szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

One thing that helps me is the experience of living in a foreign country while learning to read the local script. “Oh, I know some of these characters, this is the station where I get off the train. I’ll look around for the characters meaning toilet. Now, which toilet can I enter without getting arrested?” Basic survival.

The Mastodon Experience

#MeanwhileInCanada

Hallo, ich hab gehört, hier gibt es Nüsse abzuholen, ich wäre womöglich interessiert, wissen Sie da vielleicht Genaueres?
#eichhornchen

Nareszcie 😉

Czytam, że dwa dni temu Gargron zatwierdził commit-y:

Add support for incoming rich text #23913
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/23913

Oznacza to mniej więcej, że #Mastodon zacznie wyświetlać bogatsze formatowanie dostępne na innych platformach w #Fediverse, przykład na obrazku.

Czy policzyliśmy wszystkie zwierzęta na naszej planecie? Ile globalnie potrzeba pieniędzy, żeby ochronić ptaki przed wyginięciem? Skąd ponownie wzięły się dziki w Wielkiej Brytanii? Na te i inne pytania odpowiadam w podcaście Nauka XXI wieku. https://www.podkasty.info/katalog/podkast/410-Nauka_XXI_wieku/_172_Ptakoliczenie

I love this story about how random chance lifted the career of struggling but talented poet.

"...just around the corner, an unknown singer-songwriter was rehearsing with her band. She was struggling with lyrics to match a song that everyone agreed had great potential. During a break in rehearsal, her keyboardist and producer took a short walk to Cliff’s Books, hoping to find inspiration in the poetry section."

#poetry #WynCopper #SherylCrow

https://poets.org/text/wyn-cooper-serendipitous-career

People like to act like “this was all so long ago” and I’m just sitting here like…my Grandma is still with us and she’s 93. Some of us still have living relatives who lived through this nightmare.

Don’t let yourself think of it as some long, bygone era that could never happen again.

Hesitation, appeasement, and living in denial let it happen the first time.

Quoting @onthisday: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/109972742503879719

Today in 1933, 90 years ago: Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

#OnThisDay

Snow of Damocles hanging from our roof.

It slides slowly off since we got a steel roof.

So what you're saying is they don't work in 99.9% of snowshoe conditions.

I'll pass.

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/03/04/foam-snowshoes-offer-a-lightweight-alternative-for-gliding-on-groomed-trails/

When I am a dictator, it will be the law that any company which has a call-holding announcement of "we are experiencing a higher number of calls than usual" must publish ongoing and historic figures justifying this statement, and explaining what they intend to do about it.