Certain

There seem to be no absolutes in the world we inhabit.
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Pearl of wisdom. Doing the thing should be a reward in itself. External and delayed rewards are off-putting in the long run. This is why public likes and follows are so damaging for a creative individual, a harmful goal to achieve for, since one cannot influence what others like.

Consensus

For people to agree on anything, they all first need to know what to do, why to do it, and who it’s for.
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InSight

This lander-explorer is packed with instruments to probe the interior of the Red Planet.
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Echo chamber of greatness

dun-dun-dun-dunnn

Thusly most remember the famous fifth symphony by Ludwig Von Beethoven. It’s part of Western culture, and it sounds through everything we do so much, we don’t even hear it anymore.
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After having gone through the HTML Tutorial on W3Schools at almost breakneck speed (for my doing), I’ve hit a roadblock at HTML Layout. I guess I need to study this more thoroughly before continuing. HTML5 certainly was a step up from previous versions.

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Printers. They are affordable nowadays, compared to twenty years ago. However, this affordability comes with a constant need to fix problems that in the olden dot-matrix days didn’t need fixing 🖨💩😖

Exempt

As a home renter I wasn’t aware of the protection home owners get in certain states of the USA.
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Admiration

If we admit it or not, we all have our role models, people we look up to and would want to emulate to better ourselves, be it race car driver, teacher or a tech entrepreneur. Our society wouldn’t be as great as it is if we couldn’t imagine a better world.
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Lifehacker - How to Move From Twitter to Mastodon

Why [do it]?

People get to know each other and are more likely to post about their genuine real-life interests than to share news stories or endlessly discuss politics.

It just feels like a nice, friendly place to be.

Regarding my ballpoint drawings, asking if those are any good is the wrong question. Better to ask myself, is the experience of making them any good? Answer, so far yes! OTOH this is about getting better at it, not merely enjoying scratching on cheap lined paper, though it helps.

License

Gatekeepers think that creatives need them to make precious goods, are even owed eternal gratitude and 30 percent payment of anything third parties produce. That didn’t stop some to still make their own stuff, despite rules and restrictions of the big guys.
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Ah, tomorrow will be a glorious day for ballpoint pen drawing. Here are my reference photos to give you a sneak peek.

I believe I have all pins available on micro∙blog except one, which I can never get, because recommendations are very dependent on what someone else likes, a conversation, not a statement.

I’ve unsubscribed to everyone I followed on MB, and started following new users. It’s a slow process, since these people aren’t exactly friends (yet), whose quirkiness I can overlook. The Discovery tab is not very useful, since it’s human curated, and, therefore, opinionated.

I believe there’s a dinstiction between feeling better about one’s actions and trying to better oneself. The latter walks the bridge; the first lives underneath it.

Feast

Behold in the beast’s eye the celebration of what’s to come.
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It appears Mastodon has no valid rss feeds for a user’s posts, other than if you run a bot on your own server that watches that user’s Mastodon feed and creates an rss feed on the fly. Or something similar. Mastodon is like Twitter in that respect, a closed web application 👨‍💻

Figure

A certain multi-billionaire bought a social media site for a large sum of money. The impression he left was of a bull in a china shop, guessing he could get away with it, like 3, 2, 1 … liftoff!
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I finished the Cloudcannon tutorial, and as usual, it went totally off the rails for me with too advanced stuff. Ah well, it seemingly only was to wet one’s appetite to start learning Hugo. Read more…