*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

🇵🇹 🇧🇷 "A felicidade é um chazinho quente em noites de frio;
é um banho gelado no meio de um calor danado
é receber uma agradável e inesperada visita em um fim de tarde qualquer;
é pão quentinho com manteiga derretendo;
é café com o pão que escrevi na frase acima;
é cair de quatro no chão e morrer de rir;
é não morrer quando cair de quatro;
é fazer o bolo predileto e lamber a vasilha no final;
é cama limpa, travesseiro fofo e pijama cheiroso;
é sensação de alívio após uma situação resolvida;
é ligar pra bate papo com alguém querido;
é olhar o horizonte;
é ao olhar o horizonte, enxergar um mundo melhor.
Felicidade é inventar e fazer valer a pena a invenção, porque a realidade é dura demais."

EN version on next post...

Going for a little ride, brb...

@chikara Our QOTO Discourse forums are not the one you joined, which is why you couldn't register your usual name.

Ours is here :

https://discourse.qoto.org/

@freemo must have new emoji!!

tag it sadness.

They have a great collection at another instance... will borrow a few... 😉

@Massick

I quickly visited the front pages of mastodon.technology, and it seemed a nice place to be.

Could be a good home for anyone involved into the tech area.

@Vishsai

@Massick Yeah, there's some cons to Feline love.

I had a long hair cat, and while beautiful, there was hair all over the house. And they damaged ou sofas too, people might not know about that.

But I love their independance and fascinating personalities.

@Massick wow, look at that, never seen these. A cat, for real? Poor kitty. 😢

#Conclusions

@Vishsai I image how Gargron feels about it if he parses the Local feed.

Geez. I tried a few times to post a first message, but couldn't.

Added a proper avatar and profile background, wanted to post about the AWI there to see if Gargron would reply or notice it. But not done it yet.

@Massick

Yes, that was a comment about masto social, now over 450 thousand accounts.

Turning into a mini Twitter it seems.

@Vishsai

when things get slowish in the #fediverse, there's always other places. #cats lovers rejoice.

#mastocats #catsoftwitter #catsofmastodon meet Reddit Cats : https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/

@Vishsai

Do you know how to use the Filters in the Mastodon Preferences?

A user at another instance was asking, and I would be interested too..

Tell me about it?

@Massick

Anyone with an interest in Information Technology, an active robotic feed I found last night is available for following.

@itnewsbot

Fresh IT news from a variety of sources. Public service by @emanuel

@Massick That would be a very Welcome development. Oh yes, please and thank you. 😛
@Vishsai hello, not much going on here, I am surprised. From my last post last night to now, very little Local activity.

Not a problem at your instance, eh? 😉

Got an account there to see what it's like on such a huge place, but I see things posted in the open that bother me, and haven't made any posts there yet.

Seriously, a guy posted an open dick prick picture? the Indian users must have been upset, I was.

Ended my wish to post a thread there on the spot.

Geez, but this Local timeline is pretty dead, ahem, quiet.... 😜

@darwish @binsrc was talking about it on this thread:

https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103287186319721202

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@darwish @binsrc Should also mention that their software is amazingly easy to install - a no brainer, and runs fast, it reconnects almost instantly when returning from sleep mode.

They are stars at what they do, Recommended.

@darwish @binsrc Sorry didn't see this earlier, but binsrc is sopt on.

I use ProtonVPN and it is excellent. Used other providers for years, and always paid for it.

Now it's only needed casually, and they do have a free service which works. For one week you get the full paid access - to see what the other servers can do.

After a week they offer you t oupgrade to paid, and if not desired, then you get access to servers in only 3 countries - US, Japan and Netherlands.

Each has about 3 free servers, and you can look at their loads before selecting one.

Even this tier of service is good. I have planned to do a write up about it, and a blog post too, just haven't got to it yet.

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The page is here:
https://earthsky.org/space/solar-eclipse-marks-beginning-of-iroquois-confederacy

"What really attracted my attention was that a total, or near total, solar eclipse marked the beginning of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the oldest living democracy in North America and possibly on Earth. American democracy is said to have been modeled upon the democratic ideals of the Iroquois Confederacy, which originally consisted of five nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca). The sixth nation – the Tuscarora – joined the Iroquois Confederacy in the early eighteenth century (1701-1800). "

in response to James's post here: https://todon.nl/@OglalaWarriorAW/103319240100296760

@OglalaWarriorAW Hello James, Thank you for your post and telling us not only your personal story, but that of your nation as well. It's fascinating.

I traveled by bicycle along the Erie Canal trail and when passing near Lake Oneida came across a nice book telling the story of the beginning of th Iroquois Confederacy, which met at the margins of the lake, I believe.

There was some legends too, and I enjoyed reading this book as I camped nearby.

I did a search and found an interesting link, I don't think people know much about the Confederacy and how it was a democratic union of different peoples for the better of all.

We need this kind of thinking for the times we live in.

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