Peter Whisker 🇪🇺🇮🇪 aul segotia @peterwhisker@qoto.org

@burgoonster he's only interested in as many blue tick subscriptions as he can get and not in people or morality.

@eoinoneill One near my sisters place, by the Sweep, Kilmeaden Co Waterford #StandingStoneSunday

Remembering all those lost in conflicts ❤

@madamscientist yes, someone was murdered by being tied up in the bell chamber while they rang a 7 hour double peal in The Nine Tailors. I think the Midsomer Murder one had some ringers killed over some ancient family grudge.

@madamscientist The Nine Tailors. (this refers to the number of times a bell is rung when someone passes away and was used before modern communication to signify when someone had died and the chiming signalled both their sex and age.)

https://www.treblesgoing.org.uk/ninetailors.html

This is so true!

Letter in The Times today

SEXY CAMPANOLOGY

Sir, Regarding your article “A peal goes out for trainee #bellringers” (Oct 22) can I add my support and suggest readers hie to their nearest active bell tower tomorrow. Two months into my own training I can vouch it is the most extraordinary experience. You make music without being a musician, connect with your heritage, learn arcane bell-language, commune with ringers and get a very respectable upper body workout into the bargain. When you pull just right, and the bell swings just right, it feels out of body, like you’re swinging up with it; it’s gently pulling you and you’re gently pulling it. Well, it’s sexy.

Madeleine Neave
London SW15

@SandyKendell it's the best thing about qoto.org. you can follow all your favourite instances in a list like you were on them and not miss out. Besides that, qoto.org responds quickly unlike others.

@SandyKendell it's on the Followers menu via a web browser. Clients won't know about this. If you get stuck ask again.

@GeriMcN You're amongst friends here :)

@pensato @bbcmicrobot Yes the US found English too complicated for their capability to understand..... ;-)

@KecskeBak @bbcmicrobot It could be Irish English but they just don't have a "Craic" menu (yet)??

@wblau So we don't have to join them and thereby demonstrate how important we really think they are?? ;-)

@bbcmicrobot Eugen Rochko, the developer of Mastodon, was brought up in Germany so I'm also a little surprised that standard English spelling was favoured over US 'English'. However, perhaps some of the contributors were British/Irish/Canadian/Australian where the spelling of English words was not destroyed in the early 20th century as it was in the USA?

@freemo I did try to build the qoto fork from git.qoto but ran into issues as my Debian was too new. It looks like the git hasn't been updated for 2 years. Some clients like Hyperspace refuse to connect to Qoto but work with vanilla Mastodon. But qoto is a fork which makes a much more user-friendly experience. Thank you 😊

@freemo is there a plan to get any of the nice features such as Domain follow into the main Mastodon trunk repo so that you can more easily keep qoto.org at a recent software version. Mastodon is on version 4.0 while qoto lags on 3.3 I think.

Just had a lovely evening chatting with a Ukrainian doctor to help improve his conversational English and to introduce him to Laphroaig 🥃 and Youngs Winter Warmer 🍻