzled when the tune began playing over and over in my head in mid-October.

In a context of grief, I can only theorize that something in my sub-conscious demanded acknowledgment of the song lyrics. I can't recall anything like this happening before, probably won't happen again.

I construed it as a good omen when I discovered a Venn diagram about "Let it be" here in the local feed.

I still don't know what to make of a graphic image showing "Let it be" at the core of Venn or Euler intersections. But at least the tune isn't on a constant re-play loop in my thoughts.

There is a common phrase in Japanese which is similar -- usually translated to mean "it can't be helped" or "nothing can be done about it" (shikata ga nai 仕方がない; shō ga nai しょうがない)

QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?

Maybe there's room here for a kind of rough draft blog about the STEM initiative of the Japanese government during the years 1869-1889?

After the end of 200+ years of enforced isolation from the rest of the world, the Meiji government hired a cadre of Western experts to speed up a transfer of then-current knowledge of STEM subjects, These men were called the o-yatoi gaikokujin (御雇い外国人 hired foreigners")

Just a thought.

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@Fslowly tooted this text on Humblr on Aug 26

Every time I "toot" an image, I have an intention, a purpose, a plan

Occasionally I manage to hit the bull's eye. But sometimes it becomes clear that I was aiming at the wrong thing. I realize that what I really want is something I've overlooked or misunderstood

It's like I'm trying to hit a moving target. And I've noticed that where I stand is changeable as well

They say the archer gets better with practice, even when his arrows fail.

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I deleted this soon after it was uploaded. I had second thoughts -- guessing that neither the words nor the 1878 drawing were likely to be welcomed here. But then, an unanticipated response caused me to think again.

I was thinking compare-and-contrast the Japanese bow (daikyū 大弓) and the English long bow when I downloaded my image from the internet.

Feedback which developed the same compare-and-contrast theme was a big surprise for me.

And so I'm uploading this again.

Maybe there's a place here for some of the things which interest me.

QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?