🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Well, this is similar to twitter so I can't say am new to this but I'm certainly a fresher here with no friends.
#introduction

Hey everyone i'm new in here #Introduction

Hi all, checking out this new thing because I like people OK but soul-crushing corporate turds that diddle Nazi's ballsacks for clicks/kicks/revenue not so much. I'm a science-loving witch, a dark hippie, I'm a loser babaaaayyy so why don't you kill meeeee.

#introduction / #introductions

There needs to be a word for mindlessly browsing the federated feed for interesting people to liven up your timeline.

Toot-fishing?

I stay here,,,,

This little angel came to see me while I was #writing. And she came in the rain. #Sehnzhen #china

I hope you're all having a fantastic day today. It's a beautiful day in Tel Aviv- clear skies with a lot of sun.

I've got a #RandomQuestion for you guys today:

What is a food that you have never tried but you would like to try?

No wrong answers, just a random question.

My answer? I'd like to try bird's nest soup.

Rakaposhi (7,788 m), Karakoram, Pakistan.

@mastodonusercount
congratulations on 1,5 million accounts. That's 3 Million tusks total!

Hello Qoto! #Introduction

It was not a dream I had of my father next, but more like a memory, a daydream some might call it. I cannot call it a clean memory because it was from my very young days. There’s no way on this earth that a man can remember such a thing with such a clarity. I know my mind has played tricks on me just as yours has surely done to you.

“You see that white line, boy?” Pa says. He has a shoeing nail clinched between his lips but his words are clear. It is evening and the dust of Pa’s old farm is settling into some clouds lit orange by the old sun off in the distance.

“Yes, Pa,” I say. “I can see it.”

He curls the horse’s foot up further, pins it on top of his knee. “Outside that, she can’t feel a thing.” He points to a white strip that separates the outer edge of the hoof from yellow-white middle. “Inside that, it’s all pain.” He lets the hammer fall from between his shoulder and his neck and it drops in his hand. There is no doubt. It is a perfect landing in the soft of his palm. He says, “The trick is to take a pitcher of something in your head and to remember it for when it counts.”

He lines up the horseshoe and drives the first nail in with one whack. There is no hesitation and no fear on his part. I see from the corner of my eye the horse turn to look at a noise out there in the distance. The horse feels no pain.

He drives the other four nails in the same way, all in one whack. He never measures twice. He never hesitates.

“What did you learn, boy?” Pa says as he lets the hoof drop back to the ground. On the new shoe, the horse takes a step forward and a step back, testing the new feeling.

“How to shoe a horse, Pa.”

“And what else?”

“There’s no magic for getting things done,” I say. I say this because I know he will like it. It is one of the few ways I can get him to smile.

He smiles.

“That’s right, boy,” he says. He pats the horse on the hindquarter and it trots away. That was the last shoe to be done this day. I know what my father will do now. It was the reason for my answer as much as to get him to smile.

Pa says, “Ain’t no magic coming to save you none around here. No hocus pocus. No wizards. You hear what I’m saying to you?”

“I do.”

“You ain’t heard the half of it. You remember what I tole you, boy?”

“Something about wizards and preachers, Pa. I remember you said something about them.”

“Damn right, boy. No one’s going to save you. Their religion, the holy men’s, that too is hocus pocus. Seen a lot of men go down right after getting blessed by a preacher else reading from the good book. Nothing’s going to save you in this world except for two things.”

“Which ones is that, Pa?”

“Damn it, boy. I’m asking you.”

“Brute force, Pa.”

“Half right, boy,” he says, “cause you half answered.” He pulls his red bandana from his back pocket and takes off his hat and wipes at his brow. There is a smudge of dirt left behind that disappears when he puts the hat back on. “What’s the other’n?”

“The Winchester, Pa.”

“Damn right,” he says again. And when he opens his mouth next, it is what I’ve been waiting for all day. Maybe all week. Maybe all my life just to hear a few times. “You damn right it is the Winchester, son.” Just that last word was all I ever needed. Just for him to call me that again. Instead of boy.

He grabs me by the shoulder and guides me back to the house for supper, holding my shoulder in place so that I won’t take a wrong step. “The Winchester? I’ve seen many a man saved by that.”

A beautiful peak in Broghil Valley, KPK, Pakistan.

Serious #introduction time.

I'm writing from Pozzuoli, a town on the shore near Napoli, in Italy.
I started studying physics at Federico II university three years ago, and I'm one year away from getting undergrad.
Answering @freemo right now I'm into mathematical physics and I'm enjoying it but I'm yet to specialize in anything, so I could say "everything" as well as "I don't know"!
Before enrolling I was tinkering with electronics and programming. In the spare time in high school, that was a lot, I discovered Linux and FLOSS world, I played with Arduino and spent my time on Istructables.
I've been practicing aikido since I was a child, now I'm 21.
I think you guessed I like to learn, every year I sign up to something new I never did before, and most of all that I never thought of myself doing. This was archery year: I practiced once a week with prehistorical and medieval bows, I built my personal bow with my hands and I go around practicing.
I'm horrified about how the main social medias are purposely distorting people's perception of reality, that's why I'm here.
I give my help in a community that's reviving an abandoned place to make it a common good. It's a widespread practice in Italy but the current government is pretty hostile.

That's a lot for now,
hope to hear about you soon,
Mariano

Apologies before hand- as this podcast on crypto is hosted by someone who sounds as if he is struggling to put 5 words together (ME). Or just come across as merely coherent. But its my first podcast- The topic is on Elastos- the coming blockchain internet. Put in a good word for Mastodon. #crypto #podcast https://wmblockchain.podbean.com/

Hello Mastodon! This is the local Anti-Fascist collective down in Ventura County, CA! Here we'll be posting the events we organize, etc!

Satellite Positioning with Large Constellations. (arXiv:1808.07117v1 [eess.SP]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07117

@Nyoei @freemo
Second qoto meet up in Germany confirmed then :D