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…

I’ve done it. Removed all my blogs except one from the micro∙blog Timeline, disabled all cross-posting.

I wasn’t aware that there is such a thing as Consumer Subscription Software or CSS. And yes, micro∙blog is a CSS company, though, it seems, not for sale, as many CSS businesses are in this boom due to a recession, how illogical that even sounds.

In the light of recent developments, I made a mastodon account and linked to my micro∙blog feed for cross-posting. Hope it works 🤞

This morning when I woke up early I was puzzled. Why so early, it doesn’t feel that early? Right, Daylight Saving Time, time to change the non-Internet connected clocks. Next week it’s your turn, USA and Canada, to change your time of day and sleep in on Sunday 💤⏰

After my corona vaccination 1.5 weeks ago, I had a dip in my weekly mileage. GPs advice, so I’ve found through online search, for kids after their vaccination is against any intensive sports. I missed that, and now know why I felt so bad during my training in the last 10 days🏃‍♂️

I did the quiz on wren.co to find my lifestyle produces 5.6 tons of CO2 per year, which could be offset by a €11.70 monthly subscription.

Not yet caturday, yet so close 🐱😻

I’ve always found that there’s no one true way to explain. Understanding someone (or something) requires fitting existing knowledge and beliefs with an anecdotal utterance by an outside source. Change will be small, since most people are set in their ways of doing things.