IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ @freeschool@qoto.org

Children are not for sale. (pictured)

Adults I think included as The Children of Earth.

#DontSellBody #NotForSale

(at least sell yourself with more meaning / overall solution)

#Change is what changes things.

So less #shampoo? (has Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (#SLS) as foaming agent also isn't great as it bubbles almost infinitely into water)

Even #cleaning can be too much cleaning and #killing #biology / #biosphere / ourselves slowly while we #pay for it.

Unless you or me are willing to accept that we must change our luxury habits in order to affect change, then the game over is already over for change and we feed Big #pharmaceuticals and such.

We will not likely #change anything we need in this country AND others people's country if we don't limit ourselves or if we do spend do it on things that change people... (#food #planting and growing included in changing people)

#SodiumLaurylSulfate #BigPharma #BigTech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_dodecyl_sulfate

CIVILISATION INCLUDES:
Distancing actual work, distancing money paid (middlemen etc), #paper-work creating / installing bureaucratic hurdles, #financial reasoning / mindset / motives, top-level controlled, etc etc...

#Civilisation today is basically a new type of business / extraction / war on people from the old ages into the future to convert and funnel it all again to individuals who wants more power and less #sharing it back... #UnCivilisation

People digging digital holes....

Holes are dug as people work when they don't do human interaction for anything / everything

If #AI is repulsive to you, you can see it's not far to say the whole computing world from #AWS storage and beefier Google servers, more storage space everywhere for everything... and generally "normal" became not so normal (bloated / out of control)

#computing becomes steroided 🍔 Hamburger fast-food consumption like McDonalds while people starve from attention <--- ok that's good

I start to think of these computer people as less human. AND ON TOP BUYING TONS OF American webspace like McDonalds... no no no... even if double ram for your server is $8 - don't click. Have a smaller rig run more audio / voice chats between people or a better ratio if you need steroids for computing.

It's like this equation for a diagram or comic...

the more they use #AI or computers in general
AND... the less I see them responding on their replies
THEN YOU ARE ALMOST 💯 full-on computer person

SO = a bad practice of humanity / missing humanity (even if I imagine you do other things in life)

Your habit needs separation (from your computer to common communication and being part of other people's lives more directly even via voice / video).

This helps practise of human expression and emotions in more things and eventually fixes people (them or you) in everything which gradually the computers STUNT YOUR GROWTH 🌱 and you mind 🧠 unless you think your as good as a human as you are with computers... sorry make the uphill struggle with us! We too need practise!

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. Yes? No? Maybe?
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things don't work when mostly 1 way...
Mastodon included... right?

You achieve only limited change / effect when it's not 2 way and if together-talking more often doesn't happen (online or offline talking).
To become better speakers / expressers / creators....

Means starting to talk about this point itself! . More arenas to get people practising and sorting stuff...

Otherwise people start to get disheartened proportionately...

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. Yes? No? Maybe?
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Altered States of Consciousness
- Andrew Weil's #Book

Andrew Weil Bio
American physician

Born:
June 8, 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. (age 82)

Notable Works:
“Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind-Active Drugs”
“Health and Healing: Understanding Conventional and Alternative Medicine”
“The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness”

Subjects Of Study:
ethnobotany
holistic medicine

See all related content →

#AndrewWeil is an American physician and popularizer of alternative and integrative medicine.

Weil was the only child of parents who owned a millinery supply store. As a child, he developed a strong interest in #plants, which he said he inherited from his mother and grandmother. After graduating from high school in 1959, Weil, on a full scholarship from the #American Association for the United Nations, travelled around the world learning about other cultures and their practices. He then entered Harvard University, majoring in biology with a concentration on the ethnobotany of medicinal plants and graduating cum laude in 1964. He entered Harvard Medical School, not with the intention of becoming a physician but rather simply to obtain a medical education. In 1968 he received a medical degree, although the Harvard faculty had threatened to withhold it because of a controversial marijuana study #Weil had helped conduct in his senior year.

In 1969 Weil worked briefly at the drug studies division of the National Institute of Mental Health but resigned in order to pursue personal research ambitions. In 1971 he obtained a grant from the Institute of Current World Affairs to study altered states of consciousness in Latin America. He also wrote about the effects of drugs on the mind in The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Hig##her Consciousness (1972). In this book Weil suggested that altered states of consciousness were innate to the human nervous system and that drugs or other stimuli merely catalyzed them. In a subsequent work, Chocolate to Morphine: Understanding Mind-Active Drugs (1983), Weil aroused the ire of a Florida senator, who demanded that the book, a veritable encyclopaedia of various drugs and their effects on humans, be removed from schools and libraries.

In Health and Healing: Understanding Conventional and Alternative Medicine, also published in 1983, Weil contended that current medical practices were more curative than preventive, too expensive, and too reliant upon drugs, surgery, and technology. In his vision of health care in the future, Weil saw a shift toward preventive therapies, the understanding of the benefits of using natural drugs in diluted forms, and a better understanding of the connection between mind and body. Weil founded the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in 1994. The centre was devoted to developing integrative treatments for a wide range of conditions as well as to educating medical professionals about the benefits of integrative medicine.

In Spontaneous Healing (1995) and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health (1997), Weil advocated a mix of herbal medicine, good nutrition, and a healthful lifestyle. In his later writings—including Eating Well for Optimum Health (2000), The Healthy Kitchen (2002; written with chef Rosie Daley), Healthy Aging (2005), and Spontaneous Happiness (2011)—Weil continued to promote the concepts of healthy diet and lifestyle. In Mind over Meds (2017), he examined the problem of overmedication and provided alternatives to drugs.

Weil often attracted criticism, especially from within the medical field. Some claimed that his suggested treatments lacked scientific evidence, while others raised questions about his commercial ventures. Notably, Weil’s Web site included a vitamin-recommendation feature that some alleged overprescribed nutritional supplements to promote sales of his vitamin line.

#voting is #legal + Not saying it's all bad or should be #Anarchy but voting is still around because it probably serves the system (of hierarchy, power etc) more than it serves the people (THIS IS THE REASON FOR *EVERYTHING* QUITE SURELY AND SINCE DAY 1 OF LAND AND CONTROL BEING TAKEN OVER IN THE FIRST PLACE TO CAPTURE PEOPLE.
SUBSEQUENT CHANGES ONLY TO REINFORCE THE SAME WHAT UNDERPINS EVERYTHING ELSE - #TAX #CONTROL #DOMINATION ETC)

Good clips relative to #Capitalist methods and shows similar is happening to us everywhere and anywhere, even 55years after the film was made! Considering it was made showing the past at that time too it's stood well (and so has Capitalism)! So still very valid today, especially the audio.

I really like the basic-cut directing and audio narration - to the point but not style-less.

LINKS + QUOTES + VOCABULARY.... BELOW

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🔗 LINKS
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https://rarefilmm.com/2018/09/pravda-1970/

by #French Jean-Luc Godard (2022 ✝️ died)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard

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📖 #Vocabulary ....
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⚫ proletariat (working class)
= A social class comprising those who do manual labour or work for wages
⚫ Revisionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism

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🗨️ 💬 #Quotes by Time ⌚
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⌚ 03.33 ⌚ Red is the blood spilled by the workers for the their emancipation =

⌚ 12.51 ⌚ To pretend to setup workers councils to better stifle the voices of the working class people

⌚ 15.25 ⌚ The worker, like the student, is only a slot machine

⌚ 25.12 ⌚ Movies are made for the common man- you go to the people, don't come from the people

⌚ 25.18 ⌚ You criticise the people's short-comings without taking the people's point of view

⌚ 25.36 ⌚ What is the aims of the Imperialist ideology
1. To conceal the existence of the struggles - To disguise the war between the old and the new
2. Try to forget the class struggle
3. Revisionism against the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism

⌚ 26.42 ⌚ At all times intellectuals have been fertile group for bourgeois degeneration

⌚ 26.46 ⌚ That is why the Revisionist boss avoids instilling them with the ideology of the proletariat class as much as he can

⌚ 26.50 ⌚ And on the contrary tries tries his best to raise the working class to the level of the intellectuals

⌚ 27.01 ⌚ Westernism in theory, Revisionism in theory... in fact night falls over Czech every night

⌚ 27.20 ⌚ 1949 Antonín Novotný president take power (1975 ✝️)

⌚ 27.24 ⌚ 1968 Czech and Slovak peoples resist the tanks and their false brothers, the invaders

⌚ 27.29⌚ 1968/9 Dubcek and Kusak etc remain in proprietors of power (private property)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dubček

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust%C3%A1v_Hus%C3%A1k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husakism

⌚ 27.33 ⌚ Revisionist power is born from the struggle of the people

⌚ 27.36 ⌚ Like whoever says Revisionism means treason

⌚ 27.39 ⌚ Once the people have put them into power the Revisionists draw all their energy into keeping the people, especially working class, out of power

⌚ 27.47 ⌚ Having refused the right for people to speak and act, the Revisionist princes suck their blood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism

The Butchers of Prague.

⌚ 28.02 ⌚ Orders from high up are carried out by police at the bottom.

⌚ 28.03 ⌚ Communist Party has strayed far from the working class.

⌚ 28.07 ⌚ There's only a short distance from political constitution to the whorehouse and it's quickly cleared by the directing clique

⌚ 28.30 ⌚ To service the ambitious men looking for promotion in state apparatus

⌚ 28.46 ⌚ The Revisionist bureaucrats like all reactionaries are afraid of the people, that's why they make use of police terror

⌚ 29.15 ⌚ Revisionism is not the same as Imperialism but it's methods are identical

⌚ 30.03 ⌚ Yesterday Czechoslovakia, Today Cuba, Tomorrow Egypt

⌚ 30.12 ⌚ By servilely bowing their heads. By using radio Moscow to drown out the angry cries of their people

⌚ 30.26 ⌚ the Revisionists... with the sole intention of lying to the people

⌚ 30.30 ⌚ When they say Internationalism they mean Social Colonialism

⌚ 30.38 ⌚ When they say information they mean distortion

⌚ 30.47 ⌚ When they say proletarian class stand they mean bourgeois class being

⌚ 35.09 ⌚ This proves that the education of the intellectuals is a major task

⌚ 35.21⌚ Idealogical transformation of struggle, criticism and transformation

⌚ 35.51⌚ The intellectuals need to be educated into the proletariat conception of the world so that they reject the bourgeois ideas instilled by revisionist education

⌚ 35.59⌚ That's the content of this re-education... which remains a major problem throughout the period of the revolution

36.27 The consolidation and development of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

36.07 After seizing power, the proletariat undertakes to recast the intellectuals in its own image

36.13 to form a contingent of proletarian intellectuals in its own service

36.32 An imperative for the proletariat's establishment of its own dominant position in the ideological and cultural domains

36.36 In order to carry out this task, it is indispensable to undertake a radical revolution in education

37.03 Pose, in everything taught, the question- for whom, against whom

37.12 Multiply the number of working class propaganda groups in the universities

37.16 Practice the method; struggle, criticism and transformation

37.22 Not to take these measures would mean not acting in accordance with the interests of the proletariat

37.27 The proletariat will only free itself completely after having freed all mankind

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(((((((((MORE TO BE ADDED)))))))))))))
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🔗 OTHER LINKS:
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Wiki ( #French version ) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda_(film)

Kino-Pravda - Similar creators and template but not exactly same film doc = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino-Pravda

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Pravda (Truth) #Film by #JeanLucGodard
A #Documentary #1970 / #1969 About #Anti #Capitalism #Revolution #WorkingClass #Workers

Wow I really like the basic-cut directing and audio narration - basic and to the point mostly but not style-less.

Good clips relative to Capitalist methods and shows I think the similar happening to us everywhere / anywhere, even now 55years after film was made! Considering it was showing the past (at that time!).
Still very valid today.

INFO + LINKS + QUOTES + VOCABULARY.... BELOW

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🔗 LINKS
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https://rarefilmm.com/2018/09/pravda-1970/

by #French Jean-Luc Godard (2022 ✝️ died)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard

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📖 #Vocabulary ....
==============

⚫ proletariat (working class)
= A social class comprising those who do manual labour or work for wages
⚫ Revisionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism

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💬 #Quotes by Time ⌚
==============

⌚ 03.33 ⌚ Red is the blood spilled by the workers for the their emancipation =

⌚ 12.51 ⌚ To pretend to setup workers councils to better stifle the voices of the working class people

⌚ 15.25 ⌚ The worker, like the student, is only a slot machine

⌚ 25.12 ⌚ Movies are made for the common man- you go to the people, don't come from the people

⌚ 25.18 ⌚ You criticise the people's short-comings without taking the people's point of view

⌚ 25.36 ⌚ What is the aims of the Imperialist ideology
1. To conceal the existence of the struggles - To disguise the war between the old and the new
2. Try to forget the class struggle
3. Revisionism against the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism

⌚ 26.42 ⌚ At all times intellectuals have been fertile group for bourgeois degeneration

⌚ 26.46 ⌚ That is why the Revisionist boss avoids instilling them with the ideology of the proletariat class as much as he can

⌚ 26.50 ⌚ And on the contrary tries tries his best to raise the working class to the level of the intellectuals

⌚ 27.01 ⌚ Westernism in theory, Revisionism in theory... in fact night falls over Czech every night

⌚ 27.20 ⌚ 1949 Antonín Novotný president take power (1975 ✝️)

⌚ 27.24 ⌚ 1968 Czech and Slovak peoples resist the tanks and their false brothers, the invaders

⌚ 27.29⌚ 1968/9 Dubcek and Kusak etc remain in proprietors of power (private property)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dubček

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gust%C3%A1v_Hus%C3%A1k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husakism

⌚ 27.33 ⌚ Revisionist power is born from the struggle of the people

⌚ 27.36 ⌚ Like whoever says Revisionism means treason

⌚ 27.39 ⌚ Once the people have put them into power the Revisionists draw all their energy into keeping the people, especially working class, out of power

⌚ 27.47 ⌚ Having refused the right for people to speak and act, the Revisionist princes suck their blood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism

The Butchers of Prague.

⌚ 28.02 ⌚ Orders from high up are carried out by police at the bottom.

⌚ 28.03 ⌚ Communist Party has strayed far from the working class.

⌚ 28.07 ⌚ There's only a short distance from political constitution to the whorehouse and it's quickly cleared by the directing clique

⌚ 28.30 ⌚ To service the ambitious men looking for promotion in state apparatus

⌚ 28.46 ⌚ The Revisionist bureaucrats like all reactionaries are afraid of the people, that's why they make use of police terror

⌚ 29.15 ⌚ Revisionism is not the same as Imperialism but it's methods are identical

⌚ 30.03 ⌚ Yesterday Czechoslovakia, Today Cuba, Tomorrow Egypt

⌚ 30.12 ⌚ By servilely bowing their heads. By using radio Moscow to drown out the angry cries of their people

⌚ 30.26 ⌚ the Revisionists... with the sole intention of lying to the people

⌚ 30.30 ⌚ When they say Internationalism they mean Social Colonialism

⌚ 30.38 ⌚ When they say information they mean distortion

⌚ 30.47 ⌚ When they say proletarian class stand they mean bourgeois class being

⌚ 31.28⌚ Let's be careful.... Keep to our simple way of life. Share the life of the people, refuse privileges

31.36 Our practice ought to be guided by the idea of whole-heartedly serving the people

31.42 Everything we do ought to arise from the interest of the people

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🔗 OTHER LINKS:
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Wiki ( #French version ) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda_(film)

Kino-Pravda - Similar creators and template but not exactly same film doc = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kino-Pravda

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Pravda (Truth) #Film by #JeanLucGodard
A #Documentary #1970 / #1969 About #Anti #Capitalism #Revolution #WorkingClass #Workers

All good things come to an end. Mastodon included.

This is what we need to prepare for:
When #Mastodon changes (not even ends but *changes*) into something less than it was or others override it...

Like all good things, naturally others will try to merge with it / railroad it / buy it out in other ways (even if it's not for profit etc it can be done). What holds it together is "better average users" else people are the same 'dumb' users that end up somewhere else with maybe only a bit of a better clue after getting here...
(progress or potential is still more than just creating an account)...

What we do about this inevitable point in time (when the time comes) is most important to move and keep doing things well.
I'm not encouraging a downfall but it's obvious we're already being merged etc.

So changing to funnel ourselves in into better things is likely... because "all good things come to an end."

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WHY / WHAT'S YOUR IDEA?
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The commercial links on Mastodon / Fediverse is killing us and our movements - no doubt about that per click (millions per day and per link).

I think if we (developers included) don't try develop curve better habits using our software then we are losing big. Because on the one hand we do good work (even over-do it) but then the other hand is letting things slip too easily with links to commercial links like YouTube ( Google ) that could be filtered by user and even helped by software to add automatically another 'Alternative Link' as part of software and options.

So I mean specifically links to YouTube and Google video that could be #redirects and #filtered link / #proxy - e.g. this link is better than a youtube .com or youtu.be link:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=YCN_OFF0tHQ

The above for ALMOST EVERY LINK is possible and not feeding the Google farms ...
Links are basically what that harvest our users and developers that don't say / do anything about that... and inside their free model that's bad. Kinda like Linux servers and GPL licenses it's given away all too easily to be exploited.

When users are slack (in being harvested and offering poor links) it's also part of social or developer responsibility I think to advise at least or train - else just becomes another X or Twitter... (both in uneducated users 👥 and uneducated links 🔗)

So "all good things come to an end" is a phrase but "Unless responsibility is taken / given... then you can be more sure it ends sooner or just gets taken over so we need to upgrade brains too 🧠
🔧 -> 👥 <-> 🔗 🧠

Responsibility is needed else things get taken over / weeds overrun.

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ADDENDUM / MORE POSITIVE NOTES
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I have to say some of the recently added privacy options added to Mastodon recently are great - mostly listed here in V4.2.0 log:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0

but still lack the social habit of users is leaking things and the weak-point. Giving a tool also needs also this kind of guide or training and let people know "how to links better" using @invidious etc... and hand-holding (a cringe term for most developers I expect who are just wanting to focus on code) is needed... whichever way you go - else you allow people the misunderstanding this is just another commercial social.

If this is a social movement (ask yourself if Mastodon is born a social movement or brings many part of many movements combined?) and if surely a yes for why we came politically in the first place or personally motivated, then as choices and wanting to contribute here more than commercial models as tendencies, it means we must also do the propaganda / advice type work.

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Ok that's the end of this section.
Comments appreciated...
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#QUESTIONS

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- is it mostly political or personally involved being on / using Mastodon ?

- developers and admins should care about the links both on their space or as movement to advise people?

- maybe users wouldn't mind changing to Invidious links (or similar newpipe style youtube filters) for the same video?

☑️ It saves them and their followers viewing the adverts and allows download of video too optionally in the interface!

Try it https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=YCN_OFF0tHQ

or https://redirect.invidious.io

People that don't strengthen their users (to educate, improve mindset and actively) I think are losing eventually from a kind of from the fizzling of thermodynamics which is happening every day as matter transforms perhaps with less potential meaning...

So as in #physics the thermodynamics (conversion of different forms of energy) can be seen as happening, which might not be seen as "end of the world" or even that important today, but heat or endothermic reaction on Fediverse is simply lost if people are not aligning better AT SOME POINT, or having better thoughts and habits towards the overall mission (there could / should be many).

I know some fallout of energy is needed to exist and natural but as learning / existing goes IF NOT BEING TAUGHT / GUIDING BETTER IN PRACTICES or PARTICIPATING then you eventually set yourself up for a fall AND EVEN REVOLUTION AGAINST YOURSELF!!! (people stay unintelligent as much less opportunity and less encouragement to do better is there, people are left to their own devices and less with others communally).

#Physics huh?

#Fediverse #Admins and #Instance #Moderators #Activity #Participation = Eventually all is #Political in the Personal sense.

People are mostly just a #tax container for a cold #system for a #society.

How does that sound as you read that? #Question

#TAX + #WAR ....
#Taxes + #Wars... (more = more)

Even if numbers and % are not precise, #HELL OF A LOT GOES TO WAR (funding war, not just defending war!!) AND #BANKS...

Ah life...

#Taxes - Paying taxes pays for problems to be created !

When we pay tax, it is a direct paying for military etc as well as other things - and anyway more expensive since we're already changed a premium for everything and then they profit from it.

That's a kind of #war on people itself.

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

- Thomas Jefferson #Quote

👕 T-shirts with slogans =
interesting / fun...

█ 🔰 It Offends You, Until it Defends You" 🛡️

█ † #Trust #Jesus ✝️ . Not The Government 💥 🔫

█ 🙍‍♀️ The #People vs. The #Government 🤑

█ #War ✈️ 🚗 vs. Religion 👳 ✝️ etc

https://hangovergangofficial.com/

#Mastodon #Pics I'm using <10kb JPG files for what can be safely auto-scaled, like big text and line drawings...

Ask if you want bigger version - but right now it's saving the planet being 10's of KB less per post in transit and storage...

<1Kb for this post and pic!

"If there is a #book you want to read and it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it." - Toni Morrison #quote

#DIY #Book #Life #Lessons ?
#Question What would you write?

#Book #Question

If you had to write you OWN BOOK leaving some learned lessons, what would it be about?

#Life #Lesons