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HamonWry, 4 days ago to random

The great thing about being an Atheist is that you don’t need people threatening you with hellfire and damnation for you to be a decent person. You just choose to be that way.

gr0k, 12 days ago to random

"He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know." — Annie Dillard

Via Farnam Street: https://fs.blog/brain-food/may-5-2024/

gr0k, 1 month ago to random

"There’s no such thing as work life balance. There’s simply life. And you spend part of your life at work." - Seth Godin

https://seths.blog/2024/03/boyles-law/

gr0k, 2 months ago to random

“Entropy applies to every part of our lives. ... Understanding entropy leads to a radical change in the way we see the world. Ignorance of it is responsible for many of our biggest mistakes and failures. We cannot expect anything to stay the way we leave it. To maintain our health, relationships, careers, skills, knowledge, societies, and possessions requires never-ending effort and vigilance. Disorder is ... our default. Order is always artificial and temporary.”

https://fs.blog/entropy/

gr0k, 2 months ago to random

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Audio Poem)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ghiJW5LWs
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan

engagedpractx, 2 months ago to random

I think the thing that is going to drive me off Mastodon is the one-eyed fedi superfans.

I've always known twitter can read my DMs but I also know they have a privacy policy backed up by strict privacy regulation in the US, EU and Australia.

The chap who runs my local instance is lovely but there's no privacy policy and no regulatory oversight. I don't even have a contract with him. I'd have to sue him in a private capacity if anything happened.

DrChris, 2 months ago to random

WTF is this thing in the middle when I asked Gemini to draw the signers of the Declaration of Independence

Edent, 3 months ago to random

Just saw someone arguing that Mastodon should proactively prevent people from posting selfies on the public timeline.

Apparently, people just do not understand that the risk the someone might do something nefarious with them is just too high.

The mind boggles.

Alice, 3 months ago to random

I’m an adult and that means I can put a tent on my bed and nobody can stop me.

Nonfigurativ, 3 months ago to random

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gr0k, 3 months ago to random

"The true work of art leads us from that which exists only once and never again, i.e. the individual, to that which exists perpetually and time and time again in innumerable manifestations, the pure form or Idea;" - Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World

gr0k, 3 months ago to random

"Just because you’ve been using your time in a particular way for a long time doesn’t mean you need to keep doing that." - Seth Godin, https://seths.blog/2024/01/the-best-possible-use/

Seth has a way with words

dirt, 3 months ago to random

i think psychopathy + empathy have to be equal when im writing or picturing

i have to be willing to sacrifice the thing in order to tell the truth + i have to also love the thing (to tell the truth about it)

i have to be neither of these (basically set to receive) i am most essentially a delivery piece when making art

FranciscoScaramanga, 3 months ago to random

I love this community because I know that it loves back... If you're a believer in value-for-value model and appreciate my contributions in the show-art rhealm, I could use your help. I recently launched a project called "Double Agent Diaries" on Instagram. It's a spy thriller told through daily posts (read the posts... don't just stare at the lovely boobs). I'd love you support with a follow and a share. You can find it here:
https://www.instagram.com/double_agent_diaries/

mxtthxw, 4 months ago to random

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gr0k, 4 months ago to random

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." - Anaïs Nin

gr0k, 4 months ago to random

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;|

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud

gr0k, 5 months ago to random

"Your first design, while it may seem like a solution, is usually just an early definition of the problem you are trying to solve." - LukeW - https://lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2036

evan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

"If someone goes to a protest event, they should be held responsible for what other people say at that event."

#EvanPoll #poll

dashie, 7 months ago to random

Do anyone knows a decent app to manage/sort/preview/etc. samples & SFX ?

ProjectFearlessness, 7 months ago to random

I don't get it. Why are we all raising flags? What's the use in picking a side in a murderous endless war which the people don't want and nobody has ever won?

I stand with anybody and everybody who wants an end to the cycle of violence and a peaceful solution in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

#Gaza

Strandjunker, 1 year ago to random

JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.